PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16213086
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["203", "025000"]

Abstract:
A system and method for decontaminating a fluid like a non-azeotrope solvent such as water, wherein a transport gas is maintained at a temperature between the freezing point and boiling point at atmospheric pressure of the solvent and continuously circulated between an evaporation chamber and a condensation chamber, a contaminated solvent is introduced into the transport gas in the evaporation chamber under process heat and contaminant precipitates out, and the cleaned solvent cools in the condensation chamber releasing heat to be used in the evaporation chamber. A heat pump is used to promote evaporation and condensation within the system.

Claim (Index 30):
A method for at least partially decontaminating a contaminated fluid to produce a purified fluid, the method comprising the steps of:\n a. subjecting the contaminated fluid to evaporation conditions; b. evaporating at least part of the contaminated fluid to form an evaporated fluid; c. transporting the evaporated fluid to a condensing chamber for condensing a purified fluid from the evaporated fluid; d. supplying a process fluid, in the form of a portion of either the contaminated fluid or the purified fluid, to a heat exchanger; e. allowing the heat exchanger to remove heat from the process fluid to form a cooled process fluid; f. transferring, by using a heat pump using external work, the heat removed by the heat exchanger for introduction to the contaminated fluid before subjecting the contaminated fluid to the evaporation conditions, and for the evaporating of the at least part of the contaminated fluid to form the evaporated fluid; and g. using the cooled process fluid to remove heat from the evaporated fluid, to promote the condensing of the purified fluid.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.85714
- Patent Class: 203.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15026436', '11273318', '15007247', '10704683', '16159639']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.675515377840547
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5533095965769008
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6632947997141825
- Mean Citation Score: 245.999102
- Max Citation Score: 416.6830000000001
- Similarity Product: 359.8030877884627

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

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