Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to provide a method for producing purified MIBK from industrial byproduct waste liquid acetone, which solves the problem of separation difficulty caused by introducing various impurities by using the waste liquid acetone as a raw material, and provides an optimized separation method and an optimized technological process so as to simplify the production flow of products, reduce the cost and obtain high-purity MIBK products.
In order to achieve the above purpose, the technical scheme of the invention is as follows:
a method for preparing purified MIBK from industrial byproduct waste liquid acetone comprises the following steps:
(i) in the reaction section, carrying out condensation, dehydration and hydrogenation catalytic reaction on industrial byproduct waste liquid acetone to generate MIBK and realize conversion of most impurities to obtain MIBK synthetic liquid;
(ii) separating hydrogen from the MIBK synthetic liquid, then feeding the hydrogen into a light component removal tower for extractive distillation, removing light components from the tower top, and feeding liquid phase material flow in the tower kettle into an acetone recovery tower;
(iii) (ii) the liquid phase material in the tower bottom in the step (ii) flows through an acetone recovery tower for extractive distillation, unreacted acetone is recovered at the tower top, and the liquid phase material in the tower bottom is subjected to phase separation to obtain a material flow rich in a water phase and a material flow rich in an organic phase;
(iv) the material flow rich in the water phase enters a process water tower, organic matters with the boiling point lower than the MIBK/water azeotrope and the MIBK/water azeotrope obtained at the tower top enter a dehydrating tower, and the tower bottom liquid part enters a light component removing tower or a light component removing tower and an acetone recovery tower;
(v) feeding the material flow rich in the organic phase and the material flow (organic matter with the boiling point lower than MIBK/water azeotrope and MIBK/water azeotrope) of the process water tower top into a dehydrating tower, wherein the dehydrating tower is a dividing wall tower, the material flow of the process water tower top enters from one side of the dehydrating tower, the material flow rich in the organic phase enters from a public rectifying section of the dehydrating tower, a liquid-liquid delayer is arranged on a tower plate at the other side of the dehydrating tower, a distillate which is nearly composed of azeotropic water/alcohol and does not contain water/alcohol basically containing MIBK (the MIBK content is less than 10 wt%) is obtained at the side line, removing acetone and methanol at the tower top, and obtaining a liquid phase material flow which does not contain water basically (;
(vi) and (3) feeding the liquid phase material flow at the bottom of the dehydrating tower into a dealcoholization tower, removing impurity alcohols at the top of the tower, feeding the crude MIBK distillate obtained at the bottom of the tower into a MIBK refining tower, removing light components at the top of the tower after refining, and collecting a MIBK product at the side line.
As a preferred embodiment, the method for preparing purified MIBK from the industrial byproduct waste liquid acetone comprises the following steps:
(i) in the reaction section, carrying out condensation, dehydration and hydrogenation catalytic reaction on industrial byproduct waste liquid acetone to generate MIBK and realize conversion of most impurities to obtain MIBK synthetic liquid;
(ii) the MIBK synthetic liquid is separated from hydrogen and then enters a light component removal tower, the hydrogen enters a reaction section for cyclic utilization, and the MIBK synthetic liquid contains MIBK, acetone, water, isopropanol, diacetone alcohol, DIBK (diisobutyl ketone), isobutane, 2-methylpentane, methanol, tert-butanol, isobutyraldehyde, isobutanol, Methyl Ethyl Ketone (MEK) from raw materials and ethers;
(iii) extracting and rectifying the MIBK synthetic liquid after hydrogen separation in a light component removal tower in the presence of an extracting agent, removing light components containing isobutane, 2-methylpentane, isobutyraldehyde, methyl ethyl ketone and ethers from the top of the tower, feeding heavy components into a tower kettle, and feeding the obtained tower kettle liquid phase material flow into an acetone recovery tower;
