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HomeMy WebLinkAboutBackup DocumentsATTACHMENT A SCOPE OF SERVICES For the Scavenger 2000 Decontamination Boat, M-0116 From Water Management Technologies, Inc. ($250,000 FY 2016 through FY 2019) This project consists of the collection of floatable debris in the water surfaces under the jurisdiction of the City of Miami including the Biscayne Bay area, navigable tributaries and its marinas. It also calls for oxygenation injection and water treatment system. Floatable debris are to be considered as any material floating within the first two feet of water and includes aluminum cans, plastic bags, toys, vegetation, animal debris, wood, leaves, etc. Contractor shall store this debris at selected staging areas approved by the City Engineer. The debris shall be carried from the staging areas to a Miami -Dade County disposal facility at the Contractor's expense. The Scavenger 2000 shall implement its oxygen aeration and decontamination process within any navigable body of water encounter as shown in the attached City of Miami Waterways location map. The following are receiving navigable streams for the outfalls within the jurisdiction of the City of Miami Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4) permit: Biscayne Bay, Miami River, Davis and Ademar Canals, Miami Canal, Little River, Lawrence Waterway and Seybold Canal. The City of Miami shall inform Water Management Technologies where they require the vessel to work. The Contractor shall work a maximum of 30 hours per week; 25 hours for treating the navigable waterways per Contract and five (5) hours a week at the Miami River at no cost to the City. Contractor will provide every year a water analysis report to the City from a different selected location regarding the following parameters which are: Human fecal coliform Total coliform Bacteria Count Algae Count Ph, Temperature BOD The City will provide free docking space for the Scavenger 2000 including water and electricity at the MRC Docking area). ATTACHMENT B FINANCIAL AGREEMENT FY 2016 to FY 2019 M-0116 A) Amount of contract - $250,000 per year. Break down: $250,000 for 50 weeks maximum of 30 hours [25 hours per week per contract and 5 hours at the Miami River, free of charge]. B) Term of contract — One year (50 weeks) with option to renew for two additional years to start 3 days after Notice to Proceed is issued by Public Works Department. C) Contractor will work a maximum of thirty (30) hours per week for 50 weeks a year (except in case of force majeure) at $200 (Two Hundred Dollars per hour). D) Contractor will provide the City details of his work on a form attached to the invoice submitted for payment of his weekly services. E) Contractor will send to the City every Monday, an invoice for the amount of hours worked in preceding week. Attached to that invoice will be the details of work performed by the Contractor. The City will pay weekly to the Contractor the 100% of invoice amount. F) Contractor shall work a maximum of thirty (30) hours per week for 50 weeks. Twenty five (25) hours a week per contract and Five (5) hours a week will be added to the total work, at no charge to the City, as special discount, if the contract is to be renewable for two years, See Attachment "C". G) The working area locations as sited in Attachment "C" are subject to change. Any deviation from the weekly schedule requires the prior written approval of the City Engineer. H) Pick up and trash removal: Included in price. I) Annual Water Analysis report: Included in price. DC: Scavenger 2000 Attachments for Contract 2016-2019 ATTACHMENT C FREQUENCY OF MAINTENANCE OF CITY'S WATERWAYS- ON A MONTHLY BASIS Note: This Frequency Schedule and Working Area Location are subject to change. Scavenger 2000 Decontamination Boat, M-0116 WEEK 1- Biscayne Bay / North of River (30 hours maximum) for 50 weeks Working Area Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Total Davis Canal 2 hrs 1 hr 1 hr 2 hrs 1 hr (30 hours) Bayside Marina 2 hrs I hr 1 hr 2 hrs 1 hr 7 hrs American Airlines Arena 2 hrs 1 hr 1 hr 1 hr 1 hr 6 hrs Cove 2 hrs 1 hr 1 hr I hr 1 hr 6 hrs NE 21 Street Cove 2 hrs 1 hr 1 hr I hr 1 hr 6 hrs NE 28 Street Cove 2 hrs I hr 1 hr 1 hr 1 hr 6 hrs _ No charge to City -- Miami 1 hr 1 hr 1 hr 1 hr 1 hr 5 hrs River No charge to ity WEEK 2 - Biscayne Bay / North of River (30 hours maximum) for 50 weeks Working Area Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Total 30 hours Davis Canal 2 hrs 1 hr 1 hr 2 hrs 1 hr 7 hrs Ademar Canal 2 hrs 1 hr 1 hr 1 hr 1 hr 6 hrs Little River 2 hrs 1 hr 1 hr 1 hr 1 hr 6 hrs Biscayne Bay 2 hrs 1 hr 1 hr I hr 1 hr 6 hrs No charge to City — Miami River 1 hr 1 hr 1 hr 1 hr 1 hr 5 hrs No charge to City WEEK 3 - Biscayne Bay / South of River (30 hours maximum) for 50 weeks Working Area Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Days Total (30 hours) Dinner Key Marina 2 hrs 1 hr 2 hrs 1 hr 2 hrs 8 hrs Grove Key Marina 2 hrs 1 hr 2 hrs l hr 2 hr 8 hrs Biscayne Bay 2 hrs 2 hr 2 hrs 1 hr 2 hr 9 hrs No charge to City — Miami River 1 hr 1 hr 1 hr I hr I hr 5 hrs No charge to City WEEK 4 - Through the Miami River (30 hours maximum) for 50 weeks Working Area Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Total (30 hours) Seybold Canal 2 hrs 1 hr 1 hr 2 hrs 1 hr 7 hrs Lawrence Waterway 2 hrs I hr 1 hr 1 hr 1 hr 6 hrs South Fork Miami River 2 hrs 1 hr 1 hr 1 hr 1 hr 6 hrs Miami Canal 2 hrs 1 hr 1 hr I hr 1 hr 6 hrs No charge to City-- Miami River — 1 hr 1 hr 1 hr 1 hr 1 hr 5 hrs No charge to City DC:Scavengor2000 Attachments for Contract 2016-2019 406Lawn Acre,s Cf, No1lyWoo , FL 3304. (12) United States Patent Des Aulniers (54) VESSEL WITH OXYGENATION SYSTEM AND DECONTAMINATION METHOD (75) Inventor: Jacques Des Aulniers; Fort Lauderdale, FL (US) (73) Assignee: USA Pelican Inc., Miami, FL (US) { *) Notice: Subject to any disclaimer, the term of this patent is extended or adjusted under 35 U.S.C. 154(b) by 113 days. (21) Appl.No.:101930,688 (22) Filed: Aug. 31, 2004 (65) Prior Publication Data US 2006/0011555 Al Jan. 19, 2006 Related U.S. Application Data (60) Provisional application No. 60/588,198, filed on Jul. 15, 2004. (51) Int. Cl. CO2F 1178 (2006.01) (52) U.S. Cl . ........................ 210/747; 210/759; 210/760 (58) Field of Classification Search ................. 210/747, 210/758,760, 764, 759 See application file for complete search history. (56) References Cited U.S. PATENT DOCUMENTS 3,755,142 A 8/1973 Whipple, Jr .................. 210/63 70 12 (lo) Patent No.: US 7,5179459 B2 (45) Date of Patent: Apr. 14, 2009 4,008,156 A 2/1977 Chastan-Bagnis ........... 210/242 4,921,605 A 5/1990 Chastan-Bagnis et al. - 210/115 FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENT'S EP 366010 5/1990 JP 05245485 9/1993 JP 405245485 A 9/1993 JP 09113291 A * 5/1997 OTHER PUBLICATIONS 1999 PERM, Pelican Inc. brochure. * cited by examiner Primary Examiner—Matthew O Savage (74) Attorney, Agent, or Firm Robert C Kain, Jr. (57) ABSTRACT The waterbome vessel, in one embodiment, utilizes an under- water tannel through which passes flowing water, an ozone gas Generator, an ozone plus hydroxyl radical gas generator and a source of atmospheric oxygen. A manifold mixer mixes pressurized water independently with the ozone, the ozone plus hydroxyl radical gas and the atmospheric oxygen to produce corresponding oxygenated water mixtures. Each of these oxygenated water mixtures are fedvia a conduit system into the confined flow of waterpassing through the tunnel. A diversion channel with reverse flow channel permits super saturation of diverted flow from the primary underwater tun- nel channel to provide super saturated oxygenated water with ozone plus hydroxyl radical gases and atmospheric oxygen water mixtures. A decontamination method is also provided. 9 Claims, 9 Drawing Sheets TRANSOM LINE 16 80 80b 18 i 1 i -r v ------------ r -w ----ELO � _--- - - LO -----' �66 76 14 12 (lo) Patent No.: US 7,5179459 B2 (45) Date of Patent: Apr. 14, 2009 4,008,156 A 2/1977 Chastan-Bagnis ........... 210/242 4,921,605 A 5/1990 Chastan-Bagnis et al. - 210/115 FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENT'S EP 366010 5/1990 JP 05245485 9/1993 JP 405245485 A 9/1993 JP 09113291 A * 5/1997 OTHER PUBLICATIONS 1999 PERM, Pelican Inc. brochure. * cited by examiner Primary Examiner—Matthew O Savage (74) Attorney, Agent, or Firm Robert C Kain, Jr. (57) ABSTRACT The waterbome vessel, in one embodiment, utilizes an under- water tannel through which passes flowing water, an ozone gas Generator, an ozone plus hydroxyl radical gas generator and a source of atmospheric oxygen. A manifold mixer mixes pressurized water independently with the ozone, the ozone plus hydroxyl radical gas and the atmospheric oxygen to produce corresponding oxygenated water mixtures. Each of these oxygenated water mixtures are fedvia a conduit system into the confined flow of waterpassing through the tunnel. A diversion channel with reverse flow channel permits super saturation of diverted flow from the primary underwater tun- nel channel to provide super saturated oxygenated water with ozone plus hydroxyl radical gases and atmospheric oxygen water mixtures. A decontamination method is also provided. 9 Claims, 9 Drawing Sheets TRANSOM LINE 16 80 80b 18 i 1 i CD FIG. 1 20 12 Im K N O O rt- O ►'h 12 FIG. 2 b rt- rD r+ m N O 34 --38 FIG. 3 CD �- Up 44--,,43 CORONA PURE 02 EXTRACTOR DISCHG. 