阅读说明：本技术 一种顺酐水相加氢生产丁二酸的工艺 (Process for producing succinic acid by maleic anhydride aqueous phase hydrogenation ) 是由 唐明兴 宋晓玲 李学宽 周军 李国栋 司江坤 夏伦超 周立公 于 2020-03-18 设计创作，主要内容包括：本发明公开了一种顺酐水相加氢生产丁二酸的新工艺,包括搅拌釜、原料罐、原料与氢气预混合单元、原料进料管、加氢反应器、气液分离罐和结晶槽等单元组成。流程为顺酐与水按一定比例在搅拌釜中混合均匀进入原料罐中,通过原料泵将原料输送到预混合器与氢气在此进行充分混合,混合物料分成两股从加氢反应器上部和中部进入反应器和催化剂接触反应,反应后物料进入气液分离器分离得到未反应氢气和产物,氢气经循环氢压缩机循环再利用,加氢产物进入结晶槽将丁二酸和溶剂进行分离,溶剂水重复利用。本发明通过控制各单元温度、浓度、原料进料方式等并配套高效加氢催化剂解决现有技术存在的副反应严重、装置难以长期稳定运行及反应系统堵塞等技术难题,丁二酸产品纯度可满足食品级、医药级和聚合级的需求。(The invention discloses a novel process for producing succinic acid by maleic anhydride aqueous phase hydrogenation, which comprises a stirring kettle, a raw material tank, a raw material and hydrogen premixing unit, a raw material feeding pipe, a hydrogenation reactor, a gas-liquid separation tank, a crystallization tank and the like. The process comprises the steps of uniformly mixing maleic anhydride and water in a stirring kettle according to a certain proportion, feeding the mixture into a raw material tank, conveying the raw material to a pre-mixer through a raw material pump to be fully mixed with hydrogen, dividing the mixed material into two parts, feeding the two parts from the upper part and the middle part of a hydrogenation reactor into the reactor to be in contact reaction with a catalyst, feeding the reacted material into a gas-liquid separator to be separated to obtain unreacted hydrogen and a product, recycling the hydrogen through a recycle hydrogen compressor, feeding the hydrogenated product into a crystallization tank to separate succinic acid from a solvent, and recycling the solvent water. The invention solves the technical problems of serious side reaction, difficult long-term stable operation of the device, blockage of a reaction system and the like in the prior art by controlling the temperature, the concentration, the raw material feeding mode and the like of each unit and matching with a high-efficiency hydrogenation catalyst, and the purity of the succinic acid product can meet the requirements of food grade, medicine grade and polymerization grade.)

1. A process for preparing succinic acid by aqueous phase hydrogenation comprises a stirring kettle, a raw material tank, a raw material and hydrogen premixing unit, a raw material feeding pipe, a hydrogenation reactor, a gas-liquid separation tank, a crystallization tank and other units; the specific process steps are as follows:

1) raw material maleic anhydride and water are mixed evenly in a stirring kettle (1) according to a certain proportion,

2) the water solution obtained in the step 1) enters a raw material tank (2),

3) the water solution in the raw material tank (2) and the hydrogen are uniformly mixed in the pre-mixer (3),

4) the mixture obtained in the step 3) enters from the top and the middle of the reactor (6) through a raw material pipe (4) and a raw material pipe (5) respectively according to a certain proportion,

5) the material entering the reactor (6) fully contacts and reacts with the catalyst in the reactor (6),

6) the material from the reactor (6) enters a gas-liquid separation tank for gas-liquid separation, unreacted hydrogen is discharged from the top of the separation tank and recycled by a recycle hydrogen compressor, a liquid product is obtained at the bottom and enters a crystallization tank (8),

7) and (3) cooling the materials to a certain temperature in the crystallization tank (8), crystallizing the succinic acid to obtain a product, and recycling the residual liquid back to the stirring kettle (1) for reuse.

2. The process of claim 1, wherein the weight ratio of maleic anhydride to water in step 1) is 2: 1-18 ℃, and controlling the temperature of the stirring kettle at 50-120 ℃.

3. The process according to any one of claims 1 to 2, wherein the temperature of the feed tank in the step 2) is controlled to 30 to 100 ℃.

