3280 results about "Surface water" patented technology

This invention discloses a cost-effective process for separating contaminants and a wide-range of fouling material from surface water, ground water and from industrial effluents. Having undergone effective pre-treatment, the water can be purified further by using high-surface area spirally wound micro-filtration (MF), ultra-filtration (UF), nano-filtration (NF) or reverse osmosis (RO) membranes. High-quality potable water free from pathogen and other contaminants is thus produced at low-cost from the pre-treated surface water and ground-water. Conversely, pre-treated industrial effluents are further purified at a relatively low-cost using NF or RO membranes, thus producing water suitable for recycle or surface discharge. The process of this invention uses cationic inorganic and / or polymeric flocculants to coagulate and flocculate the water-borne colloidal matter (e.g. clays, iron hydroxides, naturally occurring matter (NOM's), etc.), followed by filtration using a multi-media filter, charge neutralization and reversal and final filtration using a 5-micron cartridge filter. These pre-treatment steps provides a good quality water having a low Silt Density Index and a significant negative zeta potential, thereby ensuring against irreversible chemical fouling of the spirally-wound membranes.

The invention provides a method for ecological remediation on an acid tailing pond. By removing acids from soil, and by laying nonwoven cloth and a sealing layer, good partitioning is achieved, and byfurther laying a water reservation layer and a coated seed layer, the purpose of re-greening an acid tailing pond is achieved. The method has the beneficial effects that rainwater can be reserved tothe maximum extent, the sealing layer is capable of preventing the rainwater from infiltrating into tailings, the problems of underground water and ground water pollution can be substantially solved,the construction method is simple, and the construction cost is low; by using a seed coating technique, a set of rapid nursery stock breeding technique is formed, a stable ecological remediation system is cultured, the target of completely re-greening woody plants within 90 days is achieved, and environment problems of acid tailing ponds are solved for good.

A roaming sensor system collects data on the condition of roads and bridge decks and identifies and maps defects, including cracks, potholes, debonding, tracking, delamination, surface ice, surface water, and rebar corrosion. Data are collected by a vehicle or a fleet of vehicles driven at normal traffic speeds. The vehicle is outfitted with sensors that collect data using acoustic surface waves, ground penetrating radar, mm wave surface radar, and / or video images. The data are transmitted to a control center for analysis and distribution.

An autonomous water source (AWS) for extracting water from ambient air and delivering it to a plant to support growth. The system is based on an adsorption-desorption-condensation (ADC) cycle using a sorption material to extract moisture from ambient air and condensing the water vapor driven off from the sorption material by subsequent heating and followed by condensation. Liquid condensate produced in this process on the condenser is collected and delivered by gravity to a plant to reduce thermal stress and to support growth. The invention provides a sustainable source of irrigation water for agriculture and forestry, including areas where no water resources exist or are not economically viable. It can be tailored in size, and therefore, output capacity, reflecting the desired water requirements of a particular application, and can be used to replace most agricultural situations now reliant on surface water drip feed systems. The device is simple, rugged, invulnerable to rain, snow, and freezing conditions, and can be designed to last for many years without service as there are few moving parts and power required for operation is provided by sunlight.

This invention discloses advanced means for the formulation and preparation of solid-chemical compositions which provide sources of water-soluble nutrients, electron acceptors and other agents for agriculture and waste-treatment, in particular, the bioremediation of contaminated environmental media. The disclosed formulations and means of production of the slow-release solid-chemical compositions of the present invention utilize a novel and economical "biphasic" chemical-system technology which involves a combination of a first "nutrient" component (1) which comprises water-soluble nutrients and other biologically utilizable substances with a second component (2) which comprises an inorganic geochemical-binder system. The simplest embodiment of the geochemical-binder system comprises one or more salts of phosphoric acid. In the preferred embodiments of the present invention intended for the slow-release of the ingredients contained in the "nutrient" component (1), the geochemical-binder system of component (2) comprises a combination of one or more salts of phosphoric acid with a inorganic binder matrix preferably containing a mixture of low-solubility carbonates, carbonate minerals, phosphates and phosphate minerals. The different embodiments of the geochemical-binder system of this invention allows a wide variation of formulations of the nutrient component (1) to be prepared in both conventional and slow-release forms using an improved high-shear granulation process whereby the dangerous chemicals typically used in the granulation process are largely or completely replaced with water. The present invention discloses means by which such compositions can be economically prepared in large quantities so as to meet the specific needs of different sectors of the agricultural / agribusiness and phytoremediation / bioremediation markets. The disclosed solid-chemical compositions of the present invention provide improved, cost-effective means for slowing and controlling the release-rate profiles of water-soluble nutrients, such as nitrogen- and phosphorus-rich compounds, and improved means for enhanced and / or time-targeted nutrient uptake by plants and microorganisms. The present invention also provides improved means for the reduction of nutrient run-off from agricultural areas into surface waters and means of preventing or minimizing nutrient-contamination of ground-water aquifers.

