PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15872153
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["554", "167000"]

Abstract:
Apparatus and related methods for reacting a natural oil with a short chain alcohol in the presence of an alkaline catalyst and mesh to produce biodiesel, significantly decreasing the amount of time for the glycerol byproduct to settle out of the reaction mixture. The process for the production of biodiesel includes providing animal or vegetable oil to create a first component, combining a short chain alcohol with a strong base to create a second component, and combining the first and second components together in the presence of a mesh, such that the mesh is in contact with the combined components. The combined compositions represent a reaction mixture that undergo a transesterification reaction and produce fatty acid methyl ester biodiesel and also a glycerol byproduct. The mesh material that is present during the transesterification reaction decreases the amount of time required for the glycerol byproduct to settle out of the reaction mixture.

Claim (Index 3):
The process of  claim 1 , wherein the strong base is sodium hydroxide or potassium hydroxide.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.20833
- Patent Class: 554.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14250775', '11676888', '11857641', '12431033', '11364241']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6602011262254248
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5291895008309015
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6470999636859724
- Mean Citation Score: 207.848462
- Max Citation Score: 357.70264
- Similarity Product: 334.93929737940783

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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