Abstract:
Process for the preparation of urea granules comprising the steps of obtaining an aqueous urea solution from one or more synthesis and recovery steps wherein ammonia and carbon dioxide are reacted together, subjecting the aqueous urea solution to an evaporation step wherein water is removed to obtain a urea melt (1), processing and treating said urea melt in a granulation step (7) and optionally in a cooling section (10) to obtain solid urea granules (14); the process further comprises a scrubbing step (3) of granulation offgas and an atmospheric evaporation step (32) to recover a urea solution (2) and a water-saturated air stream (18): the water-saturated air stream is fed back to the scrubbing section (3) without condensation, and the recovered urea solution is conveyed to the granulation step (7).
Abstract:
Process for the preparation of urea granules comprising the steps of obtaining an aqueous urea solution from one or more synthesis and recovery steps wherein ammonia and carbon dioxide are reacted together, subjecting the aqueous urea solution to an evaporation step wherein water is removed to obtain a urea melt (1), processing and treating said urea melt in a granulation step (7) and optionally in a cooling section (10) to obtain solid urea granules (14); the process further comprises a scrubbing step (3) of granulation offgas and an atmospheric evaporation step (32) to recover a urea solution (2) and a water-saturated air stream (18): the water-saturated air stream is fed back to the scrubbing section (3) without condensation, and the recovered urea solution is conveyed to the granulation step (7).
Abstract:
Processes and systems for the recovery of solvents from a feedstock are provided, as well as processes and systems for the recovery of target botanical compounds. The processes and systems include a heated mixing device, in which a feedstock can be simultaneously mixed and heated to vaporize and release a solvent or botanical compound from the feedstock. The vaporized solvent or botanical compound can be condensed and collected as recovered solvent or a recovered botanical compound.
Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to a process for the preparation of polyethylene by polymerizing in a slurry ethylene and optionally one or more C3 to C10 alpha-olefins. In some embodiments, the polymerization is carried out in a cylindrical polymerization reactor equipped with an agitator for mixing the contents of the reactor and inducing a flow of the slurry, the ethylene is fed into the reactor by an ethylene injection system comprising one or more injection nozzles which project through the bottom reactor head or through the reactor wall and extend from 0.02-0.5 times the inner diameter D into the reactor, and the ethylene exits the injection nozzle with an exit velocity from 10-200 m/s.
Abstract:
A low temperature polymerization reactor for the production of butyl rubber by catalytic polymerization of isobutylene with small amount of a conjugated diolefin such as isoprene includes: an extended upper head with fluid deflector fixed to the top tube-sheet, the shapes of the head and deflector being optimized in order to reach a very homogeneous slurry velocity in the rows of tubes and to minimize the pressure drop due to the inversion of flow from up-flow to down-flow and to the entrance of the slurry in the tubes; an hemispheric bottom head with fluid deflectors placed between the impeller and the bottom itself and designed to minimize the pressure drop due to the inversion of flow from down-flow to up-flow; and straightening baffles inside the draft tube, which shape and dimensions are optimized to turn the radial velocity components produced by the rotation of the impeller into axial velocity components.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a process for producing free-flowing dicarboxylic acid crystals from an aqueous solution or suspension of the dicarboxylic acid in a crystallizer.
Abstract:
The present invention relates the use of a pump in a loop reactor for the production of polyethylene, as well as a reactor comprising such pump and methods for producing polyolefin by means of such reactor. The pump according to the invention is characterized in that it is an axial flow impeller circulation pump, wherein the impeller comprises 6 blades and wherein the pump is fixed on a spring supported frame. Use of the pump according to the present invention allows for preparation of homogeneous polyethylene products that meet high quality standards from the complicated ethylene polymerization mixtures while at the same time being produced with low energy consumption.
Abstract:
A low temperature polymerization reactor for the production of butyl rubber by catalytic polymerization of isobutylene with small amount of a conjugated diolefin such as isoprene includes: an extended upper head with fluid deflector fixed to the top tube-sheet, the shapes of the head and deflector being optimized in order to reach a very homogeneous slurry velocity in the rows of tubes and to minimize the pressure drop due to the inversion of flow from up-flow to down-flow and to the entrance of the slurry in the tubes; an hemispheric bottom head with fluid deflectors placed between the impeller and the bottom itself and designed to minimize the pressure drop due to the inversion of flow from down-flow to up-flow; and straightening baffles inside the draft tube, which shape and dimensions are optimized to turn the radial velocity components produced by the rotation of the impeller into axial velocity components.
Abstract:
An apparatus for manufacturing a polymer resin comprises a polymerization vessel, a bearing part, a protection part, a circulating cooling means, a raw material-injecting nozzle and a flow path-constituting part. The protection part forms a first flow path between the protection part and the side face of the agitation axis. The circulating cooling means includes a circulating inlet nozzle provided on a side face of the protruding part so as to be opposite to the protection part. The flow path-constituting part is provided between the bearing part and the protection part so as to cover the side face of the agitation axis, to fix the bearing part and the protection part. This flow path-constituting part forms a second flow path between the side face of the agitation axis and the flow path-constituting part and a third flow path for coupling the second flow path with the raw material-injecting nozzle. The first to third flow paths constitute a continuous flow path and an uppermost end of the first flow path is opened to the inside of the protruding part. The gap, part of the first flow path other than the uppermost end, the second flow path and the third flow path are isolated from the inside of the protruding part.
Abstract:
A positive electrode active material for a non-aqueous electrolyte battery comprising a lithium-containing transition metal oxide, produced with the use of a dry precursor obtained by: introducing an alkaline solution together with an aqueous solution containing two or more of transition metal salts or two kinds or more of aqueous solutions of different transition metal salts into a reaction vessel to obtain a hydroxide or an oxide as a precursor through coprecipitation with a reductant being coexistent or an inert gas being supplied; and drying the precursor at 300 to 500° C. to obtain a dry precursor.