Background technology
The ethene oxidation mainly generates oxirane under the silver catalyst effect, side reaction takes place simultaneously generate carbon dioxide and water, and wherein activity, selectivity and stability are the main performance index of silver catalyst.So-called activity is meant reaction temperature required when process for ethylene oxide production reaches certain reaction load.Reaction temperature is low more, and activity of such catalysts is high more.So-called selectivity is meant that conversion of ethylene in the reaction becomes the ratio of the overall reaction molal quantity of the molal quantity of oxirane and ethene.So-called stability then is expressed as active and fall off rate optionally, and the fall off rate stability of small catalyst more is good more.The silver catalyst that uses high activity, high selectivity and have good stability in the process of ethene oxidation production oxirane can be increased economic efficiency greatly, and the silver catalyst of therefore making high activity, high selectivity and good stability is the main direction of silver catalyst research.The performance of silver catalyst has the important relationship except that composition and the preparation method with catalyst, and also the performance and the preparation method of the carrier that uses with catalyst have important relationship.
The preparation method of silver catalyst mainly comprise the preparation and administration to active component of porous carrier (as aluminium oxide) and auxiliary agent to as described in this two processes on the carrier.
In the preparation process of silver catalyst, for α-Al
2O
3Carrier for key component, suitable specific surface and pore structure need, and will reaction heat be spread out for epoxidation of ethylene provides enough spaces on the one hand, also help the timely desorption of product oxirane on the other hand, avoid deep oxidation to generate the accessory substance carbon dioxide.In the manufacture process of alumina support, add pore creating material in the prior art, but, can make carrier obtain desirable pore structure and specific surface, to improve the performance of catalyst as organic after-flame materials such as petroleum coke, walnut parting, carbon dusts.Yet the adding of pore creating material also can bring negative effect, because the residue of pore creating material incomplete combustion in the carrier roasting process can influence the performance of catalyst.U.S. Pat 5801259 is (corresponding to EP0900128, WO9740933 and CN1216940,1998, Shell) and US5733842 (corresponding to EP0900126, CN1216939 and WO9740932,1998, Norton) all proposed not use the alumina support manufacture method of pore creating material, aluminium oxide with at least 80 weight %, 0.01~10 weight % alkaline earth oxides, 0.01~10 weight % silica, 0.01~15 weight % zirconias etc. are mixed with carrier, the granularity of ceramic composition is not more than baked carrier through selecting (15~120 μ m and 1~15 μ m) meticulously with the bulk density that guarantees the dry support precursor, guarantees required voidage.
Although above-mentioned patent documentation is in order to reduce kish ionic impurity after the pore creating material burning to making the influence of catalyst performance, in support material, do not add pore creating material, select varigrained material matching to use for obtaining desirable pore structure, but this method is not brought any improvement to activity of such catalysts and selectivity, therefore this area still needs the manufacture method of carrier is improved, and is beneficial to produce the better silver catalyst of performance.
Chinese patent application publication number CN1634652 has disclosed a kind of manufacture method of not adding the silver catalyst for ethylene oxide carrier of pore creating material.According to this method, can improve gained activity of such catalysts and selectivity simultaneously.But the carrier water absorption rate of this method preparation is on the low side, is unfavorable for the deposition of active component and auxiliary agent; And<hole of 5 μ m is more, can bring some adverse influences to the mass-and heat-transfer of direct oxidation of ethylene to course of reaction.
Therefore, need in the negative effect that reduces pore creating material as far as possible and brought, obtain having the carrier of perfect apertures structure and specific surface, further obtain well behaved catalyst.