4. The process according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the volume ratio of the hydrogen gas and the aqueous solution in the step 3) is 100 to 1000.

5. The process according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the mass ratio of the raw material pipe (4) to the raw material pipe (5) in the step 4) is 10: 1-5; the opening position of the raw material pipe (5) on the reactor is 1/3-2/3 of the height of the reactor.

6. The process of any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the hydrogenation reactor of step 5) is a fixed bed reactor; the inlet temperature of the reactor is 30-100 ℃, the outlet temperature of the reactor is 50-200 ℃, the reaction pressure is 0.5-5.0 MPa, and the mass space velocity is 0.1-10 h^-1The volume ratio of hydrogen to oil is 50-1000.

7. The process according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein the hydrogenation catalyst of step 5) consists of two parts, an active component and an acid-resistant carrier; the particle size of the active component is 2-50 nm; the dispersion degree of the active component is 10-80%; the catalyst has a hydrophilic nature with a contact angle with water of less than 60 °.

8. The process according to any one of claims 1 to 7, wherein the temperature of the separation tank in step 6) is controlled to 50 to 150 ℃.

9. The process as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 8, wherein the temperature of the crystallizing tank in the step 7) is controlled to be-10 to 30 ℃.

10. The process as claimed in claim 7, wherein the active components of the catalyst consist of at least two of Ni, Cu, Co, Mo, W, Cr, Ru, Rh, Pd, Pt, Au, Ag, B, Al, Ga, P and Bi, and the mass percentage of the active components is 0.3-30%; the acid-resistant carrier is one of activated carbon, alpha alumina, silicon oxide or silicon carbide.

Technical Field

The invention discloses a novel process for preparing succinic acid, and particularly relates to a novel process for producing succinic acid by maleic anhydride aqueous phase hydrogenation.

Technical Field

In recent years, with the problem of environmental pollution caused by plastic wastes, the development of degradable bioplastics has become a hot point of research. Among them, polybutylene succinate (PBS) synthesized from succinic acid and 1, 4-butanediol is considered as one of the most excellent comprehensive properties among various biodegradable plastics. It is predicted that by 2020, the global PBS demand will reach 300 million tons per year and will also keep growing in two digits per year, the succinic acid demand for PBS production will reach 180 million tons and the 1, 4-butanediol demand will also reach 140 million tons.

The production method of the succinic acid mainly comprises the following steps: electrochemical reduction, biological fermentation and catalytic hydrogenation. The electrochemical reduction method takes maleic acid or anhydride thereof as raw material, and succinic acid is obtained by electrolytic reduction. In the 30 s of the 20 th century, the electrochemical reduction method has already realized the industrialized production, is the main technology of succinic acid production in China, but has the problems of large power consumption, serious electrode corrosion, large sewage discharge, being not beneficial to large-scale production and the like in the actual production. The biological fermentation method is a method for producing succinic acid by using bacteria or other microorganisms to ferment and taking starch, sugar or other wastes which can be utilized by the microorganisms as raw materials, and is considered to be the succinic acid production method with the most development potential. But the production efficiency is low, the production cost is high, a large amount of waste water is generated, and simultaneously, a large amount of starchiness grain raw materials are consumed, so that the national food supply and demand contradiction is increased. Therefore, the production of succinic acid by using grain raw materials is not a long-term measure, and the domestic application of succinic acid is only in the initial stage. The catalytic hydrogenation method has the advantages of high conversion rate, high product purity, no obvious side reaction and the like, and is the most widely applied succinic acid synthesis method in the industry at present.

Zhaoyuanxiang (CN103570650B, CN107597159A) of Shanxi university dissolves maleic anhydride with one or more mixed organic solvents of arene, alkane, alcohol, ketone and ether, and produces succinic anhydride and succinic acid as side product with supported Ni/Cu as catalyst. Adopts a one-section fixed bed and a two-section trickle bed process. This process has some problems: (1) the organic solvent is used, so the cost is higher; the use of organic solvents also pollutes the environment and causes harm to the bodies of operators. (2) The alcohol and ketone organic solvent is easy to have esterification reaction with raw materials or products, so that the product yield is reduced and the separation cost is increased; (3) one section adopts a fixed bed, and the temperature is difficult to control effectively. The fixed bed is an adiabatic reactor, and the reaction with higher concentration and larger reaction heat is difficult to effectively transfer heat no matter the fixed bed is in an upflow type or a downflow type; (4) the Ni/Cu catalyst has poor corrosion resistance, and serious loss in long-term operation, which causes the problems of catalyst inactivation, overproof Ni metal content in the product and the like.

