PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15745333
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["202", "185100"]

Abstract:
A contaminated medium (such as soil and/or groundwater) contaminated with petrogenic and/or other organic contaminants such as petroleum hydrocarbons, light non- aqueous phase liquids (NAPLs), dense non-aqueous phase liquids (DNAPLs), persistent organic pollutants (i.e. sulfolane), chlorinated compounds, and volatile organic compounds, can be mixed with enhanced stimulators and be thermally remediated. The enhanced stimulators are heat induced to undergo exothermic reactions, which initiate a series of in-situ chemical reactions to such as to produce hydrogen gas. The hydrogen gas causes hydrocracking of heavy hydrocarbons to produce light hydrocarbons which can be recovered such as for future use.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of remediating a contaminated medium, wherein said medium is contaminated with at least one of petrogenic and organic contaminants, the method comprising:\n pre-treating the contaminated medium by admixing one or more enhanced stimulators therewith to produce a pre-treated contaminated medium; and increasing a temperature of the pre-treated contaminated medium to induce at least a portion of the enhanced stimulators to undergo exothermic reactions for initiating a series of chemical reactions in the pre-treated contaminated medium to produce a thermally remediated medium substantially reduced in a concentration of at least one contaminant relative to said contaminated medium, and a vaporized contaminant.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.70588
- Patent Class: 202.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10280102', '14751834', '15519547', '10205816', '10438779']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.637656283987092
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5088362215474218
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.624774277743125
- Mean Citation Score: 175.578598
- Max Citation Score: 177.41228
- Similarity Product: 120.6429001465702

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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