CAPTURE AND TAME THE OIL LEAK

MY PROPOSAL

" CAPTURE AND TAME "

I HAVE ACTUALLY 2 PROPOSALS.

1." DISSOCIATION AND DILUTION OF METHANE HYDRATE BY SONIC CATALYSIS AND FORCED-AIR INJECTION "

My proposal is " sound " in theory and based in a commonly utilized technology used by petroleum refineries and food processing companies .

I stumbled across some research published by the Japanese Journal of Applied Physics. on 5/25/2006 on dissociation of Methane hydrates by way of underwater ultrasound.

Here is some additional research for you to read.

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~youxue/publications/Zhang2003EPSL.pdf

It is based on the same technology that is used for the medical procedure " Extra Corporeal Shock Wave Lithotripsy". E.C.S.W Lithotripsy is used to destroy kidney stones in the human body. It is sonic bombardment with resonant frequencies . Same technology behind sonic catalysis . Sonic catalysis is the process used by the petroleum industry as well as food processing industries for creating micro-emulsion suspensions in liquid. It works by preventing what's known as an ionic bond. and basically shakes things until they can't stay together .

Here's how oil companies use it for refining.....Link

The first " Top Hat " floated because of Methane Hydrates . It also weighed 70 tons . They could easily on-site retrofit the box they have with equipment that is probably already on site or nearby on the coast and used for refining petroleum products .

Here's what I suggest.

If they weld 250-300 extra tons of weight like a collar at the outside base of the box it will not float.

A set of two valves at the top of the box.

FIRST VALVE : A stack of actual Working blowout prevention valves to eventually connect to a riser pipe .

SECOND VALVE : A remote triggered solenoid operated butterfly valve, or the type of valve used to pump mud to wells ,( I believe it's called a " Mud Manifold "  and has an anti-blow back prevention mechanism ). through which forced warm air injection from the surface, will take place. They have 60,000 horsepower on site for things like pumping mud...just for starters, and commonly use hydraulic tools on the ocean floor known as " Sub-sea" tools .

If they lower the box over the damaged BOP stack, down to the floor, the flow will immediately start to vent through cracks in the surrounding ocean floor, due to the sheer weight of the box forcing the flow to vent, by causing pressure to reverse itself. It will have nowhere to go, but out through the cracks in the surrounding sub-floor. Fluids follow the path of least resistance .

They would then start ultrasonic bombardment at a frequency resonant to the density of these specific hydrates.

This will cause the Methane to stay suspended in the water as a gas.

They will then open the butterfly valve and start forced warm air injection from the surface AT THE SAME TIME they open the BOP valves. EVEN, SLOW....AND GRADUAL .

Methane will be prevented from causing the water to form ice crystals by way of sound and sonic agitation, and diluted with air to negate the volume and the difficulties caused by expansion on the way up to the surface.

4 PARTS TO THIS SOLUTION :

1. The flow will fill the box first as it is lowered to the bottom over the BOP stack and then start to vent through the surrounding seafloor as pressure will have nowhere to go but backwards, due to the sheer weight of 250 or so tons.

2. Destroy any hydrate slush that forms with ultrasonic catalysis .

3. By diluting the concentration of Methane with force-injected air from the surface.

4. By slowly and gradually giving it all somewhere to go....it's simple ..
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  2ND PROPOSAL :


.  Without the sonic catalysis units and the forced air injection, ..... just the box by itself...even simpler....

There would be one BOP on top of the box with 20' of riser pipe coming straight up off the top with another BOP at the top of that.

They would lower the box down...with the lower BOP valves open and the top ones closed.
Then they will close the bottom valve , and open the top one, to let the hydrate slush and crude float off.
Then , they will close the top valve ,  attach the riser pipe, then open the top and bottom BOP valves to let the spill come up.

The oil will force out the water when the box is lowered, and what ever hydrate slush/ice/oil   is trapped in the 20' of  riser, will be released when they open the top BOP valve.

CAPTURE AND TAME

It's nearly impossible to put the nozzle on the hose if you don't shut the water off first .



The picture below is a graphic depiction of the B.O.P. stack.
Visualize my box being lowered over this stack.