Background technology
1, the preparation method of 2-epoxy cyclohexane is a lot.Classify with the preparation raw material, hexalin method, ortho chloro phenol method, tetrahydrobenzene method, hexanaphthene method, pimelinketone method etc. are arranged.Existing industrialized many be raw material with the tetrahydrobenzene, its method can be divided into hypochlorous acid (salt) method, Ha Kang (Halcon) method, hydrogen peroxide oxidation method, molecular oxygen oxidation method, electrochemical preparation method etc. again.
In the production method of epoxide, the throughput of hypochlorous acid (salt) method, Halcon method and hydrogen peroxide oxidation method accounts for more than 99% of the world.But up to now, these three kinds of methods all have significant deficiency.The former produces a large amount of refuses such as brine waste---and one ton 1 of every production, 2-epoxy cyclohexane will produce about 20 tons of waste water, and energy consumption is big, and equipment corrosion is serious.Halcon method is because of the compound of hydroxyls such as the by-product phenylethyl alcohol or the trimethyl carbinol, it produces the restriction that seriously is subjected to the by product market capacity---if all epoxide are all produced with Halcon method, because of the market requirement consumption of by product less than 5% of theoretical generation, the by product of generation has 95% can't handle approximately! And be oxygen source with hydrogen peroxide in the hydrogen peroxide oxidation method, be that oxygen source produces 1 relatively directly with air, 2-epoxy cyclohexane, cost want high, and it is many that waste water is wanted.
With hexanaphthene preparation 1, original main technique of 2-epoxy cyclohexane: a, be hexalin by cyclohexane oxidation, after being dehydrated into tetrahydrobenzene, reoxidizing is 1, the 2-epoxy cyclohexane; B, being pimelinketone by cyclohexane oxidation, is the chlorination pimelinketone through chlorination, and hydrogenation is the chlorination hexalin, and cyclisation is 1 in the presence of alkali again, the 2-epoxy cyclohexane; C, be tetrahydrobenzene by cyclohexane dehydrogenation, epoxy turns to 1 again, the 2-epoxy cyclohexane.But problems such as these preparation technologies exist that route is long, side reaction many or yield is low.And can be from finding out, " hexanaphthene is a raw material " only is initial feed here, still is summed up as the problem of making direct material with tetrahydrobenzene etc. at last.
US4 discloses a kind of method of producing hexalin in 814,511, and wherein process comprises: cyclohexane oxidation becomes cyclohexyl hydroperoxide, adds 1 ~ 5 mole of tetrahydrobenzene doubly again and carries out epoxidation reaction, generates to contain 1, the reaction mixture of 2-epoxy cyclohexane and hexalin.Carry out hydrogenation under palladium catalysis, 130 ℃ ~ 150 ℃ and 0.3MPa ~ 3.0MPa condition, make 1, the 2-epoxy cyclohexane is reduced to hexalin.By distillation reaction liquid, obtain product hexalin and pimelinketone at last.It has emphasized the utilization ratio of active oxygen in the cyclohexyl hydroperoxide, has improved the purpose of hexalin content in the head product to reach.Can increase the aftertreatment cost but tetrahydrobenzene is excessive, if tetrahydrobenzene is reduced into the means that hexanaphthene is a kind of minus economic growth, so satisfying under the processing condition, the tetrahydrobenzene proportioning should be controlled at the position of suitable economy in addition.
US 5,175, and 316 can think US4, the method improvement of " a kind of production hexalin " in 814,511.The one, it is more suitable that the mol ratio of tetrahydrobenzene and cyclohexyl hydroperoxide is transferred to: 0.7 ~ 1: 1.The 2nd, clearly the suitable production hexalin circulation technology that is major product.Its problem is: before reacting with tetrahydrobenzene, the reaction mixture that contains cyclohexyl hydroperoxide has been carried out rectifying concentrated, separated to walk hexanaphthene; And when adding the tetrahydrobenzene reaction, add hexanaphthene again, it is complicated that this process that makes becomes.And cyclohexyl hydroperoxide belongs to the easy decomposed substance of temperature-sensitive, and a many step rectifying and times, more cyclohexyl hydroperoxides make utilization ratio reduce self-decomposition, and side reaction increases.