03 46 SOURCE GAS OH + 03 UV MANIFOLD LIGHT 42 02 50 PRESSURE WATER PUMP C71 40 54 48 SOURCE OF WATER N 0 0 52 FIG. 4A 60b FIG. 4C 60c WATER TO FLUID --= UV MANIFOLD 61b & INJECTORS 47 45 61c 52-' 56 62 54 �n ti 61a J FIG. 43 Gy N 6O 600. FIG. 5 59-, 12 70 72 FIG. 6 60a -FLOW-- ------ FLOW-� t------• -FLOW ----- — FLOW--- 0 0 14 64 66 12 16/ 16 80 80b �\ t :t. T- Ak. --iI i I k f r 10 Z -v TRANSOM LINE Z - MOTOR 66 14 Ile i i 12 70 72 FIG. 6 60a -FLOW-- ------ FLOW-� t------• -FLOW ----- — FLOW--- 0 0 14 64 66 12 16/ 16 80 80b �\ t :t. T- Ak. --iI i I k f r 10 Z -v TRANSOM LINE Z - 64 60a, 7 6 5 3 FIG. 7 7Q 72 I FLOW 6ki FLIOW --- 66 1]21 7 i I0 � � � � is !Is��<I mm:v P U.S. Patent Apr. 14, 2009 AIR Sheet 7 of 9 US 7,517,459 B2 FIG. 8B 120 122 96 U.S. Patent Apr. 14, 2009 Sheet 8 of 9 US 715179459 B2 r,Ir_•l 22 U.S. Patent 02 SOURCE 40 Apr. 14, 2009 Sheet 9 of 9 FIG. 12 INJECTOR MATRIX 182 FI G. 11 __122 164 US 7,517,459 B2 FIG. 10 US 7,517,459 B2 VESSEL WITH OXYGENATION SYSTEM AND DECONTAMINATION METHOD This is a regular patent application based upon and claim- ing priority of provisional patent application 60/588,198 filed Jul. 15, 2004, The present inventionielates to a waterborne vessel with an oxygenation system which decontaminates surrounding water and a method therefor. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION Ozone (03) is one of the strongest oxidizing agents that is readily available. It is known to eliminate organic waste, reduce odor and reduce total organic carbon in water. Ozone is created in a number of different ways, including ultraviolet (W) light, and corona discharge of electrical current through a stream of air or other gazes oxygen stream, among others. Ozone is formed when energy is appliedto oxygen gas (O,). The bonds that hold oxygen together are broken and three oxygen molecules are combined to form two ozone mol- ecules, The ozone breaks down fairly quickly and as it does so it reverts back to pure oxygen, that is, an OZ molecule. The bonds that hold the oxygen atoms together are very weak which is why ozone acts as a strong oxidant. In addition, it is known that hydroxyl radicals OH also act as a purification gas. Hydroxyl radicals are formed when ozone, ultraviolet radiation and moisture are combined. Hydroxyl radicals are more powerfid oxidants than ozone. Both ozone and hydroxyl radical gas break down over a shortperiod oftime (about 8-15 minutes) into oxygen. Hydroxyl radical gas is a condition in the fluid or gaseous mixture. Some bodies of water have become saturated with high levels of natural or man made materials which have a high biological oxygen demand and which in turn have created an eutrophic or anaerobic environment. It would be beneficial to clean these waters utilizing the various types of ozone and hydroxyl radical gases. OBJECTS OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to provide a water- borne vessel with an oxygenation system and a method to decontaminate surrounding water. It is a Rather object of the present invention to provide an oxygenation system on a waterborne vessel and a method of decontamination wherein ozone and/or hydroxyl radical gas is injected, mixed and super saturated with a flow of water through, the waterborne vessel. It is an additional object of the present invention to provide a super saturization channel which significantly increases the amount of time the ozone and/or hydroxyl radical gas mixes In a certain flow volume of water thereby oxygenating the water and decontaminating that defined volume of flowing water prior to fiurther mixing with other water subject to additional oxygenation in the waterborne vessel. It is as additional obj ect of the present invention to provide a mixing manifold to mix the ozone independent withrespect to the hydroxyl radical gas and independent with respect to atmospheric oxygen and wherein the resulting oxygenated water mixtures are independently fed into a confined water bound space in the waterborne vessel to oxygenate a volume of water flowing through that confined space. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The waterborne vessel, in one embodiment, utilizes an underwater tunnel through which passes flowing water, an ozone gas generator, an ozone plus hydroxyl radical gas gen- erator and a source of atmospheric oxygen. A manifoldmixer mixes pressurized water independently with the ozone, the ozone plus hydroxyl radical gas and the atmospheric oxygen 5 to produce corresponding oxygenated water mixtures. Each of these oxygenated water mixtures are fed via a conduit system into the confined flow of water passing through the tunnel. A diversion channel with reverse flow channel permits super saturation of diverted flow fromtheprimaryunderwater 10 tunnel channel to provide super saturated oxygenated water with ozone plus hydroxyl radical gases and atmospheric oxy- gen water mixtures. A decontamination method is also pro- vided. 15 BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS Further objects and advantages of the present invention can be found in the detailed description of the preferred embodi- 20 ments when taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings in which: FIG.1 diagrammatically illustrates aside elevational view of the waterborne vessel with an oxygenation system of the 25 present invention; FIG. 2 diagrammatically illustrates a side elevational view of the hull portion with the oxygenation system; FIG, 3 diagrammatically illustrates a top schematic view of the waterborne vessel; 30 FIG. 4A diagrammatically illustrates one system to create the ozone and hydroxyl radical gases and one system to mix the gases with water in accordance with the principles of the present invention; 35 FIG. 4B diagrammatically illustrates the ventari port enabling the mixing of the ozone plus pressurized water, ozone plus hydroxyl radical gas plus pressurized water, and atmospheric oxygen and pressurized water; FIG. 4C diagrammatically illustrates a system which cre- 40 ates oxygenated water which oxygenated water carrying ozone canbe injected into the decontamination tunnel shown in FIG. 1; FIG. 5 diagrammatically illustrates a side view of the tan - 45 nel through the waterborne vessel; FIG. 6 diagrammatically illustrates a top schematic view of the tunnel providing the oxygenation zone for the waterbome vessel; FIG. 7 diagrammatically illustrates the output ports (some - 50 times called injector ports) and distribution of oxygenated water mixtures (ozone, ozone plus hydroxyl radical gas and atmospheric oxygen) into the tunnel for the oxygenation sys- tem; 55 FIG. 8A diagrammatically illustrates another oxygenation system; FIG. 813 diagrammatically illustrates a detail of the gas injection ports in the waterbome stream; FIG. 9 diagrammatically illustrates the deflector vane alter - 60 ing the output flow from the oxygenation tunnel; FIG. 10 diagrammatically illustrates the oxygenation manifold in the further embodiment; and FIG. 11 diagrammatically illustrates the gas vanes for the 65 alternate embodiment; and FIG. 12 diagrammatically illustrates a pressurized gas sys- tem used to generate ozone, ozone plus hydroxyl radical and US 7,517,459 B2 pressurized oxygen wherein these gasses are injected into the decontamination tunnel of the vessel. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF TETE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention relates to a waterborne vessel with an oxygenation system and a method to decontaminate water surround the vessel. FIG. 1 diagrammatically illustrates waterborne vessel 10 having an oxygenation system 12 disposed in an underwater tunnel 14 beneath the waterline ofvessel 10, In general, water flow is established through tunnel 14 based upon the opened/ closed position of gills 16 and the operation of the propellerat propeller region 18. Tunnel 14 is sometimes called a decon- tamination tunnel. The tunnel maybe a chamber which holds the water to be decontaminated a certain period of time such that the gasses interact with the water to oxidize the critical compounds in the water. Water flow through tunnel 14 is oxygenated and cleaned. Rudder 20 controls the direction of vessel 10 and deflectorblade orvane 22 controls the direction of the output flow of oxygenated water either directly astern of the vessel or directly downwards into lower depths of the body of water as generally shown in FIG. 9. The flow path varies from Rill astern to Rill down. Lifting mechanism 24 operates to lift deflector blade 22 from the lowered position shown in FIG.1 to a raised position shown in FIG. 8A. Blade 22 can be placed in various down draft positions to alter the ejected flow of the oxygenated, partially treated water from the body of water surrounding vessel 10, The crew may occupy cabin 26.Atrash canister 28 receives trash from trash bucket 30. Trash bucket 30 is raised and lowered along vertical guide 32. Similar minerals designate similar items throughout the drawings, FIG. 2 diagrammatically shows a side elevational view of vessel 10 without the trash bucket and without cabin 26. It should be noted that the waterborne vessel need not include trash container 28 and trash gathering bucket 30. The vessel includes oxygenation system 12 which oxygenates a flow of water through underwater tunnel 14. FIG. 3 diagrammatically illustrates atop schematicview of vessel 10. Bow 34 has laterally extending bow wings 36, 38 that permit a flow of water into an upper deck region. Trash bucket 30 is lowered into this flow of water on the upper deck to capture floating debris and trash from the water being cleaned. by the vessel 10. The trash bucket 30 (FIG. 1) is then raised and, the contents of bucket 30 is poured over into trash container 28. The extended position of bow wings 36, 38 is shown in dashed lines. FIG. 4A shows one embodiment of the oxygenation sys- tem. A source of oxygen 40, commonly atmospheric oxygen gas, is supplied to a gas manifold 42, In addition, oxygen gas (atmospheric oxygen gas) is supplied to extractor 43 (manu- factredby Pacific Ozone) which creates pLire oxygen and the pure oxygen is fed to a corona discharge ozone generator 44, The corona discharge ozone generator 44 generates pure ozone gas which gas is applied togas manifold 42.Ozone plus hydroxyl radical gases are created by a generator 46 which includes a W light device that generates both ozone and hydroxyl radical gases. Oxygen and some gaseous water (such as present in atmospheric oxygen) is fed into generator 46 to create the ozone plus hydroxyl radical gases. The ozone plus