Method for separating ethanol, cyclohexanol and water by extractive distillation-pressure swing distillation of dividing wall tower
[ technical field ] A method for producing a semiconductor device
The invention relates to the technical field of rectification and purification, in particular to a method for separating ethanol, cyclohexanol and water by extractive distillation-pressure swing distillation of a dividing wall tower.
[ background of the invention ]
The fuel ethanol refers to absolute ethanol with volume concentration of more than 99.5 percent, is the most environment-friendly oxygenating agent and octane number promoter of gasoline, can effectively reduce greenhouse gas and PM2.5 emission, has positive effect on improving the quality of atmospheric environment, China is the third country of biofuel ethanol production and application in the world, is second to America and Brazil, and is mainly obtained by liquefying, saccharifying, fermenting, distilling, dehydrating and other process steps of sugar crops and starchy crops, the mass content of ethanol in mash obtained by biomass fermentation is only about 10 percent, most of ethanol is water, the key point of preparing the fuel ethanol from the fermented mash is to remove the water in the mash, the invention is an advanced technical scheme for removing water from the fermented mash, the mash of fuel ethanol production enterprises contains water, ethanol and cyclohexanol, a reasonable rectification separation process is designed, and the ethanol in the mash is recovered, Cyclohexanol.
The boiling point of water under normal pressure is 100.02 ℃, the boiling point of ethanol under normal pressure is 78.31 ℃, the boiling point of cyclohexanol under normal pressure is 161.84 ℃, the mixture of ethanol, cyclohexanol and water can form two azeotropes, namely a water and ethanol binary azeotrope and a water and cyclohexanol binary azeotrope, under normal temperature and normal pressure, the azeotropic point of the water and ethanol mixture is 78.16 ℃, the molar fraction of ethanol in azeotropic composition is 89.99%, the molar fraction of water is 10.01%, the azeotropic point of the water and cyclohexanol mixture is 97.80 ℃, the molar fraction of water in azeotropic composition is 80.00%, and the molar fraction of cyclohexanol is 20.00%.
The patent (CN106966866B) discloses a method for separating butanone-isopropanol-ethanol azeotrope by three-tower pressure swing distillation, which solves the problem of difficult separation caused by the existence of multiple groups of azeotropic and rectifying boundaries in a near-boiling point ternary system, realizes heat integration among three towers through a partial heat integration mode, reduces energy consumption to the maximum extent, but adopts 3 rectifying towers in the pressure swing distillation process, and the process is relatively complex.
The design process of an ethanol-water rectifying tower is reported in the literature (Qinhibo, Yan Shaofeng, Shanghan, Guo. ethanol-water rectifying tower design [ J ]. times agricultural machinery, 2020, 47(03):97-98.), the structure of equipment is improved, the rectifying effect is obviously improved, the separation of ethanol and water is realized, but only ethanol can be recovered, and the separation of cyclohexanol and water is not realized.
The literature (maoruajun, in crane, celebrate, gentamica. the simulation and optimization of a dividing wall column extractive distillation separation tert-butanol-ethanol-water azeotrope [ J ] chemical technology, 2019, 27(05):61-65.) reports a method for extracting and separating a tert-butanol-ethanol-water azeotrope by using a dividing wall column with ethylene glycol as an extracting agent, and compared with the conventional extractive distillation process, the process reduces the energy consumption by 38.66%, but the process is relatively complex in operation and does not relate to a cyclohexanol-water system.
At present, no report about separating cyclohexanol-ethanol-water by adopting a bulkhead column extractive distillation-pressure swing distillation process exists in patents and documents, so that a novel and energy-saving method for separating a cyclohexanol-ethanol-water azeotropic system has great environmental protection significance and industrial value, and a method for separating ethanol-cyclohexanol-water by adopting bulkhead column extractive distillation-pressure swing distillation is urgently needed to solve the problems.
[ summary of the invention ]
[ problem to be solved ]
The invention aims to provide a method for separating ethanol-cyclohexanol-water by extractive distillation-pressure swing distillation of a bulkhead tower, which aims to solve the problem that the ethanol-cyclohexanol-water mixture proposed in the background technology is difficult to separate due to the existence of azeotropy.
