PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16169527
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["095", "253000"]

Abstract:
The methods improve the separation of hydrocarbon containing fluids. More particularly, the disclosure is relevant to separating fluids having a gas phase and a hydrocarbon liquid phase using indirect heating. In general, the methods use a first gas separation step followed by indirect heating and then a second gas separation step. Pressure reduction of the hydrocarbon containing fluid occurs either before or after the indirect heating.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for separation of a hydrocarbon feed having a first temperature, the method comprising:\n separating the hydrocarbon feed such that a first portion of gas is separated at a first pressure from the hydrocarbon feed so as to produce a first liquid stream; indirectly heating the first liquid stream at a heating pressure in an indirect heater to a second temperature greater than the first temperature to thus produce a heated stream; separating the heated stream so as to separate a second portion of gas from the heated stream to produce a second liquid stream; controlling the first pressure by using a first control valve such that the first pressure is maintained above near atmospheric pressure; and controlling the heating pressure by using a second control valve associated with the indirect heater, wherein the first control valve and second control valve cooperate so as to have a first configuration in which the heating pressure is at near atmospheric pressure, and a second configuration where the heating pressure is operated above near atmospheric pressure and the step of separating the heated stream is carried out at near atmospheric pressure.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.63636
- Patent Class: 95.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15929034', '15685851', '15426802', '13308982', '13250935']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8038384466691727
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5522598894124388
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7786805909434993
- Mean Citation Score: 324.506896
- Max Citation Score: 423.56784000000016
- Similarity Product: 394.7657491818811

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

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