PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16150664
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["422", "187000"]

Abstract:
The present invention relates to decreasing the amount of diluent needed to convert a heavy oil to a bitumen product that can be transported by pipeline. More specifically, the invention relates to a method and apparatus for partially upgrading heavy oil into a lower viscosity bitumen product.

Claim (Index 2):
An integrated system for partially upgrading a hydrocarbon containing heavy oil into a hydrocarbon product, comprising:\n (a) a reactor with a thermal nozzle operating an oxyfuel combustion process producing a hot gas that atomizes a hydrocarbon containing heavy oil and induces upgrading reactions to produce a reactor effluent containing a partially upgraded oil; (b) a heat recovery/process boiler for receiving and cooling the partially upgraded reactor effluent producing steam; (c) a flash drum for receiving and separating the reactor effluent into a lighter hydrocarbon and cracked combustion gases portion which is removed overhead from the top of the flash drum, and a flash drum bottom portion of heavier oil hydrocarbons; (d) at least one heat exchanger to cool the product from the top portion of the flush drum; and (e) a treater to receive the cooled flash drum portion and separate it into a gas fraction, a water fraction and a light hydrocarbon liquid fraction and (f) combining the flash drum bottom portion from step (c) with the light hydrocarbon liquid fraction from step (e) to form a partially upgraded oil product.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.38889
- Patent Class: 422.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14974933', '14974873', '13801538', '13535983', '12046363']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8223690053323947
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5720482147761301
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7973369262767682
- Mean Citation Score: 354.01507200000015
- Max Citation Score: 484.5485
- Similarity Product: 461.69810269171

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

Dataset: test