Abstract:
A PROCESS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF UREA FROM AMMONIA AND CARBON DIOXIDE IS DESCRIBED WHEREIN A TECHNIQUE FOR REDUCING THE AMOUNT OF INERT GASES SUPPLIED TO UREA REACTOR IS UTILIZED. THIS TECHNIQUE INVOLVES FIRST ABSORBING THE AMMONIA FROM THE AMMONIA SYNTHESIS GAS MIXTURE (CONTAINING AMMONIA, HYDROGEN AND NITROGEN) IN A SUITABLE SOLVENT (WATER, OR AN AQUEOUS SOLUTION IN WHICH AMMONIA IS READILY ABSORBED), AND THEREAFTER DESORBING THE AMMONIA IS READILY ABSORBED), AND THEREAFTER DESORBING THE AMMONIA CONTENT OF THE ABSORBENT SOLUTION IN A SUITABLE GAS STREAM, THE DESORPTION BEING CONDUCTED IN SUCH A WAY THAT THE AMMONIA CONTENT OF THE DESORBED GAS MIXTURE IS MAINTAINED SUFFICIENTLY HIGH THAT A RELATIVELY MUCH SMALLER VOLUME OF INERT GASES ARE THEREBY INTRODUCED INTO THE UREA SYNTHESIS REACTOR.
Abstract:
A PROCESS FOR THE RECOVERY OF MELAMINE FROM A SYNTHESIS GAS MIXTURE CONTAINING HOT MELAMINE VAPOR, IN WHICH PROCESS THE STILL HOT GAS MIXTURE OBTAINED FROM THE MELAMINE SYNTHESIS IS COOLED BY CONTACTING IT WITH A LIQUID COOLANT, WHICH IS A UREA MELT, THEREBY YIELDING A SUSPENSION OF MELAMINE IN THE LIQUID COOLANT FROM WHICH THE MELAMINE IS SUBSEQUENTLY SEPARATED.
Abstract:
An integrated process for the preparation of urea and melamine is described wherein heat requirements for the decomposition of ammonium carbamate contained in the urea product solution, which is cycled as feed to the melamine synthesis stage, is supplied, at least in part, from the heat released by the desublimation of the melamine vapors obtained in the melamine synthesis gas product stream, by bringing this gas stream into direct contact, either in counter-current or co-current flow, with the ammonium carbamate-containing urea product solution.
Abstract:
An integrated process for the manufacture of melamine in combination with the manufacture of urea is disclosed, wherein the urea product from the urea synthesis unit is used as feed to the melamine synthesis unit. In the process described, the ammonia and carbon dioxide by-products from the melamine plants are processed by condensing the same to form a dilute solution of ammonium carbamate and ammonia and desorbing the resulting solution at urea synthesis pressures, to release a major part of the carbon dioxide, and passing the resulting gaseous mixture containing ammonia and carbon dioxide with only small amounts of water vapor directly to the high pressure urea synthesis unit. Procedures for suitably recovering and using the heat energy released during the various chemical reactions and evaporation steps are also described.
Abstract:
A process relating to the separation of melamine from hot synthesis gas mixtures is described, wherein such gases are contacted directly with a urea melt containing ammonium carbamate, so that the desublimation heat released as the melamine is converted from the vapor to the solid state is utilized for the decomposition of the ammonium carbamate to release ammonia and carbon dioxide.