Equilibria in the Ammonium Carbamate-Urea-Water System
Equilibria in the Ammonium Carbamate-Urea-Water System
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氨基甲酸铵-尿素-水系统的平衡
DOI:
10.1021/ie50286a008
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发表时间:
1933
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通讯作者:
C. E. Rist
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作者:
K. Clark;V. L. Gaddy;C. E. Rist
Bassarov (1) discovered in 1870 that urea\vas produced when ammonium carbamate was heated in sealed glass tubes at 130 to 140 C. Bourgeois (3) demonstrated in 1897 that urea could be produced not only from ammonium carbonate but also from other carbon dioxide compounds of ammonia when he obtained yields of 1.5 to 9.52 per cent urea by heating the carbamate, the carbonate, the sesquicarbonate, and the bicarbonate to 130 C. in a steel reactor. He noted that the steel was rather strongly attacked under the conditions of his experiments. According to the data of Briner (3) and of Isambert (7) ammonium carbamate exerts a dissociation pressure of approximately 1, 38, and 260 atmospheres at 60, 130, and 197 C., respectively. Since Bassarov and Bourgeois numerous investigators have studied the equilibria in this system, reporting their results in terms of the percentage conversion of the carbamate ex-pressed as percentage yield of urea. Fichter and Becker (5) in 1911 and Fichter, Steiger, and Stanisch (6) in 1917 studied the formation of urea from ammonium carbamate in a tin-lined reactor over the temperature range100 to 140 C. Fichter and Becker reported increased yields of urea with an increase in the weight-volume ratio of the system and an optimum conversion temperature of approximately 135 C. Fichter, Steiger, and Stanisch obtained increased yields of urea with moderate excesses of ammonia. Lewis and Burrows (11) in 1912 determined the equilibrium in aqueous solutions between 77 and 132 C. Matignon and Fre-jacques (13) in 1920, observing the system to consist of a vapor phase with a single homogeneous liquid phase, con-cluded that the system was bivariant. They further pointed out that increasing yields of urea were to be expected with decreasing vapor-phase volumes or increasing weight-volume ratios as Fichter and Becker had determined experimentally. The work of Matignon and Frejacques carried out in sealed glass tubes at temperatures from 130 to 150 C. with a weight-volume ratio of approxi-mately 0.5 gram per cc., a value somewhat higher than had previously been used, showed correspondingly higher yields of urea. Various investigators at this laboratory have studied this system with regard to its industrial application for the synthesis of urea from ammonia and carbon dioxide. Many experiments have been carried out in tin-lined and in Rezistal No. 4 reactors, as well as in glass tubes, up to temperatures of 150 C. The results of much of this work have already been reported by H. J. and NW Krase and V. L. Gaddy (9, 10). These workers have noted increased yields of urea with increasing temperatures, with increasing weight-volume ratios and with increasing excesses of ammonia. They have also shown that an excess of carbon dioxide exerts little effect on the equilibrium, while an excess of waterdefinitely reduces the yield of urea. Yakovkin (17) was the first to report studies on this system at temperatures above 150 C. Hiswork was carried out in lead-lined reactors and at relatively high weight-volume ratios. However, his procedure did not permit an accurate temperature measurement or insure that the equilibrium measured corresponded to the observed temperature range. Neumann and Sonntag (15) in 1931 reported yields of urea obtained by heating ammonium carbamate in a tin-lined reactor for varying periods of time. These authors1 used a weight-volume ratio of 0.75 to 0.90 gram per cc. at temperatures from 135 to 155 C.