Disclosure of Invention
Aiming at the defects of the prior art, the invention aims to provide a method for producing more paraxylene, which improves the selectivity of paraxylene, fully utilizes the conversion of benzene and toluene products into paraxylene, reduces the energy consumption of a device and improves the total yield of paraxylene which is a high value-added product.
In order to achieve the above purpose, the technical scheme adopted by the invention is as follows:
The technical object of the first aspect of the present invention is to provide a process system for producing paraxylene in high yield, comprising a xylene fractionation unit, an adsorption separation unit, an isomerization reaction unit, a disproportionation and transalkylation unit and an alkylation unit;
The xylene fractionation unit comprises a xylene tower, a heavy aromatic hydrocarbon tower and a C 8 + mixed aromatic hydrocarbon raw material feeding pipeline connected with the xylene tower, wherein a tower bottom discharging pipeline of the xylene tower is connected with an inlet of the heavy aromatic hydrocarbon tower, a tower top discharging pipeline of the xylene tower is connected with an adsorption separation unit, the heavy aromatic hydrocarbon tower is a dividing wall tower, a tower top discharging pipeline of the heavy aromatic hydrocarbon tower is connected with a disproportionation and transalkylation reactor, and a side line discharging pipeline is connected with the transalkylation reactor;
The adsorption separation unit comprises an adsorption separation tower, and is used for separating a paraxylene stream and a paraxylene-lean stream, and the paraxylene-lean stream pipeline is connected with the isomerization reaction unit;
The isomerization reaction unit comprises an isomerization reactor and a deheptanizer connected with the isomerization reactor, wherein a tower top material pipeline of the deheptanizer is connected with a benzene tower I, and a tower bottom material pipeline is connected with a xylene tower;
the disproportionation and transalkylation unit comprises a disproportionation and transalkylation reactor, a transalkylation reactor and a clay tower, wherein the discharge pipelines of the disproportionation and transalkylation reactor and the transalkylation reactor are connected with the feed pipeline of the clay tower, and the discharge pipeline of the clay tower is connected with the benzene tower I;
The alkylation unit comprises a benzene tower I, a toluene tower I and an alkylation reactor, wherein a top discharge pipeline of the benzene tower I is connected with the transalkylation reactor, a bottom discharge pipeline is connected with the toluene tower I, a top discharge pipeline of the toluene tower I is connected with the alkylation reactor, a bottom discharge pipeline is connected with the xylene tower, the alkylation reactor comprises a reactant feed pipeline, a product discharge pipeline of the alkylation reactor is connected with a gas-liquid separator after passing through a cooler, a gas-phase material outlet pipeline of the gas-liquid separator is connected with a reactant feed pipeline of the alkylation reactor after passing through a compressor, a liquid-phase material outlet pipeline of the gas-liquid separator is connected with an oil-water separator, a water-phase product outlet pipeline of the oil-water separator is connected with a methanol recovery tower, a top discharge pipeline of the methanol recovery tower is connected with a reactant feed pipeline of the alkylation reactor, and bottom discharge is water; the top discharge pipeline of the benzene tower II is connected with the transalkylation reactor, the bottom discharge pipeline of the benzene tower II is connected with the toluene tower II, the top discharge pipeline of the toluene tower II is connected with the disproportionation and transalkylation reactor, and the bottom discharge pipeline of the toluene tower II is connected with the xylene tower.
Further, the feed line to the transalkylation reactor is also connected to a benzene feed line from an aromatic extraction unit.
Further, the feed line to the disproportionation and transalkylation reactor is also connected to the toluene feed line from the aromatic extraction unit.
Further, the heavy aromatic hydrocarbon tower is a dividing wall tower, a vertical baffle plate is arranged in the middle of the traditional rectifying tower, and the rectifying tower is divided into an upper public rectifying section, a lower public stripping section, a rectifying feeding section and a side line extraction section which are separated by the baffle plate.
