PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16012879
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["203", "011000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments relate to systems and methods directed towards arrangements of a preheater, a heat exchanger, a plasma recovery system, and at least one processing stage configured to use steam output of a calciner for heating incoming wastewater that is being processed.

Claim (Index 15):
A system for treating wastewater, comprising:\n a preheater configured to receive wastewater via a first conduit; a heat exchanger configured to receive wastewater from the preheater via a second conduit and supply steam to the preheater via a third conduit; and a plasma recovery system (PRS) configured to receive wastewater from the heat exchanger via a fourth conduit and provide steam to the heat exchanger via a fifth conduit, the PRS configured to: volatize water from the wastewater to generate steam; and separate salt from the wastewater to generate a brine; at least one processing stage in operative connection with the PRS, the at least one processing stage configured to increase a concentration of the salt in the brine to form a concentrated brine; wherein:\n the wastewater comprises water, salt, and volatile organic compounds; \n the preheater transfers heat from the steam to the wastewater, converting the steam to distilled water that exists the preheater via a sixth conduit; \n the heat exchanger transfers heat from the steam to the wastewater before transferring the steam to the preheater; \n the PRS is configured to: volatize water from the wastewater to generate steam that exists the PRS via the fifth conduit; and separate salt from the wastewater to generate a brine that exists the PRS via a seventh conduit; and \n the at least one processing stage comprises: a processing stage pump, a processing stage condenser, a processing stage preheater, and a processing stage evaporator, wherein: \n the processing stage pump is configured to transfer the brine to the processing stage condenser; \n the processing stage condenser is configured to transfer the brine to the processing stage preheater; \n the processing stage preheater is configured to transfer the brine to the processing stage evaporator; \n the processing stage evaporator is configured to generate steam and transfer the steam to the processing stage preheater, wherein the processing stage preheater transfers heat from the steam to the brine and transfers excess steam to the processing stage condenser, wherein the processing stage condenser transfers heat from the steam to the brine; and \n the brine exists the processing stage evaporator as the concentrated brine; a plasma crystallizer/calciner configured to receive the concentrated brine, the plasma crystallizer/calciner comprising a pyrolytic calcining reactor configured to generate in-situ chlorides that mix with the concentrated brine.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 28.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.21622
- Patent Class: 203.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13613388', '15165509', '13613478', '13613442', '13613329']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7467715436681458
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5340878496796925
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7255031742693006
- Mean Citation Score: 350.322918
- Max Citation Score: 371.1364
- Similarity Product: 279.29931941514013

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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