Advanced Urea On-line Raman Analyzer (AURORA)
Advanced URea On-line Raman Analyzer (AURORA)
Urea plants have never been easy in the control and performance optimization. Large recycle streams and several constrains are hindering the process optimization job.
The performances of the urea synthesis strictly depends on thermodynamic equilibrium which is very sensitive to the operating conditions and especially depends on the compositions in the urea reactor and synthesis equipment.
In most of the plants there is the need of strictly monitoring the synthesis compositions, to utilize such information for understanding the process performances and correcting the process parameters.
AURORA is the new Casale on-line analyzer developed for the urea process control and optimization.
The new on-line analyzer is a “Real Time Performance Meter” which could be also used as smart sensor to enhance the performance of a Model Predictive Control.
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Event Information
Event Date | February 11, 2021 |
Event End Date | February 11, 2021 |
Location | Casale SA - Lugano, Switzerland |
Presenter

Luca Rugnone
Urea Manager - Commercial Division
Luca Rugnone holds a MSc in Chemical Engineering from Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy.
In 2006, he started his career in Casale SA as Process Engineer. Since 2015, he has been working as Urea Manager in the Commercial Division, involved in the coordination of the Customer Care activities, monitoring the urea plants performance to identify and advice areas of improvement and implementing the company sales policy of products & services for upgrading the plants.