PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15741468
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["210", "149000"]

Abstract:
Various examples are provided that are related to boundary control in membrane distillation (MD) processes. In one example, a system includes a membrane distillation (MD) process comprising a feed side and a permeate side separated by a membrane boundary layer; and processing circuitry configured to control a water production rate of the MD process based at least in part upon a distributed heat transfer across the membrane boundary layer. In another example, a method includes determining a plurality of estimated temperature states of a membrane boundary layer separating a feed side and a permeate side of a membrane distillation (MD) process; and adjusting inlet flow rate or inlet temperature of at least one of the feed side or the permeate side to maintain a difference temperature along the membrane boundary layer about a defined reference temperature based at least in part upon the plurality of estimated temperature states.

Claim (Index 22):
A method of controlling a production rate of a membrane distillation (MD) system, the method comprising:\n estimating a plurality of temperature states of a MD system using a non-linear observer, wherein the MD system comprises a feed side and a permeate side separated by a membrane, wherein each of the feed side and the permeate side include a boundary layer; adjusting an inlet temperature or inlet flow rate of at least one of the feed side and the permeate side of the MD system sufficient to maintain a temperature difference along the membrane boundary layers about a defined reference temperature range.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.33333
- Patent Class: 210.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15628205', '11293407', '12209424', '12629703', '14310287']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7465530263769996
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4907008424714594
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7209678079864457
- Mean Citation Score: 207.806618
- Max Citation Score: 222.35866
- Similarity Product: 167.4657902365184

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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