(iv) (iii) the liquid phase material in the tower bottom flows through an acetone recovery tower to be extracted and rectified in the presence of an extracting agent, unreacted acetone is recovered at the tower top, heavy components enter the tower bottom of the acetone recovery tower, and the obtained liquid phase material in the tower bottom enters a water separator;
(v) (iv) separating the liquid phase in the tower bottom in the step (iv) into a material flow rich in an organic phase and a material flow rich in a water phase through a water separator;
(vi) (v) the water-phase-rich material flow enters a process water tower to recover organic matters in the water-phase-rich material flow, meanwhile, the extraction agent is recycled, organic matters with boiling points lower than the MIBK/water azeotrope and the MIBK/water azeotrope obtained at the tower top enter a dehydration tower, 60-98 wt% of tower bottom liquid enters a light component removal tower as the extraction agent, 0-20 wt% of tower bottom liquid enters an acetone recovery tower as the extraction agent, and the rest is discharged as wastewater; the organic matter with the boiling point lower than the MIBK/water azeotrope comprises acetone, methanol, isopropanol, tert-butyl alcohol, the MIBK and water azeotrope and the like;
(vii) organic matter with a boiling point lower than MIBK/water azeotrope and MIBK/water azeotrope separated from the water separator and the process water tower enter a dehydrating tower, the dehydrating tower is a dividing wall tower, the organic matter with the boiling point lower than MIBK/water azeotrope and MIBK/water azeotrope separated from the process water tower enter from one side of the dehydrating tower, the organic matter with the boiling point lower than MIBK/water azeotrope separated from the water separator enters from a common stripping section of the dehydrating tower, a liquid-liquid delayer is arranged on a tower plate on the other side of the dividing wall tower, filler is filled in the liquid-liquid delayer, a water/alcohol distillate with the MIBK content lower than 10 wt% is obtained at a lateral line, acetone, methanol and the like are removed from the tower top, and a liquid phase material flow with the water content lower than 0.2 wt% is;
(viii) liquid phase material flow at the bottom of the dehydrating tower enters a dealcoholization tower, impurity alcohols are removed at the top of the tower, and crude MIBK distillate obtained at the bottom of the tower enters a MIBK refining tower; wherein the impurity alcohols comprise isopropanol, tert-butanol, isobutanol and the like;
(ix) light components are removed from the top of the MIBK refining tower, partial heavy components such as diacetone alcohol (DAA) and the like can be decomposed, light components such as DAA decomposition products acetone and the like are obtained in a fractionation section, the MIBK product is collected from the side line, and a high-boiling-point material flow containing DIBK is obtained from the bottom of the tower.
In the invention, the industrial byproduct acetone is from a propylene oxide/tert-butyl alcohol co-production device, more specifically from a propylene oxide/tert-butyl alcohol co-oxidation method device, based on the weight of waste liquid acetone, the industrial byproduct acetone comprises 0.1-5 wt% of water, 0.5-6 wt% of methanol, 1-20 wt% of epoxy isobutane, 60-95 wt% of acetone, 0.01-0.5 wt% of isopropanol, 0.01-0.2 wt% of methyl ethyl ketone, 1-15 wt% of tert-butyl alcohol, 0.01-2 wt% of aldehydes (iso-butyl aldehyde and the like), and 0.01-5 wt% of ethers (methyl tert-butyl ether, isopropyl tert-butyl ether, n-propyl tert-butyl ether, isobutyl tert-butyl ether and the like).
In the present invention, the catalyst used in the reaction stage of step (i) may be any solid catalyst capable of catalyzing condensation, dehydration and hydrogenation of acetone to produce MIBKAn oxidizing agent. The hydrogenation reaction may be carried out in the gas phase or in the liquid phase, and is preferably carried out under liquid phase conditions. The catalyst includes but is not limited to Pd-resin composite catalyst, Pd-ZSM-5 composite catalyst, Pd/Al2O3Catalyst or Ni/Al2O3A catalyst. Preferably, a catalyst such as a Pd-ion exchange resin composite catalyst is used in liquid phase conditions, typically including temperatures of about 80-160 ℃ and pressures of 25 Bar-75 Bar, preferably pressures in the range of 25 Bar-45 Bar.