The invention discloses a process to implement and maintain water bodies larger than 15,000 m3 for recreational use, such as lakes or artificial lagoons, with excellent color, transparency and cleanness properties at low cost, which comprises the following steps:a.—providing a structure able to contain a large water body larger than 15,000 m3;b.—feeding the structure of step (a) with inlet water having iron and manganese levels lower than 1.5 ppm and turbidity lower than 5 NTU;c.—measuring water pH, ideally it should be within a range lower than 7.8;d.—adding an oxidizing agent to the water contained in the structure of step (a), with which a 600 mV minimal ORP is controlled in water for a minimal period of 4 hours and in maximal cycles of 48 hours;e.—adding a flocculating agent in concentrations within 0.02 and 1 ppm with maximal frequencies of 6 days and cleaning the bottom of the structure of step (a) with a suction device to remove precipitated impurities from the bottom of said structure, together with the additional flocculants and;f.—generating a displacement of surface water containing impurities and surface oils by means of the injection of inlet water according to step (b), which generates said displacement in such a way to remove said surface water by means of a system for impurities and surface oils removal arranged in the structure of step (a), which together with step (e) replaces traditional filtering.The present invention also discloses a structure to contain large water bodies comprising a system for the removal of impurities and surface oils by means of skimmers and the suction device to clean said structure.

A system and method of treating wastewater from an animal confinement operation. The system including at least a first lagoon receiving water from the confinement operation. The system further including a free surface water wetland, a subsurface flow wetland and a vertical flow recirculating media filter. The first artificial wetland including a pipe such that water from the lagoon flows into the first artificial wetland through an inlet of the pipe and is contained within the wetland. The first wetland further including a plurality of wetland plants. A second subsurface flow wetland and a vertical flow recirculating media filter on top of the subsurface flow wetland and wetland plants contained within a first pea gravel bed on top of a coarse gravel bed of the subsurface flow media filter such that water from the lagoon is received by the first wetland. A recirculation pump receiving water from the horizontal coarse gravel bed and the pump recirculating water to the wetland plants of the vertical flow recirculation media filter such that ammonia in the water is converted to nitrate and water as it falls vertically through roots of the wetland plants and the nitrate is converted to nitrogen and water the water flows horizontally through the subsurface flow wetland.

The invention provides a vegetation recovery method for an acid metal mine solid waste stock dump, comprising the following steps of: stabilizing the stock dump; building a slope-surface water supply and drain system; carrying out anti-seepage isolation on a surface layer; filling and sealing the surface layer of the stock dump, so as to form a filling layer, and spraying and adsorbing a flexible anti-seepage isolation material, so as to form an anti-seepage isolation layer; paving vegetation cushions, and fixing in an anchoring way; paving bi-way geogrids, and fixing the geogrids and the vegetation cushions on the slope surface together by rivets; sequentially spraying plant-growing matrixes and seed layers; and covering vegetation carpets on the surface. According to the vegetation recovery method for the acid metal mine solid waste stock dump, the problem of environment pollution caused by various pollutants on the acid metal mine solid waste stock dump can be effectively reduced, a stock dump vegetation system can be recovered, the green vegetation area can be enlarged, and a good environment can be built.

