3727 results about "Stockpile" patented technology

A modular cradle for reinforcing, transporting, and stacking cargo containers used in the transportation and storage of bulk cargo in the oil and gas industry so as to allow compliance with construction and shipping standards adopted by the oil and gas industry is disclosed. The cargo cradle is comprised of a rectangular frame for holding and supporting a cargo container. The cradle has attached lifting lugs positioned within the interior of the cargo cradle for attachment of lifting cables. The lifting lugs are positioned so as to allow cradles to be stacked one upon the other. The container cradles interlock when stacked.

A storage vessel, such as vessels used in storing high pressure gas is provided. The storage vessel includes a liner having a center portion and a first and second end dome. A first composite layer is disposed circumferentially about the center portion. A second composite layer is disposed about said first composite layer and the first and second end dome. In some embodiments, the second composite layer is formed from a knitted or braided sleeve that is tightened over the liner and first composite layer by pulling the sleeve.

An offshore floating production, storage, and off-loading vessel has a hull of generally cylindrical or polygonal configuration surrounding a central double tapered conical moon pool and contains water ballast and oil and / or liquefied gas storage compartments. The exterior side walls of the polygonal hull have flat surfaces and sharp corners to cut ice sheets, resist and break ice, and move ice pressure ridges away from the structure. An adjustable water ballast system induces heave, roll, pitch and surge motions of the vessel to dynamically position and maneuver the vessel to accomplish ice cutting, breaking and moving operations. The moon pool shape and other devices on the vessel provide added virtual mass for increasing the natural period of the roll and heave modes, reducing dynamic amplification and resonance due to waves and vessel motion, and facilitate maneuvering the vessel. A disconnectable turret buoy at the bottom of the moon pool connects risers and mooring lines.

A system that can be assembled at a well drilling or other site for storing bulk material such as sand includes a plurality of storage bins configured as trailers, a skid that includes a lower conveyor, a bucket elevator and a top conveyor system. At the site, the bins and the elevator are vertically oriented and stood on the skid, resulting in discharge outlets on the bins becoming positioned over the lower conveyor. The top conveyor is installed on top of the bins. In operation, the elevator lifts the material and discharges it onto the top conveyor system. The top conveyor system discharges the material into the bins for storage. The stored material is controllably discharged from the discharge outlets of the bins onto the lower conveyor from which the material is conveyed to one end of the skid for transport to a new location or directly into a blender.

A fluid separation system includes a tank with a storage chamber for retaining floating and non-floating particulates. The tank includes a baffle for retaining floating particulates within the storage chamber and for directing flow out of the storage chamber. The tank also includes a bypass with an inlet flow control zone and an outlet flow control zone. The flow control zones are separated by a weir sized and positioned to regulate the fluid flow through a baffle port into the storage chamber. The weir also provides control of the flow rate at which incoming fluid is diverted directly through the bypass to the tank outlet rather than into the storage chamber. The baffle and / or the weir may be curved, and the baffle may include a complex curve, to aid in the smoothing of the fluid flow within the storage chamber to improve particulate separation.

A hand-operated device for measuring, dispensing and storing of powder, granular and grain materials, having filling and discharging / storing positions, comprising: a container wherein the material is stored and a measuring and dispensing unit attached to the container. In the preferred embodiment the unit includes: a housing having interconnected material receiving and material discharging openings; a slide moveable back and forth inside the passageway, delivers the material from the receiving opening to the discharging opening, accommodating a predetermined volume of the material dispensed by the device in one stroke; extensions prevent bridging of the dispensed material, a spring, being extended when the slide moves inside the housing due to an outside force applied to the slide and returning the slide into its original position after the outside force is released; a retaining apparatus holding the slide inside the housing in its discharging position when the device is not in use, a stopping apparatus fixing filling position of the slide; and apparatus providing airtight closing of the measuring and dispensing unit of possible penetration of air from the container to outside atmosphere or back. In the first embodiment the device includes extensions on the slide directed towards the container to break-up clogged material within container during movement of the slide. In the second embodiment the transporting mechanism includes also a screening mechanism capable to close or open the compartment in the slide wherein the dispensed material is received.

