Background
Adiponitrile (ADN) is also called 1, 4-dicyanobutane, is an important chemical raw material, is mainly used for preparing an intermediate hexamethylenediamine of polyamide nylon 6, can be used for preparing rubber additives, pesticides, bactericides and high polymer materials, can also be used as plasticizers, textile additives, solvents, extractants and the like, and has wide application.
At present, adiponitrile (ADN) is prepared industrially mainly by thermochemical catalytic cyanation of 1, 3-butadiene or electrochemical dimerization of Acrylonitrile (AN), wherein the electrochemical dimerization is less toxic, environmentally friendly and requires only one step of reaction compared to the conventional butadiene method, and thus is more sustainable and competitive in the future.
The process of the electrolytic dimerization of Acrylonitrile (AN) was first successfully developed by the company Meng Shandou in the us in the 60 s of the 20 th century, with great practical significance, and many methods for carrying out this reaction have been developed nowadays, such as electrolysis cells separated by a membrane or electrolysis in undivided cells. Among them patent US3193475, US3193481, US3616319, US3335162 disclose a process for the dimerization of AN in diaphragm-separated cells which is attractive enough to be used industrially for a long time but requires a high electrolysis energy consumption, the cell structure is often complex and requires a timed replacement of the diaphragm. Compared with the electrolytic cell separated by the diaphragm, the undivided electrolytic cell has simple design, low cell voltage and easy operation in industry, and is a direct electrosynthesis process. As in patent US3898140, US3689382 discloses a process for the preparation of adiponitrile by electrolysis of AN aqueous solution in a diaphragm-free electrolytic cell, and later patent US4789442 further improves the reaction efficiency by electrolysis of AN emulsion consisting of AN aqueous phase and AN organic phase on a lead or lead alloy cathode. The german basf company also uses a special capillary gap electrolyzer (patent US 3616320) to build a diaphragm-free electrolyzer, and reduces the ohmic drop of solution and energy consumption by reducing the electrode gap to form a capillary gap reactor for film electrolyte, but like other electrolysis processes, electrochemical reduction or oxidation reaction can only occur on parallel plate type cathode or anode walls respectively, the electrode area corresponding to the unit volume of reaction liquid is small, so the conversion per pass AN is low, the outlet liquid needs to recover AN through a large number of separation operations and recycle the AN to the electrolyzer, and the operation difficulty and cost are increased. If the conversion is simply increased by increasing the current density or the electrode area, the by-product increases due to the decrease of the AN concentration in the latter period of the reaction, and the process performance is lowered instead. In addition, when the anode generates half mole of oxygen gas per 1 mole of ADN generated from the cathode, the volume of the reactant flow between the electrode plates is greatly expanded at a high conversion rate, which reduces the local residence time and prevents the electrolyte solution from contacting the electrode, thus making the operation difficult.
In order to overcome the defects of the traditional electrolytic tank in the ADN electrolytic synthesis process, further improve the conversion rate of AN, reduce the separation procedure and the occurrence of byproducts, and continuously remove the gaseous oxygen in the emulsion at the same time, a new process for preparing the ADN by electrolyzing AN is required to be sought.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to provide a device and a method for preparing Adiponitrile (ADN) by integrating AN electrolytic reaction into a reaction rectifying tower, overcome the defects in the existing Acrylonitrile (AN) electrolytic dimerization process, provide a process for preparing adiponitrile by integrating the electrolytic reaction and phase separation, reduce the cost, improve the conversion rate of Acrylonitrile (AN) and obtain AN Adiponitrile (ADN) product with high selectivity.
A device and a method for preparing adiponitrile by electrolytic dimerization of acrylonitrile, which comprises a reaction rectifying tower R001, a supporting electrolyte, water and other auxiliary components, wherein the reaction rectifying tower R001 consists of a rectifying section, a reaction section and a stripping section, a condenser D001 is arranged at the top of the reaction rectifying tower, a reboiler E001 is arranged at the bottom of the reaction rectifying tower, a plurality of negative and positive electrodes are arranged in the reaction section, one or a plurality of material flows containing the acrylonitrile, the supporting electrolyte, the water and the other auxiliary components are introduced into the reaction rectifying tower R001, the adiponitrile is formed at the cathode in a high selectivity mode, meanwhile, oxygen is formed at the anode water in an oxidizing mode, the final oxygen is discharged through the condenser D001 at the top of the reaction rectifying tower, and heavy components adiponitrile, water, salt and a small amount of byproducts are extracted from the reboiler E001 at the bottom of the reaction rectifying tower.
