摘要:
Biuret is removed from biuret-containing aqueous urea solutions in a multi-cycle process which involves sequential (A) removal of biuret by contact with an anion exchanger and (B) regeneration of the anion exchanger, in which method, in one or more cycles, the anion exchanger regenerant comprises an aqueous solution of a strong base which has been employed to regenerate the anion exchanger in a previous cycle. This procedure allows for recycling, and thus reuse, of the strong base regenerant which results in significant economy. Methods are also provided in which (A) one or both of the aqueous urea solution and regenerant have a relatively low calcium equivalent content, (B) a substantially non-alkaline regenerant is employed either as the only regenerant in one or more cycles or as a partial regenerant before regeneration with the strong base regenerant, (C) the carbonate content of one or more of the aqueous process streams is controlled and/or reduced, and/or (D) the concentration of biuret in the recycled strong base regenerant is periodically reduced. All of these factors contribute to process economy, anion exchanger life, and more efficient, less frequent regeneration.
摘要:
Methods are provided for recovering biuret from aqueous urea solutions and for producing relatively concentrated biuret-containing extracts which involve contacting a biuret-containing aqueous urea solution with the hydroxide ion form of an anion exchanger to retain at least a portion of the biuret on the exchanger, contacting the resulting biuret-containing ion exchanger with an aqueous extractant under conditions sufficient to form a biuret-containing extract, and contacting the resulting biuret-containing extract with the same or other biuret-containing anion exchanger in the same or subsequent cycles under conditions sufficient to increase the biuret concentration of the extract. The biuret-containing urea feed solution may also contain higher molecular weight urea condensation products, and the biuret can be selectively separated from such condensation products by the disclosed methods. Extracts containing about 1 weight percent biuret or more can be obtained from which biuret can be crystallized at temperatures above 0.degree. C., and purified biuret of as much as 99.9 percent plus purity can be obtained from solutions containing higher molecular weight urea condensation products such as triuret, melamine, ammelide, and/or others. An integrated process also is provided which involves heating urea at a temperature sufficient to form biuret (in the presence or absence of higher molecular weight urea condensation products) and recovering biuret from an aqueous solution of the resulting pyrolyzed urea as described.
摘要:
A process for hydrolyzing urea in waste water streams which comprises introducing a waste water stream containing urea into a carbon dioxide recovery system such as used in connection with the production of ammonia, and therein hydrolyzing substantially all of the urea in the waste water stream.
摘要:
The biuret content of biuret-containing urea is reduced by contacting a solution or melt of biuret-containing urea with a polar adsorbent under conditions sufficient to remove at least a portion of biuret from the urea. The resulting biuret-containing adsorbent can be regenerated for further use by contact with a polar desorbent under conditions sufficient to desorb at least a portion of the biuret contained on the adsorbent. Optionally, biuret can be recovered by recovering the biuret-containing desorbent, and biuret concentration in the desorbent can be increased by recycling the biuret-containing desorbent into contact with biuret-containing adsorbents, and biuret can be recovered from the desorbent by low temperature crystallization.
摘要:
A two-stage continuous crystallization process for production of urea phosphate by reaction of impure wet-process orthophosphoric acid (about 54 percent P.sub.2 O.sub.5) and urea with simultaneous addition of a selected acidifying agent (sulfuric acid, hydrochloric acid, or phosphoric acid) to clarified mother liquor used as recycle in the process. Addition of the acidifying agent decreases pH in the crystallization process whereby the solubility of a contaminating water-insoluble iron phosphate-urea salt [FeH.sub.3 (PO.sub.4).sub.2.2CO(NH.sub.2).sub.2 ] is increased, purity of the crystalline urea phosphate product is improved significantly, and the useful storage life of the recycle mother liquor is prolonged.
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:
Methods are provided for removing biuret from biuret-containing aqueous urea solutions by contacting the biuret-containing urea solutions with the hydroxide ion form of an anion exchanger under anion exchange conditions in which methods one or more aqueous process streams are either formed from materials which are substantially or completely free of alkaline earth metal and/or carbonate impurities or which process streams are treated either before or during their use in the anion exchange process to reduce their content of contaminant alkaline earth metal and/or carbonate compounds. The anion exchanger can be washed and regenerated with one or more aqueous media including water, aqueous solutions of strong base, acidic chloride solutions, and/or other aqueous solutions, and either batch or continuous (fixed bed) contacting can be employed. The use of one or more aqueous process streams in such methods which have been prepared from aqueous media of relatively low alkaline earth metal and/or carbonate content or which are treated either before or during their use in the methods of this invention, markedly reduces the degree and rate of anion exchanger deactivation and the severity of regeneration required to restore anion exchanger activity and thereby markedly increases anion exchanger efficiency and useful life.
摘要:
A process for isolating liquid urea and its thermal decomposition products from the off-gas of melamine synthesis, which gas has been freed from melamine by fractional condensation and then been washed with molten urea, wherein the off-gas, containing 2-10 kg of melt per kg of pure gas, is passed at 8-30 m/sec tangentially into the upper part of an axially symmetrical separation zone. As a result of the rotation imparted to the gas/liquid mixture, the two phases are separated from one another, and both pass downward through the separation zone. The gas and liquid are separately taken off at the bottom end of the separation zone. The residence time of the gas mixture in the separation zone is not less than 0.5 second.
摘要:
Biuret is selectively removed from urea by treating the urea in an aqueous solution at a pH above about 12.5 and a temperature between about 0.degree. C. and 100.degree. C. for a period of time sufficient to decompose at least a portion of the biuret. Solid urea compositions containing biuret and a strong base capable of selectively decomposing at least a portion of the biuret when the mixture is dissolved in water are also disclosed.
摘要:
A method for hydrolyzing urea in aqueous solutions such as waste-water streams which comprises heating the aqueous solution containing urea in the presence of a catalytic amount of vanadium pentoxide for sufficient time and at sufficient temperatures to effect hydrolysis of substantially all of the urea to ammonia and carbon dioxide.