PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16451957
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-06
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["208", "201000"]

Abstract:
Supercritical upgrading reactors and reactor systems are provided for upgrading a petroleum-based composition using one or more purging fluid inlets to prevent plugging of the catalyst layer in the reactor. Processes for upgrading petroleum-based compositions by utilizing a reactor having at least one purging fluid inlet are also provided.

Claim (Index 1):
A process for upgrading a petroleum-based composition comprising:\n combining a supercritical water stream with a pressurized, heated petroleum-based composition in a mixing device to create a combined feed stream; introducing the combined feed stream into an upgrading reactor system comprising at least one downflow supercritical upgrading reactor operating at a temperature greater than a critical temperature of water and a pressure greater than a critical pressure of water,\n where the downflow supercritical upgrading reactor comprises at least one catalyst layer and one or more purging fluid inlets disposed on one or more side locations of the downflow supercritical upgrading reactor proximate the catalyst layer; \n passing the combined feed stream through the at least one catalyst layer to at least partially convert the combined feed stream to an upgraded product comprising light hydrocarbons; injecting purging fluid through the purging inlets to contact the at least one catalyst layer to reduce plugging; and passing upgraded product out of the downflow supercritical upgrading reactor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.37838
- Patent Class: 208.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15448913', '15894409', '15448961', '15374203', '16049983']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7665675749407355
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6146392752824495
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7513747449749069
- Mean Citation Score: 418.35428200000007
- Max Citation Score: 531.49915
- Similarity Product: 490.6170101030797

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

Dataset: test