hydroxyl radical gases are applied to gas manifold 42, Atmospheric oxygen from source 40 is also applied to gas manifold 42. Although source oxygen 40 could be bottled oxygen and not atmospheric oxygen (thereby eliminating extractor 43), the utilization of bottled oxygen increases the cost of operation of oxygenation system 12. Also, the gas fed to generator 46 must contain some water to create the hydroxyl radical gas. A pressure water pump 48 is driven by a motor M and is supplied with a source of water, Pressurized s water is supplied to water/gas manifold 50. Water/gas mani- fold 50 independently mixes ozone and pressurized water as comparedwith ozone plus hydroxyl radical gas plus pressur- ized water as compared with atmospheric oxygen plus pres- surized water. In the preferred embodiment, water is fed ro through a decreasing cross-sectional tube section 52 which increases the velocity ofthe water as it passes throughnarrow construction 54. A venturi valve (shown in FIG. 4B) draws either ozone or ozone plus hydroxyl radical gas or atmo- spheric oxygen into the restricted flow zone 54. The resulting 15 water -gas mixtures constitute first, second and third oxygen- ated water mixtures. The venturi valve pulls the gases from the generators and the source without requiring pressuriza- tion of the gas. FIG. 4B shows a ventu7 valve 56 which draws the selected 20 gas intothe pressurized flow of waterpassing throughnarrow restriction 54. FIG. 4C shows that oxygenated water carrying ozone can be generated using a W ozone generator 45. Water is sup- plied to conduit 47, the water passes around the W ozone 25 generator and oxygenated water is created. This oxygenated water is ultimately fed into the decontamination tunnel which is decribedmore fully in connection with the manifold system 50 in FIG. 4A. In FIG. 4A, different conduits, such as conduits 60A, 60B 3o and 60C, for example, carry ozone mixed with pressurized water (a first oxygenated water mixture) and ozone plus hydroxyl radical gas and pressurized water (a second oxygen- ated water .mixture) and atmospheric oxygen gas plus pres- surized water (a third oxygenated water mixture), respec- 35 tively which mixtures flow through conduits 60A, 60B and 60C into the injector site in the decontamination tunnel. The output of these conduits, that is conduit output ports 61A, 61B and 61C, are separately disposed both vertically and laterally apart in an array at intake 62 of tunnel 14 (see FIG. 1). 40 Although three oxygenated water mixtures are utilized herein, singular gas inj ection ports maybe used, FIG. 12 shows atmospheric oxygen gas from source 40 ,,vhichisfustpressurizedbypuunp 180 andthenfedto extrac- tor 43 to produce pure oxygen, and ozone plus hydroxyl 45 radical gas W generator 46 and is fed to conduits carrying just the pressurized oxygen to injector matrix 182. The pure oxygen form extractor 43 is fed to an ozone gas generator 44 with a corona discharge. These three pressurized gases (pure ozone, ozone plus hydroxyl radical gas and atmospheric oxy- so gen) is fed into a manifold shown as five (5) injector ports for the pure ozone, four (4) injector ports for the ozone plus hydroxyl radical gas and six (6) ports for the pressurized atmospheric oxygen gas, This injector matrix can be spread out vertically and laterally over the intake of the decontami- ss nation tunnel as shown in connection with FIGS. 4A and 5. FIG. 5 diagrammatically illustrates a side elevational sche- matic view of oxygenation system 12 and, more particularly, tunnel 14 of the waterborne vessel. A motor 59 drives a propeller in propeller region 18. In a preferred embodiment, 60 when gills 16 are open (see FIG. 6), propeller in region 18 creates a flow of water through tmnel 14 of oxygenation system 12. A plurality of conduits 60 each independently carry either an oxygenated water mixture with ozone or an oxygenated water mixture with ozone plus hydroxy radical 65 gases or an oxygenated water mixture with atmospheric oxy- gen. These conduits are vertically and laterally disposed with outputs in anarray atthe intake 64 ofthetumel14, Aplmality US 7,517,459 B2 of baffles, one of which is baffle 66, is disposed downstream of the conduit output p orts, one of which is output port 61A of conduit 60A. Tunnel 14 may have a larger number of baffles 66 than illustrated herein, The baffles create turbulence which slows water flow through the tunnel and increases the cleans- ing of the water in the tunnel with the injected oxygenated mixtures due to additional time in the tunnel and turbulent flow. FIG. 6 diagrammatically shows a schematic top view of oxygenation system 12. The plurality of conduits, one of which is conduit 60A, is disposed laterally away from other gas/water injection ports at intake 64 of tunnel 14. In order to supersaturate, a part of the water flow, a diversion channel 70 is disposed immediately downstream a portion or all of con- duits 60 such that a portion of water flow through tunnel intake 64 passes into diversion channel 70. Downstream of diversion channel 70 is a reverse flow channel 72. The flow is shown in dashed lines through diversion channel 70 and reverse flow channel 72. The primary purposes of diversion channel 70 and reverse flow channel 72 are to (a) segregate a portion of water flow through tunnel 14; (b) inject, in pre- ferred embodiment, ozone plus hydroxyl radical gas as well as atmospheric oxygen into that sub -flow through diversion channel 70; and (c) increase the time the gas mixes and interacts with that diverted channel flow due to the extended time that diverted flow passes through diversion channel 70 and reverse flow channel 72. These channels form a super- saturation channel apart from main or primary flow through tunnel 14. Other flow channels could be created to increase the amount of time the hydroxyl radical gas oxygenated water mixture interacts with the diverted flow. For example, diver- sion channel 70 may be configured as a spiral or a banded sub -channel about a cylindrical tunnel 14 rather than config- ured onfibured as bother diversion channel 70 and a reverse flow channel 72. A singular diversion channel may be sufficient. The cleansing operation of the decontamination vessel is depen- dent upon the degree of pollution in the body of water sur- rounding the vessel. Hence, the type of oxygenated water and the amount of time in the tunnel and the length of the tunnel and the flow or volume flow through the tunnel are all factors which must betaken into account in designing the decontami- nation system herein. In any event, supersaturated water and gas .mixture is created at least the diversion channel 70 and then later on in the reverse flow channel 72, The extra time the entrapped gas is carried by the limited fluid flow through the diversion channels permits the ozone andthe hydroxyl radical gas to interact with organic components and other composi- tions in the entrapped water, cleaning the water to a greater degree as compared with water flow through central region 76 of primary tunnel 14. In the preferred embodiment, two reverse flow channels and two diversion channels are pro- vided on opposite sides of a generally rectilinear tunnel 14, FIG. 4A shows the rectilinear dimension of tunnel 14. Other shapes and lengths and sizes of diversion channels may be used. When the oxygenation system is ON, gills 16 are placed in their outboard position thereby extending the length of tunnel 14 through an additional elongated portion of vessel 10. See FIG. 1. Propeller in region 18 provides a propulsion system for water in tunnel 14 as well as a propulsion system for vessel 10, Other types of propulsion systems for vessel 10 and the water through tunnel 14 may be provided. The important point is that water flows through tunnel 14 and, in a preferred embodiment, first, second and third oxygenated water mix- tures (ozone+pressurized water; ozone+hydroxyl radical gas+pressurized water; and atmospheric oxygen+pressurized water) is injected into an input region 64 of a tunnel which is disposed beneath the waterline of the vessel. In the preferred embodiment, when gills 16 are closed or are disposed inboard such that the stem most edge of the gills 5 rest on stop 80, vessel 10 can be propelled by water flow entering the propeller area 18 from gill openings 80A, 80B. When the gills are closed, the oxygenation system is OFF. FIG. 7 diagrammatically illustrates the placement of vari- ous conduits in the injector matrix. The conduits are specially 10 numbered or mapped as 1-21 in FIG. 7. The following Oxy- genation Manifold Chart shows what type of oxygenated water mixture which is fed into each of the specially num- bered conduits and injected into the intake 64 of tunnel 14. Oxygenation Manifold Chari: Gas Tubes 20 03 + OH 1, 8, 16; 7,15,17 03 3, 4, 5,11,12, 13 Oz 2,9,10,18,20; 6, 14,19, 21 As noted above, generally an ozone plus hydroxyl radical 25 gas oxygenated water mixture is fed at the forward -most points of diversion channel 70 -through conduits 7,15,17, 1, 8 and 16. Pure oxygen (in the working embodiment, atmo- spheric oxygen) oxygenated water mixture is fed generally downstream of the hydroxyl radical gas injectors at conduits 30 19, 21, 18, 20. Additional atmospheric oxygen oxygenated water mixtures are fed laterally inboard of the hydroxyl radi- cal gas injectors at conduits 6, 14, 2, 9, and 10. In contrast, ozone oxygenated water mixtures are fed at the intake 64 of central tunnel region 76 by conduit ouiputports 5, 4, 3,13,12, 35 and 11.Of course, other combinations andorientations ofthe first, second and third oxygenated water mixtures could be injected into the flowing stream of water to be decomami- nated. However, applicant currently believes that the ozone oxygenatedwatermixttres has an adequate amount oftime to 40 mix with the water from the surrounding body of water in central tunnel region 76 but the hydroxyl radical gas from injectors 7, 15, 17, 1, 8,16 need additional time to clean the water