Summary of the invention
The purpose of this invention is to provide a kind of with hexanaphthene preparation 1, the method for 2-epoxy cyclohexane.
The object of the present invention is achieved like this: at first, carry out cyclohexane oxidation.Gas reaction with hexanaphthene and molecule-containing keto, wherein can adopt no catalysis or cobalt salt catalyzed oxidation to prepare cyclohexyl hydroperoxide, the technology controlling and process index that oxidizing reaction adopts is: 120 ℃ ~ 180 ℃ of temperature, pressure 0.8MPa ~ 2.5MPa, molecule-containing keto 5vol% ~ 100vol% in the gas of molecular oxygen, oxygen content 0.5vol% ~ 5vol% in the control tail gas, hexanaphthene per pass conversion 2% ~ 20%.
The gas of hexanaphthene and molecule-containing keto reaction, be typically air, the typical control condition is: 130 ℃ ~ 150 ℃ of temperature, pressure 0.9MPa ~ 1.5MPa, oxygen content 0.5vol% ~ 5vol% in the control tail gas, corresponding typical hexanaphthene per pass conversion 3% ~ 7%.Its reaction solution component comprises (mass percent): 93% ~ 97% unconverted hexanaphthene, 1.0% ~ 6.5% cyclohexyl hydroperoxide, 0.3% ~ 1.6% hexalin, 0.1% ~ 0.9% pimelinketone, 0.05% ~ 0.5% is other by product, as hexanodioic acid, pentanedioic acid, the cyclohexyl of Succinic Acid and their correspondences thereof.
Then, above-mentioned mixed solution and the tetrahydrobenzene that contains cyclohexyl hydroperoxide carried out epoxidation reaction.Adopting a kind of in molybdenum class, tungsten class or vanadium class complex compound or the compound in epoxidation reaction is Preparation of Catalyst 1, the 2-epoxy cyclohexane.Oxide compound, salt, heteropolyacid salt, heteropoly compound, organism complex compound that the complex compound of use therein catalyzer molybdenum class (or tungsten class or vanadium class) or compound can be them.For example: ammonium meta-vanadate NH
4VO
3, vanadium oxide V
2O
5, molybdenum (VI) closes methyl ethyl diketone MoO
2(acac)
2, tungsten (VI) closes (oxine), heteropolyacid phospho-molybdic acid H
7(PMo
2O
7)
6, molybdenum heteropolyacid compound [N (C
4H
9)
4]
3PO
4(MoO
3)
4, heteropoly tungstic acid compound (C
5H
5NC
16H
33)
3PO
4(WO
4)
4, heteropoly tungstic acid compound [N (C
18H
37)
4]
3PO
4(WO
5)
4
The processing condition that epoxidation reaction adopts are: charge ratio is in the 1mol cyclohexyl hydroperoxide, tetrahydrobenzene is 0.5mol ~ 1.6mol, and catalyzer is 0.2mmol ~ 2.0mmol, and temperature of reaction is 40 ℃ ~ 150 ℃, reaction times is 20min ~ 100min, is reflected in the liquid phase to carry out.The amount ranges of tetrahydrobenzene the best is 0.8mol ~ 1.1mol, and the amount ranges of catalyzer the best is 0.5mmol ~ 1.0mmol, and best temperature range is 75 ℃ ~ 135 ℃, and best reaction time range is 40min ~ 70min.The cyclohexyl hydroperoxide optimal conversion is more than 95% in this step reaction, and 1,2-epoxy cyclohexane best selective is more than 85%.
Then, the dehydration of cyclohexanol that produces in the epoxidation reaction is generated tetrahydrobenzene, recycle, isolate product 1 simultaneously as one of epoxidised raw material, 2-epoxy cyclohexane and byproduct pimelinketone and tetrahydrobenzene, specifically finish by following steps:
A, rectifying tower top are isolated the hexanaphthene of the tetrahydrobenzene that contains 0.1% ~ 0.9% weight, are recycled to the cyclohexane oxidation system.
Material at the bottom of b, the rectifying tower then carries out rectifying separation, and isolates the product 1 of purity more than 99.0%, 2-epoxy cyclohexane.