[ solution ]
In order to achieve the purpose, the invention provides the following technical scheme: a method for separating ethanol-cyclohexanol-water by partition column extractive distillation-pressure swing distillation is characterized in that a side draw, a partition column and pressure swing distillation are adopted, ethylene glycol is used as an extractant, heat exchange network optimization is performed while high-purity ethanol and cyclohexanol products are separated, the extractant obtained at the bottom of the extractive distillation column and water distilled from the bottom of a high-pressure distillation column are used for preheating of feeding materials of the extractive distillation column and the high-pressure distillation column, and the method specifically comprises the following steps:
(1) the raw material liquid enters the extraction rectifying tower after being preheated by the heat exchanger, so that the heat load of a reboiler is reduced. Raw material liquid enters an extraction and rectification tower from a heat exchanger to a mixer at the 20 th tower plate under normal temperature, the number of the tower plates of the extraction and rectification tower is 50, the operation pressure of the tower top is 0.2atm, and the reflux ratio is 3.6;
(2) 6000kg/h of ethylene glycol is added at the 4 th tower plate of the extraction rectifying tower, the discharge temperature at the top of the tower is 42.32 ℃, the feed liquid enters the 35 th tower plate of the auxiliary rectifying tower, the discharge at the bottom of the extraction rectifying tower is the ethylene glycol, the discharge temperature is 149.9 ℃, the feed liquid is used for preheating mash feed, and the feed liquid extracted from the lateral line is azeotrope of water and cyclohexanol and ethylene glycol;
(3) the feed liquid from the extraction rectifying tower enters an auxiliary rectifying tower at a 35 th tower plate, the number of the tower plates of the auxiliary rectifying tower is 35, the operation pressure of the tower top is 0.2atm, the discharge of the tower top is an azeotrope of water and cyclohexanol, and the discharge temperature is 59.94 ℃;
(4) the feed liquid is pumped to a heat exchanger for heating and then enters the 20 th tower plate of the high-pressure rectifying tower;
(5) the feed liquid from the auxiliary rectifying tower enters a high-pressure rectifying tower at a 20 th tower plate, the number of the tower plates of the high-pressure rectifying tower is 27, the operating pressure of the tower top is 3atm, the reflux ratio is 1.1, the discharge of the tower top is an azeotrope of water and cyclohexanol under 3atm, and the discharge temperature is 130.835 ℃;
(6) the feed liquid from the high-pressure rectifying tower enters a low-pressure rectifying tower at a 20 th tower plate, the total number of the tower plates of the low-pressure rectifying tower is 23, the operating pressure of the tower top is 0.1atm, the reflux ratio is 1, the discharge of the tower top is an azeotrope of water and cyclohexanol under 0.1atm, the discharge temperature is 45.24 ℃, and the feed liquid can circularly enter the high-pressure rectifying tower through a pump until the mass concentration of the water and the cyclohexanol reaches more than 99.9 wt%.
A method for separating ethanol, cyclohexanol and water by extractive distillation-pressure swing distillation of a bulkhead tower is characterized by comprising the following steps: the top discharge of the extraction rectifying tower is ethanol with the mass concentration of more than 99.97 wt%, the bottom discharge of the high-pressure rectifying tower is water with the mass concentration of more than 99.98 wt%, and the bottom discharge of the low-pressure rectifying tower is cyclohexanol with the mass concentration of more than 99.98 wt%.
[ advantageous effects ]
Compared with the prior art, the invention has the beneficial effects that:
(1) by selecting glycol as an extracting agent, adopting a side-draw, dividing wall tower rectifying technology and a pressure swing rectifying method, separating ethanol with the mass concentration of more than 99.97 wt% from the top of an extraction rectifying tower, separating water and cyclohexanol with the mass concentration of more than 99.98 wt% from the bottoms of a high-pressure rectifying tower and a low-pressure rectifying tower respectively, wherein the content of ethanol in water is less than 10ppm, the content of cycloethanol is less than 10ppm, and the purity is extremely high, meanwhile, the recycling of the extracting agent glycol is realized, simultaneously, the heat of the extracting agent is utilized to preheat a raw material liquid, the heat of the water in the high-pressure rectifying tower is utilized to exchange heat with a material entering the high-pressure rectifying tower, the extracting agent glycol distilled from the bottom of the extraction rectifying tower enters a heat exchanger to heat a material mash entering the extraction rectifying tower, and the energy consumption is greatly reduced.
