PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15977048
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["210", "776000"]

Abstract:
Improved apparatus and methodologies for separating production water arising from conventional oil well production operations, the production water containing less than 1% oil-in-water, where the apparatus and methodologies may include the use of a large separation vessel configured to perform a phase separation mid-stream of a continuous fluid flow path, thereby increasing the overall retention time of the separation vessel.

Claim (Index 9):
An apparatus for continuously separating production water containing an oil-in-water emulsion, the production water stemming from at least one primary separation process following oil well production operations, the production water having at least an oil phase and water phase between 100 to 10,000 PPM oil-in-water, the apparatus comprising:\n at least one first fluid tank having at least one first tank inlet for receiving the production water from the at least one primary separation process, and at least one first tank outlet for expelling the oil phase separated from the water phase in the first fluid tank; at least one second fluid tank in fluid communication with the first fluid tank, the second fluid tank having at least one second tank inlet for receiving the water phase from the at least one first fluid tank, and at least two second tank outlets for expelling the oil phase separated from the water phase and the resulting clean water from the second tank; and at least one fluid conduit providing fluid communication between the first and second fluid tanks, and for directing the water phase from at or near a bottom end of the first fluid tank to the second fluid tank at or near an upper end of the second fluid tank; wherein both the at least one first tank inlet and the at least one fluid conduit are configured to controllably regulate the flow of the production water through the first and second fluid tanks at a rate of one foot per minute, respectively.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.41304
- Patent Class: 210.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15714402', '14263076', '15709036', '14911386', '15224271']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7525641963318402
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4715552812205542
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7244633048207116
- Mean Citation Score: 196.767306
- Max Citation Score: 198.29112
- Similarity Product: 166.48674246922016

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

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