PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15915645
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["422", "129000"]

Abstract:
Described herein are processes for converting a biomass starting material (such as lignocellulosic materials) into a low oxygen containing, stable liquid intermediate that can be refined to make liquid hydrocarbon fuels. More specifically, the process can be a catalytic biomass pyrolysis process wherein an oxygen removing catalyst is employed in the reactor while the biomass is subjected to pyrolysis conditions. The stream exiting the pyrolysis reactor comprises bio-oil having a low oxygen content, and such stream may be subjected to further steps, such as separation and/or condensation to isolate the bio-oil.

Claim (Index 33):
A catalytic biomass pyrolysis system comprising:\n a reactor adapted for combining a biomass with a solid catalyst in a reduced state under pyrolysis conditions to form a pyrolysis product stream; a separation unit in fluid connection with the reactor and adapted to form a first stream comprising a solids fraction from the pyrolysis product stream, said solids fraction comprising non-catalyst solids and solid catalyst, at least a portion of which is in an oxidized state, and a second stream comprising a vapors fraction from the pyrolysis reaction stream; a condenser unit in fluid communication with the separation unit and adapted to condense a bio-crude from the vapors in the second stream separate from a gas component of the second stream; an optional liquid separator unit in fluid communication with the condenser unit and adapted to separate water or another liquid from the bio-crude; a catalyst regeneration unit in fluid communication with the separation unit and adapted to remove the non-catalyst solids from the solid catalyst present in the first stream; a reduction unit in fluid communication with the catalyst regeneration unit and adapted to reduce the solid catalyst that is in the oxidized state received from the catalyst regeneration unit and provide solid catalyst in a reduced state; and a catalyst delivery stream adapted to deliver the solid catalyst in the reduced state from the reduction unit to the reactor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.53846
- Patent Class: 422.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14382822', '15021507', '14649540', '13750757', '13223968']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8190625857244658
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5163779150640697
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7887941186584262
- Mean Citation Score: 313.665112
- Max Citation Score: 362.08432
- Similarity Product: 309.7236778179168

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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