Method for preparing isophthalonitrile
Technical Field
The invention relates to a method for preparing isophthalonitrile, in particular to a method for preparing isophthalonitrile by using a vanadium-phosphorus-loaded catalyst.
Background
The arylnitrile is an important fine chemical, can be used for synthesizing various synthetic intermediates so as to produce medicines, pesticides, dyes, special materials and the like, and has wide application. The m-phthalonitrile is the variety with the largest yield and use amount in the aromatic nitrile product, the efficient and low-toxicity fungicide tetrachloro-isophthalonitrile can be prepared through chlorination reaction, and the m-xylylenediamine prepared through hydrogenation reaction can be used for producing a temperature-resistant epoxy resin curing agent and synthesizing special nylon and polyurethane, and has higher economic value.
The production of the m-phthalonitrile is similar to other aromatic nitrile products, and has methods such as chemical synthesis, gas phase ammoxidation and the like, wherein aromatic hydrocarbon, ammonia and air are subjected to gas phase ammoxidation to synthesize the aromatic nitrile in one step, the process is short, the pollution is less, and the method is a main method for producing the aromatic nitrile at present. The reaction is characterized in that the main and side reactions are strong exothermic reaction processes. The gas phase ammoxidation process of aromatic hydrocarbon mainly comprises fixed bed and fluidized bed processes, wherein the fluid in the fixed bed is in approximate plug flow motion, and the catalyst has higher catalytic efficiency, but the heat transfer performance is poorer, the amplification effect is obvious, and the device is difficult to enlarge; the fluidized bed has the advantages of high heat and mass transfer efficiency, easy large-scale production and the like, but has higher requirements on the physical and chemical properties of the catalyst and the fluidization quality control in the reactor.
Among the existing fluidized bed catalysts, the vanadium catalyst is the most effective catalyst system proved by a large number of researches, and generally, the main catalyst is a composite oxide formed by vanadium and another element, and is matched with a cocatalyst and a carrier to prepare spherical particles with different particle sizes to be applied in a fluidized bed reactor. For isophthalonitrile fluidized bed catalyst, a plurality of research patents are published, for example, CN99113575.X relates to a granular fluidized bed catalyst for preparing isophthalonitrile by the ammoxidation of metaxylene, and a vanadium-chromium system is taken as the main part; US6429330 discloses an aromatic ammoxidation catalyst, mainly based on a vanadium-chromium-antimony-iron system; CN106208890 introduces an aromatic ammoxidation catalyst, mainly comprising a vanadium-chromium-phosphorus system, and introduces a molecular sieve as a carrier component, thereby improving the strength and performance of the catalyst.
The research on the catalyst basically takes a vanadium-chromium catalyst as the main stream, but the use of a large amount of chromium is not environment-friendly enough for the catalyst material per se, and simultaneously, the cost is raised. Therefore, the research on more environmentally friendly meta-xylene ammoxidation catalysts is one of the development directions. WO2007125052 proposes a novel supported catalyst containing no chromium, using a vanadium antimony catalyst, and common oxides of silicon, aluminum, zirconium, etc. as a carrier.
Besides vanadium-antimony catalysts, vanadium-phosphorus-oxygen (VPO) catalysts have enjoyed great success in catalyzing the reaction of selective oxidation of gas-phase hydrocarbons, particularly the reaction of preparing maleic anhydride by the oxidation of n-butane. The redox characteristics are also suitable for the ammoxidation of aromatic hydrocarbons. Meanwhile, compared with chromium and antimony, phosphorus is cheaper and more easily obtained. However, a vanadium phosphorus oxide catalyst consisting of only a single vanadium phosphorus oxygen element tends to be unsatisfactory in terms of activity selectivity, particularly selectivity. In addition, an important problem of VPO catalysts is their poor strength, and how to increase the attrition resistance of VPO catalysts in a fluidized bed reaction environment is also an important factor in the suitability of VPO catalysts for this reaction.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to solve the technical problems that the existing isophthalonitrile production method is insufficient in environmental protection property due to the use of a catalyst, insufficient in performance of a substitute catalyst and not suitable for a fluidized bed reaction process, and aims to provide an improved isophthalonitrile production method.
The present invention provides a method for preparing isophthalonitrile, which does not solve the above technical problems, comprising reacting m-xylene, ammonia and oxygen or an oxygen-containing gas in the presence of a catalyst; the catalyst has an attrition rate of less than 1.5% as measured by a test method conforming to ASTM D5757-00.
According to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the reaction temperature is 300-500 ℃, preferably 350-450 ℃; the reaction pressure is from 0.1 to 3bar, preferably from 0.1 to 1.5 bar.