The reaction section and the rectifying section of the reaction rectifying tower are provided with a plurality of intermediate condensers C001-C005.
The mass fraction of acrylonitrile in the feed material flow is 1% -90%, the mass fraction of supporting electrolyte is 1% -20%, and the mass fraction of water is 10% -95%.
The pressure of the reaction rectifying tower R001 is 0.5-10 atm, the temperature of the tower top is-20 ℃, the temperature of the tower bottom is 90-250 ℃, and the reboiling ratio of the tower bottom is 0.5-3.
The reactive rectifying tower R001 is provided with 30-100 theoretical plates, wherein the rectifying section is provided with 5-50 theoretical plates, and the position of the feeding plate is 10-21 theoretical plates.
The total surface area of the cathode corresponding to the unit acrylonitrile feeding flow (1 kg/h) in the reactive rectifying tower R001 is 200-1000 m 2, and the current density is 10-10000A/m 2.
The cathode is a reticular material formed by one or more of lead, cadmium and alloys thereof, and the anode material is a reticular material formed by stainless steel, ti\RuO 2、Ti\IrO2 and the like.
The cathode and the anode are arranged in the liquid phase flow area of the reaction rectifying tower R001.
The tower top condenser D001 is a partial condenser, and the purity of the oxygen at the tower top is 90-100%.
The supporting electrolyte is one or more of phosphate and hydrogen phosphate, preferably dipotassium hydrogen phosphate and sodium phosphate.
Advantageous effects
The invention has the advantages that
By integrating the electrolytic dimerization reaction of the acrylonitrile into the reaction rectifying tower, the gaseous oxygen in the emulsion can be removed while the reaction is carried out, and the problems of low single pass conversion rate of the acrylonitrile, volume expansion of the reactor caused by the anodic oxygen evolution reaction and the like in a common parallel plate type electrolytic tank are solved. Compared with the traditional acrylonitrile electrolytic dimerization process, the acrylonitrile conversion rate is improved to 99%, the selectivity of the obtained adiponitrile product is more than 95%, and the separation operation difficulty and cost are reduced. The reactive rectifying tower is provided with a plurality of intermediate condensers, so that the load of the condenser at the top of the tower is reduced, the cost is saved, and the change of the gas-liquid flow rate in the reaction zone can be kept in a narrower range, thereby being beneficial to the design operation of the rectifying tower and the uniform occurrence of electrolytic reaction.
Detailed Description
The invention aims to provide a novel device and a method for preparing adiponitrile by electrolyzing acrylonitrile dimerization. The invention will now be described in detail with reference to the examples and the accompanying drawings, it being understood that the examples and the accompanying drawings are only illustrative of the invention and are not intended to limit the scope of the invention in any way, and that all reasonable variations and combinations included within the scope of the invention are within the scope of the invention.
As shown in FIG. 1, R001 is a reactive rectifying tower, D001 is a condenser, E001 is a reboiler, and C001-C005 is an intermediate condenser. The reactive rectifying tower R001 consists of a rectifying section, a reaction section and a stripping section, wherein the reaction section is provided with a cathode-anode electrode array, and the reaction section and the rectifying section are provided with 5 intermediate condensers. Acrylonitrile, supporting electrolyte and aqueous solution are introduced into a reactive rectifying tower R001 from a feeding plate, adiponitrile is formed in high selectivity in cathode acrylonitrile dimerization, meanwhile oxygen is formed in anode water oxidation, the oxygen is discharged after being cooled by a tower top condenser D001, and heavy components adiponitrile, water, salt and a small amount of byproducts are extracted from a tower kettle reboiler E001. The intercondensers C001-C005 are mainly used for removing heat caused by input electric energy, reducing the load of the tower top condenser D001 and keeping the change of the gas-liquid flow rate of the reaction zone within a narrow range.
