PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16246769
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["210", "637000"]

Abstract:
A method of treatment of liquid including supplying liquid to be treated to at least one liquid treatment module having a liquid inlet, a permeate outlet and a brine outlet, monitoring liquid pressure within the at least one liquid treatment module and upon exceedance of a liquid pressure threshold in the at least one liquid treatment module, reducing the liquid pressure in the at least one liquid treatment module by performing at least one of the following functions: opening a liquid pressure reducing valve at the brine outlet, increasing a liquid volume output of a circulation pump which removes brine from the at least one liquid treatment module, equilibrating liquid pressures between a liquid pressure inside the at least one liquid treatment module and inside a liquid feed tank and opening a liquid pressure reducing valve at the liquid inlet.

Claim (Index 4):
The liquid treatment system of  claim 1 , further comprising:\n wherein the controller is configured for lowering the liquid pressure downstream from the high pressure pump to a pressure below osmotic pressure of the mixed liquid at said liquid inlet at the time of the exceedance; a liquid pressure reducing valve at a brine outlet, wherein the at least one liquid treatment module is in communication with the brine outlet; a liquid feed tank; and a recycle conduit control valve which provides a pressure reducing backflow liquid path from the outlet of the high pressure pump to an inlet of the high pressure pump, the backflow liquid path bypassing the high pressure pump; wherein for lowering the liquid pressure downstream from the high pressure pump, the controller is configured to perform at least one of the following operations:\n opening said liquid pressure reducing valve, thereby removing said concentrate from said liquid treatment system; \n stopping said circulation and increasing a liquid volume output of the circulation pump from volume output of the circulation pump when the circulation pump circulates said concentrate from the at least one liquid treatment module to the liquid inlet at times other than upon and immediately following the exceedance; \n equilibrating liquid pressures between a liquid pressure inside the at least one liquid treatment module and inside said liquid feed tank; and \n opening said recycle conduit control valve.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.77358
- Patent Class: 210.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14638550', '15612570', '15350064', '13054835', '15613745']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7785202006462518
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6366090751861416
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7643290881002408
- Mean Citation Score: 295.755894
- Max Citation Score: 611.2269
- Similarity Product: 552.2960880041243

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

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