According to a preferred embodiment of the invention, the process comprises reacting meta-xylene, ammonia and an oxygen-containing gas, preferably air, in the presence of a catalyst.
The mol ratio of the m-xylene, the ammonia and the oxygen is 1: (4-20): (15-50), preferably 1: (5-15): (20-40). For the reaction for preparing the isophthalonitrile, ammonia and oxygen are consumed in the reaction process, the reaction activity is reduced due to the excessively high ammonia ratio, and a large amount of ammonia is consumed; and if the air ratio is too high, the oxidation activity is too strong, so that a large amount of deep oxidation reaction occurs, and therefore, the ammonia ratio and the air ratio are controlled to be in proper ranges.
According to a preferred embodiment of the invention, the catalyst is a supported vanadium phosphorus catalyst; the catalyst comprises a carrier and an active component; the weight of the carrier in the catalyst accounts for 30-70% of the total weight of the catalyst.
According to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the support comprises at least one of silica, alumina and zirconia.
According to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the active component may be represented as vpxayddzem in addition to oxygen; in the formula (I), the compound is shown in the specification,
a is selected from at least one of B, W, Zr;
d is selected from at least one of Ti, Zn, Mn, Mo, Co, Nb, La, Ce, Fe, Sb and Bi;
e is selected from at least one of alkali metal and alkaline earth metal;
the value range of x is 1-1.6;
the value range of y is 0.01-0.5;
the value range of z is 0.01-0.3;
the value range of m is 0.005-0.1.
According to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the preparation method of the catalyst comprises the steps of:
s1, preparing catalyst precursor powder containing active components;
s2, preparing a mixed solution containing precursor powder and a carrier I, and carrying out spray drying treatment to obtain supported catalyst precursor powder;
s3, preparing a mixed solution containing the supported catalyst precursor powder obtained in the step S2, a surface active dispersant and a carrier II, and performing spray drying treatment to obtain a supported catalyst precursor;
and S4, roasting the supported catalyst precursor to obtain the catalyst.
According to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the step S1 includes:
mixing a vanadium source, an active component compound and an organic solvent, and heating and refluxing;
adding phosphoric acid into the mixed solution obtained in the step 1A, and continuously heating and refluxing;
and 1C, filtering the mixed solution obtained in the step 1B, and washing and drying the solid to obtain the catalyst precursor powder.
According to some embodiments of the invention, the heating reflux time in step 1A is 1 to 6 hours and the heating reflux time in step 1B is 2 to 24 hours.
According to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the vanadium source is at least one of ammonium metavanadate, vanadium pentoxide and vanadyl oxalate; and/or the organic solvent is at least one of isobutanol, benzyl alcohol, oxalic acid, n-butanol and sec-butanol; and/or, the phosphoric acid concentration is H3PO4Calculated by 90 wt percent to 110 wt percent.
According to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the carrier I is at least one of silica sol, polysiloxane compound, silicon-containing molecular sieve, aluminum sol and zirconia, and preferably silica sol.
According to some embodiments of the invention, the step S2 includes: mixing the precursor powder with a carrier I and water, and shearing to obtain a suspension; optionally, the mixed solution is concentrated, the solid content of the concentrated solution is 20 wt% -60 wt%, and then spray drying is carried out, so that the supported catalyst precursor powder is obtained.
According to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the temperature of the spray drying in the step S2 is 150-.
According to a preferred embodiment of the invention, the carrier II is a polysilicic acid and/or a polysilicate, preferably a polysilicic acid.
According to a preferred embodiment of the invention, the weight ratio of carrier I to carrier II is (2-9): (1-8), preferably (2-5): (1-4).
According to some embodiments of the present invention, the polysilicic acid is generally prepared before use, for example, by mixing and stirring a metered amount of sodium silicate solution with a dilute sulfuric acid solution and adjusting the pH of the control solution. Polysilicic acid, SiO thereof, used in the present invention2The weight percentage concentration is 1-10%, and the pH value range is 2-5.
According to some embodiments of the invention, the step S3 includes: mixing the supported catalyst precursor powder, the surface active dispersant and the carrier II with water, and shearing to obtain a suspension; optionally, the mixed solution is concentrated, the solid content of the concentrated solution is 20 wt% -60 wt%, and then spray drying is carried out, so as to obtain the supported catalyst precursor.
According to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the temperature of the spray drying in the step S3 is 200-450 ℃, preferably 250-400 ℃.
According to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the surface active dispersant is at least one of polyvinyl alcohol, polyethylene glycol, and carboxymethyl cellulose.
According to the preferred embodiment of the present invention, the temperature of the calcination treatment in the step S4 is 300-600 ℃, and the time is 2-20 h.
