PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15934763
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["422", "198000"]

Abstract:
Disclosed is a technology based upon the nesting of tubes to provide chemical reactors or chemical reactors with built in heat exchanger. As a chemical reactor, the technology provides the ability to manage the temperature within a process flow for improved performance, control the location of reactions for corrosion control, or implement multiple process steps within the same piece of equipment. As a chemical reactor with built in heat exchanger, the technology can provide large surface areas per unit volume and large heat transfer coefficients. The technology can recover the thermal energy from the product flow to heat the reactant flow to the reactant temperature, significantly reducing the energy needs for accomplishment of a process.

Claim (Index 2):
A process of making hydrogen, the process comprising:\n flowing a first reactant comprising methane through a first flow path; flowing a second reactant comprising air through a second flow path; reacting air and methane to produce an exhaust and an amount of heat; heating the first reactant and the second reactant with a first portion of the amount of heat; flowing the exhaust through a third flow path; flowing a third reactant through a fourth flow path, wherein the third reactant comprises water and methane; heating the third reactant with a second portion of the amount of heat; reacting the third reactant to produce a product comprising hydrogen and carbon monoxide; flowing the product through a fifth flow path; and transferring heat from the product to the third reactant in the fourth flow path, wherein: the first flow path, the second flow path, the third flow path, the fourth flow path, and the fifth flow path are coaxial about a longitudinal axis.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.90769
- Patent Class: 422.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14645490', '15934532', '13802879', '12152485', '10931066']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8063477359030476
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5310108754429297
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7788140498570358
- Mean Citation Score: 265.34240800000003
- Max Citation Score: 403.345
- Similarity Product: 313.4445069739224

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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