二氧化硅消光剂生产中正丁醇回收工艺的改进

Improvement of n-butanol recycling technique in industrialized production of silicon dioxide as flatting agent

针对福建某工厂现有工艺生产二氧化硅消光剂过程,采用间歇蒸馏方式回收正丁醇存在时间长、效率低等问题,提出使用双塔精馏工艺进行改进以缩短正丁醇回收时间和提高回收效率。对改进后的工艺使用流程模拟软件进行模拟计算,获得了新的工艺条件参数。改进后,冷凝分层温度为85℃,精馏塔一塔釜液中正丁醇质量分数为99.62%,精馏塔二塔釜中正丁醇质量分数为0.31%。在此基础上搭建了实验室规模精馏装置并进行了验证试验,试验结果与模拟计算值接近,相对平均偏差为5.4%,表明模拟计算的结果可信。模拟计算结果为工业装置的优化提供了依据。改进后,正丁醇回收率将大幅提高,生产周期由原来的10 h缩短为5 h,能耗显著降低。采用此工艺生产二氧化硅消光剂可大幅降低过程成本。

In order to reduce time cost and increase efficiency in n-butanol recycling,a double-column distillation process was suggested to replace the existing batch process due to its high time consumption and low efficiency.The improved process was simulated with flow simulation software.The calculated results show that in the improved process,condensing temperature is 85 ℃,the mass fraction of n-butanol at the bottom of Column 1 and Column 2 is 99.62% and 0.31% respectively.The verification tests on lab-scale distillation device were carried out.It shows that the calculated results are close to the tested results,and the average relative deviation is 5.4%,which indicates the calculated results are credible,and can provide a basis for optimization in industrialized plants.Now,n-butanol recycling efficiency increases largely and production cycle is reduced from 10 h to 5 h and energy consumption drops remarkably,so production cost can be largely reduced.