Chilean Cecilia C.Torres et al studied the hydrogenation of maleic anhydride to succinic anhydride at 5 wt% Ni/TiO₂Is a catalyst, a reactionThe reactor is a high-pressure kettle, the solvent is THF, the reaction temperature is 50-120 ℃, the reaction pressure is 4MPa, the catalyst has better activity and selectivity, the catalyst is repeatedly used for 5 times, and the performance of the catalyst is basically unchanged. THF is relatively expensive, flammable and explosive, has certain toxicity, and is not conducive to safe production.

US patent 5952514 discloses a process for the direct liquid phase hydrogenation of maleic anhydride to succinic anhydride. The method adopts VIII metal element as active component of the catalyst, and the VIII metal element is mixed with IV group and V group elements or forms alloy to enhance the mechanical strength of the catalyst. However, the product is also subjected to vacuum rectification, so that the product has high chroma and high production energy consumption, and strong acid waste is discharged in the refining process of succinic anhydride, which causes adverse effects on the environment.

European patent EP0691335 discloses a process for the preparation of succinic anhydride by the one-step hydrogenation of maleic anhydride in the presence of a solvent. The catalyst used is noble metal Pd, the mass fraction of the noble metal is as high as 2-10%, and the cost of the catalyst is high. By adopting the catalyst, under the condition that the reaction pressure is 4-6MPa, the yield of the succinic anhydride is 90-95%, and the reaction pressure is higher.

US2245404(a) discloses a method of controlling the temperature rise of a catalyst bed by using an internal heat exchange tube to remove the heat of the maleic anhydride hydrogenation reaction. The method is suitable for removing the reaction heat of a small reaction device, and if the reaction device is enlarged, the heat removal pipe cannot uniformly remove the reaction heat and can influence the distribution of reaction liquid in the reactor, so that the reaction performance of the catalyst is reduced.

Liuna et al studied a one-pot method for aqueous-phase synthesis of succinic acid with maleic anhydride, and prepared a supported nano Pd/AC catalyst by a colloidal solution method, and maleic anhydride was subjected to two-step reaction of hydrolysis and hydrogenation to generate fumaric acid and malic acid as byproducts. The catalyst can be recycled for 10 times, and still can maintain higher activity and selectivity.

Patent CN101844976B uses one or more of maleic anhydride aqueous solution, fumaric acid aqueous solution or maleic acid aqueous solution as raw material, uses one or more of Fe, Co, Ni, Pd, Pt, Ru, Rh, Ir as active component, uses one or more of silica, zirconia, activated carbon, titania or silicon carbide as carrier to prepare catalyst, obtains succinic acid aqueous solution through hydrogenation reaction, and obtains succinic acid product after cooling crystallization, filtration and drying. The method adopts water as a solvent, but the influence of the temperature of each operation unit is not considered, and the problem of the stability of the catalyst in long-time operation is seriously influenced due to the corrosivity of the aqueous solution of maleic acid, especially the higher corrosivity at high temperature, and the technology is not reported in industrial application.

Patent CN102417445B uses an aqueous solution of maleate as a raw material, and obtains an aqueous solution of succinate by hydrogenation, and obtains succinic acid by acidifying and separating the obtained succinate. The method reduces the corrosion of the strong acid reaction solution to the catalyst. But the subsequent acidification step is added, and the reaction process step is complicated.

Patent CN 101844976A discloses a technique for producing succinic acid from maleic anhydride water solution, maleic acid water solution or fumaric acid water solution, the technique does not consider the influence of the raw material dissolving process, the maleic anhydride dissolution belongs to strong heat release, not only the safety production is influenced, but also by-products can be generated, and the product yield is reduced. The influence of the crystallization temperature is not considered, the crystallization temperature can cause great influence on the product quality and the production efficiency, and the stability of the catalyst in long-term operation can also be influenced.

