Abstract:
Some embodiments of the disclosure pertain to a plant and a process for producing a urea-containing product. The plant comprises a medium pressure dissociation unit and a high pressure CO2 stripper each receiving a part of the urea synthesis solution. Stripped urea solution is further treated in a medium pressure treatment unit.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a urea finishing method including an off-gas treatment, the method comprising urea finishing and supplying the off-gas to a quenching zone and to a scrub column comprising a sump and a venturi stage, wherein the sump has a split sump configuration with two compartments.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a catalyst suitable for the catalytic oxidative cracking of a H 2 S- containing gas stream. The catalyst comprises at least one or more active metals selected from the group consisting of iron, cobalt, and nickel, supported by a carrier comprising ceria and alumina. The active metal is preferably in the form of its sulphide. Also disclosed is a method for the production of hydrogen from a H 2 S-containing gas stream, comprising subjecting the gas stream to catalytic oxidative cracking so as to form H 2 and S 2 , using a catalyst in accordance with any one of the composition claims.
Abstract:
Processes and plants for the production of purified urea solution are described. In a described urea production process, urea is produced in a synthesis section without a high pressure stripper and the urea solution is subjected to purification after the recovery section, to give purified urea solution and off-gas. The purification comprises e.g. steam stripping.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a dual pressure plant for the production of nitric acid on the basis of the oxidation of ammonia. The plant comprises a reactor configured to produce a burner gas stream; a gas cooling section configured to form a cooled burner gas; a condensation section configured to form an aqueous nitric acid condensate and an uncondensed nitrogen oxides gas stream; an absorption section configured to produce raw nitric acid and a tail gas; and a tail gas treatment system configured to form a purified tail gas. In a tail gas heating section a further heat exchanger configured to receive heat from the burner gas stream, said further heat exchanger being positioned relatively close to the reactor.
Abstract:
Disclosed are methods and systems for removing submicron particles from a gas stream, in particular from urea prilling off-gas, wherein a Venturi ejector is used. A method comprises contacting a gas stream containing submicron particles in a Venturi ejector with an injected high velocity scrubbing liquid to provide a pumping action, wherein the scrubbing liquid has an initial velocity of at least 2 m/s and wherein the ratio of scrubbing liquid and gas flow is between 0.0005 and 0.0015 (m³/h) / (m³/h). The disclosure also pertains to a prilling tower having a gas stream treatment system comprising a Venturi ejector at the top of the prilling tower, and to a method of modifying an existing prilling tower.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a urea plant wherein, in deviation from conventional plants, a high-pressure synthesis section is operated with two different pressures. The synthesis section comprises a reactor, which is operated under a first high pressure. The synthesis section also comprises a stripper and a condenser, both operated at substantially the same second high pressure. In accordance with the invention, the first pressure is substantially higher than the second pressure. The disclosed plant particularly comprises a compression unit capable of converting a pressure difference into work, or more specifically, mechanical energy for compression. This compression unit is positioned between a liquid outlet of the condenser and a liquid inlet of the reactor, and in fluid communication therewith. In order to make use of a pressure drop (expansion as a result of a liquid being depressurized), said compression unit is configured to obtain compression energy from one or more events in the urea production process ( i.e. , at one or more points in the urea production plant), at which a loss of energy occurs, such as decompression of a high energy stream. Typically, the compression unit is thereby configured to utilize mechanical energy recovered from a decompression unit positioned downstream of the stripper and upstream of the recovery section.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a process for the production of urea ammonium nitrate, a system and a method of modifying a plant. The process comprises treating ammonia-containing off-gas resulting from the production of ammonium nitrate (AN off-gas) with acidic scrubbing liquid in a finishing treatment section having a gas inlet in fluid communication with a gas outlet of a finishing section of a urea production unit, wherein the finishing section is adapted to solidify urea liquid, and wherein said finishing treatment section is adapted to subject ammonia-containing off-gas of the finishing section to treatment with an acidic scrubbing liquid.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a process for the production of methanol from a hydrocarbon feed. Particularly, the process is suitable for a hydrocarbon feed that has not been subjected to the removal of carbon dioxide. The process of the invention comprises the steps of (a) providing a hydrocarbon feed; (b) subjecting the hydrocarbon feed to Catalytic Partial Oxidation (CPO) so as to obtain a synthesis gas mixture; and (c) subjecting the synthesis gas mixture to methanol-forming conditions together with an additional feed of hydrogen (H 2 ), so as to obtain methanol; wherein the hydrocarbon feed is a CO 2 - containing hydrocarbon feed and wherein the Catalytic Partial Oxidation is conducted in the presence of a molar excess of H 2 O, and wherein the additional hydrogen feed is obtained by recovering blowdown gas obtained from the reactor in which the methanol formation takes place and subjecting the recovered gas to pressure swing absorption so as to extract hydrogen therefrom, and wherein gas remaining after hydrogen extraction is recycled as a feed to the Catalytic Partial Oxidation. The process of the invention is particularly suitable for the production of methanol in off-shore circumstances, such as by Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO).
Abstract:
Disclosed is a method and plant for the catalytic dehydrogenation of alkanes, such as propane. The plant is a plant of hybrid architecture wherein one or more membrane-assisted reactor configurations according to open architecture are combined with one or more membrane-containing reactors of closed architecture. Hydrogen remaining in the reaction mixture after separation in the membrane separation unit of a first open architecture configuration, is fed to a first membrane-reactor of the closed architecture type. Also disclosed are methods of modifying plants so as to create the hybrid architecture plant.