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2017 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

11. Material Selection and Performance in Fertilizer Industry

Author : Amiya Kumar Lahiri

Published in: Applied Metallurgy and Corrosion Control

Publisher: Springer Singapore

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Fertilizer plant has three basic units, viz. hydrogen, ammonia and urea. Hydrogen is produced by reforming at high temperatures in catalyst packed reformer tubes. Reformed gas after secondary reformer is cooled and hydrogen separated from CO2. Then ammonia is produced by reacting hydrogen with nitrogen under high temperature and pressure. The materials used at high temperatures are subjected to oxidation, high-temperature hydrogen attack, temper embrittlement and nitriding. The corrosion in hydrogen plant in low-temperature section is due to CO2. Urea is manufactured by reacting CO2 and NH3 at high pressure and the intermediate chemical formed carbamate is highly corrosive and the stripper section requires the maximum attention. The chapter describes the problems in different units and how over the years collaboration between process licensors and alloy developers has helped in developing new alloys for hydrogen reformer, resistance to metal dusting and carbamate corrosion.

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Metadata
Title
Material Selection and Performance in Fertilizer Industry
Author
Amiya Kumar Lahiri
Copyright Year
2017
Publisher
Springer Singapore
Book
Applied Metallurgy and Corrosion Control

Print ISBN: 978-981-10-4683-4

Electronic ISBN: 978-981-10-4684-1

Copyright Year: 2017

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4684-1_11

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