PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15943691
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["422", "187000"]

Abstract:
The machinery and methods disclosed herein are based on the use of a specialized extruder configured to continuously convey and plasticize/moltenize selected lignocellulosic biomass and/or waste plastic materials into a novel variable volume tubular reactor, wherein the plasticized/moltenized material undergoes reaction with circumferentially injected supercritical water—thereby yielding valuable simple sugar solutions and/or liquid hydrocarbon mixtures (e.g., “neodiesel”), both of which are key chemical commodity products. The reaction time may be adjusted by changing the reactor volume. The machinery includes four zones: (1) a feedstock conveyance and plasticization/moltenization zone; (2) a steam generation and manifold distribution zone; (3) a central supercritical water reaction zone; and (4) a pressure let-down and reaction product separation zone. The machinery and methods minimize water usage—thereby enabling the economic utilization of abundant biomass and waste plastics as viable renewable feedstocks for subsequent conversion into alternative liquid transportation fuels and valuable green-chemical products.

Claim (Index 2):
The machine according to  claim 1 , further comprising a reactor heater positioned about the tubular reactor, and one or more extruder heaters positioned about the extruder.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 21.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.50893
- Patent Class: 422.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13297217', '14549508', '12828102', '14549492', '12402489']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7933348106392876
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.494163570889948
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7634176866643536
- Mean Citation Score: 221.361426
- Max Citation Score: 242.81396
- Similarity Product: 151.08515903420445

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

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