626 results about "Marine life" patented technology

The invention discloses a nontoxic antifouling paint for an oceanographic ship and facilities and a method for preparing the paint. The paint consists of the following components in percentage by weight: 15 to 55 percent of base material, 0.01 to 10 percent of antifouling agent, 10 to 30 percent of filler, 0.3 to 25 percent of pigment, 2 to 8 percent of auxiliary agent and 3 to 55 percent of solvent, wherein the antifouling agent is silver grains with average grain diameter of between 1 and 200nm. The paint does not contain toxic agents, such as dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane, organic tin,cuprous oxide and the like, at all while effectively suppressing corrosion of marine biological attachments, meets the related regulations of international maritime organization and future development trend of the antifouling paint, realizes non-toxicity and environmental friendliness of the marine antifouling technology, and can be widely applied to the facilities and the fields, such as ships, floating piers, marine oil platforms, submarine cables, cooling pipes of power plant near the sea, sea water culture net cage and the like.

An apparatus is disclosed for a turbine for generating electrical power from water or air flow comprising at least one rotor disk having a plurality of hydrofoil blades, a guide vanes, a cylindrical housing, and a generator means. A rim generator comprising a magnet race rotor rim and fixed stator coils in the housing is used. The apparatus is fitted with a screen to stop the ingress of debris and marine life, and a skirt augmenter device to reduce the Betz effect. The apparatus is preferably for sub-sea deployment and driven by tidal currents, but may be powered by river current or wave driven air or by wind. The apparatus may be deployed on at least one telescoping pole, tethered to the sea-bed and kept buoyant by buoyant concrete in the housing, inserted in a dam, under a barge or in a tidal power array.

A method and system for the inland aquaculture of marine species using water from a saline aquifer having a heavy metals content within the acceptable limits of the EPA guidelines for drinking water. The aquifer is preferably the Coconino aquifer located in Arizona and New Mexico. The system can be used to culture microalgae, macroalgae, fish, shrimp and many other marine species. Nutrients and fertilizers can be added to the water to optimize culture conditions for particular species. Useful products can be isolated from the marine species or the cultured marine species can be harvested as useful products themselves.

Deployable submarine hydroelectric generator for conversion of kinetic energy of deep ocean currents into electricity by having an electric generator mounted in a sealed hydrodynamic, buoyant vessel with tail fins, and connected by a shaft to a rotary turbine blades at the tail end of the submarine vessel, which vessel is anchored at desired depth to the bottom of the ocean by a cable. The drag of the turbine blades causes the vessel to self-steer against the direction of the ocean current. An electric cable is also provided, connecting said electric generator with electric grid on the land. Such generator is out of sight, unlike windmills, and is environmentally friendly to the sea life, due to slow rotating blades. This clean electricity can also be used for production of low cost hydrogen by electrolysis of sea water.

An underwater diving simulation system includes at least three surface electronics units defining a diving area in proximity to a desired dive location. Each surface electronics unit includes a microprocessor-controlled transceiver that receives x-y-z position data from an underwater acoustical transponder located on a diver who is located in the diving area. The system provides user selectable, variable underwater virtual reality data to the diver via a communication link. A plurality of sensors in proximity to the diver's head transmits real-time rate of change, horizontal and vertical position of the diver's head to a signal decoder located on at least one of the surface electronics units via said communication link. A pair of projectors and optical elements are typically provided, one for each of the diver's eyes on a diving mask. The virtual reality images are generated by a graphics-processing unit in real-time response to the position and orientation of the diver and the diver's head whereby the diver can experience a virtual reality of diving in a user selectable location and with user selectable sea creatures.

Disclosed is a process for preparation of compositions having utility as well fluid base oils. The process involves metathesis of alpha-olefins followed by isomerization of the metathesis products. The base oils resulting from the process of this invention are environmentally friendly in that they are only mildly toxic to marine life and have very low pour point temperatures. These properties make the base oils ideal candidates for use as components of well fluids for cold climates and offshore applications.

