Process for stimulating petroleum production wells

Patent · Tue Jun 17 04:00:00 EDT 1986

OSTI ID:5595105

Dor, I

A process is described for controlling algal growth in the wind-mixed layer of a salt water solar pond having a halocline located below the wind-mixed layer and a heat storage layer located below the halocline, wherein the halocline has a downwardly directed salt gradient and a temperature profile that follows the salinity profile, comprising rapidly changing the salinity in the wind-mixed layer for rapidly changing the osmotic pressure on algae in the wind-mixed layer which are sensitive to rapid changes in ambient salinity by an amount effective to cause such algae therein to sink into a region of increased temperature.

• Assignee: Solmat Systems, Ltd., Yavne
• Patent Number(s): US 4595505
• OSTI ID: 5595105
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

14 SOLAR ENERGY
141000* -- Solar Collectors & Concentrators
550700 -- Microbiology
59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
ALGAE
CONTROL
DIFFUSION
ENERGY STORAGE
EQUIPMENT
GROWTH
HEAT STORAGE
INHIBITION
LAYERS
MIXING
OSMOSIS
PLANT GROWTH
PLANTS
PONDS
PRESSURE CONTROL
SALINITY GRADIENTS
SOLAR COLLECTORS
SOLAR EQUIPMENT
SOLAR PONDS
STORAGE
SURFACE WATERS
TEMPERATURE GRADIENTS
WIND