Summary of the invention
In view of the situation of above-mentioned prior art, the present inventor has carried out research extensively and profoundly in the silver catalyst field, thinks along with the aluminium oxide that contains crystallization water roasting at high temperature is converted into α-Al
2O
3, the crystallization water lose the hole that can in carrier, form a certain size, discover that the size in these holes and quantity are suitable for epoxidation of ethylene.Further find when gibbsite and a water aluminium oxide are used as raw material and make carrier, to need not to add too much pore creating material and still can obtain desirable specific surface and pore structure, satisfy the requirement of manufacturing silver catalyst for ethylene oxide porous heat-resistant carrier.Compare with the carrier that the more pore creating material of interpolation is made, silver catalyst intensity and activity that the present invention makes are higher; Compare with not adding the carrier that pore creating material makes, the silver catalyst selectivity that the present invention makes is higher, is specially adapted to the reaction that oxirane is produced in the ethene oxidation.
In alumina raw material, add heavy alkaline earth metal compounds alternatively and make carrier, through the solution that dipping silver compound, organic amine and specific auxiliary agent are mixed with, prepared activity, the selectivity of silver catalyst in ethylene oxidation reactions all is improved after the heat treatment in containing oxygen gas mixture.
Therefore, the purpose of this invention is to provide a kind of novel carriers, in the process of ethene oxidation production oxirane, demonstrate good activity and selectivity by its silver catalyst of making.
Another object of the present invention provides a kind of preparation method of above-mentioned carrier.
A further object of the present invention provides a kind of silver catalyst by above-mentioned preparing carriers.
An also purpose of the present invention provides the application of above-mentioned silver catalyst in ethene oxidation production oxirane.
These and other purposes of the present invention, feature and advantage will become more clear after reading this specification.
Detailed Description Of The Invention
One aspect of the present invention provides a kind of preparation to be used for the ethene oxidation and has produced the method for oxirane with the porous alpha-alumina supports of silver catalyst, comprises the steps:
I) preparation has the mixture of following composition:
A) based on the solid mixture gross weight be 50 orders~500 orders, the three water α-Al of 5~90% weight
2O
3
B) be that the granularity of 5~70% weight is greater than the false water Al of 200 purposes based on the solid mixture gross weight
2O
3
C) but be after-flame carbonaceous material based on the solid mixture gross weight greater than 0~6.6% weight;
D) based on the solid mixture gross weight be the flux of 0.01~3.0% weight;
E) based on the solid mixture gross weight be the fluoride-mineralization agent of 0.01~3.0% weight;
F) based on containing of solid mixture gross weight 0~5.0% weight of heavy alkaline earth metal compounds;
G) binding agent that is 25~60% weight based on above solid mixture gross weight; And
H) an amount of water;
II) with I) in the mixture that obtains mediate evenly and extrusion molding; With
III) product that obtains dry II), at high temperature roasting becomes α-Al then
2O
3
The porous alumina carrier of the present invention's preparation has following feature: specific surface is 0.2m
2/ g~2.0m
2/ g, preferred 0.5m
2/ g~1.5m
2/ g; Pore volume is 0.35~0.85ml/g, preferred 0.40~0.80ml/g; Water absorption rate 〉=30%, preferred 〉=35%; And crushing strength is 30N/ grain~120N/ grain, preferred 35N/ grain~90N/ grain.
Further aspect of the present invention provides a kind of novel silver catalyst, and described catalyst is prepared by a method comprising the following steps:
1) usefulness contains the above-mentioned porous alpha-alumina supports of solution impregnation of silver compound, organic amine, alkali metal promoter and the base earth metal promoter of q.s;
2) elimination maceration extract, dry impregnated carrier; With
3) in containing oxygen gas mixture to step 2) the gained carrier activates, and makes described silver catalyst.
The present invention also relates in one aspect to the application of above-mentioned novel silver catalyst in ethene oxidation production oxirane.
In order to make carrier that enough intensity and good surface properties be arranged, preferably between 1250 ℃~1550 ℃, temperature is too high can to influence activity of such catalysts and the selectivity of making to sintering temperature, and the too low then support strength of sintering temperature is relatively poor.
But the adding of after-flame carbonaceous material is in order to make macropore, thereby makes carrier have proper pore structure and specific surface.Described carbonaceous material comprises a kind of or its mixture in petroleum coke, carbon dust, graphite, polyethylene, polypropylene, the rosin etc.Carbonaceous material is oxidation in roasting process, generates gas and overflows, and forms macropore in carrier.Granularity according to carbonaceous material of the present invention is 20~300 orders.The addition of described carbonaceous material be the mixture total weight amount greater than 0~6.6%, preferred 0.01~5%.
