Patent ID: 6640470
Filing Date: 2003-11-04
Classification: B01D,B09C,B63B,C02F,E02D,E02F

Abstract:
A mobile marine system performing at least one of in-situ treatment and in-situ conditioning of contaminated sediments from the sediment bottom surface of a water body comprising:at least one floating marine vessel, said at least one floating marine vessel having suspendable therefrom at least one continuous mobile/submersible vertical barrier wall defining at least one predetermined confined control zone, said vertical barrier wall comprised of individual movable sheets capable of contouring to the bottom of the surface of the waterway; said control zone continuously containing water of the water body on respective outer and inner sides of said vertical barrier wall, said confined control zone containing liquid and suspended particles dispersed during at least one of an in-situ treatment and an in-situ conditioning process from a predetermined bottom sediment surface area below said at least one floating marine vessel, and said at least one floating marine vessel continuously floating during said sediment treatment and/or conditioning process.