Background technology
At present, the method for production methyl chloride mainly contains methane direct chlorination method and methyl alcohol method.Because the chlorine of methane direct chlorination method consumption is high, the difficult control of reaction, side reaction is serious, so the methyl alcohol method is occupied an leading position on the market.
In application number was 02813796.5 Chinese patent application, disclosing a kind of was catalyzer with the rare earth chloride, adopted the methane process for oxychlorination to prepare the method for methyl chloride.Comprise and make a kind of methane, halo C of being selected from
1The reactant hydrocarbon of hydrocarbon or its mixture and halogen source and preferred oxygen source in the presence of rare earth halide or rare earth oxyhalide oxide catalyst, contact, thereby form a kind of halo C
1Hydrocarbon product, its more described reactant hydrocarbon has the more halogenic substituent of more number.Preferably, described product is single methyl halide, more preferably methyl chloride.The oxidative halogenation method of described formation methyl halide can combine with downstream process, with preparation valuable commodity chemicals, for example methyl alcohol and/or dme; Light olefin comprises ethene, propylene and butylene; Higher hydrocarbon comprises gasoline; Halogen vinyl monomer and acetate.The common property thing hydrogen halide of these downstream processes, capable of circulation getting back among the described oxidative halogenation method.
Summary of the invention
The object of the present invention is to provide a kind of reaction heat lower, reaction process is easy to control, is easy to regulate the yield ratio of each chloro-product, the preparation method of the methyl chloride that production cost greatly reduces.
Technical scheme of the present invention is that employing is the process for oxychlorination production methyl chloride in chlorine source with the nickelous chloride.
Reaction formula of the present invention is:
NiCl
2+2CH
4+O
2=NiO+H
2O+2CH
3Cl
NiCl
2+2CH
3Cl+O
2=NiO+H
2O+2CH
2Cl
2
NiCl
2+2CH
2Cl
2+O
2=NiO+H
2O+2CHCl
3
NiCl
2+2CHCl
3+O
2=NiO+H
2O+2CCl
4
The present invention includes following steps:
1) nickelous chloride and cuprous chloride are crushed into powder, react in the reactor of packing into after mixing, by mass percentage, the add-on of cuprous chloride is 0.5%~5% of a nickelous chloride;
2) control reaction temperature is 350~430 ℃, reacts in the mixed gas feeding reactor with methane and oxygen;
3) gaseous product flow that will react the back output is forced into 0.5MPa at least, be cooled to obtain the methyl chloride mixed solution below 30 ℃, through dewater, rectifying obtains the methyl chloride product.
Described methane and oxygen ratio in molar ratio is 5: (1~10), the time of reacting in the mixed gas feeding reactor with methane and oxygen is preferably 0.5~20min, and adjusting reaction time and control oxygen proportion can obtain the chloromethane mixture of different ratios.
Uncooled gas is mainly unreacted methane, oxygen and part methyl chloride after pressurization and cooling, recyclablely recycles to reactor.
Compare with chlorine direct chlorination method and hydrogenchloride process for oxychlorination, the present invention is because to adopt nickelous chloride be the chlorine source, so reaction heat is lower, and reaction is gas-solid reaction, and reaction process is easy to control, is easy to regulate the yield ratio of each chloro-product.Chinese invention patent application as if in conjunction with application number being 200610135336.4 and 200710009827.9 then can realize the cyclic transformation of nickelous chloride and nickel oxide, obtains chlorine source cheaply, and the production cost of methyl chloride is greatly reduced.
Embodiment
Following examples will the present invention is further illustrated.
Embodiment 1
136g nickelous chloride powder and 1g cuprous chloride powder mixes is even, pack in the reactor, control reaction temperature is 380 ℃, and the mol ratio of logical people's methane and oxygen is 2: 1 mixed gass, controlling reaction time 1min, obtain gaseous product flow and be compressed to 1MPa, be cooled to 0 ℃, isolate liquid, after dewatering, the liquid that obtains contains monochloro methane 75% approximately, methylene dichloride 25%.
Embodiment 2
136g nickelous chloride powder and 0.68g cuprous chloride powder mixes is even, pack in the reactor, control reaction temperature is 430 ℃, and the mol ratio of logical people's methane and oxygen is 5: 1 mixed gass, controlling reaction time 0.5min, obtain gaseous product flow and be compressed to 1MPa, be cooled to 0 ℃, isolate liquid, after dewatering, the liquid that obtains contains monochloro methane 95% approximately, methylene dichloride 5%.
Embodiment 3
136g nickelous chloride powder and 2g cuprous chloride powder mixes is even, pack in the reactor, control reaction temperature is 400 ℃, and the mol ratio of logical people's methane and oxygen is 5: 3 mixed gass, controlling reaction time 3min, obtain gaseous product flow and be compressed to 1MPa, be cooled to 0 ℃, isolate liquid, after dewatering, the liquid that obtains contains monochloro methane 65% approximately, methylene dichloride 33%, trichloromethane 2%.
Embodiment 4
136g nickelous chloride powder and 3g cuprous chloride powder mixes is even, pack in the reactor, control reaction temperature is 390 ℃, and the mol ratio of logical people's methane and oxygen is 5: 5 mixed gass, controlling reaction time 4min, obtain gaseous product flow and be compressed to 0.5MPa, be cooled to 10 ℃, isolate liquid, after dewatering, the liquid that obtains contains monochloro methane 45% approximately, methylene dichloride 50%, trichloromethane 5%.
Embodiment 5
With 136g nickelous chloride powder and 4g cuprous chloride powder mixes is even, in the reactor of packing into, control reaction temperature is 410 ℃, the mol ratio of logical people's methane and oxygen is 5: 7 mixed gass, controlling reaction time 10min obtains gaseous product flow and is compressed to 0.5MPa, is cooled to 30 ℃, isolate liquid,, contain monochloro methane 15% approximately after the liquid that obtains dewaters, methylene dichloride 50%, trichloromethane/28%, tetracol phenixin 7%.
Embodiment 6
136g nickelous chloride powder and 5g cuprous chloride powder mixes is even, and in the reactor of packing into, control reaction temperature is 360 ℃, the mol ratio of logical people's methane and oxygen is 5: 8 mixed gass, controlling reaction time 15min obtains gaseous product flow and is compressed to 0.5MPa, is cooled to 30 ℃, isolate liquid,, contain monochloro methane 12% approximately after the liquid that obtains dewaters, methylene dichloride 36%, trichloromethane/38%, tetracol phenixin 14%.
Embodiment 7
136g nickelous chloride powder and 6.8g cuprous chloride powder mixes is even, and in the reactor of packing into, control reaction temperature is 350 ℃, the mol ratio of logical people's methane and oxygen is 5: 10 mixed gass, controlling reaction time 20min obtains gaseous product flow and is compressed to 0.5MPa, is cooled to 30 ℃, isolate liquid,, contain monochloro methane 10% approximately after the liquid that obtains dewaters, methylene dichloride 28%, trichloromethane/45%, tetracol phenixin 17%.