and also need atmospheric oxygen input (output ports 19, 21, 8, 20) in order to supersaturate the diverted flow in 45 diversion channel 70 and reverse flow channel 17. The super- saturated flow from extended channels 70, 72 is further injected into the mainstream tunnel flow near the tunnel flow intake. Further additional mechanisms can be provided to directly 5o inject the ozone and the ozone plus hydroxyl radical gas and the atmospheric oxygen into the intake 64 oftunnel 14. Direct gas injection may be possible although water through -put may be reduced. Also, the water may be directly oxygenated as shown in FIG. 4C and then injected into the tunnel. The 55 array of gas injectors, the amount of gas (about 5 psi of the outlets), the flow volume of water, the water velocity and the size of the tunnel (cross-sectional and length) all affect the degree of oxygenation and decontamination. Currently, flow through underwater channel 14 is, at a 60 minimum, 1000 gallons per minute and, at amaximum, a flow of 1800 gallons per minute is achievable. Twenty-one oxy- genated water mixture output jets are distributed both verti- cally (FIGS. 4A and 5) as well as laterally and longitudinally (FIGS. 6 and 7) about intake 64 of tunnel 14, It is estimated 65 that the hydroxyl radical gas needs about 5-8 minutes of reaction time in order to change or convert into oxygen. Applicant estimates that approximate 15-25%ofwaterflowis US 7,517,459 B2 diverted into diversion channel 70. Applicant estimates that water in the diversion channel flows through the diverters in approximately 5-7 seconds. During operation when the oxy- genation system is operating, the boat can move at 2-3 knots, The vessel need not move in order to operate the oxygenation system. FIG. 8 shows an alternative embodiment which is possible but seems to be less efficient.A supply of oxygen 40 is fed into an ozone generator 44 with a corona discharge. The output of ozone gas is applied via conduit 90 into a chamber 92. Atmo- spheric oxygen or air 94 is also drawn into chamber 92 and is fed into a plurality of horizontally and vertically disposed nozzles 96. Manifold 98 consists of aplarality of oxygenation nozzles 96. Manifold 98 can be raised or lowered by any appropriate means. In the illustrated embodiment, rotating threaded sleeve 110 operates onthreaded rod 112 to raise and lower oxygenation manifold 98. Diverfer blade 22 can be raised and loweredby another mechanism generally shown as lifting mechanism 24 in FIG. 1. Shaft 114 drives propeller 116 to provide a propulsion system to move water through tunnel 118. FIG. 8A shows that the water propulsion system to move the water through the tunnel could be forward the tunnel intake 64 shown in FIG. 6. The alternative embodiment also shows that the tunnel may be foreshortened. FIG. 8B is a detail showing gas injection nozzle 96 and water flow 120 passing through restricted flow channel 122. FIG. 9 diagrammatically shows that diversion blade 22, when rotated downward as shown by arrow 142, directs oxy- genated and treated water output 144 the oxygenation sys- tems into lower depths of the body of water being treated by vessel 10. FIG. 10 diagrammatically illustrates aeration injector manifold 98. FIG. 11 shows aeration injectors 96 having a forward inverted V shaped body 160 and a rearward generally oval shaped body 162. Air plus ozone is pumped or drawn into the interior region 164 of V shaped body 160. Water flow is direatedthrough constricted channel 122 and a high degree of turbulence in region 166 mixes the ozone with the water flow through constricted channel 122. This turbulence in restricted flow channel122 causes the ozone and atmospheric oxygen to mix with the water flow thereby oxygenating the water. FIG. 12 shows a pressurized gas system which has been described earlier. The claims appended hereto are meant to cover modifica- tions and changes within the scope and spirit of the present invention. What is claimed is: 1. A method of oxygenating and decontaminating water surrounding water in a body of water with a waterborne vessel, said waterbome vessel having an underwater tunnel with an intake and an output, the method comprising: said tunnel having a longitudinal axis and a closed perim- eter wall surrounding the longitudinal axis of the tunnel, said tunnel and perimeter wall further including a diver- sion channel with a first, upstream portion and a second, downstream portion, said first and second portions defining a diversionary path, moving water through said tunnel; diverting a portion of said water into said diversionary path from said tunnel, wherein the diverted water first flows through said first portion of said diversion channel and then flows into said second portion, wherein a flow direction of the diverted water in the second section is opposite to a flow direction of said water moving through said tunnel; providing a source of ozone and a source of pressurized water; intermixing said ozone and said pressurized water and creating a first oxygenated water mixture; 5 injecting said first oxygenated water mixture at a location within said tunnel proximate said intake. 2. A method of oxygenating and decontaminating water surrounding water in a body of water with a waterborne vessel, said waterborne vessel having an underwater tunnel to with an intake and an output, the method comprising: said tunnel having a longitudinal axis and a closed perim- eter wall surrounding the longitudinal axis of the tunnel, said tunnel and perimeter wall fin ther including a diver- sion. channel with a first, upstream portion and a second, 15 downstream portion, said first and second portions defining a diversionary path; moving water through said tunnel; diverting a portion of said water into said diversion channel defining a diversionary path from said tunnel, wherein 20 the diverted water first flows through said first portion of said diversion channel and then flows into said second portion, wherein a flow direction in the second section is opposite to a flow direction of said water moving through said tunnel; 25 providing a source of ozone and a source of pressurized water; intermixing said ozone and said pressurized water and creating a first oxygenated water mixture; inj ecting said first oxygenated water mixture at a location 3o within the tunnel proximate the intake; and super -saturating said portion of said water in said diver- sionary path. 3. A method as claimed in claim 1 wherein a flow direction in said upstream first portion is not opposite to the flow 35 direction of said water moving through said tunnel and said downstream second portion defines a reverse flow channel, wherein a flow direction in the reverse flow channel is oppo- site to the flow direction of said water moving through said 40 tunnel. 4. A method as claimed in claim 3 wherein the step of super -saturating includes providing a source of ozone plus hydroxyl radical gas, intermixing said ozone plus hydroxyl radical gas and said pressurized water and creating a second 45 oxygenated water mixture, and injecting said second oxygen- ated water mixture into said diversionary path. 5. A method as claimed in claim 2 wherein the step of super -saturating includes providing a source of ozone plus hydroxyl radical gas, intermixing said ozone plus hydroxyl 50 radical gas and said pressurized water and creating a second oxygenated water mixture, and injecting said second oxygen- ated water mixture into said diversionary path. 6. A method as claimed in claim 5 including creating tur- bulence in the water moving through said tunnel downstream 55 of the injection of said fust oxygenated water mixture. 7. A method as claimed in claim 2 including creating tur- bulence in the water moving through said tunnel downstream of the injection of said first oxygenated water mixture. 8. A method of oxygenating and decontaminating water 60 surrounding water in a body of water with a waterborne vessel, said waterbome vessel having an underwater tunnel with an intake and an output, the method comprising:. said tunnel .having a longitudinal axis and a closed perim- eter wall surrounding the longitudinal axis of the tunnel, 65 said tunnel and perimeter wall fitrthor including a diver- sion chwnel therein; moving water through said tunnel; �V US 7,517,459 B2 9 diverting a portion of said water into said diversion channel defining a diversionary path from said tunnel; providing a source of ozone and a source of pressurized water; intermixing said ozone and said pressurized water and creating a first oxygenated water mixture; injecting said first oxygenated water mixture at a location within the tunnel proximate the intake; providing a source of ozone plus hydroxyl radical gas; 1.0 intermixing said ozone plus hydroxyl radical gas and said pressurized water and creating a second oxygenated. water mixture; and injecting said second oxygenated water mixture into said diversionary path. 9. A method as claimed in claim 8 including creating tur- bulence in the water moving through said tunnel downstream of the injection of said first oxygenated water mixture. (12) United States Patent Aulniers (54) VESSEL WITH OXYGENATION SYSTEM AND DECONTAMINATION METHOD (75) Inventor: Jacques Des Aulniers, Fort Lauderdale, FL (US) (73) Assignee: Water Management Technologies, Inc., Miami, FL (US) ('F) Notice: Subject to any disclaimer, the term of this patent is extended or adjusted under 35 U.S.C. 154(b) by 0 days. (21) Appl. No.: 12/384,117 (22) Filed: Mar. 31, 2009 (65) Prior Publication Data US 2010/0018931 Al Jan. 28, 2010 Related U.S. Application Data (62) Division of application No. 10/930;688, filed on Aug. 31, 2004, now Pat. No. 7,517,459. (60) Provisional application No. 60/588,198, filed on Jul. 15, 2004, (51) Int. Cl. CO2F 1172 (2006.01) CO2F 1178 (2006.01) E02B 15/04 (2006.01) (52) U.S. Cl ................. 210/170.05; 210/192; 210/198.1; 210/242.2 (58) Field of Classification Search ............. 