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 19):
The process according to  claim 16 , wherein the methanol-comprising heavy phase obtained in step d) is fed to a second separation apparatus that works by a thermal separation process and separated into a methanol-enriched third separation product and a water-enriched fourth separation product, the third separation product being discharged from the process as methanol product and the fourth separation product being at least partly recycled to reaction step b).

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): 0.664446292642878
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4981097923866356
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6478126426172539
- Mean Citation Score: 240.792
- Max Citation Score: 243.58966
- Similarity Product: 169.2333817507291

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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