System and method for applying covering material with an aerosolization system

• US 10,478,875 B2
• Filed: 10/21/2014
• Issued: 11/19/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 10/24/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Aerosolization Equity Investments, LLC
• Original Assignee: Aerosolization Equity Investments, LLC
• Inventors: Houston, Kelly K.
• Primary Examiner(s): Fiorello, Benjamin F
• Application Number:
  US14/519,163
• Publication Number:
  US 20150117955A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,855 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 1/207 the elongated body being a closed loop
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 13/005 mounted on vehicles or designed to apply a liquid on a very large surface, e.g. on the road, on the surface of large containers
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 7/0075 Nozzle arrangements in gas streams
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 7/0081 Apparatus supplied with low pressure gas, e.g. "hvlp"-guns; air supplied by a fan
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 7/30 the first liquid or other fluent material being fed by gravity, or sucked into the carrying fluid
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 7/32 the fed liquid or other fluent material being under pressure
• CPC Class Codes: B05D 1/02 performed by spraying
• CPC Class Codes: B09B 1/004 Covering of dumping sites
• CPC Class Codes: B09B 2101/00 Type of solid waste
• CPC Class Codes: B09C 1/00 Reclamation of contaminated soil
• CPC Class Codes: B09C 1/08 chemically
• CPC Class Codes: B09C 2101/00 In situ
• CPC Class Codes: C09K 17/00 Soil-conditioning materials or soil-stabilising materials specially adapted for boreholes or wells C09K8/00; fertilisers C05; consolidating by placing solidifying or pore-filling substances in the soil E02D3/12
• CPC Class Codes: Y02W 30/30 Landfill technologies aiming to mitigate methane emissions

Abstract

A method for effective and efficient water or wastewater aerosolization and industry specific and regulatory agency approved ADC, soil stabilization or penetrating solution dissemination over identified and specific areas that are to be addressed. The water or wastewater and industry or regulatory body specifically approved ADC, soil stabilization or penetrating reagent solution(s) is directed to an “Integrated Mobile Aerosolization System (IMAS)” or other system having a turbine and being integrated and mobile. The turbine is driven so as to generate a system of air. Integrated pumps are utilized to move the water or wastewater and industry or regulatory body specific and ADC, soil stabilization or penetrating reagent solution(s) to a series of nozzles that aerosolizes the water or wastewater and ADC, soil stabilization or penetrating reagent solution into the path of the system of air. The water or wastewater and ADC, soil stabilization or penetrating reagent solution form a mixture that is entrained in the system of air. The mixture of water or wastewater and ADC, soil stabilizing or penetrating reagent solution is directed over a specific area that is to be covered with an approved material. The water or wastewater and ADC, soil stabilization or penetrating reagent solution form that industry specific and regulatory body approved covering material that is applied to the specific area.

Claims

1. A method of aerosolizing an alternative daily covering composition and applying said alternative daily covering composition to a selected land area comprising:

generating a system of air with a turbine;

directing the system of air through a turbine housing;

directing water or wastewater from a water or wastewater source;

mixing the alternative daily covering composition with the water or wastewater upstream of a plurality of nozzles to form a mixture comprising water or wastewater and the alternative daily covering composition;

directing the mixture of the water or wastewater and alternative daily composition from the nozzles;

after directing the mixture from the nozzles, aerosolizing the mixture of water or wastewater and alternative daily covering composition by entraining the mixture in the system of air passing through the turbine housing;

shooting the aerosolized water or wastewater and alternative daily covering composition mixture entrained in the system of air out an outlet end of the turbine housing and causing the water or wastewater and alternative daily covering composition mixture to be airborne; and

directing the aerosolized and airborne water or wastewater and alternative daily covering composition over the selected land area and causing the alternative daily covering composition to fall out of the mixture and to be applied to the selected land area.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the series of nozzles are communicatively connected to a ring pipe disposed adjacent the turbine housing and the method includes directing the water or wastewater into the ring pipe and directing the alternative daily covering composition into the ring pipe where the composition is mixed with the water or wastewater in the ring pipe prior to being emitted from the nozzles.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the method includes mixing an antimicrobial composition or an odor control composition with said alternative daily covering composition.

4. A method of disseminating and disposing of wastewater and at the same time applying an alternative daily covering composition to a selected land area, the method comprising:

generating a system of air within a turbine;

directing the system of air through a turbine housing including an inlet and an outlet;

directing the wastewater from a wastewater source;

mixing the wastewater with the alternative daily covering composition to form a wastewater-alternative daily covering composition mixture;

pumping the wastewater-alternative daily covering composition mixture to and through a series of nozzles and aerosolizing the wastewater-alternative daily covering composition mixture by entraining the wastewater-alternative daily covering mixture in the system of air passing through the turbine housing to form an aerosolized wastewater-alternative daily covering composition-air mixture;

shooting the aerosolized wastewater-alternative daily covering composition air mixture out an outlet end of the turbine housing causing the wastewater-alternative daily covering composition air mixture to become airborne;

directing the airborne aerosolized wastewater-alternative daily composition air mixture over the selected land area;

causing the alternative daily covering composition to fall out of the wastewater-alternative daily covering composition-air mixture onto the selected land area where the alternative daily covering composition is applied to the selected land area; and

aerosolizing into the atmosphere a portion of the wastewater in the wastewater-alternative daily covering composition air mixture.

5. The method of claim 4 wherein the series of nozzles are communicatively connected to a ring pipe disposed adjacent the turbine housing, and the method includes directing the wastewater into the ring pipe and also directing the alternative daily covering composition into the ring pipe where the alternative daily covering composition and the wastewater are mixed in the ring pipe.

6. The method of claim 4 wherein the wastewater comprises leachate and said method further comprising:

collecting the leachate at a landfill in a collection structure;

pumping the leachate from the collection structure and mixing the leachate with the alternative daily covering composition to form a leachate-alternative daily covering composition mixture; and

entraining the leachate-alternative daily covering composition mixture in the system of air and shooting the system of air and leachate-alternative daily covering composition mixture through the air and over said landfill and causing said alternative daily covering composition to fall out onto said landfill.

7. A method of utilizing leachate at a landfill comprising:

generating a system of air within a turbine;

directing the system of air through a turbine housing including an inlet and an outlet;

collecting leachate produced by said landfill in a leachate collection structure;

pumping the leachate from the leachate collection structure;

mixing the leachate with an alternative daily covering composition to form a leachate-alternative daily covering composition mixture;

pumping the leachate-alternative daily covering composition mixture to and through a series of nozzles and aerosolizing the leachate-alternative daily covering composition mixture by entraining the leachate-alternative daily covering composition mixture in the system of air passing through the turbine housing to form an aerosolized leachate-alternative daily covering composition air mixture;

shooting the aerosolized leachate-alternative daily covering composition air mixture out an outlet end of the turbine housing, causing the leachate-alternative daily covering composition air mixture to become airborne;

directing the airborne aerosolized leachate-alternative daily covering composition air mixture over said landfill; and

causing the alternative daily covering composition to fall out of the leachate-alternative daily covering composition-air mixture onto said landfill and form an alternative daily covering layer over said landfill.