124 patents
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a Pressure Swing Adsorption Process for Producing Hydrogen and Carbon Dioxide
16 Jun 22
A pressure swing adsorption process (PSA) comprising the following steps: feeding an input gas containing H2, CO2 and impurities through a CO2 adsorbent material in a pressure vessel under a high pressure; withdrawing a first H2-rich product gas due to adsorption of CO2 in the adsorbent material; setting the pressure to an intermediate pressure causing the adsorbent material release a second gas stream; passing a CO2-rich purge stream through the adsorbent material, obtaining a purge gas; setting the pressure to a sub-atmospheric low pressure, so that a CO2-rich product gas is released under vacuum by the adsorbent material; re-pressurizing the vessel to said high pressure; said steps being performed cyclically in a pressure vessel or in a plurality of parallel pressure vessels of a multiple vessel setup.
Anne Streb, Max Hefti, Matteo Gazzani, Marco Mazzotti
Filed: 21 Apr 20
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Temperature-swing adsoroption process
31 May 22
A temperature swing adsorption process for removing a target component from a gaseous mixture containing water and at least one side component, said process comprising: (a) at least one adsorption step, providing a target component-loaded adsorbent and at least one waste stream depleted of the target component; (b) a desorption step, comprising heating of the loaded adsorbent to a desorption temperature and providing a first output stream containing the desorbed target component; (c) a conditioning step; (d) at least one target component-releasing releasing step bringing the solid adsorbent to a temperature lower than said desorption temperature and providing at least one second output stream containing an amount of the target component and containing water; (e) separating water from said second output stream(s) and (f) subjecting the so obtained water-depleted stream(s) to said adsorption step or to at least one of said adsorption steps.
Lisa Joss, Max Hefti, Marco Mazzotti
Filed: 9 Aug 18
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31 May 22
A temperature swing adsorption process for removing a target component from a gaseous mixture, the process being carried out in a plurality of reactors, wherein each reactor performs: (a) adsorption of the target component providing a loaded adsorbent and a waste stream; (b) heating of the loaded adsorbent and desorption of target component, providing an output stream; (c) cooling of the adsorbent; a rinse step (a1) before the heating (b), wherein the loaded adsorbent is contacted with a rinse stream containing the target component, producing a purge stream depleted of the target component; a purge step (b1) before the cooling (c), wherein the adsorbent is contacted with the purge stream provided by another reactor while performing the rinse step (a1), thus producing an output stream containing the target component, wherein the rinse stream comprises at least a portion of the output stream provided by another reactor while performing the purge step (b1).
Lisa Joss, Max Hefti, Marco Mazzotti
Filed: 9 Aug 18
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26 May 22
A method for revamping a catalytic converter wherein: said catalytic converter comprises a pressure vessel and a catalytic cartridge containing at least one catalyst bed, the pressure vessel includes a cylindrical shell with a full aperture and includes a removable cover of said aperture, and the catalytic cartridge is removable through said upper aperture, and the method includes: installing an additional shell over the aperture of the original shell, thus obtaining an axially extended shell of the pressure vessel; providing an axially extended catalytic cartridge having an axially extended room for holding catalyst in the so obtained axially extended shell.
Francesco Formentini
Filed: 18 Feb 20
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12 May 22
A process of granulation of a urea melt, comprising: adding a first additive containing carboxymethyl starch to one or more first stage(s) of the granulation process, to form a carcarboxymethyl starch containing inner layer of urea granules, and adding a second additive containing calcium lignosulfonate to one or more second stage(s) of the granulation process, downstream said first stages, to form granules with a coating containing calcium lignosulfonate.
Leonardo Marrone, Andrea Beretti
Filed: 24 Jan 22
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10 May 22
Method for reducing the content of nitrogen oxides NOx and nitrous oxide N2O in an input gas, comprising the steps of: treating said gas with a first amount of a NOx reducing agent in a first de-NOx catalytic bed; treating the effluent of said first de-NOx catalytic bed in at least one de-N2O catalytic bed for removal of N2O; treating the effluent of said at least one de-N2O catalytic bed with a second amount of a NOx reducing agent in a second de-NOx catalytic bed.
Jean François Granger
Filed: 28 Oct 16
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26 Apr 22
A burner system (100) for the combustion of a hydrocarbon feedstock with an oxidant, comprising at least one burner (1) and a cooling circuit (2), where in: the burner system (100) comprises a fuel side (3, 15) and an oxidant side (4, 14); the burner (1) comprises a cooling chamber (5) connected to said cooling circuit(2); said cooling circuit (2) comprises a reservoir tank(8) for said cooling fluid and a circulation pump(16); said system (100) comprises pressure equalizing line (15b) arranged to establish a fluid communication between the inside of said reservoir tank (8) and at least one of said fuel side and oxidant side.
Luca Zanichelli, Elio Strepparola, Marco Carlucci Mazzamuto
Filed: 2 Feb 16
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21 Apr 22
A method for the suppression of soot formation during the partial oxidation of a hydrocarbon-containing gaseous feed, in the presence of steam and in an ATR reactor or in a POX reactor, the method comprising the addition of gaseous carbon dioxide to the hydrocarbon-containing gaseous feed before entry into the reactor.
Luca Zanichelli, Giacomo Colmegna
Filed: 18 Feb 20
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5 Apr 22
A dual-pressure plant for the synthesis of nitric acid comprising: a reactor (4) providing a gaseous effluent (15) containing nitrogen oxides; an absorption tower (6) nitrogen oxides react with water providing raw nitric acid and, said absorption tower operating at a pressure greater than the pressure of the reactor; a compressor (5) elevating the pressure of the reactor effluent (15) to the absorption pressure; said plant also comprising a first bleacher (37) and a second bleacher (7), said first bleacher (37) stripping with air (39) nitrogen oxides from the output stream (27) of the absorption tower (6) providing a partially stripped nitric acid stream (40) and a nitrogen oxides-loaded air stream (41), the former being fed to the second bleacher (7) and the latter being recycled to the delivery-side of said compressor (5).
