摘要:
Process for the preparation of urea in whicha urea synthesis solution containing carbamate and free ammonia is formed in a high-pressure part in a synthesis zone at an NH.sub.3 /CO.sub.2 molar ratio of up to 4:1, a temperature of at least 175.degree. C. and the corresponding pressure,a portion of the carbamate is decomposed in a first decomposition stage at synthesis pressure or lower pressure by a stripping treatment with carbon dioxide while heat is being supplied, and the gas mixture thus obtained is at least in part condensed and the condensate and the non-condensed portion of the gas mixture, if any, are returned to the synthesis zone,a further portion of the carbamate still present is decomposed in at least two further decomposition stages and the gas mixture formed is separated, in the first of the further decomposition stages a pressure of 12-30 bar being maintained and heat being supplied and in the second of the further decomposition stages a lower pressure being maintained,and the remaining urea-containing solution is processed further by evaporation to a concentrated urea solution and, if desired, solid urea.In the first decomposition stage a portion of the urea synthesis solution is subjected to a stripping treatment with carbon dioxide while heat is being supplied, and the remaining portion of the urea synthesis solution is countercurrently contacted with carbon dioxide under adiabatic conditions. The gas mixtures obtained in both operations are at least in part condensed in a first condensation zone. The solution obtained in the treatment of the urea synthesis solution with carbon dioxide under adiabatic conditions is supplied to the first of the further decomposition stages and the stripped urea synthesis solution to the second of the further decomposition stages.
摘要:
A process for treating water vapor generated in concentrating an aqueous urea solution wherein a urea synthesis effluent containing urea, unreacted ammonium carbamate and water from a urea synthesis zone is subjected to a plurality of decomposition stages, the pressures of which stages are stepwise reduced to decompose and separate substantially all of the unreacted ammonium carbamate from the aqueous urea solution. The aqueous urea solution which still contains small amounts of ammonia and carbon dioxide is concentrated to obtain crystalline urea or molten urea substantially free of water. The water vapor generated in concentrating said aqueous urea solution which contains small amounts of ammonia and carbon dioxide is cooled for condensation thereby forming a dilute aqueous ammonium carbamate solution which is subjected to rectification under a gauge pressure below 25 kg/cm.sup.2 to distil off a gaseous mixture of water vapor, ammonia and carbon dioxide, introducing the gaseous mixture into the unreacted ammonium carbamate decomposition stage using rectification under substantially the same pressure as the pressure of the rectification for the dilute aqueous ammonium carbamate solution to remove the water vapor from the gaseous mixture, and recovering the resultant ammonia and carbon dioxide together with a gaseous mixture of ammonia and carbon dioxide which is generated in the unreacted ammonium carbamate decomposition stage.
摘要翻译:一种处理在浓缩尿素水溶液中产生的水蒸汽的方法,其中含有尿素,未反应的氨基甲酸铵和来自尿素合成区的水的尿素合成流出物经受多个分解阶段,其阶段的压力逐步降低以分解 并将基本上所有未反应的氨基甲酸铵与尿素水溶液分离。 将含有少量氨和二氧化碳的尿素水溶液浓缩,得到基本上不含水的结晶性尿素或熔融脲。 将含有少量氨和二氧化碳的所述含尿素水溶液浓缩产生的水蒸气冷却冷凝,从而形成稀释的氨基甲酸铵水溶液,该溶液在表压低于25kg / cm 2下进行精馏以蒸发气体 水蒸气,氨和二氧化碳的混合物,将气体混合物引入未反应的氨基甲酸铵分解阶段,在与稀氨基氨基甲酸铵水溶液的精馏压力基本相同的压力下,使用精馏从气态混合物中除去水蒸汽 并且将所得的氨和二氧化碳与在未反应的氨基甲酸铵分解阶段中产生的氨和二氧化碳的气体混合物一起回收。
摘要:
Heat recovery and conversion of reactants to urea are improved in adiabatic and in isothermal urea synthesis systems. Ammonia, carbon dioxide and ammonium carbamate feed streams are charged to the lower portion of a reactor, which has indirect heat exchange means positioned therein extending from the lower portion to the upper portion and which includes a heat exchange medium. Said means has a first header positioned in said upper portion, a second header positioned in the lower portion, and conduit means interconnecting the headers for passing the medium therebetween. Heat of reaction of the feed streams is imparted to the medium in the second header. The resulting reaction mixture is passed to the upper reactor portion, as is the heated medium to the first header, with heat of the medium being transferred to the reaction mixture as it is so passed.
