PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16346586
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-05
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["422", "214000"]

Abstract:
According to one or more embodiments, a fluid catalytic reactor may include a riser, a lower reactor portion, a transition portion, and a flow director. The riser may include a cross-sectional area, and the lower reactor portion may include a cross-sectional area. The transition portion may attach the riser to the lower reactor portion. The cross-sectional area of the riser may be less than the cross-sectional area of the lower reactor portion such that the transition portion is tapered inward from the lower reactor portion to the riser. The flow director may be positioned at least within an interior region of the transition portion. The flow director may include a body which affects the velocity profile of fluids moving from the lower reactor portion to the riser.

Claim (Index 15):
A method for scaling-up a fluid catalytic reactor, the method comprising:\n constructing or operating a scaled-up fluid catalytic reactor based on a template fluid catalytic reactor, the scaled-up fluid catalytic reactor comprising a scaled-up riser, a scaled-up lower reactor portion, and a scaled-up transition portion connecting the scaled-up riser and the scaled-up lower reactor portion, and a flow director positioned at least within an interior portion of the transition portion, wherein:\n the template fluid catalytic reactor comprises a template riser, a template lower reactor portion, and a template transition portion connecting the template riser and the template lower reactor portion, wherein:\n the ratio of the cross-sectional area of the scaled-up riser to the cross-sectional area of the template riser is from 80% to 120% of a scale-up factor; \n the ratio of the cross-sectional area of the scaled-up lower reactor portion to the diameter of the template lower reactor portion is from 80% to 120% of the scale-up factor; \n the angle of taper of the scaled up transition portion is from 80% to 120% of the angle of taper of the template transition portion; and \n the scale-up factor is at least 1.3; \n \n for a height at the midpoint of the height of the scaled-up transition portion, a scaled-up flow-path ratio is from 70% to 130% of a template flow-path ratio, wherein:\n the scaled-up flow-path ratio for a height is equal to a ratio of a scaled-up transition portion flow area at the height to the cross-sectional area of the scaled-up lower reactor portion, wherein the scaled-up transition portion flow area for the height is equal to the cross-sectional area of the transition portion at the height minus the cross-sectional area of the flow director at the height; and \n the template flow-path ratio for a height is equal to:\n for heights less than a height of the template transition portion, a ratio of a template transition portion flow area at the height to the cross-sectional area of the template lower reactor portion, wherein the template transition portion flow area for a height is equal to the cross-sectional area of the template transition portion at the height; or \n for heights greater than the height of the template transition portion, a ratio of the cross-sectional area of the template riser to the cross sectional area of the template lower reactor portion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.76
- Patent Class: 422.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16346626', '16309548', '13685866', '12387834', '11452808']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7881913645424625
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.532748392631646
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7626470673513809
- Mean Citation Score: 240.698642
- Max Citation Score: 387.4657
- Similarity Product: 354.81361886230115

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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