The invention discloses a quaternary ammonium salt modified organosilicon polyurethane ocean antifouling paint, the structure is shown as the formula (1); in the formula, an organosilicon soft segment containing quaternary ammonium salt side chain is an isocyanate hard segment; the quaternary ammonium salt modified organosilicon polyurethane ocean antifouling paint is prepared by the following steps: preparing 2,4,6-tri(3- chlorine propyl group)-2,4,6- trimethyl-ring trisiloxane; preparing 1,3-bi(3-(1-methoxy group-2-hydroxy propyl group) propyl group)-tetramethyl disiloxane; preparing 1,3-bi(3-(1-methoxy group-2-hydroxy propyl group) propyl group)-tetramethyl disiloxane; preparing dihydroxy ended chloropropylated polysiloxane; preparing polysiloxane compound containing the quaternary ammonium salt and hydroxyl; mixing the compound with the isocyanate, and adding gamma-aminopropyl triethoxy silane for chain extension to obtain a prepolymer, and the prepolymer being crosslinked and condensed in air. In the invention, the double effect of low surface energy and poison killing are achieved, so as to suppress the adsorption of marine organisms and kill bacteria adsorbed on the surface of a ship body through the quaternary ammonium salt.

The invention provides an aquatic feed which is prepared from soybean waste, steam heated fish meal, fish meal, brewer's yeast, squid meal, shrimp shell powder, choline chloride, flour, calcium dihydrogenphosphate, scallop powder, Ulva lacbuca Linnaeus powder, glutelin powder, phosphatidy icholine, fish oil, palmitic oil, maltose dextrin, amino acid fish grout, vitamins for shrimps, microelements, immunological polysaccharides, copper-methionine and complex enzyme. The invention also discloses the pre-maturing process for the aquatic feed.

The use of an aromatic compound substituted with at least one heterocyclic amine and possibly additional substituents, such as medetomidine and clonidine, or a functionally analogous derivative thereof, as an agent for the inhibition of marine biofouling on a surface, by application thereon of said compound, is disclosed. Also a method for inhibition of marine biofouling on a surface by application of said compound is disclosed.

The invention discloses an artificial ecological barrier reef and relates to an artificial building block suitable for growth of marine organisms. According to the artificial ecological barrier reef, a body is a concrete building block with a vertical penetrating hole, a steel bar or other metal reinforced bars do not exist in the body, micro silicon powder is mixed in the body, the body is a big-end-down table-shaped object, a plurality of holes which penetrate to the vertical penetrating hole and a plurality of concave pits are formed in the side face of the body, fragments of one or more of the organic substances of plants, shells, oyster shells and organism skeletons are added into the body, and parts of the organic substance fragments are exposed on the surface of the body. Cost, conveying, island conditions and bank protection can be integrated, and the requirement for ecological environment protection can be met.

A water transportation system and method are described, generally related to water amusement attractions and rides. This transportation system comprises at least two water stations and at least one water channel connecting the at least two water stations for the purpose of conveying participants between the at least two water stations. In addition, a floating water park positioned in a body of water is described, as well as, a floating marine park. A floating marine/water park may include one or more floating containers positioned in a body of a first fluid. One or more of the floating containers may function to hold a second fluid, marine life, and/or participants in water amusement activities. A floating marine park may include a heat exchange system configured to exchange heat between a body of water and fluid in at least one of the containers.

The invention discloses a liquid seaweed bio-fungus and a preparation process thereof. The liquid seaweed bio-fungus is compounded by the marine bio-fungus and three microbial floras including actinomycetes, lactobacillus and saccharomycetes. The process comprises the following steps: sterilizing the seaweeds at high temperature (over 100 DEG C), soaking, grinding and rubbing the seaweeds to prepare seaweed starch; proportionally mixing the seaweed starch with molasses, various auxiliaries, water and cultured fungus solution, stirring and then fermenting; and finally packaging. The preparation process of the invention is simple and is characterized by low production cost, high concentration and high survival rate. The liquid seaweed bio-fungus prepared by the process has the characteristics of high activity, quick absorption, high economic benefits and good social and environmental benefits.

The invention discloses an antifouling paint for ship and marine facility, comprising the following ingredients by weight percent: 30-45wt% of scale glass, 15-25wt% of acrylic resin, 0-5wt% of rosin, 5-10wt% of asphalt, 5-15wt% of dimethylbenzene, 3-5wt% of bentonite, 0-5wt% of barium sulphate, 2-5wt% of talcum powder, 2-10wt% of ferric oxide and 5-8wt% of zinc oxide. The used scale glass can be adjusted in blending ratio thereof, or the percent content of the scale glass in the antifouling paint is adjusted, so as to control release rate of Cu+; the antifouling paint can release Cu+ chronically, slowly and stably at expected speed under the soaking of sea water; the formed paint film has obvious antifouling anti-algae capability and can prevent marine life from being adhered on the surface of ship and ocean facility, protection degree on paint film of ship and marine facility is effectively improved, and the antifouling paint is non-toxic and environmentally friendly.