Iacopo Cerea, Jean François Granger
Filed: 1 Feb 18
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31 Mar 22
A process of partial oxidation is performed in a reactor which includes a reaction chamber and a burner assembly, wherein: the burner assembly has a single oxidant nozzle located within an fuel channel, said oxidant nozzle comprises a nozzle pipe and a nozzle outlet, the nozzle pipe and the fuel channel are arranged to produce a diffusion flame, the nozzle outlet has a shape with two or more elongate lobes projecting from a center of the nozzle pipe.
Luca Zanichelli, Giacomo Colmegna
Filed: 19 Dec 19
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29 Mar 22
Process for the synthesis of ammonia from natural gas comprising conversion of a charge of desulphurized natural gas and steam, with oxygen-enriched air or oxygen, into a synthesis gas, and treatment of the synthesis gas with shift reaction and decarbonation, wherein a part of the CO2-depleted synthesis gas, obtained after decarbonation, is separated and used as fuel fraction for one or more furnaces of the conversion section, and the remaining part of the gas is used to produce ammonia.
Francesco Baratto, Raffaele Ostuni
Filed: 31 Jan 18
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22 Mar 22
Plant for the synthesis of urea comprising: a synthesis section (101), wherein ammonia (1) and carbon dioxide (2) react to give an aqueous solution (3) containing urea and ammonium carbamate; at least one recovery section fed with said depressurized aqueous solution and in a two-phase state, said recovery section comprising a separator (104,108) which processes said two-phase solution; a pre-decomposer (105, 109), a decomposer (106, 110) and a condenser (107, 111), wherein the gaseous streams obtained in the separator and in the decomposer are condensed in said condenser of the recovery section.
Paolo Bertini, Matteo Fumagalli, Serena Gabbiadini
Filed: 30 Apr 18
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10 Mar 22
Method for producing solid urea by granulation, wherein the granulation is fed with liquid urea having a purity greater than 98% by weight and not containing formaldehyde.
Gianfranco Bedetti
Filed: 15 Nov 21
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1 Mar 22
A dual pressure process for the synthesis of ammonia from a make-up gas, wherein the make-up gas is reacted in two steps in series, the second step operating at a greater pressure than the first step, and wherein a portion of the effluent of the first step is recycled back to the first step, said portion containing unreacted make-up gas.
Sergio Panza
Filed: 26 Sep 17
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10 Feb 22
A perforated-tray column wherein each tray comprises downcomer pipes for conveying a downwardly flowing liquid to a next tray, wherein the downcomer pipe includes: a first portion extending above the perforated tray, a second portion extending below the perforated tray towards the next perforated tray, and an end guard to prevent a gaseous phase from entering the downward pipe.
Sergio PANZA
Filed: 30 Jul 19
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3 Feb 22
Reactor for catalytic chemical reactions comprising a catalyst bed with an annular-cylindrical form crossed by a radial flow or mixed axial-radial flow, wherein the bed is delimited by cylindrical walls made gas-permeable by means of slits and the catalyst bed is formed by particles of catalyst with a nominal minimum size such that: the ratio between a transverse dimension of the slits and the nominal minimum size of the particles of catalyst is smaller than or equal to 0.6; the catalyst bed contains no more than 3% by weight of particles with an actual size smaller than said nominal size.
Sergio PANZA, Pierdomenico BIASI, Ermanno FILIPPI
Filed: 7 Oct 19
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1 Feb 22
A process for the production of ammonia and urea in an ammonia-urea integrated plant comprising an ammonia section and a tied-in urea section, wherein a hydrocarbon is reformed to produce ammonia make-up synthesis gas; said make-up gas is purified by shift conversion and removal of carbon dioxide; carbon dioxide is removed from the make-up gas by a first and a second CO2 removal sections; the first section removes CO2 by absorption with a suitable medium, and the second section removes CO2 by washing with a carbamate solution taken from the urea section; the make-up gas is reacted to produce ammonia; the CO2 removed from the make-up gas and at least part of the ammonia are used to produce urea.
Francesco Nettuno, Luca Rugnone, Raffaele Ostuni
Filed: 1 Feb 18
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23 Dec 21
A process for synthesis of urea from CO2 and NH3 wherein a steam flow (13) produced in the condenser (3) of a high-pressure synthesis loop is compressed to raise its pressure and temperature before using the steam as a heat source for a downstream step of the process.
Leonardo Marrone
Filed: 7 Nov 19
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21 Dec 21
A nitric acid production process, comprising tertiary abatement of N2O and NOx on a tail gas withdrawn from an absorption stage, said abatement including passing the tail gas over a sequence of a deN2O stage comprising a Fe-z catalyst and a deNOx stage comprising a V2O5-TiO2 catalyst in the presence of gaseous ammonia, wherein the tail gas at the inlet of deN2O stage and the tail gas at the inlet of deNOx stage have a temperature greater than 400° C.
Iacopo Cerea, Giada Franceschin, Raffaele Ostuni
Filed: 3 Oct 18
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30 Nov 21
Combined apparatus (1) for the synthesis of urea from ammonia and carbon dioxide, comprising an internal wall (3) which delimits two coaxial zones (4) inside the apparatus, operating respectively as reaction (4) and condensation (5) zones, and optionally also comprising a stripping zone and/or a scrubber integrated in the same apparatus.
Andrea Scotto, Enrico Rizzi
Filed: 31 Jan 17