C, oneself is isolated 1, content and 98% above hexalin and cyclohexanone mixture are isolated in the tower bed material rectifying again of 2-epoxy cyclohexane.
Hexalin in this mixture is carried out the dehydration reaction cyclohexene.Wherein an acidic catalyst of 70 ℃ ~ 95 ℃ of dehydrations of Tuo Shui temperature can be mineral acid, acid salt, acidic resins.Obtain containing pimelinketone and tetrahydrobenzene mixed solution.
Get byproduct pimelinketone and tetrahydrobenzene by this mixed solution of rectifying separation.Wherein epoxidation reaction is returned in the circulation of 30% ~ 100% tetrahydrobenzene, reacts with cyclohexyl hydroperoxide.The preferable circulation of the tetrahydrobenzene amount of returning is 75% ~ 100%.
D, will isolate the still liquid that contains catalyzer behind hexalin and the pimelinketone and also circulate and return (2), and enter the epoxidation reaction step, and replenish an amount of raw catalyst.
Compare with prior art, positively effect of the present invention is:
1, raw material is cheap and easy to get, and product is single, has reduced cost significantly.Adopting cyclohexane give cheap and easy to get is main raw material, utilizes the present invention to set up a kind of preparation 1, the brand-new technology of 2-epoxy cyclohexane.After its technology runs well, only need a kind of organic raw material---hexanaphthene, also only produce a kind of target product in theory---1,2-epoxy cyclohexane (going back the participation of organic/inorganic substance air and the generation of water certainly).Having replaced is the various traditional technology modes of main raw material with the tetrahydrobenzene, makes cost reduce at double---present market price: about 1.1 ten thousand yuan/ton of hexanaphthene, about 1.9 ten thousand yuan/ton of tetrahydrobenzene; Market price before 2 years: about 0.5 ten thousand yuan/ton of hexanaphthene, about 0.9 ten thousand yuan/ton of tetrahydrobenzene.
2, the advantage that had both kept Halcon method has solved the critical defect of common Halcon method again.Epoxidation reaction belongs to Halcon method among the present invention, has the advantage of Halcon method highly selective, high conversion and high product quality: usually, selectivity can reach about 90%, and transformation efficiency can reach about 97%, product 1, and 2-epoxy cyclohexane content reaches more than 99.0%.But cyclohexane oxidation preparation 1, the 2-epoxy cyclohexane generates the by product of equimolar this hydroxyl of hexalin simultaneously, through dehydration for recycling as one of epoxidation raw material behind the tetrahydrobenzene, thereby overcome the fatal disadvantage of the hydroxy-containing compounds of common Halcon method by-product.
3, environmental friendliness.Compare with other technology, particularly compare environmental friendliness with chlorohydrination, every production is one ton 1 in epoxidation reaction, the 2-epoxy cyclohexane, and the water of generation is less than 0.2 ton.And one ton 1 of the every production of chlorohydrination, the 2-epoxy cyclohexane will produce about 20 tons of brine wastes.
4, the present invention compares its common ground with the prior art of using " it is anti-that cyclohexyl hydroperoxide and tetrahydrobenzene carry out epoxidation ": all be based upon cyclohexane oxidation and tetrahydrobenzene and organic hydroperoxide carry out epoxidation (common name Halcon method) these very on the basis of maturation process.And relatively their innovation of the present invention is:
Though 1. the basis of invention is most of similar, the present invention seeks to main production 1,2-epoxy cyclohexane product, and above-mentioned purpose is the main hexalin product of producing, so in the technological operation He in the quality control essential distinction is being arranged.
2. the present invention has set up: dehydration of cyclohexanol generates the technology that tetrahydrobenzene recycles as one of epoxidised raw material.This is unprecedented in the cyclohexane oxidation technology, also is that the hydroxy-containing compounds of by-product can recycle common Halcon method when preparing epoxide is unprecedented!
3. the improvement of cyclohexane oxidation partitioning cycle: omitted the rectifying enrichment step.Because general hexanaphthene per pass conversion 3%-7%, 95% hexanaphthene will recycle approximately in addition.With tetrahydrobenzene reaction before, the reaction mixture that contains cyclohexyl hydroperoxide is not concentrated, can make that oxygen source obtains maximized effective utilization in the cyclohexyl hydroperoxide.Make that so not only operation is simpler, and process is more economical rationally.
