corrosion in urea plants
corrosion in urea plants
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I am looking for information about the effect of the presence of H2S in CO2 gas feed in urea plants. Specifically, the value at what the H2S content should be lowered to avoid corrosion problems in the urea reactor, stripper, carbamate condensator, etc. Does anyone have information about this subject, or know where I can get it?
RE: corrosion in urea plants
You are familiar with your process' parameters, but the materials engineers who can help you are not. There are some great materials engineers who frequent this site. Please take the time to spell out your problem in detail and you'll get some very valuable help.
RE: corrosion in urea plants
RE: corrosion in urea plants
Corrosion resistance to H2S is enhanced by chromium content and aluminum content.Based on this I like the high austenitic and duplex, rather than the 316,to the extent H2S is an issue.
I hope that's not too vague, but bottom line, if you have solved the basic corrosion problem, it doesn't appear that the H2S is going to get you.
RE: corrosion in urea plants
RE: corrosion in urea plants
Sulfide stress cracking is usually associated with martensitic steels, stainless or not, where sulfides promote the entry of hydrogen and facilitate hydrogen embrittlement. This will not occur over 100C in martensitic steels. Hydrogen in duplex and austenitic steels cannot really do anything worse than slightly decrease the ductility even under high pressure hydrogen charging.
RE: corrosion in urea plants
RE: corrosion in urea plants
I was able to find one more research article froma 1993 conference which showed that pitting attack occurs on duplex SS at a maximum in the temperature range of 80C to 100C when partial pressures of H2S exceed 0.1 bar in a 15% NaCl solution acidified to pH 3.2.
This may help you extrapolate to your conditions. If you want more help, this work was done by Sandvik, the Swedish stainless producer. Avesta is also very good. Try an inquiry directly to them at their web site.
RE: corrosion in urea plants
RE: corrosion in urea plants
The paper was titled "Cracking behavior of 25% duplex stainless steel weldments in H2S/CO2?Cl media by Gooch.
The auhtor is from The Welding Institute, not Avesta as I erroneously said before. Avesta also has a similar paper on Duplex in organic acid at that conference as well as one on duplex in seawater.
RE: corrosion in urea plants
RE: corrosion in urea plants
RE: corrosion in urea plants
RE: corrosion in urea plants
Should have told you to search "AIChe+Ammonia" in [Google]. It's all there, including this year's programme.e.
RE: corrosion in urea plants
RE: corrosion in urea plants
- C.P. Dillon, "Carbamates can cause corrosion problems", Materials Performance, dec. 1999, p.74
- M.P. Sukumaran Nair, "Control corrosion factors in ammonia and urea plants", Hydrocarbon Processing, Jan. 2001
RE: corrosion in urea plants
Urea 51% to 53%
CO2 7%,
NH3 11 to 12%
Proper Passivation method required to protect equipment and pipeline for the above mentioned case.
RE: corrosion in urea plants
- Superaustenitic stainless steel 25%Cr-22%Ni-2%Mo (UNS No. 31050, DIN 1.4466). Oxygen injection is necessary to induce pasivation in SS surfaces. Normally, 0,5-0,8%vol O2 in the CO2 feed.
- Zirconium (R60702). Oxygen is not needed for the passivation process.