The invention discloses a testing device and a measuring and calculating method for the gas permeability of compact rock material. Under the condition that the gas pressure at two ends of a rock sample are controlled to be the same, a gas pressure pulse is applied to the lower surface of the rock sample by a gas pressure control panel. When gas penetrates through the rock sample and enters a known pressure air storage tank under the action of the pressure of the pulse, the gas permeability of the rock sample is calculated by recording the change of the pressure of the pulse with time. The testing device and the measuring and calculating method are applicable to the measurement of permeability of mediums with low permeability, such as the storage of underground petroleum and natural gas, the storage of CO2, the disposal of nuclear waste, the storage of shale gas and the like and the measurement and calculation of the permeability of other compact rock mediums. Materials the permeability of mediums is between around 10-24m2 can all be measured and calculated by the device system.

Embodiments of the present invention include a method and system for blending multi-component granular compositions such as proppant used in hydraulic fracturing in well drilling. The system includes the control and management of an on-site storage system for each of the components, regulating the delivery of specified quantities of each component to a well site, and coordinating the flow of materials into and out of the blender.

The present invention provides integrated bunker storage systems for waste streams based on the composition and characteristics of waste streams. In particular, the present invention provides a process for generating individual waste streams based on a set of material characteristics. According to the system and method of the present invention, individual waste streams from wastes stored in bunkers are mixed in a given feed ratio to generate a feed stock that will produce a desired output from a chemical conversion process, e.g., gasification. Optionally, composition data regarding the feed stock can be certified to a third party.

Method and apparatus for transforming a plurality of standard-size shipping containers into a finished multi-level building structure of a scale to accommodate humans. Each of the illustrated shipping containers has an open generally rectangular center structural frame which supports panels to provide exterior base, end and top walls. A pair of movable side walls, each having a structural frame and wall panel, are connected to the center frame to complete the enclosure. The containers hold wall and roof sections. Initially the containers are stacked atop one another with their base walls at the bottom. Then, starting at the lowermost container, the side walls, which are hingedly connected along their bottom edges to the center frame, are opened by being pivoted outwardly, downwardly to provide extended floor portions that are in general horizontal alignment with the associated base wall. Then support structures or members are secured to that extended floor portions to provide support for the extended floor portions of the next higher level. Next, the moveable side walls of the next higher container are similarly opened and secured to the support members so as to generally vertically align with the extended floor portions below them. This continues until all the stacked containers have been opened. Finally, wall and roof panels stored in the containers are removed and installed.

Fluid supply systems for storage and dispensing of chemical reagents and compositions, e.g., high purity liquid reagents and chemical mechanical polishing compositions used to manufacture microelectronic device products, having capability for detection of an empty or near-empty condition when the contained liquid is at or approaching depletion during dispensing operation. Fluid delivery systems employing empty detect arrangements are described, including pressure transducer monitoring of dispensed material intermediate the supply package and a servo-hydraulic dispense pump, or monitoring of dispenser chamber replenishment times in a dispenser being replenished on a cyclic schedule to flow material from the dispenser to a downstream tool utilizing the dispensed material.

The invention relates to a non-contact measuring method, in particular to visual measuring method of a stockpile in a large-scale stock ground. The method comprises the following steps of: (1) constructing a visual measuring system of stock ground; (2) mounting a binocular vision subsystem; (3) establishing a geometric model of a CCD (Charge Coupled Device) camera; (4) calibrating the parameters of the CCD camera; (5) collecting images; (6) processing the images; (7) searching and matching angular points; (8) confirming the three-dimensional coordinate values of an object point; and (9) interpolating a curve and establishing a height map in a world coordinate system; and (10) measuring the volume. The visual measuring method of the invention automatically eliminates the image distortion caused by a wide-angle lens, can automatically and accurately match the angular points of a left view and a right view, automatically generates the three-dimensional space coordinates of the object point by utilizing an image data conversion relation, optimizes the three-dimensional angular point distribution and constructs the height map of the world coordinate system so that the volume a geometrical irregular stockpile can be simply, intuitively and accurately calculate.

