PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16316248
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["554", "163000"]

Abstract:
A process and a plant are specified, with which free fatty acids can be obtained in a simple manner by hydrolysis of fatty acid alkyl esters, especially fatty acid methyl esters (FAME), or alternatively of fatty acid triglycerides present in oils and fats of vegetable and animal origin. According to the invention, a portion of the free fatty acids already produced is recycled back into the reaction mixture, which results in self-acceleration of the hydrolysis reaction.

Claim (Index 28):
The plant according to  claim 27 , further comprising a second separation apparatus suitable for separating the heavy phase into a methanol-enriched third separation product and a water-enriched fourth separation product, means of feeding the heavy phase into the second separation apparatus, means of discharging the third separation product from the second separation apparatus and of discharging it from the plant as methanol product, means of discharging the fourth separation product from the second separation apparatus, means of recycling at least a portion of the fourth separation product to the at least one hydrolysis reactor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.54545
- Patent Class: 554.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13376310', '12744761', '12287779', '15984796', '13597304']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6636846874560455
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5018866091537703
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6475048796258179
- Mean Citation Score: 240.792
- Max Citation Score: 243.58966
- Similarity Product: 160.0051446964979

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

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