CN115160131B - Method for reducing crude ester moisture in ethyl acetate production process - Google Patents

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CN115160131B CN202210947252.XA CN202210947252A CN115160131B CN 115160131 B CN115160131 B CN 115160131B CN 202210947252 A CN202210947252 A CN 202210947252A CN 115160131 B CN115160131 B CN 115160131B
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Abstract

The invention relates to a method for reducing crude ester moisture in the production process of ethyl acetate, and belongs to the technical field of chemical industry. According to the invention, on the basis of the traditional process for producing ethyl acetate by an esterification method, the vapor at the top of an esterification tower is dehydrated through hydrophilic silica aerogel microspheres, and the rectified ethyl acetate is dehydrated and dealcoholized through a mixed adsorbent, so that the water content of the finally obtained purified ethyl acetate is less than or equal to 0.005%, and the ethanol content of the finally obtained purified ethyl acetate is less than or equal to 0.005%.

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Method for reducing crude ester moisture in ethyl acetate production process
Technical Field
The invention belongs to the technical field of chemical industry, and relates to a method for reducing crude ester moisture in an ethyl acetate production process.
Background
Ethyl acetate is an important chemical raw material, and pure ethyl acetate is colorless and clear liquid. In the pharmaceutical preparation, ethyl acetate is mainly used as a solvent, and can also be used as a spice and a flavoring. As a solvent, it is used in solutions for external use and gels, and is useful in edible printing inks for tablets. The current production methods of ethyl acetate mainly comprise an acetate method, an acetaldehyde condensation method, an ethanol dehydrogenation method and an acetic acid and ethylene addition method. In chemical production, a continuous esterification method is often adopted to produce ethyl acetate, namely raw material acetic acid and ethanol are subjected to esterification reaction in a strong acid homogeneous catalyst at a certain temperature and under a certain pressure, and the reaction products are separated by a series of rectifying towers to obtain an ethyl acetate product. In the process of purifying ethyl acetate, because the product water and ethanol can form binary and ternary azeotrope with ethyl acetate, the product water and the ethanol are partially mutually soluble at normal temperature, and great difficulty is brought to the purification of ethyl acetate. At present, the industrial purification of ethyl acetate by cyclic rectification, condensation, reflux dehydration mainly utilizes the difference of constant boiling composition of ethyl acetate, ethanol and water and mutual solubility at normal temperature, but the method has high energy consumption and the water content in the ethyl acetate product is still higher.
Patent CN112299999a discloses a refining method of high-purity ethyl acetate, crude ethyl acetate is firstly put into a mixed adsorbent for adsorption filtration to obtain ethyl acetate after preliminary impurity removal, then ethyl acetate after preliminary impurity removal is taken and added into a high-efficiency rectifying tower for normal pressure rectification reflux to obtain ethyl acetate after normal pressure rectification, and then ethyl acetate after normal pressure rectification is taken for secondary adsorption filtration to obtain high-purity ethyl acetate, but the impurity content of the ethyl acetate after purification is still not low.
Patent CN105712873a discloses a control method for synthesizing ethyl acetate by an esterification method, which comprises the steps of firstly controlling the mole ratio of acetic acid to ethanol in a mixer to be 1:1, conveying a uniformly stirred mixture to an esterification tower, arranging sulfuric acid at the bottom of the esterification tower and only at the bottom of the esterification tower, heating and esterifying by an esterification reboiler to generate gaseous ethyl acetate and water, and finally enabling the gaseous ethyl acetate and water to enter an esterification phase separator by an esterification condenser and an esterification cooler to obtain ethyl acetate. The invention mainly controls specific parameters in the process of synthesizing ethyl acetate by an esterification method so as to achieve the aim of purifying the ethyl acetate.
