PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15989268
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["127", "050000"]

Abstract:
The invention relates to a process for the removal of contaminants from a liquor, the process comprising: introducing a metal or ammonium hydroxide into the liquor; introducing the liquor into a reaction vessel; bubbling a carbon dioxide gas comprising at least 25% carbon dioxide through the liquor within the reaction vessel; and separating the precipitate formed by the carbonation of the metal hydroxide from the liquor, the precipitate comprising at least some of the contaminants from the liquor; wherein, on average, the liquor is resident within the reaction vessel for a period of no more than about 60 minutes. The invention also relates to a process for the removal of contaminants from a liquor, the process comprising: introducing a metal or ammonium hydroxide into the liquor and bubbling a carbon dioxide gas comprising at least 25% carbon dioxide through the liquor to fom1 a precipitate by carbonation in a period of no more than about 60 minutes. The carbonation processes may be included in sugar refining or water softening and/or decontamination processes. A use of a carbon dioxide gas comprising at least 25% carbon dioxide in a carbonation process for removing contaminants from a hydroxide-treated liquor is also provided, wherein the process forms a precipitate in period of no more than about 60 minutes.

Claim (Index 26):
Use of a carbon dioxide gas as claimed in  claim 25 , wherein the size of the precipitate is further controlled by altering the residence time of the liquor in the reaction vessel.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.14865
- Patent Class: 127.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14913179', '15107040', '14713840', '13145632', '14770596']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6842505491515285
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5831693741288857
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6741424316492642
- Mean Citation Score: 274.39739799999995
- Max Citation Score: 416.39197
- Similarity Product: 358.6300362987298

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

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