The herein invention encompasses systems and processes required for the application of a sea freefall penetrators containing C-rich material allowing long-term C storage in deep sea sediments. The invention encompasses methods of manufacturing in the form of carbon made structure, the operational parameters such as the overall density, dimension and data obtained in field trials to successfully bury atmospheric carbon in deep-sea sediment, and the process acting in its geological storage.

The invention is a sediment capping structure which utilizes material comprised of an activated carbon physically attached to sand particles. Attachment of the sorbent material to sand particles improves particle density and heterogeneous delivery of the sorptive layer of the sediment cap.

Processes for forming and sequestering CO.sub.2 clathrates in a marine environment are disclosed.

A remediation system based on pollution obstruction for underground water with DNAPL pollutant is provided, including a vertical obstructing wall, a pump-out treating unit and a recharging unit, wherein the vertical obstructing wall is distributed at the periphery of a polluted area to obstruct the polluted underground water in the vertical obstructing wall; the pump-out treating unit includes a plurality of water pumping wells and overground treatment facility that are distributed in the polluted area, the plurality of the water pumping wells are configured to pump the polluted underground water out and sending it into the overground treatment facility so as to be treated; the recharging unit includes a plurality of recharging wells, and water treated by the overground treatment facility is recharged into a target aquifer in the polluted area by the plurality of the recharging wells. A remediation method using the system is provided.

Disclosed are novel remedial capping methods comprising: (a) providing an organic adsorption ingredient and an organic polymer delivery ingredient; (b) providing a non-organic silica carrier ingredient; (c) blending the organic adsorption ingredient, the organic polymer delivery ingredient, and the non-organic silica carrier ingredient to form a capping composition layer mixture; (d) delivering the capping composition layer mixture to a delivery means; and (e) distributing the capping composition layer mixture throughout a distribution pool and forming a capping composition layer in an area in need of remediation.

Disclosed are novel cap layer compositions comprising: (a) an organic adsorption ingredient; (b)a non-organic silica carrier ingredient; and (c) an organic polymer delivery ingredient, wherein the cap layer composition is made by blending ingredients (a) through (c) in an integrated blending and delivery apparatus, the cap layer composition for use in an area in need of remediation.

Disclosed is a novel blending and delivery apparatus comprising: (a) a housing; (b) a first input port configured to receive an organic adsorption ingredient; (c) a second input port configured to receive an organic polymer delivery ingredient; (d) an intake chute configured to receive a non-organic silica carrier ingredient; (e) an auger driveshaft; (f) an auger coupled to the auger driveshaft; (g) a motor coupled to the auger driveshaft; and (h) a discharge opening; wherein the motor rotates the auger to blend the organic adsorption ingredient, the organic polymer delivery ingredient, and the non-organic silica carrier ingredient to form a capping composition layer mixture output via the discharge opening, where the capping composition layer mixture used to make a capping composition layer.

Disclosed are novel solutions in which a preexisting sediment capping system is integrated with improvements such as a cap ingredient processing and delivery apparatus, cap processing method and novel compositional cap product, whereby a hazardous site is remediated by delivering at least one novel cap composition layer over the contaminated subaqueous waterway or terrestrial substrate floor. One embodiment includes a powdered activated carbon (PAC) based cap layer produced by the system and methodology disclosed, the cap layer ingredients comprising predetermined ratio amounts of dry PAC and dry powdered 2-Hydroxypropyl guar gum (HGG) used as a safe and effective delivery ingredient, blended in a cap processing and delivering apparatus with a dewatered sand semi-slurry, the processed resulting capping composition being delivered in a manner such that a novel PAC cap layer is provided to a cap placement area in need of remediation.

Buoyant matter, and particularly biomass such as seaweed, is sequestered deep in a body of water, fey causing the matter to lose it buoyancy and sink and remain sunk for an extended period. In some examples, the matter is pumped to below a depth at which is loses its natural buoyancy as a result of the ambient water pressure resulting in it naturally sinking to the bottom.

Processes for forming and sequestering CO.sub.2 clathrates in a marine environment are disclosed.