GB2359840A - Method of using scrap vehicles and tyres to form an artificial reef - Google Patents
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- GB2359840A GB2359840A GB0002897A GB0002897A GB2359840A GB 2359840 A GB2359840 A GB 2359840A GB 0002897 A GB0002897 A GB 0002897A GB 0002897 A GB0002897 A GB 0002897A GB 2359840 A GB2359840 A GB 2359840A
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- 239000002184 metal Substances 0.000 claims description 5
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- E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
- E02—HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING; FOUNDATIONS; SOIL SHIFTING
- E02B—HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING
- E02B3/00—Engineering works in connection with control or use of streams, rivers, coasts, or other marine sites; Sealings or joints for engineering works in general
- E02B3/04—Structures or apparatus for, or methods of, protecting banks, coasts, or harbours
- E02B3/046—Artificial reefs
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- E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
- E02—HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING; FOUNDATIONS; SOIL SHIFTING
- E02B—HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING
- E02B2201/00—Devices, constructional details or methods of hydraulic engineering not otherwise provided for
- E02B2201/04—Devices, constructional details or methods of hydraulic engineering not otherwise provided for using old tires for hydraulic engineering
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- Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
- Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
- Y02A—TECHNOLOGIES FOR ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE
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- Y02A10/26—Artificial reefs or seaweed; Restoration or protection of coral reefs
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- Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
- Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
- Y02A—TECHNOLOGIES FOR ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE
- Y02A40/00—Adaptation technologies in agriculture, forestry, livestock or agroalimentary production
- Y02A40/80—Adaptation technologies in agriculture, forestry, livestock or agroalimentary production in fisheries management
- Y02A40/81—Aquaculture, e.g. of fish
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- Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
- Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
- Y02W—CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO WASTEWATER TREATMENT OR WASTE MANAGEMENT
- Y02W30/00—Technologies for solid waste management
- Y02W30/50—Reuse, recycling or recovery technologies
- Y02W30/62—Plastics recycling; Rubber recycling
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- Ocean & Marine Engineering (AREA)
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- Artificial Fish Reefs (AREA)
Description
Marine Structures This invention relates to marine structures and is particularly concerned with the purification and fertilising of water, and the protection of aquatic plant and animal life.
The invention aims to provide a use for the large quantities of old tyres and scrap cars- vehicles, preferably car body shells having seating, windows and engine removed. Removal of a11 parts is optional. These wastes are proving to be a constent cource of concern, particularly in these days of enviromental awareness.
According to the invention there is provided a scrap vehicle housing waste tyres of a11 sizes be it car or commercial, rubber may be removed from the tyres so as to expose wire steel, removal of rubber for reclamation may be by buffing or any other know conventional means, this rubber removeable is optional, ballast may be added to add stability to these structures when immersed in water. Ballast may be housed in the tyres, or sand bags may be put in the shell body or affixied to the said scrap vehicle, ballast may be of stone or gravel or may be in briquet form, any type of aggregate may be used as ballast any waste such as certain household waste may be added to the ballast, ballast may be solidifide with cement or any other aggregate binding substance, it is proposed to use waste plastic containers also filled with ballast in-situ with structures All these options are open,. Tyres may be affixed to scrap vehicle body's by means of rope chains or wire, a11 vehicles maybe linked to form a more stable marine structural mass, when immeresed in water by chains- wire or rope, ballast may be waste slag from steel works, or mixed with aggregate it is intended for these marine structures to be located in all waterways and esturaries and dropped of shaw in coastal waters, forming artificial coral reefs and excellent habitats. These structures may also be used in fish farming. These structures forming barriers/reefs may be used for coastal protection. The combination of the tyre rubber and the metal car shell body constitues a very important catalyst that will energise marine vegetation this process called chemophotosynthesis at the same time oxygenates the surrounding waters, and causes the proliferation of phytoplankton, the ultimate importance of chemophotosysnthesis to the planet is that it is an essential process for regulating the atmosphere as it increases the oxygen concentration while reducing the Cot concentration This invention utilizes three types of waste, two in combination to help to convert the third (Co2) carbondioxide, Cot is essential to plant life in this instance phytoplankton; an excess of Cot is building up in the atmosphere, resulting in global warming, this is due to excessive fossil fuel burning and deforistation.
These marine structures will form the base of the marine food chain, at any depth by stimulating, the proliferation of phytoplankton which in turn will attract fish, the combination of rubber and metal create an excellent catalyst. These artificial reefs will be a haven to marine life, growth of coral and seaweed will form on these structures, it is also proposed to transfer any water to land or to dissused underground mines, and in conjunction with these structures produce food fuel and fertilizers by way of phytoplankton growth. The treated water can be used for the irrigation of land and crops, especialy the conversion of sea water where by the salt content will be reduced, or removed completely.
I request a pattent on the grounds that this invention combines three valuable waste resources, in order to produce phytoplankton (food) for fish, which when applide as described, will benefit mankind, and by reducing excess (Co2) carbondioxide, addresses the problem of global warming.
Claims (17)
- Claims 1. A method of utilising vehicles and tyres to fertilise and or cleanse water comprising the steps of removing parts of the vehicle whereby a vehicle shell body remains
- 2. A method according to claim 1 wherein parts of vehicle removed, may include any of windows, seats, engine, paint, whereby a vehicle shell body remains
- 3. A method according to claim 1 whereby vehicle tyres are packed into the said vehicle
- 4. A method according to claim 1 whereby said vehicle will have no parts removed
- 5. A method of utilising vehicle tyres whereby portions of rubber are removed so as to expose steel wire content of said vehicle tyre
- 6. A method of utilising tyres whereby no rubber is removed
- 7. A method according to claim 1 whereby a plurality of tyres are packed into vehicle and said tyres and vehicle are submerged in water.