The crude reaction product separated from the reaction section contains MIBK as a product, unreacted acetone, impurity water, isopropanol, diacetone alcohol, DIBK and 2-methyl pentane produced by the reaction, methanol, tertiary butanol, methyl ethyl ketone, ether and the like brought by the acetone raw material of the waste liquid as impurities, and isobutane, isobutyraldehyde and the like produced by the reaction of the impurities in the raw material through the reaction section under the action of a catalyst. In fact, the MIBK synthetic fluid contains 45-75 wt% of acetone, 18-35 wt% of MIBK, 4-10 wt% of water, 0.01-2 wt% of isopropanol, 0-1 wt% of diacetone alcohol, 0.1-2 wt% of DIBK, 0.01-2 wt% of isobutane, 0.001-0.5 wt% of 2-methyl pentane, 0.01-6 wt% of methanol, 0-8 wt% of tert-butyl alcohol, 0.1-15 wt% of isobutyraldehyde, 0.01-15 wt% of isobutanol, and 0.01-0.2 wt% of methyl ethyl ketone and 0.01-5 wt% of ethers from raw materials.
It is not possible to separate such mixtures satisfactorily by conventional fractional distillation methods, since the components of such mixtures form binary or multicomponent azeotropes with one another. Meanwhile, the composition of the azeotropic mixture of the system is mostly independent of the pressure, or a suitable pressure variation range cannot be found to be effective for all azeotropic mixtures, and therefore, the separation of the azeotropic mixture cannot be achieved by changing the pressure. However, in the separation process performed by extractive distillation of the light components and the unreacted raw material acetone using the extractant in the dehydrogenation component column and the acetone recovery column, a satisfactory fractionation effect can be obtained. When the dosage of the extractant in the light component removal tower is larger, the proportion of the extractant in the acetone recovery tower can be properly reduced, even the extractant is not added.
In the invention, the light component removing tower is an extraction and rectification tower, and the extracting agent and the reaction liquid from the reactor are simultaneously added into the tower. The extractant is selected from one or more of monoethanolamine, ethylene glycol, hexanediol and water, and water is preferably used as the extractant. The light component removal tower is operated under the pressure of 80-300 KPaA, preferably 100-200 KPaA; the theoretical plate number is 15-60, preferably 25-50; the feeding position is 10 th to 30 th plates, preferably 15 th to 25 th plates; the reflux ratio is 2 to 50, preferably 5 to 25. The adding position of the extracting agent is the same as or higher than the adding position of the feeding liquid, and 2-20 th theoretical plates (counted from top to bottom, the same below) are preferred. The ratio of the extracting agent to the feeding liquid is 0.05-5: 1, preferably 0.1-3: 1. In particular, when water is used as an extractant for light components such as 2-methylpentane, it is possible to allow a mixture containing light components such as 2-methylpentane and acetone to be separated into a stream containing light components such as 2-methylpentane and having an acetone proportion of less than 30 wt%, preferably less than 10 wt%, more preferably less than 5 wt% and a stream containing acetone and having a 2-methylpentane content of less than 0.02 wt%, preferably less than 0.01 wt%, more preferably less than 50 PPm.
In the invention, the acetone recovery tower is operated under the pressure of 50-100 KPaA so as to better give consideration to relative volatility and cooling water consumption; the acetone recovery tower is an extractive distillation tower, and the extracting agent can be one or more of monoethanolamine, ethylene glycol, hexanediol and water, preferably water. The mass ratio of the dosage of the extracting agent to the feeding liquid is 0-5: 1, and preferably 0-3: 1. The temperature of the top of the tower is 40-60 ℃, and the temperature of the bottom of the tower is 70-90 ℃; the theoretical plate number is 10-100, preferably 30-60; the feeding position is 5 th to 60 th plates, preferably 15 th to 40 th plates; the reflux ratio is 0.5-5, preferably 0.5-3; the adding position of the extracting agent is the same as or higher than the adding position of the feeding liquid, and the 2 nd to 20 th theoretical plates are preferred. The acetone at the top of the acetone recovery tower can be purified to 85-99%, and the acetone content at the bottom of the tower is less than 1 wt%, preferably less than 0.5 wt%, and more preferably less than 0.2 wt%.