A system for managing the transfer of agricultural material from a material-transferring vehicle to a material-receiving vehicle. An unloading chute is adapted to transfer material from a first storage container of the material-transferring vehicle to a material-receiving vehicle alongside the material-transferring vehicle. A location-determining receiver is adapted to estimate position data for guiding the material-transferring vehicle. An image sensor is mounted on the material-transferring vehicle or the first storage container for estimating a lateral separation distance between the first storage container and the material-receiving vehicle for receiving the material. An electronic data processing system guides the material-transferring vehicle based on the estimated position data and the estimated lateral separation distance, to maintain a generally constant target lateral separation distance between the material-transferring vehicle and the material-receiving vehicle during the transfer of the material.

A cryogenic shipping and storage container, with an on-board cooling unit in the form of a bunker for holding solid refrigerant. The unit can be configured for different sizes, and to refrigerate rather than freeze product.

A system and attendant structural components for incorporating an alternate fuel supply, such as of the type used in combination with a conventional distillate fuel, to power a heavy duty industrial vehicle, such as a mine haul dump truck. The system and attendant structure includes a mounting assembly structured for containment and support of the alternate fuel and a containment area disposed on the vehicle and structured and dimensioned to retain the mounting assembly therein. The containment area and the mounting assembly are disposed in laterally adjacent, exposed relation to an operator area of the mine haul truck, wherein the mounting assembly and the containment area are cooperatively disposed and structured to facilitate storage of the alternate fuel and operative communication and distribution thereof with the powering engine of the mine haul vehicle.

A vessel for transporting liquefied natural gas is provided. The vessel generally includes a gas transfer system for on-loading and off-loading natural gas to and from the vessel at essentially ambient temperature. The vessel further includes a gas processing facility for selectively providing liquefaction and regasification of the natural gas. The vessel also includes a containment structure for containing the liquefied natural gas during transport. The vessel may be a marine vessel or a barge vessel for transporting LNG over water, or a trailer vessel for transporting LNG overthe-road. A method for transporting LNG is also provided, that provides on-loading of natural gas onto a vessel, condensing the natural gas, storing the gas on the vessel in liquefied form, transporting the gas to an import terminal, vaporizing the gas, and off-loading the gas at the terminal.

The invention provides a sludge aerobic mechanical composting method and a dynamic roller composting device, which is designed to solve the currently existing problems that the composting conditions are not easy to control and automatic and continuous operation is not easy to realize, the composting time is long, and secondary contamination is serious and the like. The invention comprises the following steps: processing by two steps of pretreatment before composting and dynamic aerobic mechanical composting; mixing the self-made composite conditioner used for composting and original sludge according to the preset weight percentage and water content and crashing; pile turning and ventilating by utilizing self-made dedicated dynamic roller composting device; collecting and recycling percolate; composting and fermenting for 7 to 8 days. In the composting process, the stockpile in the device has no phenomena like cementation or blocking and the like, ensuring that the pile temperature in the fermentation case can rise to 55 DEG C rapidly and maintain for more than 3 days, and C / N value can rise to 11.49 from 9.57, thus the invention completely achieves requirements of sludge composting. The invention has the following characteristics and beneficial effects: short composting period, good quality, no generation of secondary contamination, easy realization of automatic continuous operation, low energy consumption and lowered composting cost, thus greatly promoting the realization of harmlessness and reclamation of city sludge.

