PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15903588
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["210", "615000"]

Abstract:
The present application provides a method for treating a black and odorous water body comprising the following steps: pre-treating the black and odorous water body; passing the pre-treated water body through a biomimetic intestine tubular purification system which imitates a digestion of small intestine; passing the tubular purification system-treated water body into a microbial fuel cell which imitates a digestion of large intestine to treat the water body; and pumping the microbial fuel cell-treated water body into an upward flow inclined tube sedimentation tank to treat the water body.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for treating a black and odorous water body comprising:\n (a) pre-treating the black and odorous water body, wherein the pre-treating comprises physically filtering the black and odorous water body through barriers with different sizes, subsequently adjusting the pH of the water body between 6.8 and 8.0, and then adding a biological enzyme to treat the water body; (b) passing the pre-treated water body through a tubular purification system which has an intestinal-like structure, wherein the tubular purification system comprises one or more tubular structures, each comprising an outer wall and a folded inner wall which imitates the inner wall of small intestine; villus-like structures which imitate small intestine villi are densely disposed on the folded inner wall; the villus-like structures are capable of providing support for intestinal probiotics added for degrading organic materials; and an aeration unit is disposed at the bottom of the tubular structures, and is able to provide oxygen into the tubular structures; (c) passing the water body passed through the tubular purification system which has an intestinal-like structure into a microbial fuel cell, wherein the microbial fuel cell has two chambers, one for a microbial anode and the other for an air cathode; a glass fiber membrane is provided between the anode chamber and the cathode chamber as a proton exchange membrane; an external circuit connects the anode with the cathode through a conducting wire; a mixed microflora added attaches to the surface of the anode and further degrades the organic materials in the water body treated by the tubular purification system under an anaerobic environment in the anode chamber; and the aeration unit disposed at the bottom of the tubular structure of the tubular purification system is capable of providing oxygen for the cathode chamber; (d) pumping the water body treated by the microbial fuel cell into an inclined tube sedimentation tank, wherein the inclined tube sedimentation tank comprises a water inlet, a honeycomb-like inclined tube sedimentation area, a water collecting tube, a water outlet, a sludge collecting bucket, a perforated sludge discharge tube, and a sludge tank; the water inlet is positioned below the honeycomb-like inclined tube sedimentation area and the water outlet is positioned above the honeycomb-like inclined tube sedimentation area; the honeycomb-like inclined tube sedimentation area comprises a plurality of inclined tube structures; the inclined tube structures accumulate the suspended or solidified materials from the incoming water into a thin sludge layer on the bottom surface of the inclined tube structures; the thin sludge layer slides back to a sludge suspension layer under gravity, and then sinks into the sludge collecting bucket, and is discharged into the sludge tank via the perforated sludge discharge tube; and a supernatant rises to the water collecting tube and is discharged via the water outlet; wherein the energy required for performing the method is from the energy generated by one or more solar cell panels and the microbial fuel cell.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.84314
- Patent Class: 210.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15902707', '14588056', '11485993', '13510173', '13262560']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7369515994675075
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5963306255733944
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7228895020780963
- Mean Citation Score: 256.702046
- Max Citation Score: 518.65845
- Similarity Product: 454.422669028759

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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