Background
Cyclohexanone is an important chemical raw material for preparing nylon intermediates such as caprolactam, adipic acid and the like, and is widely applied to aspects such as organic solvents, synthetic rubber, industrial coatings and the like. In industrial production, cyclohexanone is mainly produced by dehydrogenation of cyclohexanol over a catalyst. The dehydrogenation reaction of cyclohexanol includes several parallel competing reactions, wherein the dehydrogenation of cyclohexanol to produce cyclohexanone is the main reaction, the side reaction mainly comprises dehydration of cyclohexanol to produce cyclohexene, aromatization of cyclohexanol to produce phenol, and condensation of cyclohexanone to produce cyclohexenyl cyclohexanone, etc., and the reaction products are collectively called as crude alcohol-ketone mixture. At present, the crude alcohol-ketone mixture after cyclohexanol dehydrogenation in the traditional process is generally refined by adopting a distillation flow of firstly removing light components and then removing heavy components. The main equipment in the process comprises a light component removing tower, a cyclohexanone tower and a cyclohexanol tower. The high-purity qualified product cyclohexanone (> 99.98%) and cyclohexanol (> 90%) meeting the dehydrogenation reaction requirement are obtained through separation and refining.
At present, the production processes of cyclohexanone at home and abroad mainly comprise three types: one is the phenol catalytic hydrogenation process; secondly, the yield of the cyclohexanol catalytic dehydrogenation method in the current industry is generally between 55 and 65 percent. And the method is a cyclohexane liquid-phase air oxidation method, which is a main process for producing cyclohexanone and cyclohexanol in the world at present.
The foreign research on the cyclohexanone production process mainly focuses on the optimization and upgrading of the catalyst, and aims to improve the conversion rate of the cyclohexane to the cyclohexanone and the cyclohexanol through catalytic oxidation and reduce the cyclohexane circulation amount of a system; while there is essentially no report on the process for the separation of cyclohexanone and cyclohexanol.
The process adopted by the domestic cyclohexanone production device is mainly a non-catalytic oxidation method (such as the holy petrochemical industry), and the method is characterized in that the reaction for preparing the cyclohexanone by oxidizing cyclohexane is carried out in two steps: the first step is an oxidation reaction, wherein a catalyst is not used in the reaction, cyclohexanone and cyclohexanol are used as initiators, and the cyclohexane is oxidized into cyclohexyl hydroperoxide, cyclohexanone, cyclohexanol, C6 lower mono-carboxylic acid, di-carboxylic acid and cyclohexanol ester thereof by using air or oxygen; the second step is decomposition reaction, cobalt acetate (or other cobalt salts) is used as a catalyst, cyclohexyl hydrogen peroxide is decomposed into cyclohexanol and cyclohexanone under low temperature and alkaline conditions, the decomposed reaction liquid is rectified and separated to obtain cyclohexanone and crude cyclohexanol, the crude cyclohexanol is dehydrogenated to obtain cyclohexanone, the cyclohexane conversion rate is generally 3% -5%, and the total selectivity of cyclohexanol and cyclohexanone is about 80%. In the process of converting benzene into cyclohexanone in the production process, the conversion rate and the selectivity are low, a large amount of byproducts are generated in the reaction process, and a series of separation and refining processes are required to obtain a high-purity cyclohexanone product.
CN201710254368.4 discloses a rectification device and a rectification method for cyclohexanone, which comprise a light component first tower, a cyclohexanone first tower, a light component second tower and a cyclohexanone second tower; and a tower kettle of the first cyclohexanone tower is provided with a waste heat reboiler. The method comprises the steps that a cyclohexanone/cyclohexanol mixed compound enters a light component first tower, a tower top extracted material of the light component first tower enters a waste heat reboiler, heat exchange is carried out on a tower bottom material of the cyclohexanone first tower, the extracted material is combined with condensate of uncondensed gas and then respectively enters a light component first tower reflux port and a light component second tower feed port, light oil is extracted from the tower top of the light component second tower, a tower bottom extracted material of the light component second tower enters a feed port of the cyclohexanone second tower, solvent-grade cyclohexanone is extracted from the tower top of the cyclohexanone second tower, tower bottom extracted materials of the light component first tower and the cyclohexanone second tower enter a tower first cyclohexanone feed port, and a tower top of the cyclohexanone first tower is used for extracting chemical fiber-grade cyclohexanone. The process flow of the invention is to synthesize the low temperature of a plurality of cyclohexanone separating devices into the high-efficiency utilization of heat energy, and the energy consumption is low.
