PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15744527
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["096", "243000"]

Abstract:
A compact and portable liquid concentrator includes a gas inlet, a gas exit and a flow corridor connecting the gas inlet and the gas exit, wherein the flow corridor includes a narrowed portion that accelerates the gas through the flow corridor. A liquid inlet injects liquid into the gas stream at a point prior to the narrowed portion so that the gas-liquid mixture is thoroughly mixed within the flow corridor, causing a portion of the liquid to be evaporated. A demister or fluid scrubber downstream of the narrowed portion removes entrained liquid droplets from the gas stream and re-circulates the removed liquid to the liquid inlet through a re-circulating circuit. A source of low energy gas, such as low pressure steam from a power plant, is connected to the liquid to be concentrated to heat the liquid to be concentrated before or during the concentration process.

Claim (Index 1):
A liquid concentrator, comprising:\n a concentrator section including;\n a gas inlet, \n a gas outlet, \n a mixing corridor disposed between the gas inlet and the gas outlet, the mixing corridor having a narrowed portion in which gas flow within the mixing corridor accelerates when traveling from the gas inlet to the gas outlet; and \n a liquid inlet through which liquid to be concentrated is injected into the mixing corridor, the liquid inlet disposed in the mixing corridor between the gas inlet and the narrowed portion; \n a demister disposed downstream of the concentrator section, the demister including;\n a demister gas flow passage coupled to the gas outlet of the concentrator section, \n a liquid collector disposed in the demister gas flow passage to remove liquid from gas flowing in the demister gas flow passage, and \n a reservoir that collects the liquid removed from the gas flowing in the demister gas flow passage by the liquid collector; and \n a heat exchanger fluidly connected to the reservoir, the heat exchanger being fluidly coupled to a source of low temperature gas.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.21429
- Patent Class: 96.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15616274', '13077889', '12705462', '14212528', '13077901']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7116545523069814
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5601713297121081
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.696506230047494
- Mean Citation Score: 431.8624400000001
- Max Citation Score: 446.0654
- Similarity Product: 441.30032258079046

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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