Ei EnCompass: Your Source for Petroleum and Petrochemical Patent Information

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Ei EnCompass Your Source for Petroleum and
Petrochemical Patent Information
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Online Internet Databases

• EnCompassPAT
• Coverage from 1964
• Derwent Alerting abstracts are primarily used
  supplemented by Chemical Abstracts
• Weekly updates
• WPAM (Merged file)
• World Patent Index with EnCompass indexing
• Weekly updates

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Subject Coverage

• Petroleum refinery processes
• Petrochemical processes and products
• Fuels
• Lubricants
• Air, land, and water pollution control
• Pipelines, tankers, and storage
• Oilfield chemicals

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Subject Coverage

• Chemical
• preparation and conversion of all hydrocarbons
  and lower oxygenates
• hydrogen manufacture and synthesis gas reactions
• detailed catalyst chemistry for all reactions
  covered
• fermentation products of hydrocarbons and lower
  oxygenates

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Subject Coverage

• Environmental
• removal of nitrogen oxides, carbon oxides, and
  sulfur oxides regardless of origin
• recovery, removal, and conversion of liquid and
  solid wastes
• Engineering
• design and operation of pumps, compressors, and
  valves
• corrosion prevention, testing, and theory
• process control optimization modeling
• flame studies and plant safety

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Subject Coverage

• Specialty Products
• synthetic fuels and lubricants
• nonasphaltic paving materials
• antifreezes
• oil- and gasoline-resistant rubbers
• synthetic waxes

• Petroleum Substitutes
• coal gasification and liquefaction
• oil shale
• tar sands
• waste-derived synthetic oils and gases

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EnCompass Thesaurus Index Term

• MOTOR GASOLINE
• Material by function. Does not include aviation
  gasoline, for which use AVIATION GASOLINE.
• BT MOTOR FUEL
• NT GASOHOL
• LEADED GASOLINE
• LOW LEAD GASOLINE
• REFORMULATED GASOLINE
• UNLEADED GASOLINE
• SA AVIATION GASOLINE
• GASOLINE POOL
• GASOLINE RESISTANCE
• GASOLINE STOCK
• INDOLENE
• NAPHTHA
• OCTANE NUMBER
• UF Automotive Gasoline...

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EnCompass Indexing System

• Cross-reference
• AUTOMOTIVE GAS TURBINE
• use GAS TURBINE
• plus AUTOMOTIVE ENGINE
• Search statement
• S GAS TURBINE AND AUTOMOTIVE ENGINE

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EnCompass Indexing System

• Chemical Aspects
• Carbon count
• Chain and ring structures
• Heteroatom functional groups
• Elements
• Polymer Aspects
• Chemical Aspects are linked to describe a
  compound.

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EnCompass Indexing System
Thesaurus Entry

• ETHYL ALCOHOL
• Material by composition.
• CAS 64-17-5
• CA C2
• SINGLE STRUCTURE TYPE
• SATURATED CHAIN
• MONOHYDROXY
• SA ETHANOL CONTENT
• ETHANOL SYNTHESIS
• GASOHOL
• UF Ethanol

Linked Term field in online record LT 64-17-5
C2 ETHYL ALCOHOL MONOHYDROXY SATURATED CHAIN
SINGLE STRUCTURE TYPE
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EnCompass Indexing System

• Allows searching of groups of compounds
• Examples
• All hydrocarbons containing seven carbons
• S (HYDROCARBON(L)C7)/LT
• All hydrocarbons containing seven carbons and a
  saturated chain (heptane, toluene,
  2,4-dimethylpentane)
• S (HYDROCARBON (L) C7 (L) SATURATED CHAIN)/LT

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EnCompass Indexing System

• Links
• used with material by function terms and
  material by composition terms
• CATALYST(L)PLATINUM(L)ALUMINUM OXIDE)/LT
• Modifier and Structure terms
• Roles
• qualifiers used for reactants and products in a
  chemical reaction, e.g., BUTANE/P

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EnCompass Indexing System

• Template Indexing

TD TEMPLATE TITLE CATALYST ROLE P NUMBER OF
TEMPLATE-GENERATED LINK TERMS 18 V1 PLATINUM
PALLADIUM CATALYST V2 CALCIUM MAGNESIUM
SODIUM S3 ALUMINUM OXIDE SILICA ACTIVATED
CHARCOAL There are 18 linked term subfields
derived from our template example. Examples
are 1. PLATINUM CATALYST CALCIUM ALUMINUM
OXIDE 2. PALLADIUM CATALYST CALCIUM ALUMINUM
OXIDE 3. PLATINUM CATALYST MAGNESIUM ALUMINUM
OXIDE 4. PALLADIUM CATALYST MAGNESIUM
ALUMINUM OXIDE 5. PLATINUM CATALYST SODIUM
ALUMINUM OXIDE 6. PALLADIUM CATALYST SODIUM
ALUMINUM OXIDE
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Electronic Products

• Patent Literature Industry Alerts!
• twenty weekly and monthly abstract bulletins
• HTML and PDF formats available electronically
• most literature bulletins available to
  nonsubscribers
• to receive patent bulletins, you must be a full
  Ei EnCompass subscriber and have a Derwent
  section H subscription

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Electronic Products

• Literature titles include
• Automotive
• Health Environment
• Petroleum Refining Petrochemicals
• Petroleum Substitutes
• Transportation Storage
• Tribology

• Patent titles include
• Catalysts/Zeolites
• Chemical Products
• Petroleum Specialty Products
• Petroleum Processes
• Polymers

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Print Products

• EnCompass Thesaurus
• Updated annually by a task force consisting of
  members of subscriber companies
• EnCompassLIT/EnCompassPAT User Manual
• Third edition recently released
• Patent and Literature Printed Indexes
• Issued monthly

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• One- and two-day training seminars
• Document Delivery
• Specializing in hard-to-find API publications

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