Ammonia manufacturing from natural gas and air generally starts with (1)

purification were impurities composing mainly of sulfur compounds are removed

from the feed stream. Steam reforming process is performed in two stages: In the
steam reformer (2), superheated steam is fed to the reformer with methane which
allows for the conversion to synthesis gas. This stage is followed by the air reformer
(3), where a calculated amount of air is mixed with the synthesis gas. Carbon
monoxide in the gas is converted to carbon dioxide in the High (4) and Low
Temperature Shift Reactors (5). The resulting gas are pumped through an absorberstripper system (6) using UCARSOL soluble to remove carbon oxides. Any residual
carbon oxides are converted back to methane by methanation (7). The gas mixture
is then cooled and compressed (8) and fed to the ammonia synthesis loop (9) where
hydrogen and nitrogen eventually react for form ammonia. The product is
decompressed to 24 bars to a liquid state. At this pressure, impurities such as
hydrogen, methane and significant levels of ammonia become gases. The impurities
are then separated from the liquid ammonia and sent through absorber-distillation
system (10) for ammonia recovery. The recovered ammonia is then mixed with the
pure ammonia and is ready for storage.