Patent CN105439855a discloses a refining method for esterification synthesis of ethyl acetate, acetic acid and ethanol are reacted in an esterification kettle, reaction steam enters an esterification tower for separation, tower top steam is sent into a pervaporation separator for separation to obtain dehydrated crude ester and permeate liquid, one part of the dehydrated crude ester flows back to the top of the esterification tower, the other part of the dehydrated crude ester enters a dealcoholization tower for dealcoholization separation, ethyl acetate crude product is extracted from the tower bottom, ethyl acetate crude product enters a refining tower for separation, heavy components are removed, and ethyl acetate finished product is obtained from the tower top. The invention mainly dehydrates crude ethyl acetate by a pervaporation separator consisting of a molecular sieve membrane, an amorphous silica membrane or a PVA membrane, and the amorphous silica membrane is mentioned, but the morphological structure is not specified, and the water content of dehydrated crude ester is still higher.
Patent publication No. CN112500292A discloses a method for purifying ethyl acetate, which comprises first dehydrating crude ethyl acetate to be treated through an acid-resistant permeable membrane, and then removing other impurities through a rectification technique. The invention also discloses a T/NaY zeolite molecular sieve composite membrane and a preparation method thereof. There is no mention of the related art regarding hydrophilic silica aerogel microspheres as a dehydrated material.
Patent publication No. CN107986964A discloses a method for synthesizing ethyl acetate by membrane separation and dehydration, wherein ethanol and acetic acid are reboiled and enter an esterification kettle to carry out esterification reaction in the presence of a catalyst, reaction products enter an esterification tower to be separated, gas phase components are distilled out from the top of the tower to be condensed and separated into crude ethyl acetate by layering through a layering tank, the ethyl acetate enters a raw material pervaporation water permeable membrane assembly to be dehydrated and then is divided into two parts, one part of the ethyl acetate flows back to the esterification tower to serve as a water carrying agent, and the other part of the ethyl acetate enters a refining tower to be refined, so that purified ethyl acetate is obtained. The material adopted by the pervaporation permeable membrane component is a ceramic membrane, and is composed of silicate and SiO 2 、Al 2 O 3 、Na 2 One or more than two of O. There is also no mention of the related art regarding hydrophilic silica aerogel microspheres as a dehydrated material.
Patent publication No. CN102070444A discloses a dehydration and impurity removal method for ethyl acetate, wherein an impurity removing agent which is insoluble in ethyl acetate and can adsorb moisture, alcohols, aldehydes and small molecular impurities thereof is added into the ethyl acetate, and the impurity removing agent can be one or more of spherical low-sodium molecular sieves such as 3A, 4A, 5A, 10X, 13X and the like, activated alumina, activated carbon, silica gel, calcium oxide, calcium chloride and the like. The patent also does not mention the related art regarding hydrophilic silica aerogel microspheres as a dehydrated material.
Patent publication No. CN105037156A discloses a production method of ultra-clean high-purity ethyl acetate, which comprises the steps of sequentially preprocessing industrial-grade ethyl acetate by an adsorbent, filtering by a membrane to obtain an ethyl acetate semi-finished product, and purifying the semi-finished product by the steps of molecular sieve dehydration, ion exchange resin and circulating filtration to obtain the ultra-clean high-purity ethyl acetate. The adsorbent is a mixture of diatomite and fine pore silica gel, the membrane is a porous silica gel membrane or a polyimide membrane, and the ion exchange resin is gel weak base acrylic resin.
Patent CN100357250C discloses a dehydration and purification method of ethyl acetate, and the invention also achieves the aim of improving the purity of the ethyl acetate by controlling the technical parameters such as reaction temperature, reflux ratio and the like in the process of producing the ethyl acetate by an esterification method.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to provide a method for reducing crude ester moisture in the ethyl acetate production process, which is based on the traditional process for producing ethyl acetate by an esterification method, wherein the top steam of an esterification tower is dehydrated through hydrophilic silica aerogel microspheres, and the rectified ethyl acetate is dehydrated and dealcoholized again through a mixed adsorbent, so that the water content of the finally obtained purified ethyl acetate is less than or equal to 0.005%, and the ethanol content is less than or equal to 0.005%.