Patent CN106861702A discloses a catalyst for directly synthesizing succinic acid by maleic anhydride aqueous phase hydrogenation, and a preparation method and application thereof, wherein the catalyst takes maleic anhydride aqueous solution as a raw material, the concentration of the raw material is 8-30 wt%, and carbon-coated nickel-copper CuNi/Al is adopted₂O₃The catalyst utilizes the hydrophobic material property of carbon to prevent the scouring of active components and Al of acidic aqueous solution₂O₃Corrosion of the carrier. However, the method is very easy to cause the corrosion of active components and carriers due to incomplete carbon coating, so that the catalyst is quickly deactivated, the content of metal ions in the product exceeds the standard, and the purity of the product is influenced.

In summary, the prior art has disadvantages such as high catalyst cost, harsh reaction conditions, loss of catalyst components, high product price, severe pollution in the production process, and special requirements for the design and material of the reactor, which seriously hinders the large-scale synthesis and application of downstream PBS. Therefore, the development of a succinic acid production technology with low cost, low energy consumption, low pollution and simple flow has important significance for promoting the development of the plastic industry to green environmental protection.

Disclosure of Invention

Both maleic anhydride hydrolysis and maleic acid hydrogenation belong to strong exothermic reactions, and the long-term operation stability and safety of a system are influenced by a thermal effect. The temperature of the gas phase hydrogenation reaction is not well controlled, so that temperature runaway or a large amount of byproducts are easily caused. The production cost of the dissolving process using the organic solvent is high, and the organic solvent has great harm to operators and the environment. Water has obvious advantages as a green environment-friendly solvent, but the reaction temperature rise is still very large, which can cause the rapid inactivation of the catalyst or serious side reactions. And the succinic acid and the fumaric acid in the product have low solubility in water, so that equipment or pipelines are easily blocked, and the safety production is influenced. Aiming at the defects of the prior art, the invention aims to provide an improved novel process for producing succinic acid by directly hydrogenating a maleic anhydride aqueous phase.

The invention takes maleic anhydride and hydrogen as raw materials and water as a solvent, and the production process comprises the following parts: the device comprises a stirring kettle, a raw material tank, a raw material and hydrogen premixing unit, a raw material feeding pipe, a hydrogenation reactor, a gas-liquid separation tank, a crystallization tank and the like. The specific process steps are as follows:

(1) the raw material maleic anhydride and water are mixed evenly in a stirring kettle according to a certain proportion.

(2) And (2) feeding the aqueous solution obtained in the step (1) into a raw material tank 2.

(3) The aqueous solution in the raw material tank 2 is uniformly mixed with hydrogen gas in the premixer 3.

(4) And (4) the mixture obtained in the step (3) enters from the top and the middle of the reactor through a raw material pipe 4 and a raw material pipe 5 respectively according to a certain proportion.

(5) The material entering the reactor is fully contacted and reacted with the catalyst in the reactor.

(6) And the material discharged from the reactor 6 enters a gas-liquid separation tank for gas-liquid separation, and unreacted hydrogen is discharged from the top of the separation tank and recycled by a recycle hydrogen compressor. The liquid product is obtained at the bottom and enters a crystallization tank 8.

(7) And (3) cooling the materials to a certain temperature in the crystallization tank 8, crystallizing the succinic acid to obtain a product, and recycling the residual liquid back to the stirring kettle 1 for reuse.

Wherein the weight ratio of the maleic anhydride to the water in the step (1) is 2: 1-18 ℃, and controlling the temperature of the stirring kettle at 50-120 ℃. Maleic anhydride and water can generate hydrolysis reaction to release a large amount of heat, side reaction can be generated at high temperature to generate fumaric acid, malic acid and the like, low product yield and pipeline blockage are easily caused, and the catalyst can be quickly inactivated. Therefore, the invention avoids the generation of byproducts by controlling the adding amount of water and taking heat transfer measures.

And (3) controlling the temperature of the raw material tank in the step (2) to be 30-100 ℃.

