MUMBAI, India, July 25 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202537065960 A) filed by Thyssenkrupp Uhde Gmbh; and Thyssenkrupp Ag, Dortmund, Germany, on July 10, for 'apparatus for production of ammonium nitrate from nitric acid and ammonia.'
Inventor(s) include Gorges, Max Eliot; and Potthoff, Christiane.
The application for the patent was published on July 25, under issue no. 30/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention relates to an apparatus for production of ammonium nitrate from nitric acid and ammonia, where the apparatus has a recirculation circuit with a neutralization reactor (10) disposed within said recirculation circuit, where the neutralization reactor (10) has at least a first region (12) and a second region (14), where the first region (12) is upstream of the second region (14) in the recirculation circuit for flow purposes, where the first region (12) has at least one nitric acid supply apparatus (20), where the second region (14) is a shell-and-tube reactor, where the tubes (30) of the shell-and-tube reactor are designed for supply of ammonia, characterized in that the first region (12) has at least a first perforated plate (40), where the first perforated plate (40) is arranged at right angles to the flow direction, where the first perforated plate (40) is upstream of the nitric acid supply apparatus (20) in flow direction."
The patent application was internationally filed on Feb. 16, 2024, under International application No.PCT/EP2024/054037.
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