Patent ID: 11859360
Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Field: Chemical engineering (Chemistry)
Classification: CPC B  E  Y | IPC B  E

Claim 0:
1. A toothed conveyor belt type oil recovery device, comprising:
a recovery conveyor which is wound around a pulley on one side and a pulley on a other side spaced a predetermined distance apart from each other and rotates in such a way that a continuous track rotates, the recovery conveyor having multiple teeth made of a hydrophilic material on an outer surface, the recovery conveyor having one side positioned in water in which oil is spilled to recover the oil while feeding the oil into a space between adjacent teeth of the multiple teeth by the rotation; and
a separation unit which holds an oil separating liquid, and is positioned on the other side of the recovery conveyor to separate the oil from the teeth while the oil separating liquid is fed into the space between the adjacent teeth by capillary suction when the teeth move on to the oil separating liquid on the other side of the recovery conveyor by the rotation of the recovery conveyor.