Example 1
Introducing Acrylonitrile (AN) and dipotassium hydrogen phosphate aqueous solution into a reaction rectifying tower through a feeding plate above a reaction zone, wherein the total feeding amount is 11kg/hr, AN is 5kg/hr, dipotassium hydrogen phosphate is 1kg/hr, water is 5kg/hr, the feeding temperature of the reaction rectifying tower is 60 ℃, the operating pressure of the tower is 1.5atm, the tower top temperature is 77.63 ℃, the tower kettle temperature is 110 ℃, the boiling ratio is fixed to be 1, the theoretical plate number is 45, the feeding plate is the 10 th plate above the reaction zone, the reaction residence time is 5 seconds, the cathode and anode plates are respectively made of lead and Ti/RuO 2 materials, the cathode and anode plates are respectively arranged in the 11 th to 35 th theoretical plate areas, the cathode area on the unit plate is 24.5m 2, the cathode potential is fixed to be-3.0V vs SCE, 5 intermediate condensers are respectively arranged in the reaction section and the rectifying section of the reaction rectifying tower, the theoretical plates (C001-C005) are respectively positioned at 5,10,15,20,25,30 and C001-C005 and the load is 25-3.25 kW-2. After reactive distillation, oxygen generated by AN anode is discharged through a tower top condenser, the molar concentration reaches 99%, a tower bottom material is heated through a reboiler, heavy component Adiponitrile (ADN), water, salt and a small amount of byproduct tower bottoms are extracted, AN with medium boiling point is reserved in the reactive distillation tower until complete conversion, and AN conversion rate is 98.21%.
Example 2
Introducing Acrylonitrile (AN) and dipotassium hydrogen phosphate aqueous solution into a reaction rectifying tower through a feeding plate above a reaction zone respectively, wherein the total feeding amount is 11kg/hr, AN is 5kg/hr, dipotassium hydrogen phosphate is 1kg/hr, water is 5kg/hr, the feeding temperature of the reaction rectifying tower is 30 ℃, the operating pressure of the tower is 1.5atm, the tower top temperature is 78.27 ℃, the tower bottom temperature is 107.01 ℃, the boiling ratio is fixed to 0.8, the theoretical plate number is 45, the feeding plate is a10 th plate above the reaction zone, the reaction residence time is 5s, the cathode and anode plates are respectively made of lead and Ti/RuO 2 materials, the cathode and anode plates are respectively arranged in the 11 th-35 th theoretical plate area, the cathode area on the unit plate is 30m 2, the cathode potential is fixed to-3.0V vs SCE, 5 intermediate condensers are respectively arranged in the reaction section and the rectifying section of the reaction rectifying tower, the theoretical plate is 5 th, 10 th, 15 th, 20 th, 25 th and 30 th theoretical plate (C001-C005) and the load of C001-3.002-3.25 kW is respectively 2-005. After reactive distillation, oxygen generated by AN anode is discharged through a tower top condenser, the molar concentration reaches 98%, a tower bottom material is heated through a reboiler, heavy component Adiponitrile (ADN), water, salt and a small amount of byproducts are extracted from the tower bottom, AN with medium boiling point is reserved in the reactive distillation tower until complete conversion is achieved, and AN conversion rate is 99.3%.