In the invention, the water separator separates the tower bottom liquid of the acetone recovery tower into a material flow rich in an organic phase and a material flow rich in a water phase. Wherein the stream rich in aqueous phase enters a process water tower to recover MIBK dissolved therein and organics lighter than MIBK, while achieving the recovery of extractant water. The organic phase-rich stream and the process water tower overhead stream enter the dehydration tower respectively.
In the invention, the process water tower is operated under the condition that the pressure is 50-200 KPaA, preferably 80-160 KPaA; the theoretical plate number is 5-30, preferably 10-25; the feeding position is 2-20 plates, preferably 2-15 plates; the reflux ratio is 0.1 to 10, preferably 1 to 5.
In the invention, the dehydration tower is a side line extraction tower, and a liquid-liquid delayer is arranged in the tower, so that the water/alcohol distillate with the MIBK content of less than 10 wt% is obtained through side line extraction. The organic phase-rich material flow separated from the water separator contains more alcohol such as isopropanol, isobutanol, tert-butanol and the like, so that the layering effect of side line extraction can be influenced.
In the invention, the dehydration tower is operated under the condition of pressure of 50-500 KPaA, preferably 100-260 KPaA; the reflux ratio is 1-30, preferably 5-15; the theoretical plate number is 20-80, preferably 20-60. The upper part of the dehydration tower is a public rectification section, the lower part of the dehydration tower is a public stripping section, one side of the dehydration tower is a next door tower section for feeding, the other side of the dehydration tower is a next door tower section for lateral line extraction, wherein the next door tower section for feeding is divided into a tower section between the upper part of a feeding part of the MIBK/water azeotrope and the public rectification section and a tower section between the lower part of the feeding part and the upper end of the public stripping section, wherein the boiling point of the organic matter is lower than that of the MIBK/water azeotrope, and the. The next door tower section of the side line extraction is divided into a tower section between the upper part of the side line extraction and the lower end of the public rectification section and a tower section between the lower part of the side line extraction and the upper end of the public stripping section.
Preferably, the theoretical plate number of the public rectification section accounts for 5-50%, preferably 10-30% of the total theoretical plate number of the dehydration tower; the organic matter with the boiling point lower than that of the MIBK/water azeotrope and the theoretical plate number between the upper part of the feeding part of the MIBK/water azeotrope and the lower end of the public rectification section account for 5-30%, preferably 10-25% of the total theoretical plate number of the dehydration tower; the organic matter with the boiling point lower than that of the MIBK/water azeotrope, and the theoretical plate number between the lower part of the feeding part of the MIBK/water azeotrope and the upper end of the common stripping section account for 10-50% of the total number of the theoretical plates of the dehydrating tower, and are preferably 10-35%; the theoretical plate number between the upper part of the lateral line extraction part and the upper end of the public rectification section accounts for 10-50%, preferably 10-35% of the total number of the theoretical plates of the dehydration tower; the theoretical plate number between the lower part of the side line extraction part and the upper end of the public stripping section accounts for 5-30%, preferably 10-25% of the total number of the theoretical plates of the dehydration tower; the theoretical plate number of the public stripping section accounts for 5-50%, preferably 20-40% of the total number of the theoretical plates of the dehydrating tower. The organic phase rich stream is fed to a common stripping section of the dehydration column at a feed location selected from any one of the theoretical plates of the common stripping section.
In the present invention, the packing filled in the liquid-liquid separator on the tray on one side of the dehydration column contains packing A and packing B. The filler A is a modified super-hydrophilic metal filler, the filler B is a modified super-lipophilic metal filler, the filler A is filled in the lower layer, the filler B is filled in the upper layer, and the filling height ratio of the filler A to the filler B is 1: 8-4: 1, preferably 1: 4-2: 1.
In the invention, the filler A is obtained by placing a metal filler (such as stainless steel, carbon steel and the like) into a strong oxidizing solution for treatment for 12-18 h, and then washing the treated filler with deionized water to be neutral, wherein the strong oxidizing solution is preferably a potassium dichromate sulfuric acid and/or potassium permanganate sulfuric acid solution. Spraying a surface modifier and an auxiliary agent on the surface of the filler A, and heating at 200-300 ℃ for 30-60 min to obtain a filler B, wherein the surface modifier is preferably polytetrafluoroethylene emulsion, and the auxiliary agent is preferably sulfonated polyimide emulsion, the adding mass ratio of the polytetrafluoroethylene emulsion to the sulfonated polyimide emulsion is 1: 1-20: 1, preferably 5: 1-10: 1, and the mass sum of the surface modifier and the auxiliary agent accounts for 0.001-1%, preferably 0.01-0.1% of the mass of the filler A.
