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 20):
The system of  claim 1 , wherein the process conditions include one or more of an inlet flow rate of the feed side, inlet flow rate of the permeate side, inlet temperature of the feed side, and inlet temperature of the permeate side.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.33333
- Patent Class: 210.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15628205', '11293407', '12209424', '12629703', '14310287']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7696251750072911
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4857083258025283
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7412334900868148
- Mean Citation Score: 207.806618
- Max Citation Score: 222.35866
- Similarity Product: 181.4234043783331

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

Dataset: test