PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16213086
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["203", "025000"]

Abstract:
A system and method for decontaminating a fluid like a non-azeotrope solvent such as water, wherein a transport gas is maintained at a temperature between the freezing point and boiling point at atmospheric pressure of the solvent and continuously circulated between an evaporation chamber and a condensation chamber, a contaminated solvent is introduced into the transport gas in the evaporation chamber under process heat and contaminant precipitates out, and the cleaned solvent cools in the condensation chamber releasing heat to be used in the evaporation chamber. A heat pump is used to promote evaporation and condensation within the system.

Claim (Index 21):
A system for at least partial decontamination of a contaminated fluid to produce a purified fluid, the system comprising:\n a process fluid container that separately contains the contaminated fluid and the purified fluid; an evaporation chamber that at least partially evaporates the contaminated fluid to form an evaporated fluid; a condensation chamber that condenses the purified fluid; the evaporation chamber and the condensation chamber in fluid communication; the evaporation chamber and the condensation chamber retains a transport gas for transporting the evaporated fluid to the condensation chamber, the transport gas becoming at least partially saturated with the evaporated fluid in the evaporation chamber, the transport gas releasing the purified fluid in the condensation chamber; an inlet for introducing the contaminated fluid to the evaporation chamber; a purified fluid outlet for withdrawing the purified fluid from the condensation chamber; a pump that supplies, from the process fluid container, a process fluid in the form of either the contaminated fluid or the purified fluid to cool the transport gas to promote condensation in the condensation chamber; and a heat exchanger; wherein the process fluid passes through the heat exchanger to remove heat from the process fluid to form a cooled process fluid, and the cooled process fluid subsequently draws heat from the transport gas to promote condensation of the purified fluid in the condensation chamber; and wherein the heat removed from the process fluid by the heat exchanger is transferred by a heat pump using external work for introduction to the contaminated fluid before the contaminated fluid enters the evaporation chamber, to promote evaporation of the contaminated fluid in the evaporation chamber.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.85714
- Patent Class: 203.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15026436', '11273318', '15007247', '10704683', '16159639']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.673867017126954
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5563653391054676
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6621168493248054
- Mean Citation Score: 245.999102
- Max Citation Score: 416.6830000000001
- Similarity Product: 396.8552840753794

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

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