The technical purpose of the second aspect of the invention is to provide a process method for producing more para-xylene by using the system, which comprises the following steps: the method comprises the steps that C 8 + mixed aromatic hydrocarbon raw materials from an aromatic hydrocarbon extraction unit enter a xylene tower of a xylene fractionation unit, the bottom materials are C 9 + mixed aromatic hydrocarbons, the mixed aromatic hydrocarbon raw materials enter a heavy aromatic hydrocarbon tower, the top materials are C 8 aromatic hydrocarbons, the mixed aromatic hydrocarbon raw materials enter an adsorption separation unit, high-purity paraxylene is separated, a low-paraxylene material flow enters an isomerization reactor of an isomerization reaction unit, reaction products of the isomerization reactor enter a deheptanizer, the top materials of the deheptanizer are C 7 - mixed aromatic hydrocarbons, the benzene tower I of an alkylation unit, the bottom materials of the benzene tower I are C 8 + mixed aromatic hydrocarbons, and the mixed aromatic hydrocarbon raw materials return to the xylene tower of the xylene fractionation unit; the bottom material of the heavy aromatic hydrocarbon tower is C 11 + mixed aromatic hydrocarbon, the top material is C 9 aromatic hydrocarbon, the mixed aromatic hydrocarbon enters a disproportionation and transalkylation reactor, the side material is C 10 aromatic hydrocarbon, and the mixed aromatic hydrocarbon enters the transalkylation reactor; the products of the disproportionation and alkyl transfer reactor and the products of the alkyl transfer reactor enter a clay tower to remove impurities such as olefin and the like, and the discharged materials of the clay tower enter a benzene tower I;
Benzene is taken as the top material of the benzene tower I, enters a transalkylation reactor, and the bottom material of the benzene tower I is C 7 + mixed aromatic hydrocarbon and enters a toluene tower I; the tower bottom material of the toluene tower I is C 8 + mixed aromatic hydrocarbon, the mixed aromatic hydrocarbon enters the xylene tower, the tower top material and the methanol enter an alkylation reactor together, an alkylation reaction product is cooled by a cooler and then enters a gas-liquid separator, a separated gas phase is boosted by a compressor and then returns to the alkylation reactor, a separated liquid phase enters an oil-water separator, a water phase product separated by the oil-water separator enters a methanol recovery tower, the tower top material of the methanol recovery tower is methanol and returns to the alkylation reactor, and the tower bottom material is water; the oil phase product separated by the oil-water separator enters a benzene tower II, the top product of the benzene tower II is benzene, the benzene enters a transalkylation reactor, and the bottom material is C 7 + mixed aromatic hydrocarbon and enters a toluene tower II; toluene is taken as the top material of the toluene tower II, the toluene enters a disproportionation and transalkylation reactor, and the bottom material is C 8 + mixed aromatic hydrocarbon and enters a xylene tower.
Further, the feed to the transalkylation reactor also includes benzene from the aromatic extraction unit.
Further, the feed to the disproportionation and transalkylation reactor also includes toluene from the aromatic extraction unit.
The mixed aromatic hydrocarbon mixture raw material of C 8 + from the aromatic hydrocarbon extraction unit mainly comprises mixed aromatic hydrocarbon containing ethylbenzene, paraxylene, o-xylene and m-xylene, and also comprises heavy hydrocarbon with a content of more than C 9. Wherein the heavy hydrocarbon above C 9 is hydrocarbon such as aromatic hydrocarbon, alkane, naphthene hydrocarbon with carbon number above 9.
In the xylene fractionation unit, the top pressure of the xylene column is 0.3-2.5 mpa, preferably 0.5-1.8 mpa, and the top temperature is 50-300 ℃, preferably 110-280 ℃. The xylene tower is preferably a plate tower, and the number of the plates is 150-200.
In the xylene fractionating unit, a heavy aromatic hydrocarbon tower is a dividing wall tower, a vertical baffle plate is arranged in the middle of a traditional rectifying tower, and the rectifying tower is divided into an upper public rectifying section, a lower public stripping section, a rectifying feeding section and a side line extraction section which are separated by the baffle plate; the tower top material is C 9 aromatic hydrocarbon, the tower bottom material is C 11 + mixed aromatic hydrocarbon, and the lateral line material is C 10 aromatic hydrocarbon.
