PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15973393
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["060", "671000"]

Abstract:
The present invention relates to apparatus, systems, and methods of managing large quantities of low-grade waste heat energy by generating excess electrical power via an ORC process driven by the removal and recovery of waste heat under favorable operating conditions, and utilizing the same apparatus to provide waste heat removal via a refrigeration process that consumes electrical power when environmental conditions do not permit operation in the ORC mode. The mode of operation of the system is principally determined by the thermal energy of the waste heat stream and the availability, or lack thereof, of adequate cooling resources. Such resources are often subject to local environmental conditions, particularly ambient temperature which varies on a diurnal and annual basis.

Claim (Index 1):
A power generation system comprising:\n A. a closed loop circuit comprising a working fluid circulating in a single direction from a first heat exchanger to a first positive displacement machine, and then to a second heat exchanger, and then to a second positive displacement machine, and then to said first heat exchanger; wherein (i) said first positive displacement machine is capable of generating mechanical power via expansion of said working fluid in said first positive displacement machine when the pressure in the first heat exchanger is the highest pressure in the system, and (ii) said second positive displacement machine is capable of generating mechanical power via expansion of said working fluid in said second positive displacement machine when the pressure at the second heat exchanger is the highest pressure in the system.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.62821
- Patent Class: 60.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14967340', '14217001', '14816045', '13949843', '13836442']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7443178391146811
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5255198319894165
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7224380384021546
- Mean Citation Score: 298.95859
- Max Citation Score: 383.60376
- Similarity Product: 322.39819815670967

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

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