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Biomass impoundment management system for purifying water
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Inventors: Smith, Stephen Winslow; Randall, Richard Lee;
Assignee: Landmark Reclamation, Inc. (Denver, CO)
Primary Examiner: Upton; Christopher
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Dorr, Carson, Sloan & Birney, P.C.
A biomass management system using sunlight during the daytime for purifying water having impurities. The biomass management system of the present invention is adapted for use in an impoundment holding water which has an inlet for delivering impure water into the impoundment and an outlet for delivering purified water out of the impoundment. A first type of rooted bottom dwelling plant grows on the bottom of the impoundment and removes some of the impurities in the water. A plurality of elongated channels float on the surface of the water in the impoundment above the bottom dwelling plants. Each of the plurality of the elongated channels are secured in the impoundment in a substantially North-South orientation. Each of the plurality of elongate channels have a holding region with inwardly shaped sides. A second type of floating rootless plant grows in the holding region on the surface of the water in each of the channels and removes some of the impurities in the water. The North-South orientation of the elongated channels and their inwardly shaped sides of the channels allow sunlight to be delivered to all of the bottom dwelling plants. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION 1.
Overview In FIG.
1, a conventional impoundment 10 such as a pond has a bottom 20 and sides 30.
The impoundment 10 contains water 40.
A first type of plant 50 grows on the bottom 20.
Floating on the surface 60 of water 40 is a second type of plant 70.
In a typical conventional impoundment 10 of FIG.
1 where both types of plants naturally occur, floating plants 70 occupy different regions of water 40 especially when wind 80 is blowing as illustrated.
When wind 80 is blowing, the surface plants 70 move towards the leeward side of sides 30.
The first type of plant 50 and the second type of plant 70 through photosynthesis convert and/or absorb impurities in the water 40 so, over time, the water 40 becomes less impure.
The rays of sun are shown as arrows 90.
In the embodiment of FIG.
1, the rays of sun 90 impact on the first type of bottom dwelling plants 50 causing them to grow and through photosynthesis clear the impurities in the water 40.
Unfortunately, the second type of plant 70, which floats on the surface, shades 100 the bottom plants 50 underneath and may cause the bottom plants 50 to deteriorate and perhaps die especially if the floating plants 70 are in a stationary location in the impoundment 10.
In such a preferred conventional impoundment 10, the bottom plants 50 prefer a depth from the surface 60 of the water 40 to the bottom 20 in the range of about 4 feet to 10 feet.
As shown in FIG.
1, the bottom growing plants 50 normally grow to different heights and, can in fact, take over the impoundment 10.
To prevent the bottom dwelling plants 50 from taking over the impoundment 10, such bottom dwelling plants 50 from time to time must be harvested.
The floating plants 70 in such a conventional impoundment actually inhibit the growth of the bottom plants 50 and, therefore, are undesirable.
Where the preferred conventional impoundment 10 is utilized for water purification, the bottom dwelling plants 50 are selected to remove the impurities in the water
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