In the adsorption separation unit, a simulated moving bed process of countercurrent contact of liquid and solid is adopted, the selectivity of the adsorbent to four isomers of C 8 aromatic hydrocarbon is utilized to preferentially adsorb paraxylene, and then the desorber is used for desorbing the paraxylene on the adsorbent. The inside of the adsorption separation tower is filled with an adsorbent with high selectivity for paraxylene. The active component of the adsorbent is an X-type zeolite or a Y-type molecular sieve of Ba or BaK, and the binder is selected from kaolin, silicon dioxide or aluminum oxide. The desorbent is not only mutually soluble with each component in the raw materials, but also has larger boiling point difference with each component in the C 8 aromatic hydrocarbon, is easy to recycle and is preferably p-diethylbenzene or toluene.
The operation conditions of the adsorption separation unit are as follows: the temperature is 100 to 300 ℃, preferably 150 to 200 ℃, and the pressure is 0.2 to 1.5MPa, preferably 0.6 to 1.0MPa.
The operating conditions of the isomerization reaction unit are as follows: the reaction temperature is 300-450 ℃, preferably 330-400 ℃, the pressure is 0.1-2.0 MPa, preferably 0.4-1.5 MPa, the mass airspeed is 2-10 hours -1, preferably 3-6 hours -1, and the molar ratio of reaction hydrogen to hydrocarbon is 2-8, preferably 3-6.
In the isomerization reaction unit, an isomerization catalyst is filled in the isomerization reactor, and the isomerization catalyst is a molecular sieve or an inorganic oxide carrier and is loaded with one or more active components of Pt, sn, mg, bi, pb, pd, re, mo, W, V and rare earth metals. The molecular sieve is one or a mixture of a plurality of five-membered ring molecular sieve, mordenite, EUO type molecular sieve and MFI molecular sieve. The inorganic oxide is alumina and/or silica.
The alkylating reagent adopted in the alkylation reactor is CH 3 Br, synthesis gas, methanol and the like, preferably methanol, and meanwhile toluene generates disproportionation reaction to generate benzene and C 8 aromatic hydrocarbon. Zeolite molecular sieves, mainly X zeolite, Y zeolite, mordenite, MOR, ZSM-5, MCM-22, SAPO-5, SAPO-11, SAPO-34, etc., are filled in the alkylation reactor. The operating conditions are as follows: the reaction temperature is 300-700 ℃, preferably 400-600 ℃, the pressure is 0.1-2.0 MPa, preferably 0.1-0.5 MPa, and the mass airspeed is 1-10 h -1, preferably 2-4 h -1.
In the disproportionation and transalkylation reactor, reactants are toluene and C 9 aromatic hydrocarbon, and toluene from an aromatic hydrocarbon extraction unit is used as a supplementary reactant and is regulated according to the amount of C 9 aromatic hydrocarbon. The disproportionation and transalkylation reactor is filled with a catalyst of molecular sieve loaded with active components, wherein the molecular sieve is selected from beta-zeolite, mordenite, MCM-22 and other molecular sieves, the active components are selected from at least one of metals of bismuth, molybdenum, silver, copper, zirconium, lanthanum and rhenium or oxides thereof, and the operation conditions are as follows: the reaction temperature is 250-650 ℃, preferably 300-550 ℃, the pressure is 1-8 MPa, preferably 2-5 MPa, and the weight space velocity is 0.2-3 h -1, preferably 0.5-2 h -1.
In the transalkylation reactor, reactants are benzene and C 10 arene, benzene from an arene extraction unit is a supplementary reactant, and the reaction is regulated according to the amount of C 10 arene. The catalyst of active components loaded by molecular sieves is filled in the transalkylation reactor, the molecular sieves are selected from beta-zeolite, mordenite, MCM-22 and other molecular sieves, the active components are selected from at least one of metals of bismuth, molybdenum, silver, copper, zirconium, lanthanum and rhenium or oxides thereof, and the operation conditions are as follows: the reaction temperature is 200-650 ℃, preferably 320-550 ℃, the pressure is 1-8 MPa, preferably 2.5-5.5 MPa, and the weight space velocity is 0.2-3 h -1, preferably 0.5-2.7 h -1.
