PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15761896
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["423", "422000"]

Abstract:
A process for producing crystalline sodium bicarbonate, comprising: providing an aqueous sodium-bicarbonate containing liquor originating from a reactive crystallization step in which first sodium bicarbonate crystals are produced and recovered; feeding at least a portion of said aqueous sodium-bicarbonate containing liquor to a cooling crystallization unit to form second sodium bicarbonate crystals and produce a crystals slurry comprising the second sodium bicarbonate crystals; and withdrawing a portion of the crystals slurry from the cooling crystallization unit for the withdrawn second sodium bicarbonate crystals to be further processed. A portion of the second sodium bicarbonate crystals withdrawn from the cooling crystallization unit may be fed to a sodium bicarbonate reactive crystallization unit, to a caustic unit, or may be separated and dried. The reactive crystallization, separation and/or drying units where the second sodium bicarbonate crystals are further processed may be the same units where the first sodium bicarbonate crystals are processed.

Claim (Index 18):
The process according to  claim 1 , wherein the at least one cooling crystallization unit has an overflow which is lean in crystal content, and wherein at least a portion of said overflow is directed to a waste pond.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.5
- Patent Class: 423.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14576844', '12718098', '13099501', '10299515', '14537974']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8143994975680973
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5539780062722737
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7883573484385149
- Mean Citation Score: 396.967124
- Max Citation Score: 417.082
- Similarity Product: 307.0004195642471

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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