An ornamental guardrail system that has an improved base assembly, which allows water and debris to escape from the deck surface. The system uses a mounting arrangement that supports the glass panels above the surface of the deck without using full-height posts. This mounting arrangement makes a structural glass railing useful in many types of construction projects that require the surface water to sheet flow under the railing system, or to achieve a certain visual style.

An integrated platform to house an ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) system that utilizes: (i) a cold water circuit consisting of a way of receiving and distributing the cold water from the cold water pipe (CWP) to vertical conduits housing the condensers into collectors that discharge via large pumps into open discharge channels connected to the discharge water pipe (DWP); (ii) a surface water circuit consisting of a way of collecting and distributing the surface water to vertical conduits housing the evaporators to surface water collectors that discharge via large pumps into the same discharge channels connected to the DWP; (iii) means of adjusting the buoyancy of the integrated platform by adding water as ballast into floatation chambers in the hull surrounding the discharge channels or in a plurality of either vertical or horizontal flotation chambers to provide protection to the CWP and DWP and stability to the integrated platform. By adjusting the buoyancy of the platform such that the collectors are about level with the sea level, pumping requirements are minimized.

The invention relates to a non-resistance pressure balance anti-resistance device of heat pump of ground water, and relative system, wherein the outer frame (1) of anti-resistance device has external water inlet (6) and external water outlet (7); the rotation filter cylinder (3) is inside the outer frame (1); the rotation filter cylinder (3) is divided into internal water inlet area (4-1) and internal water outlet area (4-2); the internal water inlet area (4-1) is connected to the internal water inlet area outlet (8) and the internal water outlet area (4-2) is connected to the internal water outlet area inlet (9). The invention has stable water pressure and stable flux, with small size and low cost.

A means is provided to produce fresh water from seawater on both the boiler side and the condenser side of an OTEC power plant. Part of the warm ocean surface water is evaporated, and its vapor transfers heat to the working-fluid boiler as the vapor condenses. The condensation of the vapor provides fresh water. On the condenser side, the condensation of the working-fluid vapor from the turbine in the condenser releases heat that evaporates seawater that runs down the outside of the condenser surfaces. The vapor from the seawater is condensed by a heat exchanger that uses input from colder seawater. As the cold seawater accepts heat from the condensing vapor, it becomes slightly warmer and provides the source of seawater that accepts heat from the condenser. The condensing vapor on the heat exchanger becomes fresh water that is drawn out as potable water. To provide additional fresh water, a multi-stage desalination unit uses the warm water discharge and the cold-water discharge from the OTEC plant to provide a temperature gradient that causes evaporation and condensation in each stage of the unit.

A basement engineering waterproof and drainage method is provided. The wall footing of the outside wall in basement engineering is embedded in watertight or micro-watertight soil rock layer or cement soil layer. The wall footing intercepts water by a thin-part structure. The cushion of the basement engineering soleplate and the falling layer of the top board are composed of combined water-proof layers. The late poured band, the movement joint and the horizontal construction joint at the lower part of the outside wall are treated by a water-proof structure combined with waterproofing measures. The basement engineering is provided with a drainage system. The groundwater and surface water at the soleplate are drained into city drainage pipelines via a soleplate part of the drainage system. The rainwater of overburden layer bottom of the top board is then drained into city drainage pipelines via the indoor part of the drainage system. The invention is designed by adopting a one-body method of arranging the basement engineering waterproofing, drainage and anti-floating as well as underground engineering space enclosing structure and pipelines, thereby shortening the construction period, reducing the engineering cost, increasing the durability and reliability of underground building space enclosing structure and waterproof layer as well as pipelines.

