Abstract:
Nitric oxides can be absorbed from gas mixtures containing nitric oxides (NO and NO.sub.2) and oxygen by absorption with aqueous solutions. According to the invention, the absorption is effected in bubble columns, superficial velocities of 2 to 30 cm/second being maintained. It is advantageous to connect several bubble columns in series such that the gas and absorption liquid pass in counter-current to one another. In this embodiment, considerably less counter-current stages are required to achieve a high degree of absorption of NO.sub.x than in the case of conventional processes. At superficial velocities of 10 to 30 cm/second, large bubbles of gas can rapidly form from the gas introduced and can interact with the absorption liquid only with difficulty. In this case, gas distributor devices are incorporated in the bubble column. Since NO.sub.2 is more readily absorbed than NO, it is advantageous to connect flow reactors, in which NO.sub.2 is formed from NO and O.sub.2, upstream of the bubble columns.
Abstract:
Nitric oxide may be removed from gases which it is admixed by contacting the gases with aqueous solutions containing nitrate ions in sufficient concentration to oxidize the nitric oxide to nitrous acid and to retain it in the solution under stable conditions. Other oxides of nitrogen can also be absorbed producing nitrous acid which is retained in the aqueous solution in a similar manner. Thereafter, the scrubbing solution is regenerated under controlled conditions, producing a gas stream which contains the recovered nitrogen oxides in relatively high concentration and a scrubbing solution which can be recycled. The recovered nitrogen oxides may be used in the manufacture of nitric acid or other compounds or decomposed into harmless gases.
Abstract:
A compressed exhaust gas containing nitrogen oxides discharged from a compressed absorption type nitric acid plant is treated by adding ammonia or an ammonia precursor to the gas and passing the gas through a NO.sub.x removing catalytic layer to an exhaust gas turbine wherein the temperature of the main flow of the exhaust gas in the zone from the point of which ammonia or an ammonia precursor is added to the outlet of the exhaust gas turbine is maintained at a temperature higher than T.degree. K = 10.sup.3 / (1.91 - 0.228 log P) [P : a sum of partial pressures of ammonia and nitrogen oxides (atm.)] and feeding an inert gas into the place of the zone in which the exhaust gas stagnates.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a process for obtaining nitric acid of a concentration higher than the azeotropic concentration by means of the absorption of nitrogen oxides in water or diluted nitric acid and the partial pressure of the nitrogen oxides before absorption is raised partly by compression of the gases that contain the nitrous gases and partly by means of a cycle of diluted nitric acid which is decomposed by the action of the NO contained in the gases, enriching them in NO.sub.2 and which subsequently reform by absorption of NO.sub.2 in water when the partial pressure of the nitrogen oxides is low.
Abstract:
DISCLOSED IS A TWO STAGE process AND APPARATUS for preparation of NITRIC AICD characterized by efficient use of heat liberated by the conversion of NITROGEN OXIDES TO NITRIC ACID.
Abstract:
Nitric acid having a concentration of at least 98 wt.% is produced from nitrogen peroxide by absorbing the latter in superazeotropic nitric acid, distilling the resulting solution so as to recover nitric acid at a concentration of at least 98 wt.% and nitrogen peroxide, liquefying the latter and reacting it in a first stage with aqueous nitric acid (70-80% wt.%) and air and delivering the resulting superazeotropic nitric acid, together with the solution, to the distillation column. Nitrogen peroxide and oxygen unreacted in the first stage are contacted with nitric acid at 68-75 wt.% in a second stage, thus to produce said aqueous nitric acid fed to the second stage. The said nitric acid at 68-75 wt.% and the superazeotropic acid used for the absorption are extracted from the bottom part of the distillation column.
Abstract:
A PROCESS FOR EFFICIENTLY PRODUCING CONCENTRATED NITRIC ACID WHICH COMPRISES THE STEPS OF (1) ABSORPTION OF NITROGEN PEROXIDE, (2) STRIPPING OF NITROGEN PEROXIDE, (3) SYNTHESIS OF CONCENTRATED NITRIC ACID FROM DILUTE NITRIC ACID, NITROGEN PEROXIDE AND AIR, AND (4) WASHING OF EXHAUST GAS, CHARACTERIZED IN THAT THE 80-90 WEIGHT PERCENT CONCENTRATED NITRIC ACID OBTAINED IN THE NITRIC ACID SYNTHESIS STEP IS USED AS AN ABSORBENT FOR NITROGEN PEROXIDE; NITROGEN PEROXIDE IN THE FUMING NITRIC ACID OBTAINED IN THE NITROGEN PEROXIDE ABSORPTION STEP AND THE CONCENTRATED NITRIC ACID OBTAINED IN THE NITRIC ACID SYNTHESIS STEP IS STRIPPED FROM CONCENTRATED NITRIC ACID WITH THE FEED AIR; THE STRIPPED NITROGEN PEROXIDE IS CHARGED TO THE NITRIC ACID SYNTHESIS STEP TOGETHER WITH THE FEED AIR; UNREACTED NITROGEN PEROXIDE CONTAINED IN THE EXHAUST GAS FROM THE NITRIC ACID SYNTHESIS STEP IS ABSORBED IN THE FEED DILUTE NITRIC ACID AND IS THEN RECYCLED TO THE NITRIC ACID SYNTHESIS STEP; AND UNABSORBED GAS IN THE EXHAUST GAS WASHING STEP IS RECYCLED TO THE NITROGEN PEROXIDE ABSORPTION STEP.
Abstract:
A NITRIC ACID PRODUCING PLANT EMPLOYING A REFRIGERATION UNIT WHICH UTILIZED ENERGY GIVEN OFF BY THE CHEMICAL REACTIONS PRODUCTIVE OF NITRIC ACID TO COOL THE SUBSTANCES PRODUCED BY THE CHEMICAL REACTIONS AND TO REDUCE THE TEMPERATURE OF THE PLANT ABSORPTION TOWER TO INCREASE REACTION EFFICIENCY AND DECREASE REACTION TIME TO INCREASE PLANT EFFICIENCY.
Abstract:
There is provided a method for the synthesis of nitrogen oxides (NOx) comprising the steps of providing a gas mixture comprising oxygen and nitrogen; and heating the gas mixture to a temperature of at least 2300 K at a pressure of 10-100 bar in a thermal reactor forming a gas mixture comprising NOx. There is also provided a method for the production of HNO3.