Process and apparatus for urea production

    公开(公告)号:US11498895B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-11-15

    申请号:US17260834

    申请日:2019-07-02

    摘要: There is provided a process and an apparatus for urea production in which preheating of raw material ammonia or heating in a medium-pressure decomposition step can be performed at a relatively low pressure while preventing decrease in an overall heat transfer coefficient. A process for urea production includes: a synthesis step of generating a urea synthesis solution; a high-pressure decomposition step of heating the urea synthesis solution to separate a gaseous mixture containing ammonia and carbon dioxide from the urea synthesis solution; a condensation step of condensing the gaseous mixture; a medium-low-pressure steam generation step of reducing a pressure of medium-pressure steam condensate obtained in the high-pressure decomposition step to a medium-low pressure to generate medium-low-pressure steam and medium-low-pressure steam condensate; and one or both of a medium-pressure decomposition step and an ammonia preheating step.

    PREPARATION METHOD FOR REMOVING TRIURET CAUSING TURBIDITY IN UREA WATER

    公开(公告)号:US20190330143A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-10-31

    申请号:US16344154

    申请日:2017-09-05

    申请人: Soultec Co., Ltd

    发明人: Sang Won Shin

    摘要: The present disclosure relates to a preparation method for removing triuret causing turbidity in a urea solution and to a urea solution prepared using the method, and more particularly, to a preparation method, in which urea is introduced to ultrapure water at 15° C. to 24° C. in a magnetic tank with a size of 1 m3 to 20 m3, and the mixture is stirred by using a magnetic mixer and filtered through a hollow-fiber type ultrafiltration membrane (having a pore size in a range of 0.01 μm to 0.3 μm) such that a 32.5% automotive urea solution has a turbidity of 0.02 NTU to 0.2 NTU, and the triuret causing turbidity in a urea solution and reducing conversion efficiency to NH3 in selective catalytic reduction (SCR) is removed. To achieve the purpose of the present disclosure, there is provided a method of preparing a urea solution by dissolving urea in ultrapure water, wherein the 32.5% automotive urea solution is provided by a preparation method including the steps of: a step of preparing ultrapure water at 15° C. to 24° C.; a step of moving the ultrapure water into a magnetic mixer tank; a step of introducing urea to the ultrapure water contained in the magnetic mixer tank; a step of operating a magnetic mixer to induce vortex effect for mixing and stirring the ultrapure water with urea to prepare a urea solution; and a step of filtering by passing the urea solution including triuret through a hollow-fiber type ultrafiltration filter (U/F) to filtrate 20 L of triuret and impurities per 1,000 L of the urea solution, while maintaining a low temperature of the urea solution resulting from the stirring (S5).