The aim of the invention can be achieved by the following technical scheme:
a method for reducing crude ester moisture in an ethyl acetate production process, comprising the steps of:
(1) Lactonizing acetic acid and ethanol in an esterification kettle, separating reaction steam in an esterification tower, and dehydrating tower top steam through an adsorbent A to obtain dehydrated crude ester;
(2) Feeding the dehydrated crude ester into a rectifying tower for rectification and separation to obtain rectified ethyl acetate;
(3) And (3) pouring the rectified ethyl acetate into the mixed adsorbent B for further dehydration and dealcoholization to obtain the purified ethyl acetate.
As a preferable technical scheme of the invention, the adsorbent A is a hydrophilic silica aerogel microsphere.
As a more preferable technical scheme of the invention, the porosity of the hydrophilic silica aerogel microspheres is 90-95%, and the particle size distribution is 10-15 um.
As a preferred technical scheme of the invention, the preparation method of the hydrophilic silica aerogel microspheres comprises the following steps:
1) Synthesis of siloxane prepolymer: stirring tetraethoxysilane and galactose with acetone until the mixture is transparent, adding a dilute hydrochloric acid solution, and removing the solvent after the reaction is completed to obtain a siloxane prepolymer;
2) Self-assembly: adding the siloxane prepolymer in the step 1) into water for self-assembly to obtain white emulsion;
3) Washing: adding alkali into the emulsion of the step 2) to adjust the pH value to 9.5-10.5, stirring, standing to obtain white precipitate, filtering to remove water, and washing with water until the pH value in the water is 6-7;
4) And (3) drying: and (3) carrying out vacuum drying on the white precipitate obtained in the step (3) at 40-50 ℃ to obtain the hydrophilic silica aerogel microspheres.
As a preferable technical scheme of the invention, the concentration of hydrogen ions in the dilute hydrochloric acid solution in the step 1) is 2-6 mol/L.
As a preferable technical scheme of the invention, the weight ratio of the dilute hydrochloric acid solution to tetraethoxysilane in the step 1) is 0.005-0.008:1.
As a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the weight ratio of tetraethoxysilane, galactose and acetone in step 1) is 100: 30-80:2-10.
As a preferable technical scheme of the invention, the vacuum drying time in the step 4) is 2-6 h.
As a preferable technical scheme of the invention, the mixed adsorbent B consists of 20 to 35 weight parts of diatomite, 30 to 50 weight parts of activated carbon, 5 to 9 weight parts of CaO and 3 to 8 weight parts of Al 2 O 3 Composition is prepared.
As a preferable technical scheme of the invention, the adding amount of the adsorbent A is 5-8% of the weight of the ethyl acetate.
As a preferable technical scheme of the invention, the adding amount of the mixed adsorbent B is 12-20% of the weight of the ethyl acetate.
The invention has the beneficial effects that:
(1) According to the invention, the weight ratio of tetraethoxysilane, galactose and acetone in the preparation process of the hydrophilic silica aerogel microspheres is controlled, the concentration of a dilute hydrochloric acid solution and the pH value of a white emulsion are controlled, the weight ratio of dilute hydrochloric acid to tetraethoxysilane is controlled, the temperature and the time of vacuum drying are controlled, the porosity of the final finished silica aerogel microspheres is controlled to be 90-95%, and the particle size distribution is controlled to be 10-15 mu m, so that the silica aerogel microspheres have more excellent hydrophilic performance and stronger dehydration capability of ethyl acetate serving as an adsorption material.
(2) In the method, the crude ethyl acetate is dehydrated by the adsorbent A, rectified and dehydrated and dealcoholized by the mixed adsorbent B, and the water content of the finally obtained purified ethyl acetate is less than or equal to 0.005% and the ethanol content is less than or equal to 0.005%.
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In order to further describe the technical means and effects adopted by the present invention for achieving the intended purpose, the following detailed description will refer to the specific embodiments, structures, features and effects according to the present invention in conjunction with examples.
