PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15911287
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["044", "590000"]

Abstract:
A process for making a renewable processed biochar pellet composition made with a pelletizing sub-system followed with a heating sub-system from a processed organic-carbon-containing feedstock made with a beneficiation sub-system is described. Renewable biomass feedstock passed through a beneficiation sub-system to reduce water content to below at least 20 wt % and an intracellular water-soluble salt reduction of at least 60% from that of unprocessed organic-carbon-containing feedstock on a dry basis. The processed feedstock is introduced into a pelletizing sub-system and then into a heating sub-system to result in renewable processed biochar pellets having an energy density of at least 21 MMBTU/ton (24 GJ/MT), a water content of less than 10 wt %, and an intracellular water-soluble salt content that is decreased by at least 60 wt % on a dry basis for the processed organic-carbon-containing feedstock from that of the unprocessed organic-carbon-containing feedstock.

Claim (Index 1):
A process of making biochar comprising:\n inputting into a system comprising a first, a second, and a third subsystem an unprocessed organic-carbon-containing feedstock that includes free water, intercellular water, intracellular water, intracellular water-soluble salts, and at least some plant cells comprising cell walls that include lignin, hemicellulose, and microfibrils within fibrils; passing unprocessed organic-carbon-containing feedstock through the first subsystem, a beneficiation sub-system process, to produce a processed organic-carbon-containing feedstock having a water content of less than 20 wt % and a water soluble intracellular salt content that is reduced by at least 60 wt % on a dry basis from that of the unprocessed organic-carbon-containing feedstock; passing the processed organic-carbon-containing feedstock through the second subsystem, a heating sub-system process, to produce a processed biochar; and passing processed biochar through the third subsystem, a pelletizing sub-system process, to produce biochar pellets having characteristics that include an energy density of at least 21 MMBTU/ton (24 GJ/MT), a water content of less than 10 wt %, and an intracellular water-soluble salt content in the processed organic-carbon-containing feedstock that is decreased more than 60 wt % on a dry basis from that of unprocessed organic-carbon-containing feedstock that was the source of the processed organic-carbon-containing feedstock.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.08219
- Patent Class: 44.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14624731', '14624109', '14624756', '14623430', '14305223']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8167977074480084
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.678499643578067
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8029679010610142
- Mean Citation Score: 634.0229
- Max Citation Score: 680.7657
- Similarity Product: 574.9690037588598

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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