PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15885898
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["205", "349000"]

Abstract:
An electrochemical hydrogen isotope recycling apparatus for recycling an isotope of hydrogen includes an electrochemical recycling unit, the unit comprising: an anode; a cathode; and an isotope-treated, proton exchange membrane operatively disposed between the anode and cathode, the isotope-treated, proton exchange membrane having heavy water containing the isotope of hydrogen therein, the device configured to receive a feedstream containing the isotope of hydrogen. A process by which high purity hydrogen isotope products are produced using an electrochemical membrane process in which all conventional water containing components are pre-processed using a heavy water containing the isotope of hydrogen. An industrial apparatus  10  and/or method, such as an electrochemical hydrogen isotope recycling apparatus and/or method, includes an apparatus  49  and/or process by which gaseous D 2  is recovered in a reactor  3  from a gas stream via a reaction in the reactor with another molecule to form a useful chemical compound containing D.

Claim (Index 11):
The process of  claim 9 , wherein anode and cathode exhaust or outlet streams contain heavy water (D 2 O or T 2 O), whereby the heavy water is recovered at the anode and cathode by a water recovery system, wherein the proton exchange apparatus comprises a heavy water generator, and wherein the heavy water generator produces heavy water for utilization by other components of the proton exchange apparatus, wherein the cathode is actively flooded with the heavy water. wherein the process comprises exposing components of the proton exchange apparatus that are configured for proton exchange to the heavy water, wherein the proton exchange apparatus generates heavy water, and the heavy water generated from the apparatus regardless of whether it is the anode, cathode, or any fluid stream, is recovered by a water recovery technology, including but not limited to methods such as cold traps, adsorbents, pressure swing adsorbers, temperature swing adsorbers, enthalpy exchange units, enthalpy wheels, metal-based separators such as palladium membranes, or the like, wherein the proton exchange apparatus comprises a heavy water humidifier upstream of a heavy water electrochemical unit, and the process comprises feeding the gaseous isotope comprising the heavy water (D 2  or T 2 ) from the heavy water humidifier to the heavy water electrochemical stack, wherein the proton exchange apparatus comprises a heavy water saturator downstream of a heavy water electrochemical unit, and the process comprises receiving the gaseous isotope comprising the heavy water (D 2  or T 2 ) from the heavy water electrochemical stack to the heavy water humidifier.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.07595
- Patent Class: 205.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14294033', '10997676', '10654216', '10643344', '10538290']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7228188701101754
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4926634108295781
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6998033241821157
- Mean Citation Score: 205.731992
- Max Citation Score: 216.33215
- Similarity Product: 144.38698884531857

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

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