4. the simplification of cyclohexane oxidation partitioning cycle: omitted step of hydrogenation.Before in the prior art smart distilled hexanaphthene being entered the oxidizing reaction system, need carry out hydrogenation.And the present invention is under preferable epoxidation proportioning and condition, can control tetrahydrobenzene mass content in the smart distilled hexanaphthene less than 0.5% even lower, facts have proved whole system and quality product are not exerted an influence under this concentration.
Embodiment
Embodiment 1: get in the reactor of stirring of 100mol hexanaphthene input band and thermometer, be warming up to 140 ℃ ~ 150 ℃ of temperature, blast pressurized air, remain on pressure 1.4MPa ~ 1.5MPa, oxygen content 1vol% ~ 3vol% in the control tail gas, reaction 20min ~ 30min extracts reaction solution and analyzes, and its component comprises (mass percent): 94% ~ 97% hexanaphthene, 2.5% ~ 4.5% cyclohexyl hydroperoxide, 0.5% ~ 1.0% hexalin, 0.2% ~ 0.6% pimelinketone, 0.1% ~ 0.3% is other by product, as 1, the 2-epoxy cyclohexane, Pentyl alcohol, tetrahydrobenzene, cyclopentanol, hexanodioic acid, pentanedioic acid, the various esters that Succinic Acid and they are formed etc.
(VI) closes methyl ethyl diketone MoO with the 0.5mmol molybdenum
2(acac)
2With the 1.5mol tetrahydrobenzene, drop in the reactor of being with stirring and thermometer, to open and stir, heat begins the continuous reaction solution that contains the 1mol cyclohexyl hydroperoxide that oneself makes that adds to about 80 ℃.React 55min ~ 65min after adding again.Reaction solution is carried out rectifying, collects 128 ℃ ~ 131 ℃ cut, promptly get 99.2% 1,2-epoxy cyclohexane product, in cyclohexyl hydroperoxide, the yield of product is 85.3%.
Then, collect 154 ℃ ~ 162 ℃ cut, wherein more than hexalin and the cyclohexanone content and 98%.The sulfuric acid that this cut is added 0.1% ~ 2% weight is made catalyzer (in hexalin), and reflux is dewatered and promptly got pimelinketone and tetrahydrobenzene mixed solution, gets byproduct pimelinketone and tetrahydrobenzene by this mixed solution of rectifying separation.In hexalin, tetrahydrobenzene yield 90% ~ 99%.Generally getting 75% ~ 100% tetrahydrobenzene recycles as one of raw material of epoxidation reaction.
Embodiment 2: close (oxine) and get embodiment 1 prepared 1.5mol tetrahydrobenzene and put in the reactor of band thermometer with 1mmol tungsten (VI), open to stir logical N
2, be incubated about 45 ℃, constantly add the 1.4mol cyclohexyl hydroperoxide that oneself makes.React 90 ~ 95min after adding again.Other operation is with embodiment 1.
Embodiment 3: with 2.0mmol ammonium meta-vanadate NH
4VO
3With get the embodiment 2 0.7mol tetrahydrobenzene in obtained and put in the reactor of band thermometer, open and stir, be heated to about 130 ℃, constantly the 1.3mol cyclohexyl hydroperoxide that made of adding.React 35 ~ 40min after adding again.Other operation is with embodiment 1.
Embodiment 4: with 2.5mmol vanadium oxide V
2O
5Stir with the tetrahydrobenzene input band of 1.2mol and the reactor of thermometer in, open and stir, hot to about 145 ℃, begin the 1.3mol cyclohexyl hydroperoxide that continuous adding has made.React 20 ~ 25min after adding again.Other operation is with embodiment 1.
Embodiment 5: with 2.1mmol heteropolyacid salt phospho-molybdic acid H
7(PMo
2O
7)
6Throw to the reactor of band stirring and thermometer with the 0.7mol tetrahydrobenzene, open and stir, heat begins the 1.4mol cyclohexyl hydroperoxide that continuous adding has made to about 95 ℃.React 50 ~ 60min after adding again.Other operation together
Embodiment 1.