(2) By adopting a side line extraction and partition wall tower technology, side line extracted steam of the extraction rectifying tower is introduced to the bottom of the auxiliary rectifying tower and is used as rising steam of the auxiliary rectifying tower, so that a reboiler of the auxiliary rectifying tower is saved, meanwhile, raw material liquid is preheated by utilizing the heat of an extracting agent, heat exchange is carried out between the heat of water in the high-pressure rectifying tower and the material entering the high-pressure rectifying tower, the extracting agent glycol distilled from the bottom of the extraction rectifying tower enters a heat exchanger to heat material mash entering the extraction rectifying tower, the heat of each material is fully utilized, heat coupling is realized, an AEA heat exchange network is utilized for optimization, and the heat is fully utilized.
(3) The water-ethanol and water-cyclohexanol azeotropic system is separated by only adopting four rectifying towers, so that the equipment investment and later maintenance cost are low, the separation process is simple, the used extracting agent glycol has high efficiency and excellent cost performance, and the extracting agent is recycled by recycling the extracting agent, so that the amount of the extracting agent which needs to be replenished again at each time is small, the operation cost is reduced to the minimum, the replenishment amount is extremely small, and the raw material cost is reduced.
(4) The extractant obtained from the bottom of the extraction rectifying tower and the water distilled from the bottom of the high-pressure rectifying tower are used for preheating the feeding materials of the extraction rectifying tower and the high-pressure rectifying tower, so that the heat load of a reboiler of the extraction rectifying tower and the high-pressure rectifying tower is reduced, the heat pollution to the environment is reduced, and the purposes of energy conservation and environmental protection are achieved.
[ description of the drawings ]
FIG. 1 is a process flow diagram of the present invention for separating water-ethanol-cyclohexanol ternary system.
T1-extractive distillation column, T2-auxiliary distillation column, T3-high pressure distillation column, T4-low pressure distillation column, C1-extractive distillation column condenser, C2-auxiliary distillation column condenser, C3-high pressure distillation column condenser, C4-low pressure distillation column condenser, R1-extractive distillation column reboiler, R2-high pressure distillation column reboiler, R3-low pressure distillation column reboiler, B1-ethylene glycol mixer, B2-heat exchanger for two streams of ethylene glycol and mash, B3-auxiliary distillation column overhead stream to heat exchanger B4 pump, B4-heat exchanger for two streams of water and cyclohexanol azeotrope, B5-heat stream to high pressure distillation column pump
[ detailed description ] embodiments
Example 1:
the feed temperature of mash of an extractive distillation tower (T1) is 66 ℃, the flow rate is 10000kg/h, a feed plate is a 20 th plate, the feed temperature of an extractant glycol is 40 ℃, the flow rate is 6000kg/h, the feed plate is a 4 th plate, the operating pressure is 0.2atm, the mass concentration of water in the feed mash is 85 wt%, the mass concentration of ethanol is 10 wt%, the mass concentration of cyclohexanol is 5 wt%, the number of theoretical plates of the extractive distillation tower (T1) is 50, the reflux ratio is 3.6, the temperature of the top of the tower is 42.3214 ℃, the temperature of the bottom of the tower is 149.921 ℃, and the lateral line extraction position of the extractive distillation tower (T1) is a 46 th plate; the operating pressure of the secondary rectifying tower (T2) is 0.2atm, the theoretical plate number is 35, the feeding plate is the 35 th plate, the feeding temperature is 67 ℃, the top temperature is 59.9426 ℃, and the bottom temperature is 67.0642 ℃; the theoretical plate number of the high-pressure rectifying tower (T3) is 27 plates, the feeding pressure is 3atm, the feeding position of the mixed liquid discharged from the top of the secondary rectifying tower (T2) entering the high-pressure rectifying tower (T3) is the 20 th plate, the feeding temperature is 125 ℃, the feeding position of the circulating liquid is the 20 th plate, the feeding temperature is 45 ℃, the reflux ratio is 1.1, the temperature at the top of the tower is 130.835 ℃, and the temperature at the bottom of the tower is 134.044 ℃; the theoretical plate number of the low-pressure rectifying tower (T4) is 23 plates, the feeding plate is the 20 th plate, the feeding temperature is 44.78 ℃, the feeding pressure is 0.1atm, the tower top temperature is 45.2443 ℃, the tower bottom temperature is 99.2151 ℃, and the reflux ratio is 1. The mass concentration of the separated water is 99.99 wt%, the mass concentration of the ethanol can reach 99.98 wt%, and the mass concentration of the cyclohexanol can reach 99.99 wt%.