Compared with the prior art, the production process of the high-yield paraxylene has the following beneficial effects: the conversion rate of toluene is improved, the conversion of benzene to paraxylene is fully utilized, and meanwhile, the separation wall tower technology is adopted, so that the aim of separating reactants from reaction products in one tower is fulfilled, the energy consumption of the device is reduced, the paraxylene yield of a high value-added product is improved, and the economic benefit and the social benefit are improved.
Drawings
The accompanying drawings are included to provide a further understanding of the invention, and are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification, illustrate the invention and together with the description serve to explain, without limitation, the invention. In the drawings:
FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a conventional para-xylene production process flow;
FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of the process flow for the production of para-xylene in accordance with the present invention.
Wherein, 101. C 8 + mixed aromatic hydrocarbon raw material from aromatic hydrocarbon extraction unit, 102. Xylene column, 103. Adsorption separation unit, 104. Para-xylene, 105. Isomerization reaction unit, 106. Deheptanizer, 107.C 7 -aromatic hydrocarbon, 108. Heavy aromatic hydrocarbon column, 109.C 10 + mixed aromatic hydrocarbon, 110. Toluene from aromatic hydrocarbon extraction unit, 111. Disproportionation and transalkylation reactor, 112. Clay column, 113. Benzene column, 114. Benzene, 115. Toluene column.
201. C 8 + mixed aromatics feed from the aromatics extraction unit, 202. Xylene column, 203. Adsorption separation unit, 204. Para-xylene, 205. Isomerization reactor, 206. Deheptanizer, 207. Heavy aromatics column, 208.C 10 + mixed aromatics, 209. Disproportionation and transalkylation reactor, 210. Clay column, 211. Benzene column I, 212. Transalkylation reactor, 213. Toluene column I, 214. Toluene from the aromatics extraction unit, 215. Methanol, 216. Alkylation reactor, 217. Cooler, 218. Gas-liquid separation tank, 219. Compressor, 220. Oil-water separator, 221. Methanol recovery column, 222. Water, 223. Benzene column II, 224. Toluene column II, 225. Benzene from the aromatics extraction unit.
Detailed Description
The production process of paraxylene according to the present invention will be described in more detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.
In the following examples and comparative examples, the following formulas were used for calculation of each parameter:
FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a conventional process for producing para-xylene from C 8 + mixed aromatics, the process including a xylene fractionation unit, an adsorptive separation unit, an isomerization unit, and a disproportionation and transalkylation unit. The specific process flow is as follows: the C 8 + mixed aromatic hydrocarbon raw material 101 from the aromatic hydrocarbon extraction unit is fed into a xylene tower 102, the tower top material is used as raw material of an adsorption separation unit 103, and the tower bottom material is fed into a heavy aromatic hydrocarbon tower 108. The high-purity paraxylene 104 is separated by the adsorption separation unit 103, the paraxylene-lean material flow enters the isomerization reaction unit 105, the reaction product enters the deheptanizer column 106, the top material is C 7 -aromatic hydrocarbon 107, and the bottom material returns to the paraxylene column 102. The bottom material of the heavy aromatic column 108 is C 10 + mixed aromatic 109, and the top material and toluene 110 from the aromatic extraction unit enter a disproportionation and transalkylation reactor 111. The reaction product is sent to benzene tower 113 after the impurities such as olefin are removed by clay tower 112, the top product is benzene 114, and the bottom material is sent to toluene tower 115. The toluene overhead enters the disproportionation and transalkylation reactor and the bottoms enters the xylene column 102.