Example 1
A method for reducing crude ester moisture in an ethyl acetate production process, comprising the steps of:
(1) Acetic acid and ethanol are subjected to lactonization reaction in an esterification kettle, reaction steam enters an esterification tower for separation, tower top steam is dehydrated through an adsorbent A to obtain dehydrated crude ester, and the adding amount of the adsorbent A is 5% of the weight of ethyl acetate;
(2) Feeding the dehydrated crude ester into a rectifying tower for rectification and separation to obtain rectified ethyl acetate;
(3) The ethyl acetate after rectification is put into a reactor composed of 25 weight parts of diatomite, 38 weight parts of activated carbon, 6 weight parts of CaO and 5 weight parts of Al 2 O 3 Further dehydrating and dealcoholizing the mixed adsorbent B to obtain purified ethyl acetate, wherein the adding amount of the mixed adsorbent B is as follows13% by weight of ethyl acetate.
The preparation method of the adsorbent A comprises the following steps:
1) Synthesis of siloxane prepolymer: mixing tetraethoxysilane, galactose and acetone according to a weight ratio of 100:35:8, stirring until the mixture is transparent, adding a dilute hydrochloric acid solution with a hydrogen ion concentration of 3mol/L, controlling the adding amount of the dilute hydrochloric acid to be 0.005:1, and removing a solvent after the reaction is completed to obtain a siloxane prepolymer;
2) Self-assembly: adding the siloxane prepolymer in the step 1) into water for self-assembly to obtain white emulsion;
3) Washing: adding alkali into the emulsion of the step 2) to adjust the pH to 9.5-10.5, stirring, standing to obtain white precipitate, filtering to remove water, and washing with water until the pH is 6-7;
4) And (3) drying: and (3) drying the white precipitate obtained in the step (3) in vacuum at 42 ℃ for 5 hours to obtain the adsorbent A.
The prepared adsorbent A is a hydrophilic silica aerogel microsphere, the porosity of the hydrophilic silica aerogel microsphere is 90-92%, and the particle size distribution is 11-13 um.
The purified ethyl acetate of this example had a water content of 0.004% and an ethanol content of 0.005%.
Example 2
A method for reducing crude ester moisture in an ethyl acetate production process, comprising the steps of:
(1) Acetic acid and ethanol are subjected to lactonization reaction in an esterification kettle, reaction steam enters an esterification tower for separation, tower top steam is dehydrated through an adsorbent A to obtain dehydrated crude ester, and the adding amount of the adsorbent A is 7% of the weight of ethyl acetate;
(2) Feeding the dehydrated crude ester into a rectifying tower for rectification and separation to obtain rectified ethyl acetate;
(3) The ethyl acetate after rectification is put into a reactor composed of 30 weight parts of diatomite, 42 weight parts of activated carbon, 7 weight parts of CaO and 8 weight parts of Al 2 O 3 Further dehydrating and dealcoholizing the mixed adsorbent B to obtain purified ethyl acetate, wherein the mixed adsorbent B is added withThe amount was 15% by weight of ethyl acetate.
The preparation method of the adsorbent A comprises the following steps:
1) Synthesis of siloxane prepolymer: mixing tetraethoxysilane, galactose and acetone according to a weight ratio of 100:33:7, stirring until the mixture is transparent, adding a dilute hydrochloric acid solution with a hydrogen ion concentration of 2mol/L, controlling the adding amount of the dilute hydrochloric acid to be 0.007:1 by weight ratio of the dilute hydrochloric acid to the tetraethoxysilane, and removing a solvent after the reaction is completed to obtain a siloxane prepolymer;
2) Self-assembly: adding the siloxane prepolymer in the step 1) into water for self-assembly to obtain white emulsion;
3) Washing: adding alkali into the emulsion of the step 2) to adjust the pH to 9.5-10.5, stirring, standing to obtain white precipitate, filtering to remove water, and washing with water until the pH is 6-7;
4) And (3) drying: and (3) drying the white precipitate obtained in the step (3) in vacuum at 40 ℃ for 3h to obtain the adsorbent A.
The prepared adsorbent A is a hydrophilic silica aerogel microsphere, the porosity of the hydrophilic silica aerogel microsphere is 93-95%, and the particle size distribution is 10-12 um.
The purified ethyl acetate of this example had a water content of 0.003% and an ethanol content of 0.004%.
