PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15899065
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["423", "210000"]

Abstract:
Methods and systems are described for more effectively sequestering or removing mercury from flue gases. This is accomplished by feeding an adsorbent into the flow of flue gas in ductwork leading into a scrubber housing containing a wet scrubber composition and providing a residence time sufficient to enable the mercury to be sequestered by the adsorbent.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for sequestering mercury and/or mercury-containing components from flue gases, which method comprises:\n injecting an adsorbent into a stream of flue gases, thereby forming a dispersion of the adsorbent in the stream of flue gases, wherein the stream of flue gases is flowing directly into a wet scrubber composition, wherein said adsorbent comprises a bromine-containing powdered activated carbon; providing a residence time for the dispersion of the adsorbent in the stream of flue gases prior to entry of the adsorbent into the wet scrubber composition (i) to enable contact between at least a portion of the adsorbent and the mercury and/or mercury-containing components of the stream of flue gases, and (ii) to provide for sequestration of at least a portion of said mercury and/or mercury-containing components by said adsorbent from said flue gases; and allowing the dispersion of the adsorbent in the stream of flue gases to pass directly into the wet scrubber composition to minimize emission of mercury from the stream of flue gases, wherein the flue gases are formed in a combustion chamber, and the method additionally comprises\n introducing a bromine compound to the combustion chamber.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.28889
- Patent Class: 423.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15729272', '11944705', '14087141', '14696409', '14770671']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7974075717699401
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5089051337064953
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7685573279635957
- Mean Citation Score: 256.270328
- Max Citation Score: 273.05154
- Similarity Product: 191.56830991434217

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

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