The present invention relates to an underwater target recognition method based on deep learning, which mainly solves the problem that the existing target recognition system mainly relies on the shallow model to extract the artificial feature, resulting in the recognition accuracy is not high. The method comprises the following concrete steps that (1) power spectrum characteristics of original ship target radiated noise data are obtained in segment; (2) the power spectrum characteristics are divided into a training data set and a testing data set; (3) training data are subjected to ZCA whitening pretreatment; (4) a stack-type self-coding network is constructed; (5) a deep network node is subjected to fine tuning; and (6) testing data are subjected to classification and recognition. Sea test data and experiments show that the deep network is utilized to learn deep characteristics of ship target radiated noise for performing classification recognition, the recognition rate reaches over 94%, and the underwater target recognition effect is improved, which has an important real application prospect for future recognition and monitoring of underwater ships and marine organisms.

Presented herein is a real-time target-locking confocal microscope that follows an object moving along an arbitrary path, even as it simultaneously changes its shape, size and orientation. This Target-locking Acquisition with Realtime Confocal (TARC) microscopy system integrates fast image processing and rapid image acquisition using, for example, a Nipkow spinning-disk confocal microscope. The system acquires a 3D stack of images, performs a full structural analysis to locate a feature of interest, moves the sample in response, and then collects the next 3D image stack. In this way, data collection is dynamically adjusted to keep a moving object centered in the field of view. The system's capabilities are demonstrated by target-locking freely-diffusing clusters of attractive colloidal particles, and actively-transported quantum dots (QDs) endocytosed into live cells free to move in three dimensions for several hours. During this time, both the colloidal clusters and live cells move distances several times the length of the imaging volume. Embodiments may be applied to other applications, such as manufacturing, open water observation of marine life, aerial observation of flying animals, or medical devices, such as tumor removal.

Capsaicinoids that repel insects, reptiles, mammals, microorganisms and marine life are compounded with one or more ceramics or other inert material, into an environmentally friendly additive. The additive can be incorporated by extrusion, pultrusion, compression molding, casting or other suitable process into a wide range of products including, but not limited to, polymers, composites, paints, coatings, varnishes, shellacs, stains, sealants, preservatives, glues, adhesives, minerals, resins, latex, reinforced polymers, powders, foams and other similar classes of materials polymers, or combinations thereof. The repellency of the capsaicinoids remains effective for periods up to several years when the products are employed in their normal commercial uses.

The present invention belongs to the field of food producing technology, and is especially production process of nutritious sea food wine, which is produced with grain liquor as the base material, abalone and sea cucumber as main material, and wolfberry fruit, Chinese yam, licorice, cassia bark, date, mulberry and kudzu vine root as supplementary material. The production process includes the following steps: 1. cooking fresh abalone and sea cucumber, puffing in dilute base solution, freeze drying, crushing, sieving and sterilizing to obtain abalone and sea cucumber powder; 2. washing and drying the supplementary material, crushing, sieving and sterilizing to form supplementary material powder; and 3. soaking the abalone and sea cucumber powder and the supplementary material powder separately in grain liquor for several days, filtering to obtain filtrates, mixing, heating to eliminate alcohol, homogenizing, filtering, seasoning, sterilizing and packing.

A fluid discharge apparatus adapted to discharge a cavitating stream of pressurized liquid along with the selective discharge of a secondary material, such as an abrasive, for removing dirt, debris, barnacles, marine growth, and other substances from submerged surfaces is provided. More particularly, the invention contemplates a introducing a pressurized liquid into a cavitation generating chamber to create and discharge a cavitating stream, and a secondary inlet for injecting abrasive material, such as silica, into the chamber to improve cleaning effectiveness. The gas bubbles within the cavitating liquid stream that essentially explode upon impacting debris resulting in tremendous pressure fluxuations provides improved effectiveness in removing debris and aquatic growth from the submerged surface. The combination of a secondary substance, such as an abrasive material, foam, or compressed gas enhances cleaning effectiveness. The invention further improves upon the control of such devices with controls, such as a pistol grip or rotational grip controllers, that allow the diver/operator to adjust flow rates and thrust without releasing his grasp. An improved hand-held apparatus is disclosed with a pistol grip and trigger actuator, and an improved wheeled vehicle is disclosed with improved control handles adapted to actuate valves and closure ports.

The invention provides a canned sea cucumber and its preparing process, wherein the can is prepared from sea cucumber, abalone, seaweed, flavorings, gel form soup or water through high-temperature processing, low-temperature expanding, exhausting gas, sealing and sterilizing.