PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16042653
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["210", "747800"]

Abstract:
A method of decontaminating soil and ground water containing organic contaminants and metal compounds. It comprises the steps of first treating such soils and ground water with an effective amount an aqueous solution containing a peroxide and a water soluble chelating agent for a time sufficient to have the water soluble chelating agent chelate at least one of the metals of the metal compounds present in the soil and ground water. Next, the chelated metals are brought into contact with the peroxide to catalytically convert the peroxide to an oxidizing agent and hydroxyl ion. The hydroxyl ion converts the halogenated organic compound into environmentally safe, non-toxic compounds. Gases that are produced from this reaction, and from the oxidation of organic compounds, are used to diffuse solution into the soil to chelate calcium and magnesium, thereby causing the sodium to be dislodged from the soil and reduce sodicity in the soil.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of decontaminating soil and/or ground water containing halogenated organic contaminants and a metal compound, the method comprising:\n (a) treating the soil and/or ground water with an effective amount of an alkaline aqueous solution having a pH of 7 to 10 and comprising an alkaline buffering agent, a peroxide, and a chelating agent, for a time sufficient to have the chelating agent chelate the metal of the metal compound present in the soil and/or ground water; (b) reacting the chelated metal with the peroxide to catalytically convert the peroxide to oxidizing agents and reducing agents, the reducing agent comprising hydroxide ions, and the oxidizing agents comprising hydroxyl radials; (c) contacting the halogenated organic contaminants in the soil and/or ground water with the hydroxide ions to convert and reduce the halogenated organic contaminants through reduction reaction to environmentally safe, non-toxic compounds, wherein the reduction reaction is nucleophilic substitution, and wherein the reduction reaction produces carbon dioxide; and (d) penetrating the soil and/or ground water with the carbon dioxide to diffuse the alkaline aqueous solution into the soil and/or ground water and generate additional reaction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.95122
- Patent Class: 210.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15244413', '13469492', '14728648', '10023465', '12240460']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7843221760681988
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5929815059620772
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7651881090575866
- Mean Citation Score: 363.11255
- Max Citation Score: 491.66006
- Similarity Product: 482.7654265619481

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

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