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Recirculation-enhanced subsurface reagent delivery system

US6352387B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateDec 2, 1999
Grant dateMar 5, 2002
Priority date
Expiry dateDec 2, 2019

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB09C2101/00
  • WIPO fieldEnvironmental technology
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

Method and apparatus for delivery of chemical reagents to a subterranean body of soil and groundwater to destroy or enhance mobility of organic compounds using a riser insertable in a borehole having spaced permeable sections separated by a non-permeable section and wherein the reagents are introduced from a source by a pressurization apparatus.

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