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Hydraulic and earth engineering

20130115002 - Underwater oil and gas collection system: A device for collection of oil and gas from an underwater source comprising a balloon-like structure (1) defined by an envelope having an opening (18), which, in operation, is on the underside of the balloon- like structure, which balloon-like structure includes: a vent (23) adapted to vent gas in the... Agent:

20130115003 - Integrated bulk fluids management system: Modular storage and controlled outflow systems for controlling a flow of water and methods of assembly of modular storage and controlled outflow systems having indirect flow of water through the system. Modular systems for controlling a flow of water having beams extending across the modules to direct the flow of... Agent:

20130115004 - Soil cleaning method: The present invention provides a soil cleaning method. The soil cleaning method is characterized in that after a pre-treatment step of mixing a dehydrating agent in soil to reduce a water content of the soil to 10 mass % or less is performed, a magnetic separation step of feeding the... Agent: Dowa Eco-system Co., Ltd.

20130115005 - Agricultural tubing extractor and related methods: An extractor for removing agricultural tubing from soil of a field and related methods are provided. The extractor includes a frame and a pivot frame disposed on the frame. The pivot frame can have a pivot axis around which at least a portion of the pivot frame is pivotal. The... Agent: Syngenta Participations Ag

20130115006 - System for subsea cable installation: The present invention relates to a system for subsea installation of elongate flexible element, comprising a container for allocating/storing/accommodating an elongate flexible element intended to be installed, said container being positioned on a trenching vehicle arranged to trench said elongate flexible element into the seabed, which container comprises a guide... Agent: Octio As

20130115007 - Abandonment and recovery of pipelines: An elongate sling section is disclosed. The elongate sling is cooperable with like sling sections to form a sling for use in abandonment or recovery of a pipeline. The sling section includes end-pieces at five opposite ends and complementary connector formations associated with each respective end-piece. Each connector formation is... Agent:

20130115008 - Undersea pipe-laying: A vessel for laying a pipeline includes a plurality of ramps in the region of the first end of the vessel. The plurality of ramps includes a first ramp which is disposed along the pipelaying path, whose inclination is adjustable and which has a first upstream end and a second... Agent: Saipem S.p.a.

20130115009 - Lateral buckling mitigation apparatus, methods and systems for use with subsea conduits: Disclosed are systems and methods for controlling lateral deformation and reducing axial displacement, also referred to as walking, of a subsea conduit such as a pipeline for conveying produced hydrocarbon fluids. The systems and methods include the installation of rolling assemblies on the conduit at predetermined locations. The rolling assemblies... Agent: Chevron U.s.a. Inc.

20130115010 - Pipe stand: A pipe support has an outer tubular support wall, an inner tubular support wall, spaced inwardly from the outer tubular support wall, and a connecting portion for maintaining the outer tubular support wall and the inner tubular support wall in a fixed, spaced apart relationship. The pipe support is intended... Agent:

20130115011 - Submersible offshore positionable frame: A submersible offshore jack-up frame comprises a base and at least four legs, wherein said base is positionable along said legs, so that said base may be moved from a first position wherein said base is transportable on the deck of a surface vessel such as a barge, to a... Agent: Total Marine Services Inc.

20130115012 - Tensioner cylinder connections with multiaxial degrees of freedom: A coupler having two degrees of axial freedom couples a hydro-pneumatic cylinder to a tensioner ring of a riser tensioner mounted to a platform. A post extends along an axis of the cylinder and an intermediate sleeve is disposed around the post to form a post annulus. An outer sleeve... Agent: Vetco Gray Inc.

20130115013 - Constant-resistance large-deformation anchor rod: A constant-resistance large-deformation anchor rod includes a rod body (6), a tray (3), a nut (2), and a constant-resistance device (4). The constant-resistance device (4) is formed into a cylindrical structure, and the inner surface of the constant-resistance device (4) and the outer surface of the rod body (6) are... Agent:

20130115014 - Hydrostatic drive for a machine: A hydrostatic drive including a hydrostatic pump configured to supply a transmission fluid. The hydrostatic drive further includes an axle motor and a drum motor. The axle motor is configured to drive a set of traction wheels and the drum motor is configured to drive a drum. The hydrostatic drive... Agent: Caterpillar Paving Products Inc.