The surface of the metal filler is oxidized, so that the roughness of the surface of the filler is improved, the wettability of the filler to water is enhanced, and the filler is modified into the super-hydrophilic filler. The surface modifier on the surface of the filler B can be adsorbed on the rough surface of the filler, and can form a tiny sphere or block in the groove on the surface of the filler after being dried, so that the super-oleophylic and super-hydrophobic effect is achieved. The filler A and the filler B are filled in the delayer in an up-down layered manner, so that the separation of oil phase and water phase is better promoted, and the heat transfer capacity of the mass transfer on the tower plate is improved. And the addition of the auxiliary agent in the filler B leads sulfonic acid groups to be introduced into the filler, the introduction of the sulfonic acid groups leads the tert-butyl alcohol dissolved in the oil phase to carry out dehydration reaction on the surface of the filler to generate isobutene and water, the generated water quickly separates from the super-oleophilic and super-hydrophobic filler to enter a water phase, isobutene is gas and is discharged from the top of the tower, and the reaction is reversible, so that the reaction is promoted to develop towards the positive reaction direction. Meanwhile, the conversion of tertiary butanol in the oil phase promotes the stratification of the oil phase and the water phase.
In the present invention, isopropanol, a small amount of tert-butanol, an azeotrope of MIBK and isobutanol, and other alcoholic components lighter than MIBK are removed from the top of the dealcoholization column. The dealcoholization tower is operated under the condition of the pressure of 80-300 KPaA, preferably 100-200 KPaA; the theoretical plate number is 15-55, and preferably 20-40 plates; the feeding position is 5 th to 35 th plates, preferably 15 th to 25 th plates; the reflux ratio is 5 to 50, preferably 5 to 30.
In the invention, the MIBK refining tower is operated under the condition that the pressure is 50-300 KPaA, preferably 100-200 KPaA; the theoretical plate number is 20-60, preferably 30-50; the feeding position is 10 th to 40 th plates, preferably 15 th to 20 th plates; the reflux ratio is 20 to 150, preferably 50 to 120.
The separation method for preparing high-purity MIBK by using the industrial waste liquid acetone disclosed by the invention solves the problem of separation difficulty caused by introducing impurities into raw materials, and simultaneously improves the problems in the prior art. The loss of acetone and MIBK products is greatly reduced through extractive distillation and a divided wall tower technology, the process is simpler, the investment is reduced, the energy consumption is saved, a high-purity product can be obtained, and the method has remarkable technical and economic advantages. Finally, the efficient utilization of the waste liquid acetone can be realized, and the economic benefit is obvious.
All pressures recited in the present invention are absolute pressures.
The specific implementation mode is as follows:
in order to more clearly explain the process disclosed in the present invention and to easily implement and operate a preferred process and apparatus for producing high purity MIBK using acetone, which is a by-product of a propylene oxide plant using an co-oxidation process, the process of the present invention will be further described below.
Those skilled in the art will recognize that, since the drawings are schematic, some other equipment is also required on a suite of industrial plants, such as condensers, heat exchangers, reflux drums, column reboilers, pumps, vacuum pumps, temperature sensors, pressure relief valves, control valves, flow controllers, level controllers, receiving drums, storage tanks, and the like. The specification requirements for these ancillary equipment are not within the scope of the present discussion and may be considered in accordance with conventional chemical engineering techniques.
