PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15934763
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["422", "198000"]

Abstract:
Disclosed is a technology based upon the nesting of tubes to provide chemical reactors or chemical reactors with built in heat exchanger. As a chemical reactor, the technology provides the ability to manage the temperature within a process flow for improved performance, control the location of reactions for corrosion control, or implement multiple process steps within the same piece of equipment. As a chemical reactor with built in heat exchanger, the technology can provide large surface areas per unit volume and large heat transfer coefficients. The technology can recover the thermal energy from the product flow to heat the reactant flow to the reactant temperature, significantly reducing the energy needs for accomplishment of a process.

Claim (Index 21):
A process of making hydrogen, the method comprising:\n reacting air and methane in a first flow path; flowing a reactant through an input, the reactant comprising water and methane; flowing the reactant through a second flow path; reacting the reactant to produce a product comprising hydrogen; flowing the product through a third flow path; and flowing the product through an outlet; wherein: a portion of the first flow path is defined by a first tube, a portion of the second flow path is defined by a first tube and a second tube, a portion of the third flow path is defined by a second tube and a third tube, the second flow path and the third flow path are annular flow paths, the first tube has a first end, the second tube has a second end, the third tube has a third end, the third end is the end of the third tube closest to the first end, the manifold assembly is in contact with the first end, the second end, and the third end, the manifold assembly defines the input and the outlet, the input is in fluid communication with the second flow path, and the outlet is in fluid communication with the third flow path.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.90769
- Patent Class: 422.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14645490', '15934532', '13802879', '12152485', '10931066']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8068534833903062
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5298998964498676
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7791581246962623
- Mean Citation Score: 265.34240800000003
- Max Citation Score: 403.345
- Similarity Product: 295.02706944644456

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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