Automated system for cleaning and recovering spilled oil in the ocean using hair felt rollers

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11401673-B2
Application number	US-202117185080-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 25, 2021
Priority date	Feb 27, 2020
Publication date	Aug 2, 2022
Grant date	Aug 2, 2022

Abstract

An oil spill retrieval system for retrieving spilled oil from the surface of a body of water and including a boat having means for collecting the oil from the water surface and having means for processing the collected oil. A pontoon boat that collects spilled oil from the ocean through a hair roller system suspended between the pontoons. Human hair is present within a porous casing of the roller and Oil floating on the water enters the porous casing whereupon the oil is absorbed by the human hair, wherein the absorbed oil is pass through one or more pipes to go into large pontoons which are the main oil collecting tanks on the pontoon boat.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A system on pontoon boat for cleaning oil spill, wherein the system comprising:
at least a boat, wherein the boat allows the system to rest on the surface of the body of water from which the oil is to be removed;
at least a roller, on which plurality of human or mammal hairs are fixed which serves the purpose of absorbing the oil from the water surface, supported by the boat, wherein said rollers are rotatable about an axis;
at least one divider flap attached between said rollers, wherein said divider flap is rotatable between said rollers;
a first conveyor belt coupled to said rollers and said divider flaps, wherein said first conveyor belt is configured to rotate the said rollers;
at least one free moving gears connected with said first conveyor belt, wherein said free moving gears is configured to rotate with a movement of said boat to revolve said first conveyor belt;
a motor operatively connected to the said roller, wherein the motor is configured to rotate the roller about its axis of rotation;
a second conveyor belt coupled with said motor, wherein said second conveyor belt is configured to spin said roller at high speed which serves the purpose of excreting the absorbed oil; and
an intermediate tank, wherein the intermediate tank of the boat is configured to collect the excreted oil from the roller.

2. The system as claim 1 , wherein the boat further comprises one or more collection tanks, wherein the collection tanks collects oil from the intermediate tank through one or more pipes.

3. The system as claim 1 , wherein the roller of the boat system is connected to the boat such that said oil is raised and separated from said water.

4. The system as claim 2 , further comprising a communicatively coupled camera, wherein said camera is configured to remotely control the one or more pipes.

5. The system of claim 4 , wherein said camera is further configured to remotely control the intermediate tank or the one or more collection tanks.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the collected oil is further pumped to the one or more collection tanks by one or more pipes based on a sensor input.

7. The system of claim 6 , wherein said sensor input is an alert generated in a real time at an instance when the intermediate tank is completely filed.

Assignees

• Faizan Mirza

Inventors

• Faizan Mirza
• Rizwan Mirza
• Fahzy Zeyd Mohd
• Farooqui Abdallah
• Jaffery Adam Arsalan
• Piracha Abdul Basit
• Rafique Maheen
• Sayed Salaah Asif
• Syed Umar Ahmad

Classifications

• E02B15/103

  Rotary drums · CPC title

• E02B15/104

  Conveyors; Paddle wheels; Endless belts (E02B15/101 takes precedence) · CPC title

• Y02A20/204

  Keeping clear the surface of open water from oil spills · CPC title

• E02B15/046 Primary

  Collection of oil using vessels, i.e. boats, barges · CPC title