The invention is further described with reference to the accompanying drawings:
as shown in figure 1, wherein C-100 is a light component removal tower, C-101 is an acetone recovery tower, C-102 is a dehydration tower, C-103 is a dealcoholization tower, C-104 is a MIBK refining tower, and C-105 is a process water tower. Waste acetone (stream 1) (the main components of which are acetone, methanol, water, epoxy isobutane, isopropanol, methyl ethyl ketone, tert-butyl alcohol, aldehydes, ethers and the like) and acetone (stream 9) recovered from an acetone recovery column C-101 are mixed and enter a reactor R-100 together with hydrogen (stream 2), condensation dehydration hydrogenation reaction is carried out in the reactor R-100, and unreacted hydrogen (stream 4) and MIBK synthetic liquid (stream 5) are separated from generated substances and unreacted hydrogen (stream 3) through a hydrogen separator D-100. The MIBK synthesis solution (mainly comprising MIBK, acetone, water, isopropanol, diacetone alcohol, DIBK, isobutane, 2-methylpentane, methanol, tert-butanol, isobutyraldehyde, isobutanol, and methyl ethyl ketone, ethers and the like from raw materials) firstly enters a light component removal column C-100. The light component removing tower is an extraction tower, an extracting agent 6 enters from a position above the feeding material, the light component removing tower mainly plays a role in removing light components in the synthetic liquid, including light components such as 2-methylpentane, isobutane and ethers, a stream 7 is extracted from the top of the tower, and tower bottom liquid (a stream 8) enters an acetone recovery tower C-101. The acetone recovery tower mainly functions to recover the unreacted acetone, the acetone (stream 9) with the purity far higher than that of the raw material (stream 1) is obtained at the tower top through the separation of the acetone recovery tower, and the tower bottom liquid (stream 10) enters the water separator D-101. In the water separator D-101, the oil phase is separated into oil phase and water phase based on the interphase liquid-liquid equilibrium, the oil phase (stream 11) enters the dehydration column C-102, and the water phase (stream 12) enters the process water column. The organics with boiling point lower than MIBK/water azeotrope are recovered at the top of the process water column (stream 13) into the dehydration column and the bottoms (stream 14) is recycled as extractant with only a small amount of water being discharged (stream 15). Acetone, methanol, isobutylene, etc. are removed at the top of the dehydration column C-102 (stream 16), water and a small amount of alcohols are taken off at the side (stream 17), and the bottoms (stream 18) enter the dealcoholization column C-103. Alcohols such as isopropanol and the like are removed at the top of the dealcoholization tower (stream 19), and the tower bottom liquid (stream 20) enters the MIBK refining tower C-104. And obtaining a small amount of light components (stream 21) such as acetone and the like generated by DAA decomposition at the top of the MIBK refining tower, collecting MIBK products (stream 22) with the purity of more than 99.5% at the side line, and taking tower bottom liquid (stream 23) as heavy components.
Comparative example
The waste liquid acetone mixed solution is rectified and separated at normal pressure in a rectifying column with the diameter of 26mm, a filler adopts a triangular spiral with the diameter of 3 x 3, the height of the column is 1.5m, the temperature of condensed water at the top of the column is 25 ℃, the temperature of extracted water at the top of the column is 52-57 ℃, the reflux ratio is 10:1, and the compositions of samples extracted at the top of the column are shown in table 1.
TABLE 1 recovery of acetone by distillation of acetone mixture as by-product
From the above table, it can be seen that: when the acetone is rectified and purified under the conditions of large theoretical plate number and large reflux ratio, methanol, epoxy isobutane, acetone, isopropanol, methyl ethyl ketone, aldehydes and ethers are hardly separated. Therefore, it is difficult to directly recycle acetone in the mixed solution, and other acetone application routes must be designed.
The composition of the raw material waste liquid acetone used in each example is shown in table 2:
TABLE 2 composition of raw material waste liquid acetone
The reactor R-100 conditions for each example are shown in Table 3:
TABLE 3 reactor conditions in the examples
Reaction conditions
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Example one
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Example two
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EXAMPLE III
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Reaction temperature C
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80
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100
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160
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Reaction pressure/bar
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45
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30
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25
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Catalyst and process for preparing same
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Pd-resin catalyst
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Pd-resin catalyst
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Pd-Al2O3 |
Pd-resin catalyst: amberlyst CH-28, Dow chemical Co., Ltd, wherein the Pd content was 0.7 wt%.