PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16150664
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["422", "187000"]

Abstract:
The present invention relates to decreasing the amount of diluent needed to convert a heavy oil to a bitumen product that can be transported by pipeline. More specifically, the invention relates to a method and apparatus for partially upgrading heavy oil into a lower viscosity bitumen product.

Claim (Index 7):
An integrated system for partially upgrading dilbit, comprising:\n (a) heating dilbit to about 200 C to evaporate diluent and produce a partially evaporated dilbit stream (b) a first flash drum to separate the partially evaporated dilbit stream into a light hydrocarbon diluent fraction that is removed from the top and a heavy hydrocarbon fraction that is removed from the bottom (c) a reactor with a thermal nozzle operating an oxyfuel combustion process for receiving and atomizing the hydrocarbon effluent from the flash drum bottom into a partially upgraded reactor effluent; (d) a process boiler for receiving and cooling the partially upgraded reactor effluent; (e) a second flash drum for receiving the partially upgraded reactor effluent from step (d) and separating the partially upgraded reactor effluent into a lighter hydrocarbon and cracked combustion gases which are removed overhead from a top portion of the flash drum, and a flash drum bottom portion of a partially upgraded hydrocarbon; (f) at least one heat exchanger to cool the product from the top portion of the second flush drum; (g) a treater to receive the cooled flash drum portion and separate it into a gas fraction, a water fraction and a light hydrocarbon liquid fraction; and (h) combining the flash drum bottom portion from step (e) with the light hydrocarbon liquid fraction from step (g) to form a partially upgraded oil product.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.38889
- Patent Class: 422.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14974933', '14974873', '13801538', '13535983', '12046363']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8242047900002395
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5649624634232951
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7982805573425451
- Mean Citation Score: 354.01507200000015
- Max Citation Score: 484.5485
- Similarity Product: 421.7111926218868

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

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