According to a preferred embodiment of the invention, the catalyst particles have an average particle size of 30 to 80 μm. The average particle size can be determined by a laser particle sizer.
The catalyst prepared by the method has high wear resistance, the wear rate of the vanadium-phosphorus catalyst prepared by the technical scheme can be lower than 1.5%, and the vanadium-phosphorus catalyst has applicability in a fluidized bed reactor. The abrasion rate was measured using a test method in accordance with ASTM D5757-00 (relative abrasion characteristics of powder catalysts are judged by air jet abrasion) and is reported in weight percent per hour.
Detailed Description
The present invention will be further illustrated by the following examples, but is not limited to these examples.
[ example 1 ]
182g of vanadium pentoxide was added to a mixed solution of 1500ml of isobutanol and 300ml of benzyl alcohol, and the mixed solution was heated under stirring to reflux. After refluxing for 2h, adding 99 wt% phosphoric acid (the molar ratio of phosphorus to vanadium is about 1.1) dropwise into the mixed solution, heating the mixed solution, continuously refluxing for 20h, stopping heating, filtering the mixed solution, washing with isobutanol, and drying the obtained filter cake at 110 ℃ for 20h to obtain vanadium-phosphorus oxide powder.
Adding vanadium phosphorus oxide powder into deionized water, then adding zirconium nitrate, ammonium molybdate, cerium nitrate and potassium nitrate, heating and stirring, adding silica sol, evaporating and concentrating until the solid content of slurry is 35%, and performing spray drying to obtain a primary spray product. The product powder was added again to water and after stirring polyethylene glycol (6000) at about 6% by weight of the product powder and a polysilicic acid solution having a PH of 3 and a SiO2 content of 5% were added, the weight ratio of silica in the polysilicic acid to silica in the silica sol being 1: 6. The solution is stirred evenly and heated to be concentrated until the solid content is 35 percent. The obtained slurry was dried again by spray drying to obtain supported catalyst particles having an average particle size of 70 μm.
The active component of the obtained catalyst comprises VP besides oxygen1.1Mo0.2Ce0.05Zr0.03. The total weight of the carrier accounts for 50 percent. The catalyst was tested using a test method that met the ASTM D5757-00 (relative attrition characteristics of powder catalysts as judged by air jet attrition) standard, resulting in an attrition rate of 1.44%.
After the catalyst is activated, the evaluation is carried out in a stainless steel fluidized bed reactor with the diameter of 38 mm multiplied by 1800 mm, the adding amount of the catalyst is 550 g, the raw material is m-xylene, the reaction temperature is 425 ℃, the reaction pressure is 0.05MPa, the reaction space velocity is 0.05h < -1 > (WWH), and the raw material proportion is 1 (m-xylene): 9 (ammonia gas): 30 (air). As a result, the conversion rate of m-xylene was 98.6%, and the molar yield of m-phthalonitrile was 83.6%.
[ example 2 ]
The same preparation method as that of example 1 is adopted, the composition of the active component is changed, and the active component of the obtained catalyst except oxygen element has the composition of VP1.1Mo0.2Bi0.1W0.03. The total weight of the carrier accounts for 50 percent. The catalyst was tested using a test method that met the ASTM D5757-00 (relative attrition characteristics of powder catalysts as judged by air jet attrition) standard, resulting in an attrition rate of 1.49%.
After the catalyst is activated, the evaluation is carried out in a stainless steel fluidized bed reactor with the diameter of 38 mm multiplied by 1800 mm, the adding amount of the catalyst is 550 g, the raw material is m-xylene, the reaction temperature is 425 ℃, the reaction pressure is 0.05MPa, the reaction space velocity is 0.05h < -1 > (WWH), and the raw material proportion is 1 (m-xylene): 9 (ammonia gas): 30 (air). As a result, the conversion rate of m-xylene was 98.2%, and the molar yield of m-phthalonitrile was 84.1%.
[ example 3 ]
The same preparation method as in example 2 was adopted, but the composition of the carrier was changed, and the active component of the obtained catalyst except for oxygen had the composition of VP1.1Mo0.2Bi0.1W0.03. The total weight of the carrier accounts for 60 percent, and the ratio of the silica sol to the polysilicic acid is 5: 4. the catalyst was tested using a test method that met the ASTM D5757-00 (relative attrition characteristics of powder catalysts as judged by air jet attrition) standard, resulting in an attrition rate of 1.36%.
After the catalyst is activated, the evaluation is carried out in a stainless steel fluidized bed reactor with the diameter of 38 mm multiplied by 1800 mm, the adding amount of the catalyst is 550 g, the raw material is m-xylene, the reaction temperature is 425 ℃, the reaction pressure is 0.05MPa, the reaction space velocity is 0.05h < -1 > (WWH), and the raw material proportion is 1 (m-xylene): 9 (ammonia gas): 30 (air). As a result, the conversion of m-xylene was 97.8%, and the molar yield of m-phthalonitrile was 82.1%.
