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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 1992
Filed:
Sep. 30, 1991
William L Gould, Sussex, NJ (US);
Other;
Abstract
This is a rapidly deployable system for containing, collecting and storing an oil or other fluid spill occurring in a body of water. A plurality of flexible, cylindrical boom sections with depending coplanar flexible skirts, are detachably connected end to end to form an elongated boom assembly which may be as much as 400 feet long, for surrounding the fluid spill in the water. Each of the boom sections has apertures along one side to admit fluid from the spill. Long coil springs in the boom sections maintain the sections in cylindrical form while permitting lateral flexing of the boom sections. Floating skimmers in the boom sections collect fluid entering the boom sections via the apertures. The skimmers pass the fluid to a flexible collector pipe in the boom sections. The collector pipe is connected to pumps in housings interposed in the boom assembly. Flexible skirts also depend from the pump housings. Removable collapsible storage tanks outside the boom sections are connected to the pumps to receive and store the collected fluid spill. The system can be disassembled, cleaned and stored for rapid reassembly and redeployment at a future fluid spill to begin containing, collecting and storing the fluid spill within a few hours. The entire system is buoyant and can be towed to a fluid spill.