210/748.15, 210/760, 764, 170,05, 170.09, 170.1, 170.11, 210/192,198.1, 199, 205, 220, 241, 242.1, 210/242, 243, 925, 2; 261/DIG. 42 See application file for complete search history. 7— � -rwvv---- t— ► ------- rLVri +— �. -�---.c��• � � � 76 14 64 4- 66 12 umm�ui�u�in�un�m�moouiAumuinuiwmi (lo) Patent No.: US 7,947,172 B2 (45) Date of Patent: May 24, 2011 (56) References Cited U.S. PATENT DOCUMENTS 3,755,142 A 8/1973 Whipple, Jr ..................... 210/63 4,008,156 A 2/1977 Chastan-Bagnis ............ 210/242 4,921,605 A 5/1990 Chastan-Bagnis et al.... 210/115 6,200,486 B1* 3/2001 Chahine et al........... 210/748.03 2003/0015481 Al* 1/2003 Eidem ........................... 210/760 FOREIGN PATENT DOCUIV ENTS EP 366010 2/1990 JP 405245485 9/1993 JP 09118291 A 9' 5/1997 OTHER PUBLICATIONS Machine translation of JP 09118291 A (obtained from JPO May 2010).'" PCT/USA05/29084, Aug. 16, 2005, USA Pelican, Inc. 1999 P.E.R.M, Pelican Inc. Brochette, Certified translation of JP09118291A for Masanori et al., May 1997. * cited by examiner Primary Examiner —Matthew O Savage Assistant Examiner—Lucas Stelling (74) Attorney, Agent, or Firm —Robert C. Kain, Jr. (57) ABSTRACT Thewaterborne vessel, in one embodiment, utilizes an under- water tunnel through which passes flowing water, an ozone gas generator, an ozone plus hydroxyl radical gas generator and a source of atmospheric oxygen. A manifold mixermixes pressurized water independently with the ozone, the ozone plus hydroxyl radical gas and the atmospheric oxygen to produce corresponding oxygenated water mixtures. Each of these oxygenated water mixtures are fed via a conduit system into the confined flow of water passing through the tunnel. A diversion channel with reverse flow channel permits super saturation of diverted flow from the primary underwater tun- nel channel to provide super saturated oxygenated water with ozone plus hydroxyl radical gases and atmospheric oxygen water mixtures. A decontamination method is also provided. 36 Claims, 9 Drawing Sheets 16 80 TRANSOM LINE FIG. 1 20 12 W-1 p l FIG. 2 9 34 --36 1 2,e 10 P i FIG. 3 N N ` 50c� , 54 52' GAS MANIFOLD 42 44 43 � CDOR� GA PURE =22=4EXTRACTOR 0 46 SOURCE OH + 03 UV OF 01) LIG 02 PRESSURE WATER PUMP F11 40 N 48 SOURCE OF WATER o 60a 60b 60c i-1 r-% If i-% WATER TO FLUID UV - a MANIFOLD & INJECTORS 61b 47_ 45 -61c 52 -'� 56 62 54 - 61a FIG. 4B CD 0 C A X1/1 C Tnn�rrns� i 12 FIG. 6 TRANSOM LINE— 70 72 16 80 60a 80b - -FLOW---- - •--------- FLOW-�- _ {---------FLOW--------a -FLOW--- f 4-- o �c O 14 64 66 80a 12 ZZ cn td N 64 ti 70 72 -q7j5 7 119 21 -- FLOW _ __-_------------.�--- I Il4 -_. - FLOW 13 5 - 66 3 2 1 12-1 it ��� �10�1 8� 16Y ;18'-� 20Y i t 1 14 P5 N N U.S. Patent May 24, 2011 AIR Sheet 7 of 9 US 799479172 B2 y0 �u FIG. 8B 120 122 96 r � � r V.S. Patent May 24, 2011 Sheet 8 of 9 US 7,947,172 B2 AIC? 44 22 U.S. Patent 02 SOURCE 40 May 24, 2011 Ion Sheet 9 of 9 FIG. 12 INJECTOR MATRIX 182 FIG. 11 122 164 US 71947,172 B2 FIG. 10 US 7,947,172 B2 1 VESSEL WITH OXYGENATION SYSTEM AND DECONTAMINATION METHOD This is a divisional patent application based upon and claiming the benefit of application Ser. No. 10/930,653 filed 5 Aug. 31, 2004, now U.S. Pat. No. 7,517,459, which is a regular patent application based upon and claiming priority of provisional patent application 60/555,193 filed Jul. 15, 2004, the contents of both of which are incorporated herein by reference thereto. to The present inventionrelates to a waterborne vessel with an oxygenation system which decontaminates sur c -raiding water and a method therefore. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 15 Ozone (03) is one of the strongest oxidizing agents that is readily available. It is known to eliminate organic waste, reduce odor and reduce total organic carbon in water. Ozone 20 is created in a number of different ways, including ultraviolet (UV) light, and corona discharge of electrical current through a stream of air or other gazes oxygen stream, among others. Ozone is formed when energy is applied to oxygen gas (OZ). The bonds that hold oxygen together are broken and three 25 oxygen molecules are combined to form two ozone mol- ecules. The ozone breaks down fairly quickly and as it does so it reverts back to pure oxygen, that is, an 02 molecule. The bonds that hold the oxygen atoms together are very weak which is why ozone acts as a strong oxidant. In addition, it is 30 known that hydroxyl radicals OR also act as a purification gas, Hydroxyl radicals are formed when ozone, ultraviolet radiation and moisture are combined. Hydroxyl radicals are more powerful oxidants than ozone. Both ozone andhydroxyl radical gas break down over a shortperiod oftime (about 5-15 'S minutes) into oxygen. Hydroxyl radical gas is a condition in the fluid or gaseous mixture. Some bodies of water have become saturated with high levels of natural or man made materials which have a high 40 biological oxygen demand and which in turn have created an eutrophic or anaerobic environment. It would be beneficial to clean these waters utilizing the various types of ozone and hydroxyl radical gases. 45 OBJECTS OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to provide a water- borne vessel with an oxygenation system and a method to decontaminate surrounding water. 50 It is a further object of the present invention to provide an oxygenation system on a waterborne vessel and a method of decontamination wherein ozone and/or hydroxyl radical gas is injected, mixed and super saturated with a flow of water through the waterborne vessel. 55 It is an additional object of the present invention to provide a super saturization channel which significantly increases the amount of time the ozone and/or hydroxyl radical gas mixes in a certain flow volume of water thereby oxygenating the water and decontaminating that defined volume of flowing 60 water prior to further mixing with other water subject to additional oxygenation in the waterborne vessel. It is an additional object of the present invention to provide a mixing manifold to mix the ozone independent with respect to the hydroxyl radical gas and independent with respect to 65 atmospheric oxygen and wherein the resulting oxygenated water mixtures are independently fed into a confined water 2 bound space in the waterborne vessel to oxygenate a volume of water flowing through that confined space. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The waterborne vessel, in one embodiment, utilizes an underwater tunnel through which passes flowing water, an ozone gas generator, an ozone plus hydroxyl radical gas gen- erator and a source of atmospheric oxygen. A manifold mixer mixes pressurized water independently with the ozone, the ozone plus hydroxyl radical gas and the atmospheric oxygen to produce corresponding oxygenated water mixtures. Each of these oxygenated water mixtures are fed via a conduit system into the confined flow of water passing through the tunnel. A diversion channel with reverse flow channel permits super saturation of diverted flow from the primary- underwater tmnel channel to provide super saturated oxygenated water with ozone plus hydroxyl radical gases and atmospheric oxy- gen water mixtures. A decontamination method is also pro- vided. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS Further objects and advantages ofthe present invention can be found in the detailed description of the preferred embodi- ments when taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings in which: FIG.1 diagrammatically illustrates a side elevational view of the waterborne vessel with an oxygenation system of the present invention; FIG. 2 diagrammatically illustrates a side elevational view of the hull portion with the oxygenation system; FIG. 3 diagrammatically illustrates a top schematic view of the waterborne vessel, FIG. 4A diagrammatically illustrates one system to create the ozone and hydroxyl radical gases and one system to mix the gases with water in accordance with the principles of the present invention; FIG. 413 diagrammatically illustrates the ventari port enabling the mixing of the ozone plus pressurized water, ozone plus hydroxyl radical gas plus pressurized water, and atmospheric oxygen and pressurized water; FIG. 4C diagrammatically illustrates a system which cre- ates oxygenated water which oxygenated water carrying ozone canbe injected into the decontamination tunnel shown in FIG. 1; FIG. 5 diagrammatically illustrates a side view of the tun- nel through the waterborne vessel; FIG. 6 diagrammatically illustrates a top schematic view of the tunnel providing the oxygenation zone for the waterbome vessel; FIG, 7 diagrammatically illustrates the output ports (some- times called injector ports) and distribution of oxygenated water mixtures (ozone, ozone plus hydroxyl radical gas and atmospheric oxygen) into the tunnel for the oxygenation sys- tem; FIG. SA diagrammatically illustrates another oxygenation system; FIG. SB diagrammatically illustrates a detail of the gas injection ports in the waterborne stream; FIG. 9 diagrammatically illustrates the deflector vane alter- ing the output flow from the oxygenation tunnel; FIG. 10 diagrammatically illustrates the oxygenation manifold in the fiurther embodiment; and FIG. 11 diagrammatically illustrates the gas vanes for the alternate embodiment; and US 7,947,172 B2 FIG. 12 diagrammatically illustrates a pressurized gas sys- tem used to generate ozone, ozone plus hydroxyl radical and pressurized oxygen wherein these gasses are injected into the decontamination tunnel of the vessel. