PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16061395
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["585", "412000"]

Abstract:
The present invention relates to a process for converting a feed comprising C2-C4 alkanes to higher hydrocarbon(s) including aromatic hydrocarbon(s) in n reaction zones operated in series, wherein m reaction zones are not participating in the conversion process and only (n-m) reaction zones are operated under reaction conditions sufficient to convert at least a portion of said a feed comprising C2-C4 alkanes to an effluent having said higher hydrocarbon(s). An object of the present invention is to provide a process for converting LPG to higher hydrocarbon(s) including aromatic hydrocarbon(s) wherein a high reactant, i.e. ethane, propane and/or butane, conversion can be achieved.

Claim (Index 1):
A process for converting LPG to higher hydrocarbon(s) including aromatic hydrocarbon(s) in n reaction zones operated in series, wherein m reaction zones are not participating in the conversion process and only (n-m) reaction zones are operated under reaction conditions sufficient to convert at least a portion of said LPG to an effluent having said higher hydrocarbon(s), wherein each reaction zone is initially numbered serially with a designator from 1 to n, the process comprising:\n (a) providing a quantity of catalytic material within each reaction zone; (b) providing to the reaction zone designated as 1 a hydrocarbon feedstock containing LPG; (c) heating at least a portion of the effluent of the said reaction zone designated as 1 to the inlet temperature of the reaction zone designated as 2, and more generally, heating at least a portion of the effluent of each reaction zone with a designator equal or smaller than (n-m\u22121) to the inlet temperature of the reaction zone with a designator larger by one than that of the reaction zone from which said effluent originates; (d) transferring said at least portion of said effluent of the said reaction zone designated as 1 to said reaction zone designated as 2, and more generally, transferring said at least portion of said reaction zone with a designator equal or smaller than (n-m\u22121) to the reaction zone with a designator larger by one than that of the reaction zone from which said at least portion of said effluent originates; (e) maintaining said reaction zone designated as 2 at an average temperature higher than or equal as in reaction zone designated as 1, and more generally, maintaining each reaction zone with a designator equal or smaller than (n-m) at an average temperature higher or equal as in the reaction zone with designator smaller by one than that of said reaction zone,\n feeding the effluent from the reaction zone with the designator (n-m) to another process unit, \n and regenerating the reaction zones with a designator larger than (n-m), followed by \n (f) terminating transferring effluent from the reaction zone with the designator (n-m\u22121) to the reaction zone with the designator (n-m); (g) starting regenerating said reaction zone with the designator (n-m) containing deactivated catalytic material; (h) raising the inlet temperature of each reaction zone with a designator equal or smaller than (n-m\u22121) to the former inlet temperature of the reaction zones with a designator larger by one than that of said reaction zone, respectively; (i) changing the value of each designator equal or smaller than (n\u22121) to a number larger by one than its initial value, and changing the value of the designator with a value of n to 1, (j) repeating steps (b) to (i).

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.93846
- Patent Class: 585.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11729559', '12642131', '11732039', '12851244', '11036312']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.719086769855073
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5282929814987395
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7000073910194397
- Mean Citation Score: 323.962812
- Max Citation Score: 349.63284
- Similarity Product: 245.0912367477464

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

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