Example 3
A method for reducing crude ester moisture in an ethyl acetate production process, comprising the steps of:
(1) Acetic acid and ethanol are subjected to lactonization reaction in an esterification kettle, reaction steam enters an esterification tower for separation, tower top steam is dehydrated through an adsorbent A to obtain dehydrated crude ester, and the adding amount of the adsorbent A is 6% of the weight of ethyl acetate;
(2) Feeding the dehydrated crude ester into a rectifying tower for rectification and separation to obtain rectified ethyl acetate;
(3) The ethyl acetate after rectification is put into a reactor composed of 29 parts by weight of diatomite, 32 parts by weight of activated carbon, 8 parts by weight of CaO and 5 parts by weight of Al 2 O 3 Further dehydrating and dealcoholizing the mixed adsorbent B to obtain purified ethyl acetate, wherein the mixed adsorbent BThe addition amount was 17% by weight of ethyl acetate.
The preparation method of the adsorbent A comprises the following steps:
1) Synthesis of siloxane prepolymer: mixing tetraethoxysilane, galactose and acetone according to a weight ratio of 100:77:5, stirring until the mixture is transparent, adding a dilute hydrochloric acid solution with a hydrogen ion concentration of 5mol/L, controlling the adding amount of the dilute hydrochloric acid to be 0.008:1, and removing a solvent after the reaction is completed to obtain a siloxane prepolymer;
2) Self-assembly: adding the siloxane prepolymer in the step 1) into water for self-assembly to obtain white emulsion;
3) Washing: adding alkali into the emulsion of the step 2) to adjust the pH to 9.5-10.5, stirring, standing to obtain white precipitate, filtering to remove water, and washing with water until the pH is 6-7;
4) And (3) drying: and (3) drying the white precipitate obtained in the step (3) in vacuum at 50 ℃ for 6 hours to obtain the adsorbent A.
The prepared adsorbent A is a hydrophilic silica aerogel microsphere, the porosity of the hydrophilic silica aerogel microsphere is 93-95%, and the particle size distribution is 12-15 um.
The purified ethyl acetate of this example had a water content of 0.004% and an ethanol content of 0.004%.
Comparative example 1
A method for reducing crude ester moisture in an ethyl acetate production process, comprising the steps of:
(1) Acetic acid and ethanol are subjected to lactonization reaction in an esterification kettle, reaction steam enters an esterification tower for separation, tower top steam is dehydrated through an adsorbent A to obtain dehydrated crude ester, and the adding amount of the adsorbent A is 6% of the weight of ethyl acetate;
(2) Feeding the dehydrated crude ester into a rectifying tower for rectification and separation to obtain rectified ethyl acetate;
(3) The ethyl acetate after rectification is put into a reactor composed of 25 weight parts of diatomite, 38 weight parts of activated carbon, 6 weight parts of CaO and 5 weight parts of Al 2 O 3 Further dehydrating and dealcoholizing the mixed adsorbent B to obtain purified ethyl acetate, wherein the mixed adsorbent isThe addition amount of the agent B is 17% of the weight of the ethyl acetate.
The preparation method of the adsorbent A comprises the following steps:
1) Synthesis of siloxane prepolymer: mixing tetraethoxysilane, galactose and acetone according to a weight ratio of 100:27:11, stirring until the mixture is transparent, adding a dilute hydrochloric acid solution with a hydrogen ion concentration of 7mol/L, controlling the adding amount of the dilute hydrochloric acid to be 0.01:1, and removing a solvent after the reaction is completed to obtain a siloxane prepolymer;
2) Self-assembly: adding the siloxane prepolymer in the step 1) into water for self-assembly to obtain white emulsion;
3) Washing: adding alkali into the emulsion of the step 2) to adjust the pH to 8.5-9.0, stirring, standing to obtain white precipitate, filtering to remove water, and washing with water until the pH is 5-6;
4) And (3) drying: and (3) drying the white precipitate obtained in the step (3) in vacuum at 39 ℃ for 7h to obtain the adsorbent A.