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention relates to a waterborne vessel with an oxygenation system and a method to decontaminate water surround the vessel. FIG. 1 diagrammatically illustrates waterborne vessel 10 having an oxygenation system 12 disposed in an underwater tunnel 14 beneath the waterline of vessel 10. In general, water flow is established through tunnel 14 based upon the opened/ closed position of gills 16 andthe operation of the propellerat propeller region 18. Tunnel 14 is sometimes called a decon- tamination tannel. The tunnel may be a chamberwhich holds the water to be decontaminated a certain period of time such that the gasses interact with the water to oxidize the critical compounds in the water. Water flow through tunnel 14 is oxygenated and cleaned. Rudder 20 controls the direction of vessel 10 and deflectorblade orvane 22 controls the direction of the output flow of oxygenated water either directly astern of the vessel or directly downwards into lower depths of the body of water as generally shown in FIG. 9. The flow path varies from full astern to full down. Lifting mechanism 24 operates to lift deflector blade 22 from the lowered position shown in FIG.1 to a raisedposition shown in FIG. 8A. Blade 22 can be placed in various down draft positions to alter the ejected flow of the oxygenated, partially treated water from the body of water surrounding vessel 10. The crew may occupy cabin 26. A trash canister28 receives trash from trash bucket 30. Trash bucket 30 is raised and lowered along vertical guide 32. Similar numerals designate similar items throughout the drawings. FIG. 2 diagrammatically shows a side elevational view of vessel 10 without the trash bucket and without cabin 26. It should be noted that the waterborne vessel need not include trash container 28 and trash gathering bucket 30. The vessel includes oxygenation system 12 which oxygenates a flow of water through underwater tunnel 14. FIG.3 diagrammatically illustrates atop schematicview of vessel 10. Bow 34 has laterally extending bow wings 36, 38 that permit a flow of water into an tipper deck region. Trash bucket 30 is lowered into this flow of water on the upper deck- to eckto capture floating debris and trash from the water being cleaned by the vessel 10, The trash bucket 3 0 (FIG. 1) is then raised and the contents of bucket 30 is poured over into trash container 28. The extended position of bow wings 36, 38 is shown in dashed lines. FIG. 4A shows one embodiment of the oxygenation sys- tem. A source of oxygen 40, commonly atmospheric oxygen gas, is supplied to a gas manifold 42. In addition, oxygen gas (atmospheric oxygen gas) is supplied to extractor 43 (manu- facturedby Pacific Ozone) which creates pure oxygen and the pure oxygen is fed to a corona discharge ozone generator 44. The corona discharge ozone generator 44 generates pure ozone gas which gas is applied to gas manifold 42. Ozone plus hydroxyl radical gases are created by a generator 46 which includes a UV light device that generates both ozone and hydroxyl radical gases. Oxygen and some gaseous water (such as present in atmospheric oxygen) is fed into generator 46 to create the ozone plus hydroxyl radical gases. The ozone plus hydroxyl radical gases are applied to gas manifold 42. Atmospheric oxygen from source 40 is also applied to gas manifold 42. Although source oxygen 40 could be bottled oxygen and not atmospheric oxygen (thereby eliminating extractor 43), the utilization of bottled oxygen increases the cost of operation of oxygenation system 12. Also, the gas fed to generator 46 must contain some water to create the s hydroxyl radical gas. A pressure water pump 48 is driven by a motor M and is supplied with a source of water. Pressurized water is supplied to air/gas manifold 50. Water/gas manifold 50 independently mixes ozone and pressurized water as com- pared with ozone plus hydroxyl radical gas plus pressurized 10 water as comparedwith atmospheric oxygenplus pressurized water. In the preferred embodiment, water is fed through a decreasing cross-sectional tube section 52 which increases thevelocity of the water as it passes through narrow construc- tion 54. A venturi valve (shown in FIG. 4B) draws either 15 ozone or ozone plus hydroxyl radical gas or atmospheric oxygen into the restricted flow zone 54. The resulting water - gas mixtures constitute first, second and third oxygenated water mixtures. The venturi valve pulls the gases from the generators and the source without requiring pressurization of 20 the gas. FIG. 413 shows a venturi valve 56 which draws the selected gas into the pressurized flow ofwater passing through narrow restriction 54. FIG. 4C shows that oxygenated water carrying ozone can 25 be generated using a UV ozone generator 45. Water is sup- plied to conduit 47, the water passes around the UV ozone generator and oxygenated water is created. This oxygenated water is ultimately fed into the decontamination tunnel which is described more fully in connection with the manifold sys- 30 tem 50 in FIG. 4A. In FIG. 4A, different conduits, such as conduits 60A, 60B and 60C, for example, carry ozone mixed with pressurized water (a first oxygenated water mixture) and ozone plus hydroxyl radical gas and pressurized water (a second oxygen - 35 ated water mixture) and atmospheric oxygen gas plus pres- surized water (a third oxygenated water mixture), respec- tively which mixtures flow through conduits 60A, 60B and 60C into the injector site in the decontamination tunnel. The output of these conduits, that is conduit output ports 61A, 61B 40 and 61C, are separately disposed both vertically and laterally apart in an array at intake 62 of tunnel 14 (see FIG. 1). Although three oxygenated water mixtures are utilized. herein, singular gas injection ports maybe used. FIG. 12 shows atmospheric oxygen gas from source 40 45 which isfirst pressurized bypump180andthenfedtoextrac- tor 43 to produce pure ozone, and ozone plus hydroxyl radical gas UV generator 46 and is fed to conduits carrying just the pressurized oxygen to injector matrix 182. The pure oxygen from extractor 43 is fed to an ozone gas generator 44 with a 5o corona discharge. These three pressurized gases (pure ozone, ozone plus hydroxyl radical gas and atmospheric oxygen) is fedinto a manifold shown as five (5) injectorports forthe pure ozone, four (4) injector ports for the ozone plus hydroxyl radical gas and six (6) ports for the pressurized atmospheric 55 oxygen gas. This injector matrix can be spread out vertically and laterally over the intake of the decontamination tunnel as shown in connection with FIGS. 4A and 5. FIG. 5 diagrammatically illustrates a side elevational sche- matic view of oxygenation system 12 and, more particularly, 60 tunnel 14 of the waterborne vessel. A motor 59 drives a propeller in propeller region 18. In a preferred embodiment, when gills 16 are open (see FIG. 6), propeller in region 18 creates a flow of water through tunnel 14 of oxygenation system 12. A plurality of conduits 60 each independently 65 carry either an oxygenated water mixture with ozone or an oxygenated water mixture with ozone plies hydroxy radical gases or an oxygenated water mixture with atmospheric oxy- US 7,947,172 B2 Zen. These conduits are vertically and laterally disposed with outputs in an array atthe intake 64 ofthe tunnel 14. Aplurality of baffles, one of which. is baffle 66, is disposed downstream of conduit outputports, one of which is outputport61A of conduit 60A. Tunnel 14 may have a larger munber of babes 66 than illustrated herein. The baffles create turbulence which slows water flow through the tunnel and increases the cleans- ing of the water in the tunnel with the injected oxygenated mixtures due to additional time in the tunnel and turbulent flow. FIG. 6 diagrammatically shows a schematic top view of oxygenation system 12. The plurality of conduits, one of which is conduit 60A, is disposed laterally away from other gas/water injection ports at intake 64 of tunnel 14. In order to supersaturate apart of the water flow, a diversion channel 70 is disposed immediately downstream a portion or all of con- duits 60 such that a portion of water flow through tunnel intake 64 passes into diversion channel 70. Downstream of diversion channel 70 is a reverse flow channel 72. The flow is shown in dashed lines through diversion channel 70 and reverse flow channel 72. The primary purposes of diversion channel 70 and reverse flow channel 72 are to (a) segregate a portion of water flow through tunnel 14; (b) inject, in a pre- ferred embodiment, ozone plus hydroxyl radical gas as well as atmospheric oxygen into that sub -flow through diversion channel 70; and (c) increase the time the gas mixes and interacts with that diverted channel flow due to the extended time that diverted flow passes through diversion channel 70 and reverse flow channel 72. These channels form a super- saturation channel apart from main or primary flow through tunnel 14, Other flow channels could be created to increase the amount of time the hydroxyl radical gas oxygenated water mixture interacts with the diverted flow. For example, diver- sion channel 70 may be configured as a spiral or a banded sub -channel about a cylindrical tunnel 14 rather than config- ured as botha diversion channel 70 and a reverse flow channel 72. A singular diversion channel may be sufficient. The cleansing operation of the decontamination vessel is depen- dent upon the degree of pollution in the body of water sur- rounding the vessel. Hence, the type of oxygenated water and the amount of time in the tunnel and the length of the tunnel and the flow or volume flow through the tunnel are all factors which must be taken into account in designing the decontami- nation system herein. In any event, supersaturated water and gas mixture is created at least the diversion channel 70 and then later on in the reverse flow channel 72. The extra time the entrapped gas is carried by the limited fluid flow through the diversion channels permits the ozone andthe hydroxyl radical gas to interact with organic components and other composi- tions in the entrapped water, cleaning the water to a greater degree as compared. with water flowthrough central region 76 of primary tunnel 14. In the preferred embodiment, two reverse flow channels and two diversion channels are pro- vided on opposite sides of a generally rectilinear tunnel 14. FIG, 4A shows the rectilinear dimension of tunnel 14. Other shapes and lengths and sizes of diversion channels may be used. When the oxygenation system is ON, gills 16 are placed in their outboardposition thereby extending the length of tunnel 14 through an additional elongated portion of vessel 10. See FIG. 1. Propeller in region 18 provides a propulsion system for water intnue114 as well as a propulsion system forvessel 10. Other types of propulsion systems for vessel 10 and. the water through tumel 14 may be provided. The important point is that water flows through tunnel 14 and, in a preferred embodiment, first, second and third oxygenated water mix- tures (ozone+pressurized water; ozone+hydroxyl radical gas+pressurized water; and atmospheric oxygen+pressurized water) is injected into an input region 64 of a tunnel which is disposed beneath the waterline of the vessel. 