Oxamide by hydrolysis of cyanogen

A process for the continuous production of oxamide by hydrolysis of cyanogen, said process comprising:

• providing a reaction zone having therein an aqueous solution containing mineral acid as a hydrolizing agent;
• continuously feeding into said reaction zone gaseous cyanogen and contacting said gaseous cyanogen with said aqueous solution to form solid precipitates of oxamide;
• passing said precipitates of oxamide formed in said reaction zone down into an through a precipitation zone, the precipitation zone being in contiguous communication with the bottom of said reaction zone and being equipped with a stirrer means arranged coaxially only in said precipitation zone;
• continuously feeding water into the bottom of said precipitation zone and passing it upwardly therethrough into said reaction zone and washing said solid precipitates of oxamide by said water in said precipitation zone;
• continuously removing said solid precipitates of oxamide washed by said water as cake or slurry from the bottom of said precipitation zone;
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• the amount of water fed into the bottom of said precipitation zone being the sum of the amount of water consumed in the reaction of hydrolysis of cyanogen in said reaction zone and the amount of water accompanied with the oxamide taken out as cake or slurry.