PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15744338
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["062", "613000"]

Abstract:
The process comprises the following steps: mixing a gaseous stream of flash gas and a gaseous stream of boil-off gas to form a mixed gaseous flow; compressing the mixed gaseous flow in at least one compression apparatus to form a flow of compressed combustible gas; withdrawing a bypass flow in the flow of compressed combustible gas; compressing the bypass flow in at least one downstream compressor; cooling and expanding the compressed bypass flow; reheating at least a first stream derived from the expanded bypass flow in at least one downstream heat exchanger, reintroducing the first reheated stream in the mixed gaseous flow upstream from the compression apparatus.

Claim (Index 12):
A plant for the expansion and storage of a flow of liquefied natural gas from a natural gas liquefaction plant, comprising:\n an expander configured to carry out a flash expansion of the flow of liquefied natural gas to form a flow of expanded liquefied natural gas; a flash end capacitor configured to receive the flow of expanded liquefied natural gas coming from the expander; an outlet for recovering, at the bottom of the flash end capacitor, a liquid stream of liquefied natural gas; at least one liquefied natural gas tank and conveyor for conveying the liquid stream of liquefied natural gas into the liquefied natural gas tank; an outlet for withdrawing, at the head of the flash end capacitor, a gaseous stream of flash gas; an outlet for recovering, at the head of the liquefied natural gas tank, a gaseous stream of boil-off gas; a mixer for mixing the gaseous stream of flash gas and the gaseous stream of boil-off gas to form a mixed gaseous flow; at least one compressor able to compress the mixed gaseous flow to form a flow of compressed combustible gas; an outlet for withdrawing a bypass flow in the flow of compressed combustible gas; at least one downstream compressor for compressing the bypass flow and forming a compressed bypass flow; a downstream heat exchanger for cooling the compressed bypass flow to form an expanded bypass stream; an expander and/or liquefier for at least partially expanding and liquefying the compressed bypass flow; an inlet for introducing at least a first stream derived from the expanded bypass flow in the downstream heat exchanger, to allow reheating of the first stream, an inlet for reintroducing the first stream in the mixed gaseous flow and/or in at least one of the gaseous stream of boil-off gas and the gaseous stream of flash gas, upstream from the compressor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 22.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.39583
- Patent Class: 62.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13879743', '12272909', '14695521', '14260753', '13262207']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8350216983337768
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4922740670306467
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8007469352034638
- Mean Citation Score: 260.095986
- Max Citation Score: 264.2418
- Similarity Product: 218.7736119983912

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

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