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The International Fertilizer Society - Proceeding 131 (1972)

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Some Fundamental Aspects of Urea Technology
S M Lemkowitz M G R T de Cooker P J van den Berg

Summary:-

CONTENTS:

I Introduction.

II A New Phase Model for the Ammonia-Water-Carbon Dioxide System at Equilibrium at Urea Synthesis Conditions.
- 1. Introduction.
- 2. Theoretical development of the ternary phase model.
- 3. Experimental.
- 4. Experimental results and discussion.
- 5. Further discussion and practical applications of the model.

III Some Thermodynamic Aspects of the Ammonia-Water-Carbon Dioxide System at Urea Synthesis Conditions.
- 1. Introduction.
- 2. Some general aspects of the model.
- 3. The calculation of the bubble-points.
- 4 Calculations of gas-liquid equilibrium values in the water-rich half of NH3-H2O-CO2 system.
- 5. The effect of excess NH3 and H2O on the conversion in the liquid phase.
- 6. Concerning the conversion to urea in the liquid phase at high temperatures (T = 90-200oC.).
- 7. Limitations of the model.
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IV
- 1. Measurement of condensation points in a gaseous ammonia-carbon dioxide-water mixture.
- 2. Theory.
- 3. Experimental.
- 4. Results and discussion.
- 5. Possibilities for the calculation of dew-points.
- 6. Practical applications of the dew-point measurements.

V Corrosion in an NH3-H2O-CO2 Gas Mixture at Urea Synthesis Conditions.

VI An HGRP Pilot Plant.

VII Trends in Urea Process Technology.

Appendix.
Acknowledgements
Discussion following presentation of paper


Ir S M Lemkowitz, Ir M G R T de Cooker and Prof. Drs P J van den Berg, Faculty of Chemical Engineering, University of Delft, Netherlands.

115 pages, 56 figures, 9 tables, 148 references.


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