- 8. A method according to claim 5 wherein the metal steel wire is exposed by buffing rubber or drilling a plurality of apertures into the rubber tyre
- 9. A method according to claim 1 whereby balast may be added to the combined structure of vehicles and tyres so as to add stability to these structures when submerged in water
- 10.A method according to claim 9 whereby the ballast may be sand bags hard core stone or gravel - house hold waste or other waste material solidifide with a binding aggragate cement
- 11.A method whereby these structures are linked together by chains, scaffold poles, rope or any known convential means of fixing together so as to form barriers reefs
- 12.A method according to any of the proceeding claims wherein a plurality of tyres and vehicles are provided together so that, in situation in the water they form a barrier or reef structure therein
- 13.A method according to any of the preceeding claims wherein the water is any of a river, lake, sea or ocran
- 14. Ballast may be in briquet form, plastic containers may also contain ballast the said containers would then be affixed to the said structures or contained within the said structures
- 15.A method according to any of the preceeding claims wherein these combined structures are placed into the water for the purpose of generating oxyenation of said water, by the combined chemical reation of the vehicle metal and the rubber tyres.
- 16. The combination of the vehicle metal and the rubber of tyres constitutes a very important catalyst that energises marine vegetation: and thereby reduces the carbon dioxide content of the water
- 17.A method according to any of the preceeding claims, wherby chemo photosynthetic processes convert carbon dioxide and water into food for fish. The ultimate importance of this and the preceding claims is the difference between a healthy planet and a polluted planet. I am claiming this to be an essential application for regulating the atmosphere as it increases the oxygen concentration while reducing the carbon dioxide concentration
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| GB0002897A GB2359840B (en) | 2000-02-10 | 2000-02-10 | A marine structure formed with vehicle body shells packed with vehicle tyres |
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| GB0002897A GB2359840B (en) | 2000-02-10 | 2000-02-10 | A marine structure formed with vehicle body shells packed with vehicle tyres |
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| GB0002897D0 GB0002897D0 (en) | 2000-03-29 |
| GB2359840A true GB2359840A (en) | 2001-09-05 |
| GB2359840B GB2359840B (en) | 2003-08-06 |
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Cited By (5)
| Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB2387756A (en) * | 2002-03-27 | 2003-10-29 | James Anthony Powell | Sea bed food producing habitats created with scrap iron and steel |
| GB2431849A (en) * | 2005-11-05 | 2007-05-09 | James Anthony Powell | Method of placing ferrous metal objects in large bodies of water to encourage and sustain life at the bottom of the food chain. |
| GB2427837B (en) * | 2005-07-01 | 2010-01-20 | James Anthony Powell | Fixing carbon dioxide into organic carbon compounds |
| GB2498592A (en) * | 2012-01-21 | 2013-07-24 | James Anthony Powell | Fixing dissolved carbon dioxide |
| CN104429904A (en) * | 2014-05-15 | 2015-03-25 | 浙江海洋学院 | Manually-put algal reef device |
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| WO1996023731A1 (en) * | 1995-02-01 | 1996-08-08 | James Anthony Powell | Method for utilising tyres to clean and/or fertilise water |
| WO1998042184A1 (en) * | 1997-03-21 | 1998-10-01 | Krenzler Leo M | Artificial reef with corrodible iron inserts |
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| Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
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| WO1996023731A1 (en) * | 1995-02-01 | 1996-08-08 | James Anthony Powell | Method for utilising tyres to clean and/or fertilise water |
| WO1998042184A1 (en) * | 1997-03-21 | 1998-10-01 | Krenzler Leo M | Artificial reef with corrodible iron inserts |
Cited By (9)
| Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB2387756A (en) * | 2002-03-27 | 2003-10-29 | James Anthony Powell | Sea bed food producing habitats created with scrap iron and steel |
| GB2427837B (en) * | 2005-07-01 | 2010-01-20 | James Anthony Powell | Fixing carbon dioxide into organic carbon compounds |
| GB2431849A (en) * | 2005-11-05 | 2007-05-09 | James Anthony Powell | Method of placing ferrous metal objects in large bodies of water to encourage and sustain life at the bottom of the food chain. |
| GB2431849B (en) * | 2005-11-05 | 2009-08-26 | James Anthony Powell | Releasing solar energy on the sea bed |
| GB2498592A (en) * | 2012-01-21 | 2013-07-24 | James Anthony Powell | Fixing dissolved carbon dioxide |
| GB2501146A (en) * | 2012-01-21 | 2013-10-16 | James Anthony Powell | Artificial waterway created with a series of plastic water receptacles |
| GB2501146B (en) * | 2012-01-21 | 2014-03-19 | James Anthony Powell | Artificial waterways |
| GB2498592B (en) * | 2012-01-21 | 2015-12-16 | James Anthony Powell | Self oxygenating water receptacles |
| CN104429904A (en) * | 2014-05-15 | 2015-03-25 | 浙江海洋学院 | Manually-put algal reef device |
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| GB2359840B (en) | 2003-08-06 |
| GB0002897D0 (en) | 2000-03-29 |
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| PE20 | Patent expired after termination of 20 years |
Expiry date: 20200209 |