A system for storage and dosing of ammonia, including a solid ammonia storage material capable of binding and releasing ammonia reversibly by adsorption / absorption. The system is able to release ammonia gradually according to a demand that can vary over time with intermediate periods of no ammonia demand. A main storage unit and a start-up storage unit are provided. The storage units hold ammonia storage material. At least one one-way valve is provided via which the one main storage unit is in communication with the start-up storage unit. The one-way valve prevents any back-flow of ammonia from the start-up storage unit to the main storage unit. Heating devices are arranged to heat the main storage unit and the start-up storage unit separately to generate gaseous ammonia by thermal desorption from the solid storage material. A controller controls the heating power of the main storage unit and the start-up storage unit, thereby enabling ammonia release from at least one of the start-up and / or the main storage unit. A dosing valve controls ammonia flow from the storage units according to a demand.

A method for feeding dried coal powder in pressure gasifying process features that the dried coal powder goes through intermediate material tank where it is pressurized by inertial gas, balance pipe,high-pressure powdered coal cabin and mixer and then into gasifier. Its feeding apparatus is composed of an intermediate material tank, a high-pressure powdered coal cabin and a mixer of carrying gaswith powdered coal. Its advantages are stable and controllable feed, simple apparatus and low cost.

An offshore offloading system for hydrocarbon products from a storage station such as an LNG / FPSO to a shuttle vessel. The system includes a yoke mooring arrangement having a yoke and a connection assembly. One end of the yoke is selectively disconnectable to the shuttle vessel, while the other end of the yoke is rotatably connected to an end of the connection assembly which has its other end rotatably connected to a frame which extends from an end of the storage station. The yoke and connection assembly are arranged such that a transverse force in the lateral or y-direction moves the end of the yoke less than twice the movement of the yoke in response to an x-direction force. The system also includes arrangements for providing a hydrocarbon fluid flow path from the storage station to the shuttle vessel when the shuttle vessel is disconnectably moored to the storage station. A first fluid flow path arrangement includes a crane / boom arrangement mounted on a frame extension of the storage station so that a crane slewing arc radius of the transfer system is not larger than one half the separation distance between the storage station and a forward perpendicular of the shuttle vessel. A second arrangement includes a fixed frame with a piping pantograph mount at its end. A trolley and service platform suspended therefrom move between an operational position away from the pantograph and a service position beneath the pantograph when it is folded into a storage position.

The invention provides debris collection devices that include a debris contacting mechanism, a debris transport mechanism that is configured to receive debris moved by the debris contacting mechanism at an inlet and move such debris towards a debris storage compartment, and a filter and vacuum assembly. The filter and vacuum assembly includes an inlet disposed downstream of the inlet of the transport mechanism and upstream of the debris storage compartment, relative to the path of transported debris. In operation, the filter and vacuum assembly generate a primary air flow that draws the airborne particles into the inlet of the transport mechanism, along a path proximate to the transport mechanism, into the inlet of the filter and vacuum assembly and though a filter located within the filter and vacuum assembly without generating a substantial airflow through the storage compartment. Related debris collection and processing systems and methods also are provided.

The invention discloses a carbonated steel slag aggregate and a preparation method thereof. The method comprises the following steps: sieving steel slag subjected to iron separation, taking particles with size between 0.5-25 mm particle for high pressure water flushing, and naturally drying the particles; immersing the dried steel slag particles in a mixed solution of 20-300 g / L caustic soda and 60-300 g / L sodium carbonate for 24 h, and maintaining the temperature at 20-60 DEG C; draining the soaked steel slag particles, immediately placing the particles in a sealed carbonation reactor, and introducing CO2 gas with purity over 99.9% for curing at the temperature of 70-90 DEG C for 0.5 h, and with the CO2 gas pressure at 0.2-0.5 MPa; cooling the steel slag particles subjected to carbonation treatment under natural conditions to room temperature, so as to obtain the carbonated steel slag aggregate. The steel slag aggregate treated by the method has compact surface structure to reduce water for concrete mixing; free magnesium oxide and free calcium oxide are conversed into carbonate precipitation to eliminate the hidden trouble of adverse stability; CO2 can be stored stably; the amount of natural aggregate is reduced to save nonrenewable resources; and the method has easily available raw materials and simple process.