The research of the prior cyclohexanone production process mainly focuses on the research of the cyclohexane oxidation catalyst, and aims to improve the selectivity of the cyclohexane oxidation catalyst, while the research of patents and documents on the refining process of the cyclohexanone crude product is less. In the refining process of cyclohexanone, the light components in products (such as cyclohexanone, cyclohexanol, butanone, butanol, pentanone, pentanol and other mixtures) from cyclohexane oxidation are more, and the high-purity cyclohexanone product needs to be subjected to the light component removal treatment firstly to obtain the high-purity cyclohexanone product. In the prior art, a cyclohexanone lightness-removing tower adopts a two-stage series process for separation and recovery, and the concentration of cyclohexanone in tower bottom materials of a two-stage cyclohexanone recovery tower is about 30 percent. The process flow has the problems of large cyclohexanone loss and high energy consumption, and how to reduce the cyclohexanone loss rate in the process of removing light cyclohexanone is not reported in relevant researches.
Disclosure of Invention
Aiming at the problems of large cyclohexanone loss and high material consumption in the existing cyclohexanone separation and refining process, the invention aims to provide a novel separation process and a novel separation system, which can effectively reduce the material consumption in the cyclohexanone separation process and improve the cyclohexanone yield while ensuring the impurity removal efficiency.
The invention provides a cyclohexanone recycling and separating process, which comprises the following steps:
feeding a cyclohexanone and cyclohexanol mixture from a front-end hydrolysis unit into a light component removal tower, and separating the mixture by the light component removal tower to obtain a raw material which is divided into two parts, namely a light component at the top of the light component removal tower and a heavy component at the bottom of the light component removal tower;
the light components at the top of the light component removal tower sequentially enter a primary cyclohexanone recovery tower and a secondary cyclohexanone recovery tower to recover cyclohexanone;
heavy component substances at the bottom of the light component removal tower are used as raw materials to enter a cyclohexanone tower, qualified cyclohexanone products are produced at the top of the cyclohexanone tower, and substances at the bottom of the cyclohexanone tower are used as raw materials to enter the cyclohexanol tower;
producing high-concentration cyclohexanol at the tower top of the cyclohexanol tower, producing heavy component impurities at the tower bottom of the cyclohexanol tower and discharging the heavy component impurities out of the device; extracting a liquid phase from the middle section of the cyclohexanol tower, and feeding the liquid phase as a liquid phase of a first-stage cyclohexanone recovery tower;
and mixing the tower bottom material of the secondary cyclohexanone recovery tower with the tower bottom material of the lightness-removing tower, and then feeding the mixture into the cyclohexanone tower.
Further, in the present invention, the light component removal column may be a float valve column or a packed column, and is preferably a packed column. The packing may be random packing or regular packing, preferably regular packing. The type of the filler can be one of 150Y, 250Y, 350Y, 550Y and the like, and is preferably 350Y type structured filler. The theoretical plate number is 50-60 layers. The pressure at the top of the light component removal tower is controlled to be 10-50 kPa, preferably 20-40 kPa, the temperature at the top of the light component removal tower is controlled to be 80-110 ℃, preferably 90-110 ℃; the reflux ratio at the top of the tower is controlled to be 2-8, preferably 2-7. The gas phase at the top of the tower is used as the gas phase feed of the cyclohexanone recovery tower. The temperature of the tower bottom is controlled to be 120-150 ℃, and preferably 120-140 ℃; the material at the bottom of the tower is the feeding material of the cyclohexanone tower.
