Method for oligomerization of isobutene
Technical Field
The invention relates to a method for oligomerization of isobutene, in particular to a process method for effectively improving isobutene conversion rate and dimer selectivity.
Background
At present, isobutene is mostly used for synthesizing methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) and is used as a blending component of high-octane motor gasoline. However, this method using isobutylene has become unreasonable due to the serious pollution effect of methyl t-butyl ether on groundwater. Thus, is C 4 The isobutene in the fraction has very important practical significance for seeking a more reasonable utilization way.
The oligomerization of low-carbon olefin is one of the important chemical processes in the oil refining and organic chemical industry, wherein the oligomerization product of butylene is an important chemical intermediate, can be used for producing oligomerization gasoline and diesel oil, and can also be used as an important intermediate for producing detergents, plasticizers, additives and pesticides.
The oligomerization of isobutene is a typical acid-catalyzed reaction, and the catalyst mainly comprises a liquid acid catalyst and a solid acid catalyst. When liquid acid catalysts (sulfuric acid, methyl benzenesulfonic acid and the like) are adopted in the early stage, the reaction selectivity is poor, the purity of the product isobutene dimer is low, the catalysts are not easy to separate, the equipment is corroded, and the production process continuity is difficult to realize. In recent years, solid acid catalysts have gradually become hot spots for research on oligomerization of isobutene, and mainly include solid phosphoric acid catalysts, oxides and composite oxide catalysts, molecular sieve catalysts, ion exchange resin catalysts, supported sulfate catalysts, solid super acidic catalysts and the like.
At present, ion exchange resin is generally used as a catalyst for isobutene oligomerization, and in order to improve the selectivity of isobutene dimer, a solvent is added into a reaction system to reduce the generation of isobutene dimer.
Petrochemical 2007, volume 36, phase 3 reports that strong-acid cation exchange resin in tertiary butanol catalyzes oligomerization kinetics of isobutylene, and oligomerization kinetics of isobutylene (m) in a system of strong-acid cation exchange resin (catalyst) and tertiary butanol is studied. The result shows that isobutene oligomerization has the characteristic of first-order series irreversible reaction, and the addition of tertiary butanol in a reaction system can reduce the acidity of the catalyst, but improve the adsorption capacity of isobutene on the surface of the catalyst, and obviously improve the selectivity of a dimer (trimethylpentene) of isobutene, but reduce the conversion rate.
Disclosure of Invention
Aiming at the problems of low conversion rate or low dimer selectivity in an isobutene oligomerization reaction system in the prior art, the invention provides the isobutene oligomerization reaction method, so that the selectivity of the dimer can be obviously improved on the basis of keeping higher isobutene conversion rate of the reaction, and the subsequent products are easier to separate and the energy consumption is lower.
The oligomerization reaction of isobutylene is carried out by passing mixture of isobutylene and sulfone reagent into reactor with resin catalyst, and oligomerizing isobutylene to obtain dimer.
In the method, the weight of the sulfone reagent in the mixture of the isobutene and the sulfone reagent is 0.05-10 percent of that of the isobutene, and preferably 0.5-2.0 percent.
In the above method, the sulfone reagent is at least one selected from the group consisting of sulfolane, 2-methylsulfolane, 3-propylsulfolane, 3-butylsulfolane, dimethylsulfone, diethylsulfone, methylethylsulfone, and dipropylsulfone, and preferably at least one selected from the group consisting of sulfolane and dimethylsulfone.
In the above method, the specific operating conditions of the isobutylene oligomerization reaction are as follows: the liquid hourly space velocity of isobutene is 1.0h -1 ~18.0h -1 The reaction temperature is 100-200 ℃, and the reaction pressure is 1.0-5.0 MPa. Further, it is preferable that: the liquid hourly space velocity of isobutene is 2.0h -1 ~6.0h -1 The reaction temperature is 120-160 ℃, and the reaction pressure is 2.0-3.0 MPa.
In the above process, the catalyst used is a resin catalyst which is disclosed in the prior art and can be used for oligomerization of isobutylene, specifically a strong acid cation exchange resin, more preferably a temperature-resistant strong acid cation exchange resin, and a commercially available product can be used or the catalyst can be prepared by the prior art, specifically a DNW-i type strong acid cation exchange resin catalyst manufactured by dandong pearl special resin limited.
In the above method, as a further preferred method, the strong acid cation exchange resin catalyst is modified by the following method and then catalyzed by oligomerization: (1) soaking in toluene at 50-130 ℃ for 8-24h; (2) soaking for 4 to 24h at the temperature of 50-120 ℃ by using methyl isobutyl ketone; (3) soaking the mixture in distilled water with oxygen content less than or equal to 10mg/L, and introducing inert gas or nitrogen gas, wherein the soaking is carried out in three stages: the first stage treatment conditions are that the pressure is 0.5MPa to 1.0MPa, the temperature is 65 ℃ to 80 ℃, the soaking is carried out for 8h to 12h, and inert gas is introduced; the second stage treatment conditions are that the pressure is 0.9MPa to 1.0MPa, and the temperature is 85 ℃ to 100 ℃ for soaking for 12h to 24h; the third stage treatment conditions are that the pressure is 1.0MPa to 1.5MPa, and the temperature is 120 ℃ to 140 ℃ for soaking for 12h to 24h; and washing and drying to obtain the modified strong-acid cation exchange resin catalyst.
In the above method, further, when the catalyst is modified, the volume ratio of toluene or methyl isobutyl ketone to the resin catalyst in (1) and (2) is 5 to 10:1; preferably 5~8:1, and most preferably 5 to 6.