The prepared adsorbent A is a hydrophilic silica aerogel microsphere, the porosity of the hydrophilic silica aerogel microsphere is 80-85%, and the particle size distribution is 20-30 um.
The purified ethyl acetate of this comparative example had a water content of 0.018% and an ethanol content of 0.021%.
Comparative example 2
A method for reducing crude ester moisture in an ethyl acetate production process, comprising the steps of:
(1) Acetic acid and ethanol are subjected to lactonization reaction in an esterification kettle, reaction steam enters an esterification tower for separation, tower top steam is dehydrated through an adsorbent A to obtain dehydrated crude ester, and the adding amount of the adsorbent A is 6% of the weight of ethyl acetate;
(2) Feeding the dehydrated crude ester into a rectifying tower for rectification and separation to obtain rectified ethyl acetate;
(3) The ethyl acetate after rectification is put into a reactor composed of 25 weight parts of diatomite, 38 weight parts of activated carbon, 6 weight parts of CaO and 5 weight parts of Al 2 O 3 Further dehydrating and dealcoholizing the mixed adsorbent B to obtain purified ethyl acetate, wherein the mixed adsorbent isThe addition amount of the additive B is 17% of the weight of the ethyl acetate.
The preparation method of the adsorbent A comprises the following steps:
1) Synthesis of siloxane prepolymer: stirring tetraisopropoxysilane, galactose and acetone according to a weight ratio of 100:81:1 until the mixture is transparent, adding a dilute hydrochloric acid solution with a hydrogen ion concentration of 1.5mol/L, controlling the adding amount of the dilute hydrochloric acid to be 0.004:1, and removing a solvent after the reaction is complete to obtain a siloxane prepolymer;
2) Self-assembly: adding the siloxane prepolymer in the step 1) into water for self-assembly to obtain white emulsion;
3) Washing: adding alkali into the emulsion of the step 2) to adjust the pH to 8.5-9.0, stirring, standing to obtain white precipitate, filtering to remove water, and washing with water until the pH is 5-6;
4) And (3) drying: and (3) drying the white precipitate obtained in the step (3) in vacuum at 39 ℃ for 7h to obtain the adsorbent A.
The prepared adsorbent A is a hydrophilic silica aerogel microsphere, the porosity of the hydrophilic silica aerogel microsphere is 80-83%, and the particle size distribution is 20-25 um.
The purified ethyl acetate of this comparative example had a water content of 0.015% and an ethanol content of 0.02%.
Comparative example 3
A method for reducing crude ester moisture in an ethyl acetate production process, comprising the steps of:
(1) Acetic acid and ethanol are subjected to lactonization reaction in an esterification kettle, reaction steam enters an esterification tower for separation, tower top steam is dehydrated through an adsorbent A to obtain dehydrated crude ester, and the adding amount of the adsorbent A is 6% of the weight of ethyl acetate;
(2) Feeding the dehydrated crude ester into a rectifying tower for rectification and separation to obtain rectified ethyl acetate;
(3) The ethyl acetate after rectification is put into a reactor composed of 25 weight parts of diatomite, 38 weight parts of activated carbon, 6 weight parts of CaO and 5 weight parts of Al 2 O 3 Further dehydrating and dealcoholizing the mixed adsorbent B to obtain purified ethyl acetate, wherein the mixed adsorbent B comprisesThe amount of the adsorbent B added is 17% of the weight of the ethyl acetate.
The preparation method of the adsorbent A comprises the following steps:
1) Synthesis of siloxane prepolymer: mixing tetramethoxysilane, galactose and acetone according to a weight ratio of 100:27:13, stirring until the mixture is transparent, adding a dilute hydrochloric acid solution with a hydrogen ion concentration of 1mol/L, controlling the adding amount of the dilute hydrochloric acid to be 0.02:1, and removing a solvent after the reaction is completed to obtain a siloxane prepolymer;
2) Self-assembly: adding the siloxane prepolymer in the step 1) into water for self-assembly to obtain white emulsion;
3) Washing: adding alkali into the emulsion of the step 2) to adjust the pH to 8.5-9.0, stirring, standing to obtain white precipitate, filtering to remove water, and washing with water until the pH is 5-6;
4) And (3) drying: and (3) drying the white precipitate obtained in the step (3) in vacuum at 39 ℃ for 1h to obtain the adsorbent A.
