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:
A process for the production of urea from ammonia and carbon dioxide, combined with the preparation of ammonia, is disclosed wherein ammonium carbamate in the urea solution produced is removed from said urea solution by subjecting the urea solution to two stripping stages. The first stripping stage uses the urea synthesis starting gas, which contains hydrogen, nitrogen and carbon dioxide. The second stripping stage, which is at substantially the same pressure as the first stripping stage, uses a gas containing at least one of the components needed in the ammonia synthesis. This second stripping gas is substantially free of ammonia and carbon dioxide. The disclosed process has the advantage, compared to prior processes, that the stripping gases need not be compressed at relatively high temperatures.
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.