{"schema_version":1,"experiment_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp09_archetype_breadth150_20260804","research_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp09_light_prior_art_20260804","cell_id":"additive_measure_space_design__chemistry_materials","search_lanes":{"direct_problem_and_intervention":{"queries":["battery black mass leaching mass balance recovery residue leachate feed elemental closure","battery black mass leaching recovery exceeded 100% mass balance","black mass leaching partition consistent element inventory recycled intermediate streams"],"source_ids":["SRC1","SRC3"],"no_result_note":null},"synonyms_and_historical_terms":{"queries":["metallurgical accounting mass balance reconciliation streams sampling assay","metal balancing reconciliation unmeasured streams recovery accounting","AMIRA P754 metal accounting code practice"],"source_ids":["SRC2","SRC3"],"no_result_note":null},"products_practices_and_standards":{"queries":["metallurgical accounting software mass balance all process streams missing data","AMIRA P754 standardized metal accounting reconciliation","EPA nondetect data treatment detection limits guidance"],"source_ids":["SRC2","SRC3","SRC4"],"no_result_note":null},"component_combination":{"queries":["black mass leaching mass balance feed leachate residue analytical uncertainty","process stream conservation laws intermediate recycle data reconciliation","sample lineage terminal destination nondetect elemental inventory"],"source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3","SRC4"],"no_result_note":null}},"sources":[{"source_id":"SRC1","title":"Translating Selective Lithium Leaching from LFP to Industrial Black Mass: Experimental Validation and Statistical Quantification","publisher":"Springer Nature, Journal of Sustainable Metallurgy","url":"https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40831-026-01568-y","source_type":"PRIMARY_RESEARCH","claims_supported":["Industrial black-mass heterogeneity and analytical uncertainty can produce apparent lithium extraction above 100%; this occurred in 10% of the reported cases.","The study capped above-100% values for modeling, disclosed uncapped values, and performed sensitivity analysis.","Its extraction denominator was feed composition determined by digestion, while a complete solid-liquid balance including residual solids was not performed.","The quantified black-mass components totaled 102.3 wt%, illustrating an inventory discrepancy attributed to sampling and analytical uncertainty."]},{"source_id":"SRC2","title":"An Introduction to Metal Balancing and Reconciliation","publisher":"The University of Queensland, Sustainable Minerals Institute","url":"https://smi.uq.edu.au/jkmrc/monographs?p=6","source_type":"TRADE_PROFESSIONAL","claims_supported":["Metal balancing and reconciliation are established professional skills in mineral processing.","AMIRA Project P754 produced a Code of Practice and supporting guidelines to standardize metal accounting.","The associated guidance covers application across multiple mineral products and commodities."]},{"source_id":"SRC3","title":"BILCO: data reconciliation by mass balance software","publisher":"CASPEO","url":"https://www.caspeo.net/mass-balance-software-bilco/","source_type":"FIRST_PARTY_PRODUCT","claims_supported":["Commercial software already derives coherent total material balances from measurements, analyses, and estimates for all process streams.","The product supports configurable conservation laws for each unit operation, balances mass or moles, estimates missing data, reports relative errors, and detects gross errors.","It supports complex flowsheets, multi-mass balances, process-yield estimation, data validation, and Excel export."]},{"source_id":"SRC4","title":"Guidance for Data Quality Assessment: Practical Methods for Data Analysis, EPA QA/G-9, QA00 Update","publisher":"U.S. Environmental Protection Agency","url":"https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2015-06/documents/g9-final.pdf","source_type":"OFFICIAL_GUIDANCE","claims_supported":["Values below detection limits are censored observations whose treatment depends on their prevalence, sample size, distribution, and analytical purpose.","The guidance distinguishes values that are genuinely zero from values that are present but below detection.","Simple substitution for nondetects is conditional rather than a universally valid zero-assignment rule."]}],"problem_evidence":{"status":"PARTLY_SUPPORTED","finding":"The problem is visible in the domain: primary black-mass research reported lithium extraction above 100% in 10% of cases, a characterized composition totaling 102.3 wt%, and an incomplete solid-liquid balance, attributing these effects to feed heterogeneity and analytical uncertainty. Established metal-accounting practice also treats coherent stream balances, missing data, and reconciliation as necessary. The retained evidence does not directly demonstrate the proposal's specific causal failure—double-counting recycled or ancestor-and-descendant streams—or show that changing from unit-operation to terminal-destination partitions changes recovery.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3"]},"closest_prior_art":[{"name":"BILCO mass-balance and data-reconciliation software","source_ids":["SRC3"],"overlap":"Computes coherent balances for all process streams under configurable unit-operation conservation laws, supports mass and molar inventories, estimates missing values, quantifies errors, and detects inconsistent measurements. This substantially overlaps the Partition Sum Table's reconciliation function.","remaining_difference":"The product page does not demonstrate a charge-specific sample-lineage admissibility test, an explicit prohibition on adding intermediate ancestors to terminal descendants in recovery reports, or a quarantine queue that preserves ambiguous and censored cases outside recovery totals."