摘要:
A process for synthesizing urea in which a urea synthesis effluent obtained by reacting carbon dioxide and ammonia at urea synthesis pressures and temperatures is subjected to stripping treatment with carbon dioxide under pressures substantially equal to urea synthesis pressures to separate the unreacted carbon dioxide and ammonia contained in the urea synthesis effluent as a gaseous mixture, and a sufficient amount of said gaseous mixture to maintain the urea synthesis temperatures at a predetermined level is recycled to the urea synthesis in the gaseous state, the balance being subjected to condensation to be recycled in the liquid state to the urea synthesis.
摘要:
In a total recycle urea-producing system, the improvement is disclosed which consists in providing in the reactor two adjoining but separated reaction spaces, called first and second reaction zones, the surface which separates the two zones being a heat-exchanging surface. Fresh ammonia and carbon dioxide are fed with a portion of excess recycled ammonia to the first reaction zone, wherein the reaction is exothermic in character, whereas the condensates from the carbamate decomposition and the remaining portion of the excess recycled ammonia are fed to the second reaction zone, wherein the reactions are of an endothermic nature. By so doing, a better thermal balance in the reactor is obtained, concurrently with improved yields.
摘要:
An improved isobaric double-recycle process is disclosed for synthesizing urea with the formation of ammonium carbamate as an intermediate, comprising effecting reaction between ammonia and carbon dioxide at high NH.sub.3 :CO.sub.2 molar ratios, a heat-treatment of the synthesis product at substantially the same pressure as that of the synthesis step and in the presence of a stripping gas, and two distinct isobaric recycles of the residual substances and of the substances in excess released from said synthesis product, said process being characterized in that:(a) said heat-treatment of the synthesis product is carried out in two consecutive stages which are isobaric or substantially isobaric with respect to the synthesis step, in the first of which stages said synthesis product is heated, whereby substantially all the residual ammonium carbamate is decomposed and the decomposition products are displaced together with part of the excess NH.sub.3, while in the second stage the remaining part of the NH.sub.3 excess is displaced by supplying supplemental heat and by injecting thereto a CO.sub.2 stream; and(b) the gas phase stripped in the first stage is immediately recycled to the synthesis step and the gas phase stripped in the second stage is subjected to a condensation and to a residual gas purge and then recycled, in the liquid state, to the synthesis step.The synthesis temperature may range from 170.degree. to 205.degree. C., the synthesis pressure from between 100 and 250 Kg/cm.sup.2, and the NH.sub.3 :CO.sub.2 molar ratio during the synthesis from 2.5:1 to 10:1.Suitable apparatus for carrying out the process is also disclosed.
摘要:
A urea synthesis process for converting ammonia and carbon dioxide to urea is improved by providing an easy means of maintaining the urea synthesis zone in the process at a constant temperature. In the process the starting CO.sub.2 and up to and including 100 percent of the starting NH.sub.3 are reacted in a heat-recovery zone maintained at a urea synthesis pressure. Some of the heat of reaction is removed. The molar ratio of NH.sub.3 to CO.sub.2 which is fed into the heat-recovery zone is less than 4. The reaction mixture and the rest of the starting NH.sub.3 are fed into a urea synthesis zone maintained at urea synthesis pressure to produce urea. The improvement involves adjusting the amount of starting ammonia which is fed into the urea synthesis zone in response to any change in the temperature in the urea synthesis zone so that the urea synthesis zone is maintained at a substantially fixed temperature.
摘要:
In a urea-synthesis installation, the problem of the condensation of the ammonium carbamate is solved by providing a condensation zone composed of a horizontal tube bundle which is placed under the static pressure of a liquid head. The ratio of the liquid head height to the diameter of the circumference encompassing the outermost tube layer of the bundle of tubes is critical: it should be between 5 and 30, 10 being the preferred value.
摘要:
Carbon dioxide is reacted with a stoichiometric excess of ammonia at urea synthesis temperatures and pressures in a urea synthesis zone with the mol ratio of ammonia to carbon dioxide being in the range of from 5:1 to 12:1. The urea synthesis effluent from the urea synthesis zone is pressurized to a pressure higher than the urea synthesis pressure, and heated to a temperature higher than the urea synthesis temperature in a separation zone, wherein unreacted ammonium carbamate and excess ammonia contained in said urea synthesis effluent are separated from urea synthesis effluent in the form of a gaseous mixture of ammonia and carbon dioxide. The thus separated gaseous mixture of ammonia and carbon dioxide is recycled to said urea synthesis zone by means of the pressure difference.
摘要:
Urea is produced from ammonia synthesis effluent containing hydrogen, nitrogen, methane and argon, which is reacted with carbon dioxide to form ammonium carbamate. The hot ammonia synthesis effluent is contacted with the liquid effluents from the area synthesis reactor to dissociate the carbamate contained in said effluents into a gaseous effluent containing ammonia, carbon dioxide and oxygen, and to produce a further liquid reaction product containing urea. Oxygen is removed from the carbamate dissociation effluent, which is then fed to the ammonia synthesis step.