PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15911287
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["044", "590000"]

Abstract:
A process for making a renewable processed biochar pellet composition made with a pelletizing sub-system followed with a heating sub-system from a processed organic-carbon-containing feedstock made with a beneficiation sub-system is described. Renewable biomass feedstock passed through a beneficiation sub-system to reduce water content to below at least 20 wt % and an intracellular water-soluble salt reduction of at least 60% from that of unprocessed organic-carbon-containing feedstock on a dry basis. The processed feedstock is introduced into a pelletizing sub-system and then into a heating sub-system to result in renewable processed biochar pellets having an energy density of at least 21 MMBTU/ton (24 GJ/MT), a water content of less than 10 wt %, and an intracellular water-soluble salt content that is decreased by at least 60 wt % on a dry basis for the processed organic-carbon-containing feedstock from that of the unprocessed organic-carbon-containing feedstock.

Claim (Index 7):
The process of  claim 1 , further comprising:\n inputting into a reaction chamber unprocessed organic-carbon-containing feedstock comprising free water, intercellular water, intracellular water, intracellular water-soluble salts, and at least some plant cells comprising cell walls that include lignin, hemicellulose, and microfibrils within fibrils; exposing the feedstock to hot solvent under pressure for a time at conditions specific to the feedstock to make some regions of the cell walls comprising crystallized cellulosic fibrils, lignin, and hemicellulose more able to be penetrable by water-soluble salts without dissolving more than 25 percent of the lignin and hemicellulose; removing the pressure so as to penetrate the more penetrable regions to create porous feedstock with open pores in the plant cell walls; and pressing the porous feedstock with conditions that include an adjustable compaction pressure versus time profile and compaction time duration to create processed biomass that has a water content of less than 20 wt %, a water-soluble intracellular salt content that is decreased by at least 60 wt % on a dry basis over that of unprocessed organic-carbon-containing feedstock, and a cost per weight of removing the water and water-soluble salt that is reduced to less than 60% of the cost per weight of similar water removal from known mechanical, known physiochemical, or known thermal processes, wherein the heat generating sub-system process further comprises inputting processed organic-carbon-containing feedstock into an oxygen-deprived reaction chamber configured to heat the processed organic-carbon-containing feedstock in an atmosphere that contains less than 4 percent oxygen to a temperature sufficient to convert at least some processed organic-carbon-containing feedstock into processed biogas and processed biochar, and wherein the pelletizing sub-system process further comprises compressing the processed organic-carbon-containing feedstock to separate it into pellets with discrete units of mass having a longest length of at least 0.16 inch (4.0 cm) and a density of at least 37.5 pounds per cubic foot (0.60 grams per cubic centimeter) and collecting an aggregate of processed biochar pellets.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.08219
- Patent Class: 44.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14624731', '14624109', '14624756', '14623430', '14305223']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8167952366911821
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6785093092204393
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8029666439441079
- Mean Citation Score: 634.0229
- Max Citation Score: 680.7657
- Similarity Product: 575.0004913538933

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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