In the method, when the catalyst is modified, the soaking temperature in the step (1) is preferably 80-120 ℃, and the soaking time is preferably 10-10h.
In the above method, when the catalyst is modified, the soaking temperature in (2) is preferably 60 ℃ to 80 ℃, and the soaking time is preferably 6h to 12h.
In the above method, further, when the catalyst is modified, the flow rate of the inert gas or nitrogen gas introduced during the soaking in the first stage in (3) is 20m 3 /h~50m 3 H, the flow rate of the inert gas or the nitrogen introduced in the soaking process of the second stage is 10m 3 /h~25m 3 The flow rate of the inert gas or the nitrogen introduced in the soaking process of the third stage is 5m 3 /h~10m 3 /h。
In the above method, further, when the catalyst is modified, the oxygen content of the distilled water in (3) is preferably not more than 5mg/L, most preferably not more than 3mg/L, as a preferable embodiment, in the condition of 25 ℃ and 100 kPa.
The mechanism of oligomerization of isobutene over acidic catalysts is as follows: isobutene is firstly adsorbed on the surface of a catalyst, then carbonium ions are formed under the action of an acid center of the catalyst, two carbonium ions are polymerized to generate dimers, or three carbonium ions are polymerized to generate trimers, a plurality of carbonium ions are polymerized to generate polymers, and the reaction of isobutene oligomerization to generate dimers, trimers and polymers belongs to electrophilic addition reaction. The sulfone reagent is added into the reaction system, under the condition of isobutene oligomerization reaction, due to the existence of sulfones, the adsorption capacity of isobutene on the surface of the catalyst is reduced, the reaction speed of isobutene forming two carbonium ions to polymerize into a dimer under the action of an acid center of the catalyst is increased, and the reaction speed of three carbonium ions or a plurality of carbonium ions to further polymerize into a polymer is simulated, so that the selectivity of isobutene dimer is increased, and the high isobutene conversion rate can be maintained.
Detailed Description
The invention is further described below by means of specific examples. The conversion of isobutylene and the selectivity for dimer alcohol in examples and comparative examples were calculated by the following formulas.
In examples 1 to 10, the oligomerization of isobutylene was catalyzed by using DNW-I type temperature resistant strong acid cation exchange resin catalyst (manufacturer: special resin of Dandeng Mingzhu Co., ltd.):
examples 1 to 5
The oligomerization reaction adopts a fixed bed reactor, the size of the fixed bed reactor is phi 20mm multiplied by 1000mm, and the material is a stainless steel single tube. The reactor is divided into three sections and filled, a certain amount of quartz sand is filled at the bottom, 30mL of DNW-I type temperature-resistant strong acid cation exchange resin catalyst (manufacturer: special resin Co., ltd. Of Dandongming pearl) is filled at the middle section, the properties of the catalyst are shown in Table 1, and the quartz sand is filled at the top until the catalyst is filled. Replacing air in the fixed bed reactor with nitrogen, sending isobutene and sulfolane into a preheater by using a metering pump according to a required ratio after the air tightness is qualified, preheating reaction materials, sending the preheated reaction materials into the fixed bed reactor for reaction, keeping the reaction temperature at 120 ℃ and the reaction pressure at 3.0MPa, and recycling unreacted materials. The mixing ratio of isobutylene and sulfolane, the volumetric space velocity of isobutylene and the like during the reaction are shown in Table 2, and the reaction results of the conversion of isobutylene and the selectivity of dimer are also shown in Table 2.
Examples 6 to 10
The experimental setup was as above, changing sulfolane to dimethylsulfone, the reaction conditions such as the mixing ratio of isobutylene and dimethylsulfone, the volumetric space velocity of isobutylene and the like during the reaction are shown in Table 3, and the reaction results of isobutylene conversion and dimer selectivity are also shown in Table 3.
In examples 11 to 20, the oligomerization of isobutylene was catalyzed by using DNW-I type temperature resistant strong acid cation exchange resin catalyst (manufacturer: special resin of Dandeng pearl Co., ltd.) modified with toluene and methyl isobutyl ketone:
examples 11 to 20
DNW-I type temperature-resistant strong acid cation exchange resin catalyst (manufacturer: special Dandong Mingzhu)Resin limited) is firstly soaked in toluene at 80 ℃ for 16h, then soaked in methyl isobutyl ketone at 60 ℃ for 12h after filtration, washed and dried after filtration, and the volume ratio of the toluene or the methyl isobutyl ketone to the resin catalyst is 10:1. placing the catalyst in deoxygenated water with oxygen content of 3mg/L at 20 m/hr 3 Introducing nitrogen at a flow rate, and soaking for 16h at a pressure of 0.6MPa and a temperature of 65 ℃; the nitrogen flow rate was then adjusted to 15m 3 Soaking for 18 hours at 90 ℃ under the pressure of 1.0 MPa; the nitrogen flow rate was adjusted to 5m 3 And/h, soaking for 24h under the conditions that the pressure is increased to 1.5MPa and the temperature is increased to 140 ℃, and obtaining the modified resin catalyst after the treatment is finished.
The operation method of the modified catalyst used for the oligomerization of isobutylene is the same as that of example 1, and the types of sulfone reagents used and other specific reaction conditions and results are shown in Table 4.
Comparative examples 1 to 2
The procedure of example 1 was followed, with only isobutene being fed in, and the other specific reaction conditions are shown in Table 5. The results are shown in Table 5.
Comparative examples 3 to 4
Isobutylene and t-butanol, an organic solvent, were added to the feed in accordance with the procedure of example 1, and other specific reaction conditions are shown in Table 5. The results are shown in Table 5.
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