Basf Aktiengesellschaft

Alfred Widmann

Hans Henning Schneehage

Klaus Borho

Ernst-Juergen Schier

Engelbert Hillenbrand

Hermann Dieter Fromm

Dieter Fromm

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.

Isolation of liquid urea from the off-gas of the synthesis of melamine

Melamine synthesis waste gases are first treated for the removal of melamine by condensation. The waste gases are then treated with urea-containing melts which are cooled indirectly. At least parts of said indirect cooling takes place together with the treatment of the reaction waste gases with the urea-containing melts in a single zone.

Process for cooling melamine synthesis waste gases

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