Furthermore, the cyclohexanone tower can adopt a float valve tower and a packed tower, and is preferably a packed tower. The packing may be random packing or regular packing, preferably regular packing. The type of the filler can be one of 150Y, 250Y, 350Y, 550Y and the like, and is preferably 350Y type structured filler. The theoretical plate number is 80-90 layers. The pressure of the top pressure of the cyclohexanone tower is controlled to be 1-20 kPa, preferably 2-15 kPa, the temperature of the top of the cyclohexanone tower is controlled to be 50-70 ℃, preferably 50-65 ℃, and the reflux ratio of the top of the cyclohexanone tower is controlled to be 2-8, preferably 2-7. The material at the top of the tower is a high-purity cyclohexanone product. The temperature of the tower bottom is controlled to be 85-110 ℃, preferably 90-105 ℃, and the material at the tower bottom is used as the feeding material of the cyclohexanol tower.
Furthermore, the cyclohexanol tower can adopt a float valve tower and a packed tower, and is preferably a packed tower. The packing may be random packing or regular packing, preferably regular packing. The type of the filler can be one of 150Y, 250Y, 350Y, 550Y and the like, and is preferably 350Y type structured filler. The theoretical plate number is 80-90 layers. The pressure at the top of the cyclohexanol tower is controlled to be 1-20 kPa, preferably 2-15 kPa, the temperature at the top of the cyclohexanol tower is controlled to be 80-110 ℃, preferably 85-105 ℃, and the reflux ratio at the top of the cyclohexanol tower is controlled to be 1-8, preferably 1-7. The material at the top of the tower is high-concentration cyclohexanol and is used as a reaction raw material for subsequent cyclohexanol dehydrogenation. The temperature of the tower bottom is controlled to be 130-165 ℃, and preferably 140-165 ℃. And the material at the bottom of the tower is heavy component impurity and is sent out of the device. Arranging middle-section extraction between 1-80 layers of theoretical tower plates of the cyclohexanol tower, preferably between 40-75 layers; and cooling the extracted liquid phase to be used as liquid phase feed of a primary cyclohexanone recovery tower, and controlling the temperature to be 40-80 ℃ after cooling, preferably 40-70 ℃.
Further, the first-stage cyclohexanone recovery tower can adopt a float valve tower and a packed tower, and preferably adopts a packed tower. The packing may be random packing or regular packing, preferably regular packing. The type of the filler can be one of 150Y, 250Y, 350Y, 550Y and the like, and is preferably 350Y type structured filler. The theoretical plate number is 50-60 layers. The top pressure of the primary cyclohexanone recovery tower is controlled to be 1-20 kPa, preferably 2-15 kPa, and the top temperature is controlled to be 50-80 ℃, preferably 50-75 ℃. The cyclohexanol is extracted from the middle section and used as overhead liquid phase reflux. The temperature of the tower bottom is controlled to be 90-110 ℃, and preferably 90-100 ℃. The liquid phase at the bottom of the tower enters a subsequent secondary cyclohexanone recovery tower.
Further, the secondary cyclohexanone recovery tower can adopt a float valve tower and a packed tower, and is preferably a packed tower. The packing may be random packing or regular packing, preferably regular packing. The type of the filler can be one of 150Y, 250Y, 350Y, 550Y and the like, and is preferably 350Y type structured filler. The theoretical plate number is 40-50 layers. The top pressure of the secondary cyclohexanone recovery tower is controlled to be 1-60 kPa, preferably 20-50 kPa, and the top temperature is controlled to be 60-90 ℃, preferably 65-85 ℃. The cyclohexanol is extracted from the middle section and used as overhead liquid phase reflux. The temperature of the tower bottom is controlled to be 90-130 ℃, and preferably 100-120 ℃.
In the invention, the mass ratio of the liquid phase flow rate extracted from the middle section of the cyclohexanol tower to the gas phase feed rate of the primary cyclohexanone recovery tower is 2-10, and preferably 3-8.
In the process of the present invention, the cooling process is well known to those skilled in the art, and conventional coolers are used.