A self-sufficient material property profile regulation method and system, for adjusting fluid property profiles such as in an ocean of multiple property layers, is described. Using this Fluid Property Regulator, the property profiles of a non-enclosed material, including property profiles related to material density, chemical characteristics and space-time position, are affected due to motion of the material relative to a body in the flow stream. The state of other matter with which the initial material then makes direct or indirect contact is also affected. For example, in the case of a liquid such as an ocean current, the temperature, salinity, nutrient content and other properties may be destratified (i.e. layers being combined) as the system lifts large quantities of deep water and combines this material with surface water in the downstream far-field region of the system. The resulting regulation of such ocean water property profiles may then also indirectly affect the properties of the atmosphere above the ocean so that the system can be said to affect planetary properties both oceanic and atmospheric. Rather than merely discharging a pumped material, such as cold water that might quickly re-submerge, the system regulates lasting property profiles. The new Fluid Property Regulator system described in this invention regulates material properties to produce desired outcomes such as increased food and energy production as well as to prevent undesirable outcomes such as hurricanes, elevated planetary temperatures, decreased planetary ice sheet size, raised sea level and glacial freshwater incursions that can halt important major currents.

The invention belongs to the field of chemical materials, and particularly relates to a FeS and Fe0 composite and a preparation method and application thereof. The FeS and Fe0 composite is formed by compositing nano FeS and nano Fe0, the surface of the nano Fe0 is coated with the nano FeS, and the molar ratio of the nano FeS to the nano Fe0 is 2:1 to 15:1. According to the FeS and Fe0 composite and the preparation method and application thereof, the preparation process is simple, convenient, environmentally friendly and feasible, the prepared FeS and Fe0 composite is high in reaction activity, capable of efficiently and rapidly reducing and adsorbing heavy metal ions in waste water within a wider temperature range, a pH value range and a dissolved oxygen content range and further capable of rapidly and efficiently activating hydrogen peroxide and persulfate to make a system generate hydroxyl free radicals and sulfate free radicals to degrade and mineralize organic pollutants, and therefore the FeS and Fe0 composite can be widely applied to degradation of the organic pollutants in surface water and underground water.

The invention relates to a micro-algae industrialization production device and a method of producing the micro-algae, which belong to the engineering field of the micro-algae culturing and the technical field of the environmental protection. An air-pushed type photobiology reactor unit device is an annular shallow pond built by bricks and concrete, an isolation wall with both ends opened is built in the shallow pond, a liquid drainage pipe and a liquid replacement pipe are arranged in the air-pushed type photobiology reactor unit device, an air inlet pipe is fixed on the isolation wall in the middle part of the air-pushed type photobiology reactor unit device and is connected with a plurality of L-shaped branch pipes, a plurality of micro blowholes are arranged on side walls of the transversal pipes of the branch pipes, the whole air-pushed type photobiology reactor unit device is covered by agricultural film and is provided with a skylight, to form an enclosed type photobiology reactor. The device combines the individual advantage of the open type photobiology reactor and the enclosed type photobiology reactor, by adopting the industrial waste gas and the eutrophication surface water or the industrial wastewater as the main raw material to perform micro-algae culturing in a large scale, especially to culture the micro-algae with high oil percentage, to provide the large or medium sized bio-diesel factory with raw oil, and simultaneously the emission reduction of carbon dioxide and the treatment of polluted water body are realized.

A surface water runoff filtration device comprises an intake which is adapted to receive storm water and other surface water runoff. The surface water runoff flows from the surface through the intake to a point below the filter media, and then up toward the surface through the filter media. This device may be used in both catch basin storm drains and inline drains.

The invention relates to an integral treatment process of the oily sewage of an oil field. The process flow in the invention is as follows: settling sand, removing oil, breaking emulsion through air flotation, treating with a microwave-enhanced Fenton system, performing flocculation and air flotation, performing precision filtering, performing catalytic ozonation with an activated carbon fiber felt, and performing ultrafiltration to obtain clean water. By adopting the integral treatment process, the operations of oil removal, emulsion breaking, advanced oxidation, flocculation, catalytic ozonation and membrane separation can be continuously realized. The floor space of equipment in the invention is small; the treatment process is suitable for various oily sewage and has obvious treatment effect; the removal rate of the chemical oxygen demand (COD) of raw water is more than 96%, and the oil content and the removal rate of suspended matters are 100%; and the turbidity of the obtained water is 4-6 NTU. The main indexes of the process provided by the invention such as the COD, oil content, suspended matters, turbidity and the like are better than those of the current oily sewage treatment process in oily sewage treatment; and the quality of the treated water can meet the related rules of the Integrated Wastewater Discharge Standard (GB8978-1996) and the Environmental Quality Standards for Surface Water (GB3838-2002).

