PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15754595
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["423", "210000"]

Abstract:
A method for controlling mercury release, emission and/or re-emission levels in a treated flue gas and a seawater effluent waste stream through control of a sulphite concentration within a seawater scrubber system is disclosed. One method for controlling mercury release, emission and re-emission levels through control of sulphite concentration is to measure the sulphite concentration of seawater entering a seawater scrubber system and comparing the same to a predetermined sulphite concentration value. If the comparison reveals the measured sulphite concentration is above the predetermined sulphite concentration values, the amount of fresh seawater and/or oxidation air supplied to the seawater scrubber system is increased. If the comparison reveals the measured sulphite concentration is below the predetermined sulphite concentration values, the amount of fresh seawater and oxidation air supplied to the seawater scrubber system is decreased.

Claim (Index 8):
A system for controlling mercury release, emission and re-emission levels in both a treated combustion flue gas and a seawater effluent waste stream comprising:\n a seawater scrubber system with seawater dispersal for direct contact with a combustion flue gas flowing therethrough; a collection tank for collecting effluent seawater produced by direct contact with the combustion flue gas; one or more sulphite sensors arranged in contact with seawater entering the seawater scrubber system for dispersal therein or in the produced effluent seawater, for measuring a sulphite concentration in the seawater to obtain a measured sulphite concentration; a control device to compare the measured sulphite concentration to a predetermined sulphite concentration value and based thereon control a device; and a device controlled by the control device for adjusting a seawater scrubber system parameter to increase or decrease sulphite concentration to control levels of mercury release, emission and/or re-emission in each the produced treated flue gas and the seawater effluent waste stream.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.58182
- Patent Class: 423.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13945156', '14030441', '13983190', '14164863', '14741742']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7947532636159504
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.514621209544296
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.766740058208785
- Mean Citation Score: 300.052592
- Max Citation Score: 322.0628
- Similarity Product: 264.8959588567733

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

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