New Patent Technology Announced | AIR & EARTH LLC
NEW PATENTED SEDIMENT SAMPLING, HARVESTING, REMEDIATION AND HABITAT RESTORATION TECHNOLOGY ANNOUNCED
September 4, 2007: Tom Kryzak of Air & Earth, LLC (A&E) announces new patented technology for contaminated sediment remediation. This technology was announced in light of the University of Maryland’s 6 yr study led by Professor Joel Baker on Hudson River PCB sediment releases unveiled on 12/08/2004 in NY City at the Hudson River Foundation. The study found that up to half of the PCBs in sediment are swept downstream when the river bottom is disturbed. Environmental Lunch Box Technology LLC, a subsidiary of A&E, recommends the use of the Environmental Lunch Box (ELB) which works under water during sediment remediation projects to suppress incidental releases and fallback of contaminates that trigger a release and cause turbidity. It is nominally 100% effective.
The ELB provides sampling, viewing, sonar detection, monitoring, separating, testing, treating, injecting, removing or replacing silt, sediment, and materials from a contained site from water bottoms. The open faced container forms a re-sealable seal with the bottom materials, then uses “agitators” for suspending the sediment and materials within the container and provides outlets through which the materials and fluids may be withdrawn from the container for harvesting, separation, replacement or treatment while monitoring for natural or manmade toxins. The “agitators” are variable speed impellers, whips and nozzles used for directing streams of water and/or air at variable pressures. GPS is used for precision tracking of the ELB units.
A closed loop piping system includes forward and reverse pumping to remove the sediment and materials while the seal prevents additional sources from entering the ELB during the process. The monitoring process includes real-time testing for gases, nutrients, organisms, elements, toxins natural or manmade, etc. Treatments include additives, reducers, catalysts, microbes, stabilizers, adhesives, charged particles, gases or other elements. Once treated, “clean” separated materials may be returned via the apparatus. The ELB allows for research, sampling, treatments or removals with continuous monitoring and minimal exposure to the surroundings with nominally 100% effective results. By reversing the process the voids left from removals can be filled with a select amount of cleaned or new materials mixed with Green PEAS packets to advance the habitat restoration process.
The Green Plant Energy Aid System (GREEN PEAS) is a biodegradable packet filled with plants, (cuttings, roots, tubular, seeds, etc), nutrients and soil organisms necessary to accelerate plant growth in a greenhouse growing effect that shelters the new growth from the forces of nature over a controlled period of time. The GREEN PEAS are pre-packaged high energy growing pods, round in shape to facilitate easy movement and placement. Installed in three different ways GREEN PEAS are; 1) pumped via the ELB units piping system into the soil/sediment, 2) via a sled planting system or 3) rolled out in the form of a blanket planting process. Planting can take place above or below the water line or on shore. GREEN PEAS do not have a top or bottom, allowing growth to occur at 360 degrees (tropism) thus finding “top” on its own as it grows toward the sunlight. GREEN PEAS can be weighted to sink or use an air-bladder to tether at multiple water column elevations or float, as in hydroponic farming.
In areas with historic artifacts, the ELB searches with radar, identifies and frees artifacts from clean and/or contaminated sediment using a Sediment Active Mining System (SAMS) which suspends and removes the sediment within the ELB to allow for artifact recovery without releases to the water column.
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