System and process for melamine production by gas-phase quenching method of energy efficient and cost saving type

• US 9,114,371 B2
• Filed: 04/20/2012
• Issued: 08/25/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/28/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Beijing Edgein Technology Co., Ltd., Sichuan Golden-Elephant Sincerity Chemical Co., Ltd. (Sichuan Golden Elephant Chemical Industry Group Co. Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Beijing Edgein Technology Co., Ltd., Sichuan Golden-Elephant Sincerity Chemical Co., Ltd. (Sichuan Golden Elephant Chemical Industry Group Co. Ltd.)
• Inventors: Tang, Yin, Yuan, Zhongwu, Gong, Yuande, Yang, Xiuzhen, Lei, Lin, Xiong, Xikun, Chen, Hui, Kong, Deli, Li, Zhongyun, Lan, Guangsong, Yuan, Guohua, Kuang, Xiangdong, Yin, Mingda, Chen, Duanyang, Yi, Jianglin, Liu, Chaohui, Li, Xuchu, Jiang, Wenmao, Li, Gang, Guo, Lihong
• Primary Examiner(s): Balasubramanian, Venkataraman
• Application Number:
  US13/985,647
• Publication Number:
  US 20130324720A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,222 Days
• Field of Search: 544/201, 544/203
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B01J 8/1872 Details of the fluidised bed reactor B01J8/1836 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: C07D 251/60 from urea or from carbon dioxide and ammonia

Abstract

A system and process for melamine production by gas-phase quenching method and its process are provided. The said system includes a urea scrubber, after which a fluidized bed reactor, a hot-air cooler, a hot-air filter, a crystallizer and a melamine collector are installed in series successively, where the said melamine collector is connected to the said urea scrubber and the said fluidized bed reactor is connected to a carrier gas pre-heater which is connected to a carrier gas compressor; the said system further includes a gas-liquid separator which is connected to the said urea scrubber which is connected to a crystallizer; wherein a cool air blower is provided between the said gas-liquid separator and the crystallizer. The production system of the invention has the advantages of high productivity, stable operation, low energy consumption, low investment and high economic value of tail gas.

Claims

1. A system for melamine production by gas-phase quenching method, including:

a urea scrubber, after which a fluidized bed reactor, a hot gas cooler, a hot gas filter, a crystallizer and a melamine collector are installed in series successively, where the melamine collector is connected to the urea scrubber;

wherein the fluidized bed reactor is connected to a carrier gas pre-heater that is connected to a carrier gas compressor;

wherein the system for melamine production further comprises a gas-liquid separator connected to the urea scrubber that is connected to the crystallizer, and the carrier gas compressor is connected to the gas-liquid separator; and

wherein a cold gas blower is provided between the gas-liquid separator and the crystallizer.

2. The system for melamine production according to claim 1, wherein a cold gas cooler is provided between the cold gas blower and the crystallizer.

3. The system for melamine production according to claim 1, wherein the carrier gas compressor is connected to the gas-liquid separator via the cold gas blower.

4. The system for melamine production according to claim 1, wherein the carrier gas pre-heater is a tubular heat exchanger.

5. The system for melamine production according to claim 4, wherein the hot gas filter is a bag filter.

6. The system for melamine production according to claim 5, wherein the hot gas cooler is connected to an exhaust boiler.

7. The system for melamine production according to claim 6, wherein the urea scrubber is provided with tubular evaporative heat exchanger.

8. The system for melamine production according to claim 7, wherein the gas-liquid separator is a cyclone demister.

9. A production process for melamine, including the following steps:

(a) compressing a carrier gas in a carrier gas compressor to a pressure of 0.36˜

2.1 MPa and then heating the carrier gas in a carrier gas pre-heater to a temperature of 380˜

430°

C., followed by flowing the carrier gas into a fluidized bed reactor as a fluidized gas;

(b) pumping urea melt at a temperature of 135˜

155°

C. in a urea scrubber into a dense phase of catalyst in the fluidized bed reactor, where the reaction pressure is 0.3˜

4.9 MPa and the temperature is 375˜

430°

C., and reacting the urea melt to produce reaction gases including melamine, ammonia and CO₂;

(c) passing the reaction gases out from a top of the fluidized bed reactor and into a hot gas cooler, and cooling the reaction gases to a temperature of 330˜

360°

C., wherein high-boiling-point by-products are fully precipitated by crystallization in the gas stream;

(d) filtering the reaction gases that come out from the hot gas cooler and flow into a hot gas filter, and intercepting the high-boiling-point by-products and catalyst particles, wherein the temperature in the hot gas filter is higher than or equal to that of the reaction gases from the hot gas cooler, with temperature difference of no more than 3°

C.;

(e) flowing the reaction gases coming out from the hot gas filter into the crystallizer, mixing the gases with a crystallization cooling gas, a final temperature of the mixed gas being controlled to within 210˜

230°

C., and quenching the hot gases by cold gas, wherein a majority of gaseous melamine is crystallized and precipitated from the reaction gases;

(f) flowing the reaction gases mixed with melamine crystal into a melamine collector, wherein a temperature in the melamine collector is higher than or equal to that of gas-solid mixture from a crystallizer, with temperature difference of no more than 3°

C.;

(g) flowing the reaction gases separated from melamine crystal out from the melamine collector and into the urea scrubber, and mixing the gases with the urea melt at 135˜

155°

C., flowing the mixture downward, scrubbing the gases with the urea and cooling the melamine particles in a process gas, wherein un-reacted reactants are held in the urea melt;

(h) separating the gas-liquid mixture that comes out from a lower part of the urea scrubber by a gas-liquid separator to form a process gas having a pressure of 0.15 to 1.8 MPa, thereby generating urea and the process gas, wherein part of the urea is reused for circulation of scrubbing reaction gases and the rest of the urea is sent to the reactor for melamine synthesis;

(i) using a portion of the process gas separated by the gas-liquid separator as a crystallization cooling gas and carrier gas and the rest of the process gas is discharged as tail gas, and after boosting by a cold gas blower, circulating the crystallization cooling gas back to the crystallizer from a lower part of the crystallizer.

10. The production process according to claim 9, wherein in Step (i), crystallization cooling gas from the cold gas blower is cooled by a cold gas cooler to 135˜

150°

C., and then circulates back to crystallizer from the lower part of the crystallizer.

11. The production process according to claim 9, wherein in Step (i), the said carrier gas enters the said carrier gas compressor after being boosted by the cold gas blower.

12. The production process according to claim 9, wherein the catalyst is a particulate porous aluminum silicate colloid.

13. The production process according to claim 9, wherein in Step (c), heat released when reaction gases in the hot gas cooler get cooled is transferred to an exhaust boiler in which the medium is heated;

and the released heat is transferred to the carrier gas pre-heater to pre-heat the carrier gas.

14. The production process according to claim 9, wherein in Step (g), the heat released when reaction gases get cooled is taken away by a tubular evaporative heat exchanger in the urea scrubber, the tubular heat exchanger tube having circulating saturated water with an evaporating temperature of 125˜

150°

C.

15. The production process according to claim 9, wherein in Step (h), the gas-liquid mixture from the lower part of the urea scrubber is separated by the gas-liquid separator, thereby generating urea and process gases, and then the part of the urea separated by the gas-liquid separator is returned to the urea scrubber.

16. The production process according to claim 9, wherein in Step (i), after being boosted by the cold gas blower to 0.18-1.85 MPa, the crystallization cooling gas circulates back to crystallizer from the lower part of the crystallizer.