PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15986243
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["159", "022000"]

Abstract:
A process for removing volatile diluent(s) from processed solids, generated from unstabilized drilling waste being washed in a diluent/solvent wash process. The process describes the use of hot water to deliver quality heat energy to the processed solids phase, evaporating the diluent and at least partially removing chlorides or other soluble or insoluble contaminants in the process, resulting in enhanced efficiency of diluent and contaminant recovery, for example, as a result of the near infinite surface area of water, among other things.

Claim (Index 1):
A process for removing residual volatile diluent from processed solids containing a volatile diluent comprising,\n introducing the processed solids phase containing volatile diluent liquids phase into the inlet of a tank containing at least one inlet, at least one outlet, and a hot water phase to cause the volatile diluent liquids phase to evaporate and exit the hot water phase whereupon the evaporated volatile diluent liquids phase is evacuated through the at least one outlet of the hot water tank and, evacuating the evaporated volatile diluent liquids phase through the at least one outlet located above the hot water phase of the hot water tank, connected to a hermetically sealed conduit and condensing the evaporated volatile diluent liquids phase in an operatively connected condenser into at least one recovered condensed liquids phase and, recycling the recovered condensed liquids phase for reuse in at least one operatively connected gas tight diluent washing process and, evacuating the treated processed solids phase from the hot water tank and further dewatering the treated processed solids phase to remove at least a portion of the hot water phase resulting in a cleaned solids phase substantially lacking a volatile diluent phase, and wherein the entire process is performed in a vapor-tight and liquid-tight environment, resulting in enhanced volatile diluent removal from a solids phase.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 68.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.5
- Patent Class: 159.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15447877', '15801750', '15126974', '10945270', '12609939']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6048988586362631
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5706196096688485
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6014709337395218
- Mean Citation Score: 215.90916600000003
- Max Citation Score: 283.515
- Similarity Product: 210.0401701810956

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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