Industrial manufacturing
Urea

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Industrial manufacturing


Urea

Author : Jean-Paul MAZAUD

Publication date: March 10, 2001 | Lire en français

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1. Industrial manufacturing

1.1 Process principle

It involves reacting carbon dioxide and ammonia under high pressure and at relatively high temperatures (see table 1 ). The result is a liquid phase in which the reactants are in the form of ionized ammonium carbamate, which is then converted to urea by dehydration.

The condensation of ammonia and carbon dioxide is a heterogeneous, highly exothermic conversion reaction: 2NH3(g)+CO2(g)NH2COONH4+(

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