PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15775785
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["210", "603000"]

Abstract:
System to control a biogas collection plant having a manifold and a plurality of collection units connecting respective capturing wells to the manifold and having respective biogas flow rate regulation valves; the system having a control board with a pressure sensor, a methane sensor, an oxygen sensor, a biogas pressure monitoring network connecting the pressure sensor to the collection units by means of respective control valves, and a chemical biogas monitoring network connecting the methane sensor and the oxygen sensor to the collection units by means of as many control valves; the control board selectively controlling the control valves to measure pressure, methane concentration and oxygen concentration of the biogas in the collection units and controlling the regulation valves as a function of the pressure and methane and oxygen concentration values measured.

Claim (Index 7):
A method to control a biogas collection plant comprising a collection manifold and a plurality of collection units, each of which is connected to a respective capturing well and comprises a respective feeding pipe connected to the collection manifold and a respective regulation valve to adjust the biogas flow rate in the feeding pipe itself; the method comprising:\n carrying out a first periodic cycle of measurements of parameters (Pa, P, Q, CH 4 , O 2 ) of the biogas in the collection units by means of a group of sensors shared by all collection units, the first periodic cycle of measurements being divided into a plurality of time intervals (\u0394Ti), the parameters (Pa, P, Q, CH 4 , O 2 ) of a respective collection unit being measured in each one of them; carrying out a second periodic cycle of measurements of a sub-set of the parameters (Q, P) of the biogas of the collection units by means of a sub-set of the group of sensors, the second cycle of measurements being simultaneous with and having a smaller periodicity than the first cycle of measurements; in each time interval (\u0394Ti), adjusting the opening of the regulation valve of the relative collection unit as a function of the processing of the measured values of the parameters (Pa, P, Q, CH 4 , O 2 ) obtained in the time interval (\u0394Ti); and detecting possible faults in the collection units as a function of the processing of the relative measured values of the sub-set of parameters (Q, P) obtained in the second cycle of measurements.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.91667
- Patent Class: 210.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14305130', '15260729', '15458760', '14203875', '14379207']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7212737020729776
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4745764301905406
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6966039748847339
- Mean Citation Score: 133.620126
- Max Citation Score: 143.09805
- Similarity Product: 101.7008126740694

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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