The invention also provides a cyclohexanone separating and recovering system. The system comprises:
the light component removal tower is used for treating the crude cyclohexanone mixture from the front-end hydrolysis unit, removing light component substances in the crude cyclohexanone mixture, and obtaining a tower top light component and a tower bottom heavy component in the light component removal tower; comprising a feed line for feeding a crude cyclohexanone mixture to the lightness-removing column, an overhead take-off for removing overhead lights, and a bottom take-off for removing bottom heavies;
the primary cyclohexanone recovery tower is used for treating cyclohexanone light component impurities (butanone, pentanone and the like) from the top of the lightness-removing tower and recovering cyclohexanone; the device comprises a feeding pipeline for feeding light components of a lightness-removing tower to the primary cyclohexanone recovery tower, a tower top removing device for removing gas-phase components at the tower top, a tower bottom removing device for removing tower bottom components and a feeding pipeline for feeding a middle liquid phase of cyclohexanol to the primary cyclohexanone recovery tower;
the secondary cyclohexanone recovery tower is used for separating the bottom component of the primary cyclohexanone tower into a light component and a heavy component; the device comprises a removing device for removing light components at the top of the tower, and a tower bottom removing device for removing heavy components at the bottom of the tower;
the cyclohexanone tower is used for processing the cyclohexanone and cyclohexanol mixture from the bottom of the light component removal tower and obtaining qualified cyclohexanone products at the tower top; the device comprises a feeding pipeline, a tower top removing device and a removing device, wherein the feeding pipeline is used for feeding heavy components at the bottom of a light component removal tower and components at the bottom of a secondary cyclohexanone recovery tower into a cyclohexanone tower;
the cyclohexanol tower is used for processing a cyclohexanol mixture from the bottom of the cyclohexanone tower to obtain a high-purity cyclohexanol product, and the cyclohexanol product is used as a reaction raw material for subsequent cyclohexanol dehydrogenation; the device comprises a feeding pipeline for feeding heavy components at the bottom of a cyclohexanone tower into the cyclohexanol tower, a tower top removing device for removing high-purity cyclohexanol, a tower bottom removing device for removing tower bottom components, and a removing device for extracting middle-section liquid-phase components.
Further, the first-stage cyclohexanone recovery tower also comprises:
-an overhead condensing unit for condensing the gaseous phase removed overhead;
-a gas-liquid separator for separating the feed cooled by the overhead condensing unit into a gas and a liquid; the device comprises a removing pipeline for feeding a part of liquid to the top part of the primary cyclohexanone recovery tower and a removing device for removing a part of liquid out of a gas-liquid separator.
In the present invention, the removal means in each column is typically a pipeline, which is typically provided with valves and flow meters.
Compared with the prior art, the process and the system have the following advantages:
(1) the side-stream extracted liquid of the cyclohexanol tower is added to be used as a supplement absorbent of the cyclohexanone tower, so that the recovery efficiency of cyclohexanone in light-component materials is improved, the economic benefit is increased, and the material consumption of a system is reduced;
(2) by introducing the supplementary absorbent, the operation requirement of the cyclohexanone recovery tower is reduced, the tower top reflux is reduced, the tower bottom heat load is reduced, and the system energy consumption is reduced.
(3) Compared with the original process flow, the whole process system has the advantages of lower reconstruction construction requirement, less investment, high benefit and strong feasibility of implementation.
Detailed Description
The process and system of the present invention are described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings and examples to further illustrate the practice and utility of the invention.
As shown in fig. 1, the present invention further provides a cyclohexanone recycling system, which comprises a lightness-removing column a, a primary cyclohexanone recycling column B, a cyclohexanone column C, a cyclohexanol column D, a secondary cyclohexanone recycling column E, a primary cyclohexanone recycling column cooler E1, and a knockout drum F1; a liquid phase outlet at the bottom of the lightness-removing tower A is connected with a feeding hole of a cyclohexanone tower C through a pipeline 3/12, a gas phase outlet at the top of the lightness-removing tower A is connected with a gas phase inlet of a first-stage cyclohexanone recovery tower, a gas phase outlet at the top of the cyclohexanone recovery tower B is connected with an inlet of a separating tank F1 through a cooler E1, a liquid phase outlet of the separating tank F1 is divided into two paths, one path is connected with a pipeline of a discharging device, and the other path is connected with a feeding hole at the top of the first-stage cyclohexanone recovery tower B after being converged; and a liquid phase outlet of the tower B of the cyclohexanone recovery tower is connected with a feed inlet of the secondary cyclohexanone recovery tower through a pipeline. And a liquid phase outlet at the bottom of the cyclohexanone tower C is connected with a feed inlet of the cyclohexanol tower D through a pipeline, and the top of the cyclohexanol tower D is connected with a follow-up device through a pipeline. And (3) discharging a liquid phase at the bottom of the cyclohexanol tower.