FIG. 2 is a schematic flow chart of the para-xylene production process of the present invention, wherein the process flow comprises a xylene fractionation unit, an adsorption separation unit, an isomerization unit, a disproportionation and transalkylation unit, and an alkylation unit. The process flow for producing paraxylene is as follows: the mixed C 8 + aromatic hydrocarbon raw material 201 from the aromatic hydrocarbon extraction unit enters a xylene tower 202 of a xylene fractionation unit, the bottom material is mixed C 9 + aromatic hydrocarbon, the mixed C 9 + aromatic hydrocarbon raw material enters a heavy aromatic hydrocarbon tower 207, the top material is C 8 aromatic hydrocarbon, the mixed C 9 + aromatic hydrocarbon raw material enters an adsorption separation unit 203, high-purity para-xylene 204 is separated, a para-xylene-poor material enters an isomerization reactor 205 of an isomerization reaction unit, the reaction product of the isomerization reactor 205 enters a deheptanizer 206, the top material of the deheptanizer 206 is mixed C 7 - aromatic hydrocarbon, the mixed C 8 + aromatic hydrocarbon is introduced into a benzene tower I of an alkylation unit, and the bottom material is mixed C 8 + aromatic hydrocarbon, and the mixed C3934 aromatic hydrocarbon is returned to the xylene tower 202 of the xylene fractionation unit; the bottom material of the heavy aromatic column 207 is C 11 + mixed aromatic hydrocarbon, the top material is C 9 aromatic hydrocarbon, the mixture enters the disproportionation and transalkylation reactor 209, the side material is C 10 aromatic hydrocarbon, and benzene 225 from the aromatic hydrocarbon extraction unit enters the transalkylation reactor 212; the products of the disproportionation and transalkylation reactor and the products of the transalkylation reactor enter a clay tower 210 to remove impurities such as olefin and the like, and the discharged materials of the clay tower 210 enter a benzene tower I211;
Benzene is taken as the top material of the benzene tower I211, enters the transalkylation reactor 210, and the bottom material is C 7 + mixed aromatic hydrocarbon, enters the toluene tower I213; the bottom material of the toluene tower I213 is C 8 + mixed aromatic hydrocarbon, the mixed aromatic hydrocarbon enters the xylene tower 202, the top material, toluene 214 from an aromatic hydrocarbon extraction unit and methanol 215 enter an alkylation reactor 216 together, an alkylation reaction product is cooled by a cooler 217 and then enters a gas-liquid separator 218, the separated gas phase is boosted by a compressor 219 and then returns to the alkylation reactor 216, the separated liquid phase enters an oil-water separator 220, the water phase product separated by the oil-water separator 220 enters a methanol recovery tower 221, the top material of the methanol recovery tower 221 is methanol, the methanol returns to the alkylation reactor 216, and the bottom material is water 222; the oil phase product separated by the oil-water separator 220 enters a benzene tower II 223, the top product of the benzene tower II 223 is benzene, the benzene enters a transalkylation reactor 212, and the bottom material is C 7 + mixed aromatic hydrocarbon and enters a toluene tower II 224; toluene column II 224 has toluene as the top material and a disproportionation and transalkylation reactor 209, and aromatic hydrocarbon mixture as the bottom material and C 8 + as the bottom material and a xylene column 202.
The effect of the productive p-xylene production process provided by the present invention is specifically described below by way of examples.
Comparative example 1
Comparative example 1 illustrates the process and energy consumption of conventional para-xylene production. The composition of the C 8 + aromatic hydrocarbon mixture feed from the aromatic hydrocarbon extraction unit is shown in Table 1, and the toluene purity from the aromatic hydrocarbon extraction unit is >95%.
TABLE 1C 8 + composition of aromatic hydrocarbon mixture feedstock
The result of paraxylene production by using the process system shown in fig. 1 shows that in the conventional paraxylene production process, the toluene conversion rate is 21%, the paraxylene yield is 61.8%, and the device energy consumption is 332 kgEO/(t.px).
Example 1
Example 1 illustrates the process and energy consumption of the multi-product para-xylene production provided by the present invention. The feed composition was consistent with comparative example 1, with benzene and toluene purities >95% from the aromatic extraction unit.
The production of paraxylene by the process system shown in fig. 2 shows that the toluene conversion is 26.5%, the paraxylene yield is 67.4%, and the device energy consumption is 310 kgEO/(t.px).
Compared with the conventional xylene production process, the method for producing the paraxylene provided by the invention has the advantages that the toluene conversion rate is increased by 26.2%, the paraxylene yield is increased by 9.1%, and the device energy consumption is reduced by 6.6%. Therefore, the invention improves the conversion rate of toluene and the yield of paraxylene, and simultaneously utilizes benzene to generate paraxylene with high added value, thereby reducing the energy consumption of the device.