PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15744338
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["062", "613000"]

Abstract:
The process comprises the following steps: mixing a gaseous stream of flash gas and a gaseous stream of boil-off gas to form a mixed gaseous flow; compressing the mixed gaseous flow in at least one compression apparatus to form a flow of compressed combustible gas; withdrawing a bypass flow in the flow of compressed combustible gas; compressing the bypass flow in at least one downstream compressor; cooling and expanding the compressed bypass flow; reheating at least a first stream derived from the expanded bypass flow in at least one downstream heat exchanger, reintroducing the first reheated stream in the mixed gaseous flow upstream from the compression apparatus.

Claim (Index 1):
A process for expansion and storage of a flow of liquefied natural gas from a natural gas liquefaction plant, comprising:\n flash expanding the flow of liquefied natural gas in an expander to form a flow of expanded liquefied natural gas; bringing the flow of expanded liquefied natural gas into a flash end capacitor; recovering, at the bottom of the flash end capacitor, a liquid stream of liquefied natural gas; conveying the liquid stream of liquefied natural gas into at least one liquefied natural gas tank; withdrawing, at the head of the flash end capacitor, a gaseous stream of flash gas; recovering, at the head of the liquefied natural gas tank, a gaseous stream of boil-off gas; mixing the gaseous stream of flash gas and the gaseous stream of boil-off gas to form a mixed gaseous flow; compressing the mixed gaseous flow in at least one compressor to form a flow of compressed combustible gas; withdrawing a bypass flow in the flow of compressed combustible gas; compressing the bypass flow in at least one downstream compressor to form a compressed bypass flow; cooling the compressed bypass flow; expanding the compressed bypass flow to form an expanded bypass stream; reheating at least a first stream derived from the expanded bypass flow in at least one downstream heat exchanger, reintroducing the first reheated stream in the mixed gaseous flow and/or in at least one of the gaseous stream of boil-off gas and the gaseous stream of flash gas, upstream from the at least one compressor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 22.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.39583
- Patent Class: 62.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13879743', '12272909', '14695521', '14260753', '13262207']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8350567753037617
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4919666607693235
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8007477638503179
- Mean Citation Score: 260.095986
- Max Citation Score: 264.2418
- Similarity Product: 219.74488538024423

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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