The cyclohexanone recovery process flow of the invention is as follows: the crude cyclohexanone/cyclohexanol material 1 to be treated enters a light component removal tower A, the light component removal separation process is realized in the light component removal tower A, and a light component removal material flow 2 and a light component removal material flow 3 are obtained after separation. The light component material flow 2 enters a gas phase inlet of a first-stage cyclohexanone recovery tower B; mixing a middle-section extracted material flow 17 from the cyclohexanol tower D with the first-stage cyclohexanone recovery tower top gas-phase condensate 7 (material flow 9), feeding the mixture into a first feeding hole (tower top reflux liquid-phase feeding hole) of the first-stage cyclohexanone recovery tower, and discharging the first-stage cyclohexanone recovery tower top gas-phase condensate 8; the liquid phase 5 at the bottom of the first-stage cyclohexanone recovery tower enters a second-stage cyclohexanone recovery tower E to recover cyclohexanone again, the gas phase 10 at the top of the second-stage cyclohexanone recovery tower is discharged from the device, the liquid phase 11 at the bottom of the second-stage cyclohexanone recovery tower is a material containing cyclohexanone and is mixed with the liquid phase 3 at the bottom of the lightness-removing tower A (material flow 12) and then enters a cyclohexanone tower C, and the liquid phase 13 at the top of the cyclohexanone tower is a qualified cyclohexanone product discharge; a cyclohexanone bottom liquid phase 14 serving as a raw material enters a cyclohexanol tower D, a cyclohexanol tower top liquid phase 15 serving as a cyclohexanol dehydrogenation raw material enters a subsequent device, and a cyclohexanol tower bottom liquid phase 16 serving as a heavy component impurity outlet device; and (4) taking 17 from the middle section of the cyclohexanol tower as a circulating absorbent to enter a primary cyclohexanone recovery tower.
Comparative example 1
The process is carried out according to the prior art, the flow chart is shown in figure 2, and the specific process parameters and raw material compositions are shown in the following table.
TABLE 1 raw material composition
TABLE 2 operating parameters of the column process
Example 1
The process flow shown in fig. 1 is adopted. The composition of the treated raw materials is the same as that of comparative example 1, and the process parameters of the light component removal tower, the cyclohexanone tower and the cyclohexanol tower are unchanged. Adding the extracted liquid (the extracted position is a 66 th layer theoretical plate) from the middle section of the cyclohexanol tower into a first-stage cyclohexanone recovery tower, and properly adjusting the operating parameters of the first-stage cyclohexanone recovery tower and a second-stage cyclohexanone recovery tower.
Table 3 example 1 column process parameters
Example 2
The composition of the treated raw materials is the same as that of comparative example 1, and the process parameters of the light component removal tower, the cyclohexanone tower and the cyclohexanol tower are unchanged. Adding a liquid phase (a sampling position is a theoretical plate at the 45 th layer) at the top of the cyclohexanol tower into a first-stage cyclohexanone recovery tower, and properly adjusting the operating parameters of the first-stage cyclohexanone recovery tower and a second-stage cyclohexanone recovery tower.
Table 4 example 2 operating parameters of each column process
Example 3
The composition of the treated raw materials is the same as that of comparative example 1, and the process parameters of the light component removal tower, the cyclohexanone tower and the cyclohexanol tower are unchanged. Adding liquid phase (75 th layer of theoretical plate) extracted from the middle section of the cyclohexanol tower into the first-stage cyclohexanone recovery tower, and properly adjusting the operating parameters of the first-stage cyclohexanone recovery tower and the second-stage cyclohexanone recovery tower.
Table 5 example 3 operating parameters of each column process
TABLE 6 run results
From the above example and comparative example data, it can be seen that: compared with the traditional process, the process parameters of the primary cyclohexanone recovery tower and the secondary cyclohexanone recovery tower are more moderate, the amount of the byproducts and the concentration of the cyclohexanone are greatly reduced, the product loss in the process of separating and refining the cyclohexanone is greatly reduced, the product yield of the cyclohexanone is improved, and the economic benefit is very obvious.