The prepared adsorbent A is a hydrophilic silica aerogel microsphere, the porosity of the hydrophilic silica aerogel microsphere is 78-82%, and the particle size distribution is 22-32 um.
The purified ethyl acetate of this comparative example had a water content of 0.018% and an ethanol content of 0.02%.
From the comparison of the data of the above examples 1 and comparative examples 1 to 3, it was found that the comparative examples 1 to 3 were adjusted in terms of the parameters in the production process of the hydrophilic silica aerogel microspheres including the weight ratio of tetraalkoxysilane, galactose and acetone, the concentration of dilute hydrochloric acid, the weight ratio of dilute hydrochloric acid to tetraethoxysilane, the vacuum drying temperature and time, and the tetraethoxysilane was replaced with tetramethoxysilane and tetraisopropoxysilane, respectively, and the porosity and particle size of the finally obtained hydrophilic silica aerogel microspheres were not in the range of example 1, and the water content and alcohol content in the purified ethyl acetate in the comparative examples 1 to 3 were higher than those in example 1.
The present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, but is capable of modification and variation in detail, and other modifications and variations can be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the scope of the present invention.

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1. A method for reducing the water content of crude ester in the process of producing ethyl acetate, which is characterized by comprising the following steps:
lactonizing acetic acid and ethanol in an esterification kettle, separating reaction steam in an esterification tower, and dehydrating tower top steam through an adsorbent A to obtain dehydrated crude ester;
feeding the dehydrated crude ester into a rectifying tower for rectification and separation to obtain rectified ethyl acetate;
adding the rectified ethyl acetate into the mixed adsorbent B for further dehydration and dealcoholization to obtain purified ethyl acetate;
the adsorbent A is a hydrophilic silica aerogel microsphere;
the porosity of the hydrophilic silica aerogel microspheres is 90-95%, and the particle size distribution is 10-15 um;
the preparation method of the hydrophilic silica aerogel microspheres comprises the following steps:
1) Synthesis of siloxane prepolymer: stirring tetraethoxysilane and galactose with acetone until the mixture is transparent, adding a dilute hydrochloric acid solution, and removing the solvent after the reaction is completed to obtain a siloxane prepolymer;
2) Self-assembly: adding the siloxane prepolymer in the step 1) into water for self-assembly to obtain white emulsion;
3) Washing: adding alkali into the emulsion in the step 2) to adjust the pH value to 9.5-10.5, stirring, standing to obtain white precipitate, filtering to remove water, and washing with water until the pH value in the water is 6-7;
4) And (3) drying: vacuum drying the white precipitate obtained in the step 3) at 40-50 ℃ to obtain hydrophilic silica aerogel microspheres;
the concentration of hydrogen ions in the dilute hydrochloric acid solution is 2-6 mol/L;
the weight ratio of the dilute hydrochloric acid solution to tetraethoxysilane in the step 1) is 0.005-0.008:1;
the weight ratio of tetraethoxysilane, galactose and acetone in the step 1) is 100: 30-80:2-10;
the mixed adsorbent B consists of 20-35 parts by weight of diatomite, 30-50 parts by weight of activated carbon, 5-9 parts by weight of CaO and 3-8 parts by weight of Al 2 O 3 Composition is prepared.
2. The method for reducing the water content of crude ester in the production process of ethyl acetate according to claim 1, wherein the vacuum drying time in the step 4) is 2-6 hours.
3. The method for reducing crude ester moisture in an ethyl acetate production process according to claim 1, wherein the amount of the adsorbent A added is 5-8% of the weight of ethyl acetate.
4. The method for reducing the water content of crude ester in the production process of ethyl acetate according to claim 1, wherein the adding amount of the mixed adsorbent B is 12-20% of the weight of ethyl acetate.
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