[ example 4 ]
The same preparation method as that of example 2 was adopted, and the active component of the obtained catalyst except for oxygen element had the composition of VP1.1Mo0.2Bi0.1W0.03. The total weight of the carrier accounts for 50 percent, and the ratio of the silica sol to the polysilicic acid is 6 based on the content of the silica. The catalyst was tested using a test method that met the ASTM D5757-00 (relative attrition characteristics of powder catalysts as judged by air jet attrition) standard, resulting in an attrition rate of 1.49%.
After the catalyst is activated, the evaluation is carried out in a stainless steel fluidized bed reactor with the diameter of 38 mm multiplied by 1800 mm, the adding amount of the catalyst is 550 g, the raw material is m-xylene, the reaction temperature is 435 ℃, the reaction pressure is 0.03MPa, the reaction space velocity is 0.05h < -1 > (WWH), and the raw material proportion is 1 (m-xylene): 8 (ammonia gas): 28 (air). As a result, the conversion rate of m-xylene was 98.0% and the molar yield of m-phthalonitrile was 83.6%.
Comparative example 1
The same preparation method as in example 1 was used, but the carrier was introduced by a non-secondary method, i.e. the silica sol and the polysilicic acid were added one after the other and dried simultaneously. The active component of the obtained catalyst comprises VP besides oxygen1.1Mo0.2Ce0.05Zr0.03. The total weight of the carrier accounts for 50 percent. The catalyst was tested using a test method that met the ASTM D5757-00 (relative attrition characteristics of powder catalysts as judged by air jet attrition) standard, resulting in an attrition rate of 1.78%.
After the catalyst is activated, the evaluation is carried out in a stainless steel fluidized bed reactor with the diameter of 38 mm multiplied by 1800 mm, the adding amount of the catalyst is 550 g, the raw material is m-xylene, the reaction temperature is 420 ℃, the reaction pressure is 0.06MPa, the reaction space velocity is 0.05h < -1 > (WWH), and the raw material proportion is 1 (m-xylene): 9 (ammonia gas): 30 (air). As a result, the conversion of m-xylene was 97.3%, and the molar yield of m-phthalonitrile was 80.9%.
Comparative example 2
The same preparation as in example 1 was carried out, but only with a single support, i.e. with the addition of silica sol, and the catalyst precursor was obtained directly by drying. The active component of the obtained catalyst comprises VP besides oxygen1.1Mo0.2Ce0.05Zr0.03. The total weight of the carrier accounts for 50 percent. Catalyst use was in accordance with ASTM D5757-00 (with air jet mill)Method of abrasion to determine the relative attrition characteristics of the powdered catalyst) the standard test method was used to determine the attrition rate of 2.21%.
After the catalyst is activated, the evaluation is carried out in a stainless steel fluidized bed reactor with the diameter of 38 mm multiplied by 1800 mm, the adding amount of the catalyst is 550 g, the raw material is m-xylene, the reaction temperature is 420 ℃, the reaction pressure is 0.06MPa, the reaction space velocity is 0.05h < -1 > (WWH), and the raw material proportion is 1 (m-xylene): 9 (ammonia gas): 30 (air). As a result, the conversion of m-xylene was 98.6%, and the molar yield of m-phthalonitrile was 81.9%.
Any numerical value mentioned in this specification, if there is only a two unit interval between any lowest value and any highest value, includes all values from the lowest value to the highest value incremented by one unit at a time. For example, if it is stated that the amount of a component, or a value of a process variable such as temperature, pressure, time, etc., is 50 to 90, it is meant in this specification that values of 51 to 89, 52 to 88 … …, and 69 to 71, and 70 to 71, etc., are specifically enumerated. For non-integer values, units of 0.1, 0.01, 0.001, or 0.0001 may be considered as appropriate. These are only some specifically named examples. In a similar manner, all possible combinations of numerical values between the lowest value and the highest value enumerated are to be considered to be disclosed in this application.
It should be noted that the above-mentioned embodiments are only for explaining the present invention, and do not constitute any limitation to the present invention. The present invention has been described with reference to exemplary embodiments, but the words which have been used herein are words of description and illustration, rather than words of limitation. The invention can be modified, as prescribed, within the scope of the claims and without departing from the scope and spirit of the invention. Although the invention has been described herein with reference to particular means, materials and embodiments, the invention is not intended to be limited to the particulars disclosed herein, but rather extends to all other methods and applications having the same functionality.