5 In the preferred embodiment, when gills 16 are closed or are disposed inboard such that the stem most edge of the gills rest on stop 80, vessel 10 can be propelled by water flow entering the propeller area 18 from gill openings 80A, 8OB. When the gills are closed, the oxygenation system is OFF. 10 FIG. 7 diagrammatically illustrates the placement of vari- ous conduits in the injector matrix. The conduits are specially numbered or mapped as 1-21 in FIG. 7. The following Oxy- genation Manifold Chart shows what type of oxygenated water mixture which is fed into each of the specially num- 15 bered conduits and injected into the intake 64 of tunnel 14. Oxygenation Manifold Chart 20 Gas 'tubes 03+Off 1,8,16;7,15,17 03 3, 4, 5,11,12, 13 02 2,9,10,18,20; 6,14,19, 21 As noted above, generallyan ozone plus hydroxyl radical gas oxygenated water mixture is fed at the forward -most points of diversion channel 70 through conduits 7, 15,17,1, 8 and 16. Pure oxygen (in the working embodiment, atmo- 30 spheric oxygen) oxygenated water mixture is fed generally downstream of the hydroxyl radical gas injectors at conduits 19, 21, 18, 20. Additional atmospheric oxygen oxygenated water mixtures are fed laterally inboard of the hydroxyl radi- cal gas injectors at conduits 6, 14, 2, 9, and 10. In contrast, 35 ozone oxygenated water mixtures are fed at the intake 64 of central tunnel region76 by conduit outputports 5, 4, 3,13,12, and 11. Of course, other combinations and orientations of the first, second and third oxygenated water mixtures could be injected into the flowing stream of water to be decontami- 4o nated. However, applicant currently believes that the ozone oxygenated water mixtures has an adequate amount oftime to mix with the water from the surrounding body of water in central tunnel region 76 but the hydroxyl radical gas from injectors 7, 15, 17, 1, 8, 16 need additional time to clean the 45 water and also need atmospheric oxygen input (output ports 19, 21, 8, 20) in order to supersaturate the diverted flow in diversion channel 70 and reverse flow channel 17. The super- saturated flow from extended channels 70, 72 is further injected into the mainstream tunnel flow near the tunnel flow 50 intake. Further additional mechanisms can be providedto directly inject the ozone and the ozone phis hydroxyl radical gas and the atmospheric oxygeninto the intake 64 oftunnel 14. Direct gas injection may be possible although water through -put 55 may be reduced. Also, the water may be directly oxygenated as shown in FIG. 4C and then injected into the tunnel. The array of gas injectors, the amount of gas (about 5 psi of the outlets), the flow volume of water, the water velocity and the size of the tunnel (cross-sectional and length) all affect the 6o degree of oxygenation and decontamination. Currently, flow through underwater channel 14 is, at a minimum, 1000 gallons per minute and, at a maximum, a flow of 1800 gallons per minute is achievable. Twenty-one oxy- genated water mixture output jets are distributed both verti- 65 tally (FIGS. 4A and 5) as well as laterally and longitudinally (FIGS. 6 and 7) about intake 64 of tunnel 14. It is estimated that the hydroxyl radical gas needs about 5-8 minutes of US 7,947,172 B2 reaction time in order to change or convert into oxygen, Applicant estimates that approximate 15-25% of water flow is diverted into diversion channel 70. Applicant estimates that water in the diversion channel flows through the diverters in approximately 5-7 seconds. During operation when the oxy- genation system is operating, theboat canmove at 2-3 knots. The vessel need not move in order to operate the oxygenation system. FIGT. 8 shows an alternative embodiment which is possible but seems to be less efficient. A supply of oxygen 40 is fed into an ozone generator 44 with a corona discharge. The output of ozone gas is applied via conduit 90 into a chamber 92. Atmo- spheric oxygenor air 94 is also drawn into chamber 92 and is fed into a plurality of horizontally and vertically disposed nozzles96. Manifold 98 consists ofaplralityofoxygenation nozzles 96. Manifold 98 can be raised or lowered by any appropriate means. In the illustrated embodiment, rotating threaded sleeve 110 operates on threaded rod 112 to raise and lower oxygenation manifold 98. Diverter blade 22 can be raised and lowered by another mechanism generally shown as lifting mechanism 24 in FIG. 1. Shaft 114 drives propeller 116 to provide a propulsion system to move water through t imel 118. FIG. 8A shows that the water propulsion system to move the water through the tunnel could be forward the tunnel intake 64 shown in FIG. 6. The alternative embodiment also shows that the tunnel may be foreshortened. FIG. 8B is a detail showing gas injection nozzle 96 and water flow 120 passing through restricted flow channel 122. FIG. 9 diagrammatically shows that diversion blade 22, when rotated downward as shown by arrow 142, directs oxy- genated and. treated water output 144 downwardly into lower depths of the body of water being treated by vessel 10. FIG. 10 diagrammatically illustrates aeration injector manifold 98. FIG. 11 shows aeration injectors 96 having a forward inverted V shaped body 160 and a rearward generally oval shapedbody 162.Airplus ozone is pumped or drawn into the interior region 164 of V shaped body 160. Water flow is directed through constricted channel 122 and a high degree of turbulence in. region 166 mixes the ozone with the water flow through constricted channel 122. This turbulence in restricted flow channel 122 causes the ozone and atmospheric oxygento mix with the water flow thereby oxygenating the water. FIG. 12 shows a pressurized gas system which has been described earlier. The claims appended hereto are meant to cover modifica- tions and changes within the scope and spirit of the present invention, What is claimed is: 1. A waterborne vessel with an oxygenation system to decontaminate surrounding water, comprising: a primary underwater tunnel extending longitudinally beneath said vessel from a below the waterline vessel intake and leading to a below the waterline vessel out- put; said tunnel having a longitudinal axis and a closed perim- eter wall -surrounding the longitudinal axis of the tunnel, said tunnel and perimeter wall further including a two- part diversion channel; a propulsion system causing water to move through said primary tunnel; at least one of an ozone gas generator and an ozone plus hydroxyl radical gas generator; a source of pressurized water, a manifold mixer mixing said pressurized water with at least on of said ozone gas and said ozone plus hydroxyl radical gas to produce an oxygenated water mixture; a conduit system with a conduit and an outlet port leading from said manifold mixer carrying said oxygenated water mixture near said vessel intake and the outlet port outputting the oxygenated water proximate the vessel 5 intake such that water moving through said primary tunnel is oxygenated and decontaminated by said oxy- genated water mixture; and the two-part diversion channel is defined by a first upstream channel and second downstream channel, said 10 downstream channel carrying a reverse water flow whichis oppositeto saidwater flow moving through said primary tunnel, the two part diversion channel having a channel inlet and a channel outlet open to said primary tunnel proximate the vessel intake. 15 2. Avessel with an oxygenation system as claimed in claim 1 wherein said diversion channel inlet is downstream of said conduit system carrying oxygenated water to said tunnel. 3. Avessel with an oxygenation system as claimed in claim 1 wherein said conduit system includes a plurality of output 20 ports disposed about said tunnel intake thereby permitting dispersal of said oxygenated water mixture. 4. Avessel with an oxygenation system as claimed in claim 1 wherein said conduit system includes a first and a second plurality of output ports, said first plurality of output ports 25 disposed near said intake thereby permitting dispersal of said oxygenated water mixture in said tunnel and said second plurality of output ports disposed upstream of said diversion channel. 5, Avessel with an oxygenation system as claimed inclaim 3o 2 wherein said reverse flow channel has an output near said intake. 6, Avessel with an oxygenation system as claimed in claim 4 wherein said reverse flow channel has an output near said. intake. 35 7. A vessel with an oxygenation system as claimed in claim 1 wherein said propulsion system includes a motor driven propeller located in said tunnel. 8. Avessel with an oxygenation system as claimed in claim 6 wherein said propulsion system includes a motor driven 40 propeller located in said tunnel. 9. A vessel with an oxygenation system as claimed in claim 7 wherein said vessel has a bow and a stern and said output is at said stem and said propeller operates to propel said vessel. 10. A vessel with an oxygenation system as claimed in 45 claim 1 including baffles disposed within said tunnel which create turbulence of said water moving through said tunnel. 11. A vessel with an oxygenation system as claimed in claim 8 including baffles disposed within said tunnel which create turbulence of said water moving through said tunnel. 