Plant for the production of monochloramine and process thereof

• US 10,155,662 B2
• Filed: 10/27/2015
• Issued: 12/18/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 10/28/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Innogreen SRL
• Original Assignee: Acel S.R.L.
• Inventors: Gatti, Marco, Cauzzi, Daniele Alessandro
• Primary Examiner(s): Langel, Wayne A
• Application Number:
  US14/923,754
• Publication Number:
  US 20160115028A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,148 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: C01B 21/091 Chloramine, i.e. NH2Cl or dichloramine, i.e. NHCl2
• CPC Class Codes: C02F 1/76 with halogens or compounds of halogens C02F1/4674 takes precedence

Abstract

A process for the production of monochloramine characterized in that it provides for drawing a portion of water intended for the user and exclusively using the portion for preparing the monochloramine solution. The portion intended for the reaction of formation of monochloramine is subjected to a treatment on osmotic membrane, obtaining osmotized water. Subsequently, there is the reaction of the water with reagents in a reactor. In the reaction step, inside the reactor, the osmotized water enters from a first orifice (C) via a solenoid valve with micrometric regulation (EV1). Inside the same reactor, the base chemical products enter via the respective orifices A and B. The base chemical products enter due to the action of metering pumps (e.g. peristaltic pumps). The system is managed by PLC.

Claims

1. A process for the production of monochloramine, comprising:

drawing a portion of water for a user and exclusively using said portion for preparing a monochloramine solution;

subjecting the portion for preparing the monochloramine solution to a treatment on an osmotized membrane and obtaining osmotized water,

making said osmotized water react with reagents in a reactor, said reactor comprising a base and extending in an axial direction from said base, wherein the reagents are introduced in said axial direction of the reactor while the osmotized water is introduced on a plane parallel to the base of the reactor, in non-radial direction, and wherein said osmotized water is made to react with the reagents, simultaneously with the introduction of the osmotized water into the reactor;

introducing a reagent B, comprising an ammonium solution in salt form, through an orifice;

introducing a reagent A, comprising stabilized sodium hypochlorite, through another orifice, after introduction of the reagent B;

the osmotized water being continuously introduced into the reactor during introduction of each reagent,

measuring pH of pure monochloramine solution produced by the reaction and verifying that said value falls within a range between 8-12;

discharging the solution produced in the reactor towards a storage tank after verifying that the pH is within the range of 8-12, rendering the monochloramine produced by the reaction available for use.

2. The process according to claim 1, wherein the introduction of the reagents into the reactor occurs in proximity to a point inside the reactor where the introduction of the osmotized water into the reactor also occurs.

3. The process according to claim 1, wherein the portion of water that is drawn, osmotized and used for the reaction for preparing monochloramine is a portion of service water from a water circuit of the user;

said osmotized service water used for the reaction and containing monochloramine is re-introduced into the water circuit of the user at the end of the reaction, in a quantity equivalent to the portion of service water drawn for the process for preparing the monochloramine solution.

4. The process according to claim 1, wherein the monochloramine solution which is produced in the reactor has a concentration of monochloramine variable between 1 mg/l and 500 mg/l of monochloramine which is equivalent to 0.73 mg/l and 365 mg/l of Cl₂.

5. The process according to claim 1, wherein the reagent B contains NH₄Cl+NaOH+NH₃.

6. The process according to claim 1, wherein the introducing of the reagents into the reactor is performed by peristaltic pump controlled by a programmable logic controller.

7. The process according to claim 1, further comprises controlling pressure of the portion of water used for the reaction solution.