DEVICE FOR REMOVAL OF SURFACE LAYER OF OIL-CONTAINING LIQUIDS Russian patent published in 2016 - IPC C02F1/40 E02B15/04 

FIELD: oil and gas industry.

SUBSTANCE: device contains a floating oil gathering device in form of belt conveyor, comprising endless belt perforated along edges out of oil-containing material, and installed on three hollow tight drums, one of them is drive, and other two - driven, at the end they have one sprocket to drive the belt with perforated edges, and are secured with belt hingedly using the supports on movable frame. Between the hollow drums and belt branches a floater is located in form of a rectangular tank, secured to the movable frame, and made with possibility of oscillation together with the belt with perforated edges and driven drums relatively to the surface layer of the oil-containing liquids around axis of the drive drum. The belt with perforated edges is made with grooves, and the floater in the cross-section is a segment, the scraper is made with cross-section mirror to grooves, and the conveyor contains additional floater-tank in form of the tight hollow drum with the possibility of oscillation around the axes of the supports secured to the top plate of the floater using the carrier and spring.

EFFECT: increased efficiency of oil products removal from surface of the water basins.

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