The invention discloses a fluid-solid coupled similar simulation experimental platform which comprises a box body top plate, a box body bottom plate, a front baffle, a rear baffle, a left lateral insertion plate and a right lateral insertion plate, wherein the box body bottom plate, the front baffle, the rear baffle, the left lateral insertion plate, the right lateral insertion plate and the box body top plate form a closed box body structure of the experimental platform; a transmission bar is arranged in the box body structure and is positioned above the box body bottom plate; a mining steel plate is arranged above the transmission bar and is movably connected with the transmission bar; a coal layer is laid on the mining steel plate; a simulated rock stratum is arranged above the coal layer; a data monitoring system is arranged in the simulated rock stratum; a pressure-bearing steel plate covers the top of the simulated rock stratum; and a hydraulic jack is arranged between the pressure-bearing steel plate and the box body top plate. The experimental platform disclosed by the invention is simple in structure and low in manufacturing cost, a research worker can directly observe and record the movement and deformation conditions of overlying rock and the water permeability condition in the rock stratum cracks under the mining action, and the influence of coal mining on permeability rules of surface water and karstic water is analyzed.

The invention discloses a testing device and a testing device method for simulating collapse of tunnel surrounding rock under conditions of rainfall and underground water seepage. The testing device comprises a model testing box, a rainfall adjustable simulating system, an underground water seepage simulating system, an underground water supplying system, a water content testing system, a stress monitoring system, a digital radiography noncontact measuring system and an optical fiber bragg grating displacement monitoring system. By simulating a progressive failure process of tunnel weak broken surrounding rock under the action of seepage of surface water and underground water, mechanical behaviors of crushing the surrounding rock under different rainfall conditions and different underground water seepage path conditions are quantitatively researched. By obtaining multiple-physical field information in a tunnel surrounding rock collapse process, multi-information features in different evolutionary phases and internal links of information of all fields of the collapse are analyzed, a progressive failure process and fracture morphology and ranges of the tunnel weak broken surrounding rock under different factors are determined, and the effective basis is provided for disclosing a progressive failure principle and a dynamic pressure arch effect of the weak broken surrounding rock under conditions of rainfall and underground water seepage.

The invention relates to a water quality on-line monitoring system which comprises a data acquisition device, a server and a client machine. The data acquisition device comprises a first data communication module, a device operation maintenance module and a parameter acquisition unit; the server comprises a second data communication module, a network server and a database server; the first data communication module of the data acquisition device is connected with the second data communication module of the server through Ethernet or a wireless communication network for two-way data transmission; the second data communication module of the server is connected with the client machine through the Ethernet for two-way data transmission; and the client machine comprises an information display module, a remote control module, a water quality pre-warning module and a signaling tracking module. The system has low construction, operation and maintenance cost, real-time monitoring of data and intuitive display of the data; and the system further has the functions of signaling tracking, remote upgrading and water quality pre-warning. The system is particularly applicable to carrying out real-time monitoring, statistical analysis and management on pollution discharge status of existing enterprises, quality of surface water and drinking water and the like.

An insert for use in a sewer system to remove oils and solvents carried by surface water runoff. The insert includes a holder and a quantity of water permeable, hydrophobic, oil and solvent absorbing material such as melt blown polypropylene. The holder has two functions. It holds an effective quantity of the absorber and holds it in such a way that the surface water is exposed to the absorber to allow oils and solvents to be absorbed. The insert in preferably placed, cartridge-like, at the inlet or outlet of the sewer system so that it may be quickly checked, replaced and serviced. In one embodiment, the insert also contains a leaf trap.

