PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15780731
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["060", "651000"]

Abstract:
A system for depressurizing a gas in a pipeline is described. The system com-prises an expander configured and arranged for generating mechanical power by expanding gas from a first pressure to a second pressure. The system further comprises a heat pump and a heat transfer circuit containing a heat transfer fluid circu-lating therein, for receiving heat from the heat pump and delivering heat to the gas through a heat exchanger. A controller is further provided, configured and arranged for modulating a flow rate of the heat transfer fluid circulating in the heat transfer circuit as a function of a heat rate to be transferred from the heat transfer fluid to the gas, particularly as a function of temperature differentials between the gas and the heat transfer fluid at a gas inlet side and a gas outlet side of the heat exchang-er.

Claim (Index 13):
The method of  claim 11 , wherein the step of heating the gas in the heat exchanger is performed prior to the step of expanding the gas in the expander, the heat exchanger being arranged upstream of the expander with respect to a gas flow direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.3125
- Patent Class: 60.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13061513', '11992467', '10168169', '14419004', '12867681']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7546199382830886
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.483731193165592
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7275310637713389
- Mean Citation Score: 225.83527400000003
- Max Citation Score: 227.19356
- Similarity Product: 161.14284933359622

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

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