PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15773698
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["568", "885000"]

Abstract:
A plant and a process for carrying out the continuous production of fatty alcohol from fatty acid ester by catalytic trickle-bed hydrogenation, comprising shaft reactors each containing at least one catalyst fixed bed, which are connected with each other via pipe conduits such that they can be traversed by the educt/product mixture one after the other, in freely selectable order.

Claim (Index 7):
A plant for the continuous production of fatty alcohol from fatty acid ester, in particular wax ester, by catalytic trickle-bed hydrogenation, comprising supply conduits for the fatty acid ester and fresh and recirculated hydrogen, a discharge conduit for the liquid product mixture containing fatty alcohol, a return conduit for non-converted hydrogen, and several, preferably two shaft reactors each containing at least one catalyst fixed bed, which are connected with each other via pipe conduits such that they can be traversed by the educt/product mixture one after the other, characterized in that the reactors are connected with each other by pipe conduits such that\n a) the order in which the reactors are traversed by the educt/product mixture is freely selectable, b) each reactor also can each be traversed alone, by bypassing the respective other reactor; and c) each of the reactors is designed with respect to the one or more catalyst fixed beds contained therein such that at a specified production output of the plant the required degree of conversion of the educts can be achieved with the passage through only one of the reactors at least for the duration of an exchange of the more or more catalyst fixed beds in the respective other reactor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.16364
- Patent Class: 568.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11670228', '13884815', '14898613', '14874278', '12158833']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.690030806298691
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.508822967946056
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6719100224634276
- Mean Citation Score: 236.321454
- Max Citation Score: 258.4425
- Similarity Product: 187.6952963832021

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

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