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2010
Machinery & Equipment

Robotic Device to Seal a Pressurized Pipe

A practical solution to sealing the Gulf’s Deepwater Horizon’s Leak and the Tool that needs to be in the future toolbox of oil and other companies.

Described is a practical, fully robotic solution for the Gulf’s Deepwater Horizon’s well leak.

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Kenneth Alley
Tampa, United States
Votes: 3
Views: 4693
Machinery & Equipment
Jun 19, 2010

Room Temperature Superconductor

Nanotech Manufacturing Techniques for High Temperature Superconductivity

Current high temperature superconductors are based on a copper-oxide lattice with two different interstitial atoms, typically rare earth, spaced in adjacent lattice cells. This configuration, formed naturally when stochiometric quantities of the raw ingredients are baked in an oxygen atmosphere, is superconductive slightly above the boiling point of liquid nitrogen,

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Dr. Robert Indech
Norcross, United States
Votes: 0
Views: 3854
Machinery & Equipment
Mar 21, 2010

Rotary Perforated Disc, EMA-1

This device may be used as a valve or as an adjustable restriction orifice that allows control the fluid flow in a pipe.

The benefits of this device are:

It has an incipient cavitation coefficient very close to 1 (1.05) that lets to get very high pressure drops without cavitation.

The construction simplicity.

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Emilio Casado
Madrid, Spain
Votes: 1
Views: 5113
Machinery & Equipment
Apr 21, 2010

Rotoconversion Energy Saving Method

Motor, Electrical, Alternate current , hi impedance.

Rotary converter:

(1)Method to operate a 3PH motor in simil to rotophase mode operation but at specific hi impedance to create a low

loss energy transformation from the electrical energy source to mechanical one, term = (Rotoconversion) electrical energy to mechanical energy conversion with extreme low power loss and hi energy savings.

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Hector Perez
Mayaguez, United States
Votes: 60
Views: 55749
Machinery & Equipment
Mar 10, 2010

Solar Powered Irrigation - Water Pumping

Moving water from an available reservoir source to a distant storage location for irrigation distribution, or other use, without incurring high initial system costs, installation expenses and recurring operational costs is a fundamental problem found throughout the world; in particular Ethiopia, Niger and other drought stricken areas. One method of overcoming these problems is outlined in this technical brief.

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David Halverson
Moore, United States
Votes: 1
Views: 14891
Machinery & Equipment
Jun 30, 2010

Solution to blowouts in oil wells

The solution to the current oil blowout within the Gulf is quite simple if you think outside the box. What we need is an elegant design that can fit over any broken oil pipe of any diameter at any angle at any depth.

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George Karpati
Horsham, United States
Votes: 0
Views: 5072
Machinery & Equipment
Jun 2, 2010

Some Hair of the Dog that Bit US

Many inlets, estuaries, and wetlands suffer from a common heritage: contaminated sediment. Scientists are only now beginning to realize that old, contaminated sediments covered with new, clean sediments does not mitigate ongoing damage from the buried sediments. For example, fish flies burrow 5 - 10cm into the bottom of rivers and lakes,

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Dennis Mcneely
Gibraltar, United States
Votes: 1
Views: 4282
Machinery & Equipment
Jun 30, 2010

Stationary computer without the big box

Stationary computer without the big box:

Many people use a laptop instead of a traditional stationary computer just for saving space. They use it on their desk just as a desktop and do not change the location even if it is possible.

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Johnny Myrberg
Kristianstad, Sweden
Votes: 0
Views: 21500
Machinery & Equipment
Jun 30, 2010

Tapless Solid Body Threaded Insert

My tapless insert design allows solid body threaded inserts to be installed into simple drilled holes. Installation of the insert requires pressing the insert into the hole and using a bolt and washer to pre-load the insert. By eliminating the need to tap each hole this could save companies at least 50% in manufacturing time.

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Mark Baughn
La Verne, United States
Votes: 4
Views: 5214
Machinery & Equipment
Apr 21, 2010

Temporary Plug System for Underwater Pipe

Short description of the invention:

(See figure 1)

This is a temporary plug for a leaky underwater pipe.

First construct a 2 grid system that can be placed on top of each other.

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Wayne Schaefer
No. St. Paul, United States
Votes: 1
Views: 5181
Machinery & Equipment
Jun 1, 2010

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