The invention belongs to the field of modeling of a DEM (digital elevation model) and particularly relates to a multiscale DEM modeling method giving consideration to contents of surface hydrology. By carrying out runoff analysis on the DEM to extract a hydrological response region of a topographical surface, a hierarchical structure tree of a watershed area is established; by generalizing hydrological characteristics of a surface elevation point, a hydrological contribution index of the elevation point for a topographic form is calculated; by inspecting weighted topography description error of the elevation point, topographic feature point set is selected; and an elastic position seeking strategy is adopted to automatically regulate an integration degree control parameter so as to implement multiscale DEM automatic integration giving consideration to the contents of surface hydrology. Therefore, the multiscale DEM modeling method has the following advantages that topographic and hydrological features of an original high-accuracy DEM can be effectively kept and topological and logic consistency of the topographic and hydrological features of the multiscale DEM can be ensured; and automation and generating efficiency of the multiscale DEM modeling are improved and the requirement on the scale self-adaptation DEM in the practical application can be met.

A lightweight towed submersible water transporter and storage system for liquids and solids, which employs a streamlined towable hull with exterior ballast / buoyancy cells and optional air and liquid storage bladders used not only to adjust buoyancy, but to allow the simultaneous transport and storage of different solids and liquids.

A method of coating fertilizer particles exhibiting porous surfaces under vacuum to form attrition resistant controlled release particulate fertilizers, by drawing a vacuum on the fertilizer particles and applying thereto a water insoluble fluid resin at about atmospheric pressure, so that the fluid resin is forced into the porous surfaces of the fertilizer particles by differences in pressure, and then hardening the fluid resin to form a solid resin, tenaciously bonded onto, and into, the porous surfaces of the fertilizer particles. Porous surfaced water soluble, slow releasing and sulfur coated, fertilizers may be effectively coated. Granular, briquetted, compacted and other special shaped fertilizers may also be effectively vacuum coated to provide controlled release products. Pesticides may also be effectively included in these attrition resistant products. Fertilizers are provided which exhibit substantially improved resistance to attrition.

A wet oxidation / reduction electrolytic cell stack, system, and method for the remediation of contaminated water is disclosed. A porous electrode of large surface area produces powerful oxidizing agents in situ without having to add any reagents, oxidizers, or catalysts to the water to be treated. Further, by the appropriate selection of electrode material, organic contaminants may be absorbed onto the surface of the electrode and subsequently oxidized to provide a dynamically renewable porous electrode surface. Flow rates, and power requirements may be tailored to the specific moieties to be removed, thus allowing local treatment of specific waste streams resulting in direct discharge to a publicly owned treatment works (POTW) or surface water discharge. A novel feature of this invention is the ability to remove both organic and metal contaminants without the addition of treatment reagents or catalysts.

The invention is a filter device, apparatus and system used to filter contaminants from liquids, such as water, particularly surface water runoff. The invention is configured to capture sediment, debris, and soluble and insoluble contaminants, including gas, oils and metals that enter the device. The invention consists of an adapter ring, an outer casing, a first filter material, an interior mesh, a blabla filter, and an inner casing. The invention is configured for easy installation within existing manhole frames without significantly impacting the height of the manhole cover and may be used within manholes for underground dry wells, storm drains, catch basins and other similar types of water collection structures.

The invention provides an ecological environment monitoring and supervising system. The system comprises an ecological environment monitoring network, an ecological environment monitoring law-enforcement platform and an ecological environment monitoring and supervising command and dispatch center, wherein the ecological environment monitoring network comprises a mineral resource anti-illegal mining monitoring module, an illegal water-intake automatic monitoring module, a surface water environment monitoring module, a soil environment monitoring data collection module, a forest resource anti-illegal-tree-felling anti-flame monitoring module, a natural disaster automatic monitoring module, an ecological environment protection mass prevention data reporting module, an environment monitoring data collection module, a universal unmanned aerial vehicle monitoring module and an intelligent law-enforcement bayonet blocking module; the ecological environment monitoring law-enforcement platformcomprises an ecological environment supervising law-enforcement module, a monitoring data analysis and prewarning management module, a river chief comprehensive management module, an ecological environment dynamic supervising module and an intelligent law-enforcement linking module; and the ecological environment monitoring cloud operation center module, a command and dispatch center module and anemergency command and dispatch system platform module.