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American Eco Systems Revolutionizes the Operations of Seawater Withdrawal and Discharge
No maintenance associated with the InvisiHead, no expenses and cheaper than the O&Mintensive wedge wire screen and mesh intakes
Seaweed Proliferation
Because of Global Warming, climate is changing so is seaweed
growth
Loose floating seaweed clog intake screens
Seaweeds are taking over a once sandy floor
Sea weeds are deadly to mesh screens and wedge
wire intakes when they become waterborne;
sediments go unhindered through screen mesh wire
The InvisiHead is weed and sediment proof
The Screen Clogging Weeds that tangle in
wedge wire screens when they become
waterborne. They are not cleared off by
airbursts. The InvisiHead is unaffected by them
The saame goes for travling and band sceens
Seaweeds mature by the end of summer and start braking up in the fall
threating open channel and screened and wedge wire intakes
Buoyancy of seaweed fluctuates throughout the water column.
The weeds do not affect the InvisiHead or hinder its operation
but deadly to wedge wire screens
Dense dead seaweed washes-up near the shore and
becomes an operational nightmare for seawater users
Jellyfish problems?
That’s all you need, simply natural and easy
In the proactive American Eco Systems’ Elmosa Seawater intake system: elements A (the InvisiHead) & B
(the NatSep), is all you need to supply any quantity of high quality raw water
A
The InvisiHead
No maintenance
or maintenance
expenses for life, low capital
cost, robust structure, supported
for G5 hurricane force
useful life: 50+ years
B
The InvisiHead Intake Head
US EPA: Best Technology Available (BTA)
Robust and stable under all operating conditions
The InvisiHead manages and controls the quality of the intake system
 Passive operation, no parts or moving parts to replace ;
 Self-operating & maintaining for life of over 50 years;
 No Maintenance or O&M expenses associated.
The IH is hydraulically invisible to suspended materials
Super slow approach and entrance velocity (0.002 and 0.09 m/s)
guarantee the absolute minimum if any of:
 Fish, jellyfish, sand,
Seaweed & debris to enter
the intake system;
 The IH system has beenThe InvisiHead: Self-operating, Self-maintaining
upgraded in 2013 to have the sequence The flow goes through 4 phases:
of the four flow phases better
 Approach, 0.002m/s,
tuned to eliminate marine life like fish &  Entrance – 0.09m/s’
jellyfish, sediment and debris inflow;
 Stabilization – 0.11m/s,
 Steady State – intake pipe V.
 System maintenance-free operation
makes money by saving O&M expenses.
The InvisiHead is also cheaper to buy than wedge wire
screens.
The IH is hydraulically invisible to suspended materials, super slow entrance velocity (0.09 m/s
max), absolute minimum of: Seaweed, Sand, Fish, Mussels, Trash & debris
Meets and exceeds US EPA Standards
 Radial 3-D diffusion of effluent funneling out in multi directionality;
 High heat transfer rate allows quick attainment of equilibrium conditions
and achieves the required dilution within the vicinity of the outfall;
 Ideal for power plant cooling water and RO brine discharge;
 Ideal for deep sea discharge of treated industrial and municipal effluents;
 Effluent and outfall pipe can be bundled with intake pipes to reduce
construction costs.
The InvisiHead can be fitted directly to pump intake pipes to work as
efficient strainers and outfalls in platforms and offshore installations
intake
Either hanging
or outfall
The InvisiHead systems used as efficient and non clogging strainer
intake
Or fixed to the sea floor
or outfall
Any suspended solids flow into the intake pipe as part of the
flow will settle near the upstream end of the NatSep.
• Clean high quality water flows into the pump chamber;
• Screening systems are completely eliminated;
• NatSep allows uninterrupted operation during cleanup;
• NatSep cleaned once in about 5 years for one day.
Simple and Natural
From the Plant,
InvisiHead Diffuser,
The AES system is all passive, screen-less and contains no moving
parts. The system starts at the InvisiHead and ends at the NatSep
as an intake and starts at siphon chamber and ends at the
InvisiHead diffuser as an outfall. No O&M or any related expenses
involved at the IH. We design the pipes to be self-cleansing. No
bio growth or sediments and debris settlement inside the intake
and discharge pipes
Clean water
Sypho
Chamb
To Plant,
NatSep,
Open Sea,
InvisiHead Intake Head
HDPE or GRP,
Elmosa, The Waves Company
Elmosa-American Eco Systems, LLC
540 Centre St., Nutley, NJ 07110, USA
T. +1 973 563-7270
www.amecosys.com,
www.amecosys.com/elmosa
We at American Eco Systems we design seawater intakes and outfalls to be maintenance – free, t
provide full flow capacity under all operation and weather conditions non-stop for over 50 years
The system is environmental-friendly and supports biodiversity, the 4-compartment NatSep
delivers clean water to the pumps.
The InvisiHead makes money since no O&M is involved;
it pays back its capital in a few months into operation
CONCLUSION
Why the InvisiHead is a Best Technology Available BTA as designated by the US EPA
Flow sequence: 4 phases:
PHASE I. Approach starts at about 5m away from the entrance; streamlines take off stealthily from the
seafloor at 0.002m/s-too slow to disturb or attract sediment, fish eggs, larvae, and debris;
PHASE II. Entrance at 0.09m/s too slow to attract, fish, Jellyfish, seaweeds, sand and debris;
PHASE III. Stabilization: IH outlet at 0.11m/s out of phase by 90 of local currents flow is much slower
than the currents to let fish, Jellyfish, sediment and debris if the stray in they end up in the
ambient again through the opposite end;
PHASE IV. Steady State for clear naturally filtered high quality water to flow to the plant.
No fish mortality+0$ on O&M = BTA.
American Eco Systems, LLC
The natural intake system company
Thank You!
Elmosa Seawater Intakes Systems
American Eco Systems Corp
540 Centre street, Nutley , NJ 07110 U.S.A.
t. +1 563 7270 f . +1 973 320 5288
www.amecosys.com/elmosa
e. [email protected]