And (3) the volume ratio of the hydrogen to the water solution is 100-1000. The hydrogen has low solubility in water, and the hydrogen-liquid hydrogen pre-mixing device is used for pre-mixing the hydrogen-liquid hydrogen, so that the gas-liquid two-phase mass transfer is enhanced, and the hydrogenation reaction is favorably carried out.

In the step (4), the material mass ratio of the raw material pipe 4 to the raw material pipe 5 is 10:1 to 5. The invention divides the reaction materials into two parts to enter the reactor, and aims to avoid centralized heat release, control the temperature of the catalyst bed layer by using the heat exchange of the materials and avoid temperature runaway. Experiments show that the opening position of the raw material pipe 5 on the reactor is 1/3-2/3 of the height of the reactor, so that the hydrogenation reaction is more favorably carried out.

And (5) the hydrogenation reactor is a fixed bed reactor. The inlet temperature of the reactor is 30-100 ℃, the outlet temperature of the reactor is 50-200 ℃, the reaction pressure is 0.5-5.0 MPa, and the mass space velocity is 0.1-10 h^-1The volume ratio of hydrogen to oil is 50-1000, the used catalyst is an acid-resistant carrier loaded with metals such as Ni, Cu, Co, Mo, W, Cr, Ru, Rh, Pd, Pt, Au, Ag, B, Al, Ga, P, Bi and the like, the acid resistance of the catalyst is excellent, and the catalyst can meet the requirement of long-term operation stability, the catalyst has hydrophilicity, the contact angle of the catalyst and water is less than 60 degrees, the mass percentage content of active components is 0.3-30%, the particle size of the active components is 2-50 nm, the dispersity of the active components is 10-80%, and the acid-resistant carrier is one of active carbon, α aluminum oxide, silicon oxide or silicon carbide.

And (6) controlling the temperature of the separation tank to be 50-150 ℃, wherein gas-liquid separation is favorably realized in the temperature range, and the product is not easy to crystallize.

And (7) controlling the temperature of the crystallization tank to be-10-30 ℃, reducing the content of organic matters in the circulating water, improving the production efficiency and avoiding the influence of byproducts on the stability of the catalyst. The organic substances include maleic acid, succinic acid, fumaric acid, malic acid, etc. The organic matter concentration in the residual liquid can be controlled to improve the system treatment capacity and reduce the cost.

The process can be used for obtaining food-grade, medical-grade and polymer-grade succinic acid products, and can flexibly change production tasks according to market demands.

THE ADVANTAGES OF THE PRESENT INVENTION

The novel process for producing the succinic acid by the aqueous-phase hydrogenation of the maleic anhydride, which is provided by the invention, takes water as a solvent, and is green and environment-friendly in process. The invention solves the technical problems of serious side reaction, difficult long-term stable operation of the device, blockage of a reaction system and the like in the prior art by controlling the temperature, the concentration, the raw material feeding mode and the like of each unit and matching with a high-efficiency hydrogenation catalyst, and the purity of the succinic acid product can meet the requirements of food grade, medicine grade and polymerization grade. The invention adopts the fixed bed reactor, has mild reaction conditions and simple operation, is suitable for continuous mass industrial production and reduces the operation cost.

Drawings

Figure 1 is a process flow diagram. 1 is a stirring kettle; 2 is a raw material tank; 3 is a premixing unit; 4,5 are raw material feeding pipes; 6 is a hydrogenation reaction unit; 7 is a gas-liquid separating tank; 8 is a crystallization tank; 9 is new hydrogen; 10 is recycled hydrogen.

Detailed Description

The invention is further illustrated, but not limited, by the following examples.

The raw material used in the invention is maleic anhydride, and maleic acid, fumaric acid or a mixture thereof can also be adopted.

The temperature and concentration of each unit of the invention need to be strictly controlled, and the occurrence of side reaction and the blockage of a reaction system are avoided.

The catalyst used in the process is MH-9A, MH-9B, MH-9C, MH-9D and MH-9E five-brand catalyst developed by Shanxi coal gasification. The composition and properties of the catalyst are shown in table 1.

The invention will be further elucidated and described with reference to embodiments in the following, with reference to the drawings.