50 12. A vessel with an oxygenation system as claimed in claim 1 including a flow diverterat the vessel output, saidflow diverter re -directing water exiting said tunnel.. 13. A vessel with an oxygenation system as claimed in claim 11 including a flow diverter at the vessel output, said 55 flow diverter re -directing water exiting said tunnel. 14, A vessel with an oxygenation system as claimed in claim 1 wherein said manifold mixer includes a venturri port for mixing said pressurized water with at least one of said ozone gas and said ozone plus hydroxyl radical gas. 60 15. A vessel with an oxygenation system as claimed in claim 13 wherein said manifold mixer includes a venturi port for mixing said pressurized water with at least one of said ozone gas and said ozone plus hydroxyl radical gas. 16. A vessel with an oxygenation system as claimed in 65 claim 1 wherein said manifold mixer independently mixes said pressurized water and said ozone gas and said ozone plus hydroxyl radical gas to produce corresponding first and sec- US 7,947,172 B2 9 and oxygenated water mixtures, said plurality of conduits respectively carrying said first and second oxygenated water mixtures. 17. A vessel with an oxygenation system as claimed in claim. 16 wherein said conduit system includes a first and a 5 second plurality of output ports, said first plurality of output ports disposed near said vessel intake thereby permitting dispersal of said first oxygenated water mixture in said tunnel and said secondplurality of outputports disposed upstream of said. diversion channel thereby permitting dispersal of said ro second oxygenate dwater mixture into said diversion channel. 18. A waterborne vessel with an oxygenation system to decontaminate surrounding water, comprising: an underwater elongated tuumnel within said vessel having a tunnel intake and output; 15 a propulsion system to move water through the tunnel; an ozone gas generator; a source of pressurized water; a manifold mixer mixing said pressurized water with said ozone gas to produce an oxygenated water mixture; 20 a conduit system leading from said manifold mixer and carrying said oxygenated water mixture to said tunnel intake such that water moving through said tunnel is oxygenated and decontaminated by said oxygenated water mixture; 25 said tunnel having a longitudinal axis and a closed perim- eter wall surrounding the longitudinal axis of the tunnel, said tunnel andperimeter wall further including a central flow passage and a two-part diversion channel, the two- part diversion channel formed by an upstream diversion 30 channel carrying water flow in the same direction as water flow through said central passage and formed by a revers eflow channel downstream of said upstream chan- nel, said reverse flow cannel permitting flow opposite to said water moving through said central flow passage of 35 said tunnel, the two-part diversion channel having a channel inlet and a channel outlet open to the tunnel proximate the tunnel intake; and said conduit system having plurality of output ports dis- posed upstream of said two-part diversion channel 40 thereby permitting dispersal of said oxygenated water .mixture into said diversion channel. 19. A waterborne vessel with an oxygenation system to decontaminate surrounding water, comprising: an underwater elongated tunnel within said vessel having a 45 tunnel intake and output; a propulsion system to move water through said tunnel; an ozone plus hydroxyl radical gas generator; a source of pressurized water; a manifold mixer mixing said pressurized water with said 50 ozone plus hydroxyl radical gas to produce an oxygen- ated water mixture; a conduit system leaving from said .manifold mixer and carrying said oxygenated water mixture to said tunnel intake such that water moving through said tunnel is 55 oxygenated and decontaminated by said oxygenated water mixture; said tunnel having a longitudinal axis and a closed perim- eter wall surrounding the longitudinal axis of the tunnel, saidtunnel and perimeter wall Rather including a central 50 flow passage and a two-part diversion channel, the two- part diversion channel formed by an upstream diversion channel carrying water flow in the same direction as water flow through saidcentral passage and formed by a reverseflow channel downstream ofsaidupstrevnchan 55 nel, said. reverse flow cannel permitting flow opposite to said water moving through said central flow passage of 10 said tunnel, the two-part diversion channel having a channel inlet and a channel outlet open to the tunnel proximate the tunnel intake; and said conduit system having a plurality of output ports dis- posed upstream of said diversion channel thereby per- mitting dispersal of said oxygenated water mixture into said diversion channel. 20. A vessel with an oxygenation system as claimed in claim 19 including atmospheric oxygen gas injectors adding atmospheric oxygen gas to said moving water upstream of said diversion channel. 21. A vessel with an oxygenation system as claimed in claim 20 including ozone gas injectors adding ozone to said moving water upstream of said central flow passage. 22. A waterborne vessel with an oxygenation system to decontaminate surrounding water, comprising: an underwater tunnel within said vessel having a tunnel intake and output; a propulsion system to move water through said tunnel; an ozone gas generator; an ozone plus hydroxyl radical gas generator; a source of oxygen gas having a concentration of pure oxygen that is not less than a concentration of pure oxygen found in surrounding atmospheric gas; a source of pressurized water; a manifold mixer independently mixing said pressurized water with said ozone gas, said ozone plus hydroxyl radical gas, and said oxygen gas to produce correspond- ing first, second and third oxygen water mixtures; said tunmel having a longitudinal axis and a closed perim- eter wall surrounding the longitudinal axis of thetunnel, said tunnel and perimeter wall fitrthar including a central flow passage and a two-part diversion channel formed by an upstream diversion channel currying water flow in the same direction as water flow through said central passage and formed by a reverse flow channel down- stream of said upstream channel, said reverse flow chan- nel permitting flow opposite to said water moving through said central flow passage of said tunnel, the two-part diversion channel having a channel inlet and a channel outlet open to the tunnel proximate the tunnel intake; and a plurality of conduits leaving from said manifold mixer and carrying said first, second and third oxygenated water mixtures to said tunnel intake, and outputting the oxygenated water from outlet ports of the conduits proximate the tunnel intake such that water moving through said tunnel and said diversion channel is oxy- genated and decontaminated by said first, second and third oxygenated water mixtures. 23. A vessel with an oxygenation system as claimed in claim 22 wherein said diversion channel has a channel intake downstream of said plurality of conduits carrying one ormore of said first, second and third oxygenated water mixtures. 24. A vessel with an oxygenation system as claimed in claim 22 wherein said plurality of conduits includes a plural- ity of output ports disposed about said tunnel intake thereby permitting dispersal of said first, second andthird oxygenated water mixtures. 25. A vessel with an oxygenation system as claimed in claim 23 wherein said plurality of conduits includes a first, second andtbirdplurality of conduits and corresponding first, second and third plurality of output ports, said first plurality of output ports disposed about said tunnel intake thereby permitting dispersal of said first oxygenated water mixture in saidtunnel, and said second plurality ofoutputports disposed upstream of said diversion channel for dispersal of said see- I US 7,947,172 B2 11 and oxygenated water mixture in said channel and said third plurality of output ports disposed in said diversion channel. 26, A vessel with an oxygenation system as claimed in claim 25 wherein said reverse flow channel has an output near said tunnel intake. 27. A vessel with an oxygenation system as claimed in claim 22 wherein said reverse flow channel has an output near said tunnel intake, 28. A vessel with an oxygenation system as claimed in claim 22 wherein said propulsion system includes a motor driven propeller located in said tunnel. 29, A vessel with an oxygenation system as claimed in claim 26 wherein said propulsion. system includes a motor driven propeller located in said tunnel. 30. A vessel with an oxygenation system as claimed in claim 29 wherein said vessel has a bow and a stern and said tunnel output is at said stem and said propeller operates to propel said vessel. 31. A vessel with an oxygenation system as claimed in claim 22 including baffles disposed within saidtunnel which create turbulence of said water moving through said tunnel. 12 32. A vessel with an oxygenation system as claimed in claim 30 including baffles disposed within: said tunnel which create turbulence of said water moving through said tunnel. 33. A vessel with an oxygenation system as claimed in s claim 22 including a flow diverter at the tunnel output, said flow diverter re -directing water exiting said tunnel. 34. A vessel with an oxygenation system as claimed in claim 32 including a flow diverter at the tunnel output, said flow diverter re -directing water exiting said tunnel. io 35. A vessel with an oxygenation system as claimed in claim 22 wherein said manifold mixer includes a venturi port for mixing said pressurized water with at least one of said ozone gas and said ozone phis hydroxyl radical gas. 36. A vessel with an oxygenation system as claimed in is claim 34 wherein said manifold mixer includes a venturi port for mixing said pressurized water with at least one of said ozone gas and said ozone plus hydroxyl radical gas,