PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15945155
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["208", "25100R"]

Abstract:
Particulate mercury is removed from crude oil by thermally treating the crude oil or condensate at temperatures in a range from 150° C. to 350° C. and at a sufficient pressure with subsequent cooling under maintenance of pressure to provide irreversible conversion to elemental mercury, which may be preferentially removed in a mercury removal unit.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for the removal of mercury from a crude oil comprising:\n increasing the pressure on the crude so that it remains essentially in the liquid state for a subsequent heating step; heating the pressurized crude to temperature in a range from 150\u00b0 C. to 350\u00b0 C.; processing the crude in a thermal decomposition reactor operating in a liquid phase at LHSV of greater than or equal to 0.1 hr \u22121  and less than or equal to 10 hr \u22121  to convert at least a portion of the particulate mercury to elemental mercury)(Hg 0 ); maintaining the pressure while concurrently cooling the product from the thermal decomposition reactor to greater than or equal to 40\u00b0 C. and less than or equal to 150\u00b0 C., feeding the cooled reaction product from the thermal decomposition reactor to a unit for the preferential removal of elemental mercury.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.32558
- Patent Class: 208.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14922383', '14923514', '15016407', '13895983', '14481265']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7242660437271458
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5541143942639137
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7072508787808226
- Mean Citation Score: 273.417644
- Max Citation Score: 387.64905
- Similarity Product: 298.6344026875377

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

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