PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15949207
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["210", "688000"]

Abstract:
A system may include a reactor, in which an anaerobic environment exists, that includes a slurry of at least contaminated water and a mixed bacterial culture of facultative bacteria and anaerobic bacteria. The mixed bacterial culture may be suspended within the slurry. The contaminated water may include contaminants associated with a non-metal, a metal, or a metalloid. The mixed bacterial culture may react with the contaminated water to reduce or remove the contaminants from the contaminated water to create a treated slurry. The reactor may output the treated slurry. The system may also include a filtration device to receive the treated slurry; remove, from the treated slurry, the mixed bacterial culture and the contaminants, reduced or removed from the contaminated water, to create treated water; and output the treated water. The system may also include an aeration device to add dissolved oxygen to the treated water, and output the treated water. The system may also include a reaction device where iron or aluminum salts are added to remove phosphorous, selenite, arsenate, or other contaminants which adsorb onto iron or aluminum oxyhydroxide solids. The system may also include a filtration device to remove the solids from the water, and output the treated water.

Claim (Index 8):
A method for treating contaminated water in an anaerobic environment, the method comprising:\n providing an anaerobic treatment system comprising:\n a reactor consisting of one or more chambers housing an anaerobic environment, the one or more reactors comprising:\n a slurry of contaminated water comprising contaminants wherein at least one of the contaminants is a perchlorate, a metal, or a metalloid; and \n a mixed bacterial culture suspended within the slurry and not attached to a physical substrate associated with attached growth technology, wherein the mixed bacterial culture comprises metal-reducing bacteria that biologically and/or chemically reduce one or more of the contaminants, \n \n delivering the contaminated water to the anaerobic environment in the one or more reactors; \n mixing the slurry under anaerobic conditions to keep the mixed bacterial culture in suspension; \n providing separately to the one or more reactors or to the influent contaminated wastewater an organic material selected from the group consisting of a low molecular weight organic acid, and a simple carbohydrate, wherein the organic material acts as an electron donor to enable the mixed bacterial culture to react with the contaminated water to biologically and/or chemically reduce and precipitate the contaminants in the contaminated water, while maintaining the anaerobic environment; and \n producing a treated slurry comprising the organic material, the mixed bacterial culture, and the contaminated water from which the contaminants have been precipitated, reduced or removed; and \n retaining at least a portion of the mixed bacterial culture with a filtration device.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.05405
- Patent Class: 210.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14558907', '12666625', '11288713', '10205816', '12832723']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7838811041386637
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6274319286743135
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7682361865922287
- Mean Citation Score: 301.63065399999994
- Max Citation Score: 578.2081
- Similarity Product: 566.1745853322327

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

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