Example 3
Introducing Acrylonitrile (AN), dipotassium hydrogen phosphate aqueous solution into a reaction rectifying tower through a feeding plate above a reaction zone, wherein the total feeding amount is 22kg/hr, AN is 8kg/hr, dipotassium hydrogen phosphate is 3kg/hr, water is 11kg/hr, the feeding temperature of the reaction rectifying tower is 60 ℃, the operating pressure of the tower is 1atm, the top temperature of the tower is 69.8 ℃, the temperature of the tower kettle is 118.3 ℃, the boiling ratio is fixed to be 1, the theoretical plate number is 45, the feeding plate is 11 th plate, the reaction residence time is 5s, the cathode and anode plates are respectively made of lead and Ti/RuO 2 materials, the cathode and anode plates are arranged in 11-35 theoretical plate areas, the cathode area on the unit plate is 24.5m 2, the cathode potential is fixed to be-3.0V vs SCE, 5 intermediate condensers are arranged in the reaction section and the rectifying section of the reaction rectifying tower, and are respectively positioned in 5,10,15,20,25,30 theoretical plates (C001-C005), and the load of C001 is-3.25kW-2-002 C.002 respectively. After reactive distillation, oxygen generated by AN anode is discharged through a tower top condenser, a tower bottom material is heated through a reboiler, heavy component Adiponitrile (ADN), water, salt and a small amount of byproducts are extracted from the tower bottom, AN with medium boiling point is reserved in the reactive distillation tower until complete conversion is achieved, and AN conversion rate is 90.2%.
Example 4
Introducing Acrylonitrile (AN) and dipotassium hydrogen phosphate aqueous solution into a reaction rectifying tower through a feeding plate above a reaction zone respectively, wherein the total feeding amount is 11kg/hr, AN is 5kg/hr, dipotassium hydrogen phosphate is 1kg/hr, water is 5kg/hr, the feeding temperature of the reaction rectifying tower is 60 ℃, the operating pressure of the tower is 1.5atm, the tower top temperature is 76.1 ℃, the tower kettle temperature is 114 ℃, the boiling ratio is fixed to be 1, the theoretical plate number is 55, the feeding plate is 15 th plate, the reaction residence time is 5s, the cathode and anode plates are respectively made of lead and Ti/RuO 2 materials and are arranged in 16-40 th theoretical plate areas, the cathode area on the unit plate is 30m 2, the cathode potential is fixed to be-3.0V vs SCE, 5 intermediate condensers are arranged in the reaction section and the rectifying section of the reaction rectifying tower respectively, the load of-3.25, 30 theoretical plates (C001-C005) is-3.25 kW, and the load of C001-3.25-C002 is-2 kW respectively. After reactive distillation, oxygen generated by AN anode is discharged through a tower top condenser, a tower bottom material is heated through a reboiler, heavy component Adiponitrile (ADN), water, salt and a small amount of byproducts are extracted from the tower bottom, AN with medium boiling point is reserved in the reactive distillation tower until complete conversion is achieved, and AN conversion rate is 98.27%.
Example 5
Acrylonitrile (AN), sodium phosphate aqueous solution are respectively introduced into a reactive rectifying tower through a feeding plate above a reaction zone, the total feeding amount is 11kg/hr, wherein AN is 5kg/hr, sodium phosphate is 1kg/hr, water is 5kg/hr, the feeding temperature of the reactive rectifying tower is 60 ℃, the operating pressure of the tower is 1.5atm, the tower top temperature is 73.52 ℃, the tower bottom temperature is 116.7 ℃, the boiling ratio is fixed to be 1.5, the theoretical plate number is 45, the feeding plate is 10 th plate, the reaction residence time is 5s, the cathode and anode plates are respectively lead and Ti/RuO 2 materials and are arranged in 10-40 th theoretical plate areas, the cathode area on the unit plate is 24.5m 2, the cathode potential is fixed to be-3.0V vs SCE, 5 intermediate condensers are respectively arranged in a reactive rectifying tower reaction section and a rectifying section, and are respectively positioned in 5,10,15,20,25,30 theoretical plates (C001-C005), and the load of C001 is-3.25 kW and the load of C002-2 kW is respectively arranged in the reactive rectifying tower. After reactive distillation, oxygen generated by AN anode is discharged through a tower top condenser, a tower bottom material is heated through a reboiler, heavy component Adiponitrile (ADN), water, salt and a small amount of byproducts are extracted from the tower bottom, AN with medium boiling point is reserved in the reactive distillation tower until complete conversion is achieved, and AN conversion rate is 97.89%.
For ease of comparison, the feed conditions for each example are shown in Table 1, the reaction distillation column conditions are shown in Table 2, and the reaction distillation results are shown in Table 3.
TABLE 1
TABLE 2
TABLE 3 Table 3