},{"name":"AMIRA P754 metal accounting and reconciliation practice","source_ids":["SRC2"],"overlap":"Provides an established, standardized code-and-guideline framework for metal balancing and reconciliation across mineral-processing commodities.","remaining_difference":"The opened overview does not establish that P754 implements the proposal's exact bench-scale terminal-destination partition, sample-lineage closure check, or named measurability-boundary workflow."},{"name":"Uncertainty-aware selective-lithium leaching accounting","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC4"],"overlap":"Uses a fixed feed denominator, identifies above-100% extraction, attributes it to sampling and analytical uncertainty, discloses uncapped results, tests the effect of capping, and recognizes that nondetects require contextual treatment.","remaining_difference":"It does not reconstruct every descendant sample, reconcile mutually exclusive terminal inventories to feed, or test invariance across logically equivalent stream partitions."}],"prior_art_disposition":"ADJACENT_PRIOR_ART","contrastive_claim_remaining":"For a completed black-mass leach, adding a charge-specific lineage-admissibility check before ordinary reconciliation will identify at least one recovery error that assay uncertainty treatment and conventional all-stream mass balancing alone do not identify: an ancestor and descendant counted together, a recycled stream counted more than once, or unresolved material silently admitted as zero. The resulting terminal-only inventory will be invariant across equivalent disjoint regroupings within a predeclared uncertainty rule.","contrastive_claim_falsifier":"The claim is falsified if the original records and a conventional conservation-law balance already enforce the same unique-feed, mutually exclusive terminal membership and explicit unresolved-state rules, or if the lineage reconstruction finds no additional invalid category and all valid stage and terminal regroupings give identical elemental totals within the declared uncertainty. It is also falsified if two equivalent disjoint terminal partitions constructed from traceable samples produce materially different inventories.","gates":{"adequate_source_search":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"The bounded search covered direct formulations, older metallurgical-accounting terminology, a professional code, a commercial reconciliation product, analytical guidance, and combinations involving feed, solution, residue, recycle, uncertainty, and lineage. Exactly four opened sources from four publishers were retained, including primary research, official guidance, and a first-party product.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3","SRC4"]},"supported_problem":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"Primary research directly shows above-100% black-mass extraction and inventory discrepancies, while established accounting sources show that coherent stream reconciliation and missing-data handling are real requirements. Evidence for the specific partition-overlap mechanism is incomplete, supporting a PARTLY_SUPPORTED finding.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3","SRC4"]},"distinct_testable_claim":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"Although ordinary metal accounting and reconciliation are close prior art, the remaining claim isolates a testable difference: whether explicit sample lineage and terminal-membership admissibility expose errors that conventional balancing does not. The result can be falsified by invariant reconstructions or by an existing balance already enforcing identical constraints.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3"]},"bounded_next_test":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"One target element from one completed bench experiment can be reconstructed using existing records, compared against the original recovery and feed interval, and assigned a finite pass/fail judgment without new chemical processing. The test should record whether lineage restrictions add any flags beyond an ordinary conservation-law balance.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC3","SRC4"]},"no_obvious_safety_or_authority_stop":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"The proposed first test is records-only, preserves the original worksheet, and does not authorize sample handling, disposal changes, regulatory characterization, operating-condition changes, or flowsheet selection. Analytical interpretation of uncertainty and nondetects remains with the analytical lead.","source_ids":["SRC3","SRC4"]}},"screen_survival":true,"world_novelty_boundary":"This four-source public-web screen found established standardized metal accounting, commercial all-stream conservation-law reconciliation, explicit nondetect treatment, and primary black-mass evidence of above-100% apparent extraction. It did not find the exact combined workflow of charge-specific lineage admissibility, terminal-only recovery partitions, and a measurability-boundary queue. That bounded absence cannot establish world novelty, patentability, freedom to operate, market size, expert acceptance, or realized value."}