20130115015 - Structure for preventing rockfall, a rockfall prevention method, and a method for designing said structure: To provide rock fall prevention structure and rock fall prevention method capable of preventing the collapse of surface layer and preventing the falling of identified rock masses. Slope 1 is covered with a net assembly 2 constructed of rope materials 3 and 4 combined in intersectional directions and a wire... Agent: Ooficine Maccaferri S.p.a.

20130108368 - Marine barrier gate: A marine barrier gate includes a pleated row of buoyant panels movable between an expanded position and a retracted position, where the panels are substantially parallel. A first buoy is attached to a first end of the panel row, and a second buoy is remote from the panels when the... Agent: Halo Maritime Defense Systems, Inc.

20130108369 - Safeguarding arrangement for collecting a fluid escaping into a body of water: The invention relates to a protective device for preventing fluids, either gaseous or liquid, from escaping into a body of water in an unforeseen or uncontrolled manner, e.g. from a fault 14 in the bottom 15 of the body of water or from the defective riser 16 of a wellbore.... Agent:

20130108370 - Apparatus and method for controlling runoff: A gate assembly for controlling runoff. In one embodiment the gate assembly comprises an opening disposed in a front wall and a cover sized for sealing said opening. The gate is moveable between an open and a closed position. The gate may further comprise a latch for retaining the gate... Agent: Pinnacle Companies, Inc.

20130108371 - Containment system: A modular dike or barrier assembly includes straight and curved members that may be interconnected to form a barrier or dike wall surrounding a primary container. The members are hollow and include opposed side walls having integrally formed reinforcing ribs. The side walls extend at an acute angle relative to... Agent: Polystar Incorporated

20130108372 - Portable water-inflatable barrier: A portable, water-filled barrier emulates a sandbag dike or wall without requiring sand or intensive labor to install. The barrier is made of a light, flexible material that can include nanofiber. Some embodiments are formed from a plurality of interlocked water-filled cells, with a forward-facing water barrier sheet. Other embodiments... Agent:

20130108373 - Method for treating soil material: The invention relates to a method for treating soil material. According to the invention, the soil material is treated by a mixture composition containing at least microfibrillated cellulose and water.... Agent: Upm-kymmene Corporation

20130108374 - Mountable earth-embedding anchor with removable underground conduit panels and installation apparatus: Methods and apparatuses are disclosed for the rapid and precise removable installation of a substrate-penetrating device that facilitates underground delivery of various utilities to and/or from devices mounted thereon.... Agent:

20130108375 - Shoring box & related methods: A shoring box having frame supports coupled to lateral spreader bars. The shoring box is configured to accept exterior panels in a manner capable of providing vertical translation about an exterior surface of the shoring box. The shoring box is further configured to accept a plurality of interior panels in... Agent:

20130108376 - Yieldable support prop and method: A yield support prop for a mine includes a first metal tube extending from the mine floor having a first portion having a first outside diameter and a second portion having a second outside diameter. The prop includes a second metal tube that is disposed about the first portion and... Agent: Strata Products Worldwide, LLC

20130108377 - Free-wheeling-resistant rolls for mining roof support and the combination of a mining machine and such rolls: A roll of grid material for mine roof support, and a mining machine in combination with such a roll, in which the roll has bands of adhering material injected or otherwise forced into the roll in spaced locations along the roll's width. The adhering material interconnects the overlapped layers within... Agent: Tensar Corporation

20130101351 - Base for turf system: An underlayment layer is configured to support an artificial turf assembly. The underlayment layer comprises a core with a top side and a bottom side. The top side has a plurality of spaced apart, upwardly oriented projections that define channels suitable for water flow along the top side of the... Agent: Brock International

20130101352 - System and process for flue gas processing: The present invention is directed to a method for sequestration of carbon dioxide, said method comprising the steps of injecting a waste gas into a subsurface containment region, providing a filter associated with a separation well for separating a constituent gas from the waste gas, the separation well being in... Agent:

20130101353 - System and method for isolating and decontaminating a block of soil: Isolation and decontamination of a block of soil (1) containing at least one pollutant, a first array of drains (11) being placed substantially vertically in the block of soil, a first array of connectors (13) being connected to the drains of the first array of drains. The first array of... Agent: Soletanche Freyssinet

