Apparatus for lowering water temperature of sea surface
US7832657B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Feb 17, 2006 |
| Grant date | Nov 16, 2010 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 19, 2027 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY02A40/81
- WIPO fieldOther special machines
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
By efficiently lowering a water temperature of a sea surface to thereby suppress an evaporation of a water vapor from the sea surface by lowering the water temperature of the sea surface, a generation of an atmospheric depression is prevented or its strength is weakened. Further, by suppressing a rise of the sea surface temperature, a generation of a red tide or a blue tide is prevented or reduced. As an apparatus for lowering the water temperature of the sea surface, it is constituted such that a pipe for feeding a water is installed in a sea, a suction port of the pipe is disposed in a cold water zone whose temperature is lower than the water temperature of an aim sea surface, an injection port of the pipe is disposed in a required position below the sea surface, and a pump is connected to the pipe in order to suck a cold water from the suction port and inject it from the injection port to thereby supply it below the sea surface in a region of the aim sea surface, thereby mixing it with a warm water of higher temperature.
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