MUMBAI, India, July 25 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517065968 A) filed by Atlas Agro Holding Ag, Zug, Switzerland, on July 10, for 'high energy recovery process for the production of nitric acid.'
Inventor(s) include Ostbo, Petter; and Skjerve, Ottar Bernt.
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: "A high energy recovery process in nitric acid production process recovers, utilizes and/or stores heat energy in at least four stages. In the first stage, a first heat energy is recovered at the catalytic oxidation of ammonia to nitric oxide to generate high-pressure steam used for a first electrical power generation. A second heat energy is recovered at the catalytic oxidation of nitric oxide to nitrogen dioxide to generate low-pressure steam used for a second electrical power generation in the second stage. The nitrogen dioxide is further cooled in a condenser and a third heat energy is recovered and stored in a thermal storage via a heat pump. The nitrogen gas is absorbed to produce nitric acid in an absorber resulting in a hot tail gas stream. The hot tail gas stream is expanded over a tail gas turbine for a third electrical power generation."
The patent application was internationally filed on Jan. 02, 2024, under International application No.PCT/IB2024/050015.
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