20130101354 - Novel process for the temporary covering of contaminated soils: Process for the temporary covering of contaminated soils, includes applying, to the soil, a leakproof layer based on a water-soluble polymer, and then subsequently a stabilizing layer based on plant fibers.... Agent: Snf Sas

20130101355 - Powered sheave for node deployment and retrieval: A method and apparatus for deploying a plurality of seismic sensor units into a water column is provided. In one embodiment, a marine vessel is provided. The vessel includes a cable storage device disposed on the vessel, a workstation disposed on a deck of the vessel, a ramp at least... Agent: Fairfield Industries Incorporated

20130101356 - Ocean rafts for mining hydrogen: These Ocean rafts for mining hydrogen consist of a variety of structurally connected modules that form seaworthy powered maneuverable floating ocean platforms for an on-board hydrogen mining and storage facility, as well as an oxygen, distillation, and mineral recovery operation. These operations shall be powered by synergistic clean energy systems... Agent:

20130101357 - Dual-derrick ice-worthy jack-up drilling unit: The invention relates to an ice worthy jack-up rig that may extend the drilling season in shallow water off shore Arctic or ice prone locations. The inventive rig would work like a conventional jack-up rig while in open water with the hull jacked up out of the water. However, in... Agent: Conocophillips Company

20130101358 - Dock and dock kits: A dock and dock kit suitable for shipping from a manufacturing site to an erection site where a dock can be erected having elongated dock beams with a length that is greater than the length of any of the beams in the dock kit and the mateable beams have surfaces... Agent:

20130101359 - Anchoring element for a hydraulic engineering installation: The invention relates to an anchoring element for a hydraulic engineering installation having at least one ballast weight for weighting purposes and is characterized in that the anchoring element comprises a plurality of shear-protection elements which are arranged movably on lateral guides in the anchoring element such that, when the... Agent: Voith Patent Gmbh

20130101360 - Helical screw pile: A helical screw pile includes a longitudinal shaft having a top end and a bottom end with a plurality of helical plates arranged on the shaft in increasing diameter from the top to the bottom. The first helical plate is located toward the bottom of the shaft and has the... Agent: Hubbell Incorporated

20130094905 - Flood wall protection system: A system and method for constructing any desired length of height linear cellular chain for use as a protective wall system, including a chain of fabric bulk bags, each having an open upper end, and interconnected along their sidewalls to define the cellular chain; and a fabric channel formed on... Agent:

20130094906 - Water barrier: Water barrier including a frame having tow posts and at least one sill extending therebetween, which posts and sill bound a passage that can be closed off against water, further including a flexible water-retaining cloth, a storage space for the cloth and a transfer element for transferring the cloth from... Agent:

20130094908 - Soil remediation: A device for agitating a material is provided. The device includes a casing that includes an opening at a first end and a valve configured to open and close the opening.... Agent: Empire Technology Development LLC

20130094907 - Electro-remediation: Embodiments provided herein relate to electro-remediation. In some embodiments, an apparatus for collecting metal is provided and includes a helically shaped electrode. An electrical current can be applied to the apparatus causing metal and ions thereof to become fixed to the electrode.... Agent: Empiree Technology Development LLC

20130094909 - Systems and methods for collecting and processing permafrost gases, and for cooling permafrost: Systems and methods for collecting and processing permafrost gases and for cooling permafrost are disclosed herein. A method in accordance with a particular embodiment for processing gas in a permafrost region includes obtaining a gas from a sacrificial area of a thawing permafrost region, dissociating the gas in a non-combustive... Agent: Mcalister Technologies, LLC

20130094910 - Pipeline laying apparatus and method: There is provided a marine pipeline laying aligner (80) comprising a moveable aligner track (82) having at least three degrees of freedom. The moveable aligner track (82) is able to assist with tension compensation for many more pipeline trajectories on a marine pipeline laying vessel than hitherto.... Agent:

20130094911 - Pipe splitting apparatus with replaceable blade: Pipe splitting apparatuses and systems including a replaceable blade, and methods therefor, are provided. In various examples, a pipe splitting apparatus includes an outer surface including a recess. A blade including a portion is disposed within the recess. A hardenable material is disposed within the recess. The hardenable material is... Agent: Tt Technologies, Inc.