PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15876182
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["423", "235000"]

Abstract:
Integrated exhaust gas systems, methods, and processes are disclosed that includes pretreatment, treatment and post-treatment processes arranged in a variety of reaction environments to address varied application requirements and end product requirements is described in this disclosure. In addition, a contemplated ballast water treatment system—that can be used in combination with the integrated exhaust gas systems can treat seawater and return it to storage within the vessel or send treated water back to the sea. This system can be sized to treat the seawater as it is leaving the ship without prior treatment, while the seawater is aboard or treat the seawater that is within the ship and add any additional treatment to the water, as the seawater leaves the ship. This system is not involved with pumping the seawater into the ship or filtering the water prior to storage as ballast water.

Claim (Index 3):
A pretreatment method or process for removing SOx molecules from marine vessel contaminated gas, exhaust gas, or flue gas, comprising:\n providing a reaction chamber, comprising an interior area, a gas inlet at or near a first end of the chamber, and a gas outlet at or near a second end of the chamber; providing a water supply line that supplies a liquid, wherein the line is coupled with the inlet of the reaction chamber; providing a gas atomization nozzle array that is coupled to the water supply line and the reaction chamber, wherein the nozzle array sprays a blanket layer of small liquid droplets, wherein each droplet comprises a diameter, that create a high surface area of liquid across the interior surface of the reaction chamber or creates a mist that can interact with the contaminated gas, exhaust gas, or flue gas; providing a pH sensor coupled to the water supply line; providing at least one chemical metering pump coupled to the pH sensor and the water supply line, wherein the pump can provide an alkaline material into the water supply line to adjust the pH of the water before it is sprayed into the reaction chamber; and providing a drain coupled to the reaction chamber that removes liquid that accumulates in the reaction chamber, wherein the system or apparatus removes at least some of the SOx molecule from the contaminated gas, exhaust gas, or flue gas by converting it to sulfate ions.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.96154
- Patent Class: 423.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15637445', '15005953', '14537834', '14531943', '15503208']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7304439356125361
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6578598074613041
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7231855227974129
- Mean Citation Score: 337.477468
- Max Citation Score: 638.0403
- Similarity Product: 602.9901783295156

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

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