The adding of flux is in order to make carrier have good intensity under low sintering temperature.The example of flux comprises magnesium compound, for example the mixture of one or more in magnesia, magnesium sulfate, magnesium nitrate and the magnesium carbonate.
The fluoride-mineralization agent that the present invention selects for use comprises hydrogen fluoride, ammonium fluoride, aluminum fluoride, magnesium fluoride, ice crystal etc. or its mixture, and the crystal formation that its role is to accelerated oxidation aluminium transforms, and reduces the following pore of 0.1 μ m.
The heavy alkaline earth metal compound that the present invention adds comprises oxide, sulfate, acetate, nitrate and the oxalates etc. of strontium and/or barium, its role is to carrier is improved, addition is 0~5% of a solid mixture gross weight, preferred 0.01~2.0%.
The present invention is by adding binding agent, the vacation one water Al in it and the mixture
2O
3Generation aluminium colloidal sol bonds together each component, but becomes the paste of extrusion molding.Used binding agent comprises acid, as nitric acid, formic acid, acetate, propionic acid and hydrochloric acid etc., or with a false water Al
2O
3Replace with aluminium colloidal sol with acid.When using acid as binding agent, aqueous solution of nitric acid preferably, wherein the weight ratio of nitric acid and water is 1: 1.25~10.
Can be dried to moisturely below 10% after the extrusion molding of gained paste, support shapes can be annular, spherical, cylindricality or porous cylindricality.Baking temperature is 80~120 ℃, and be controlled at 1 hour~24 hour according to moisture drying time.
Dried paste makes aluminium oxide whole substantially 1250~1550 ℃ of following roastings 2~6 hours, for example is converted into α-Al more than 90%
2O
3The specific surface of this carrier is 0.2m
2/ g~2.0m
2/ g, preferred 0.5m
2/ g~1.5m
2/ g; Pore volume is 0.35~0.85ml/g, preferred 0.40~0.80ml/g; Water absorption rate 〉=30%, preferred 〉=35%; And crushing strength is 30N/ grain~120N/ grain, preferred 35N/ grain~90N/ grain.
Silver catalyst of the present invention can prepare in the usual way, for example by preparing with the above-mentioned alumina support of the solution impregnation of a kind of Ag-containing compound, organic amine, alkali metal promoter and base earth metal promoter.
In the preparation of silver catalyst of the present invention, at first make the aqueous solution and the ammonium oxalate or the oxalic acid aqueous solution reaction of silver nitrate, separate out the silver oxalate precipitation, after the filtration, spend deionised water, until no nitrate ion, then silver oxalate is dissolved in organic amine such as pyridine, butylamine, ethylenediamine, 1, in the aqueous solution of 3-propane diamine, monoethanolamine or its mixture, add auxiliary agent, be made into dipping solution.Then with the gained dipping solution vacuum less than the condition of 10mmHg under the above-mentioned alumina support of dipping 30 minutes, drain, in being not more than the nitrogen oxygen atmosphere of 21% (as containing oxygen 8.0%), air stream or oxygen content in 180~700 ℃, preferred 200-500 ℃ temperature range, kept 1 minute~120 minutes, preferred 2 minutes~60 minutes, to carry out thermal decomposition.Also available silver oxide replaces silver nitrate, and silver oxalate also can not analysed filter, direct and organic amine complexing, impregnated carrier then.The amount of the silver compound that uses in the dipping process of the present invention should be enough to make argentiferous 1~30% weight in the finally prepd catalyst, and preferred 5~25% weight are in total catalyst weight.
Alkali metal promoter among the present invention can be compound or its any two kinds combination of compounds of lithium, sodium, potassium, rubidium or caesium, and alkali-metal content is 5~2000ppm in the final catalyst, preferred 10~1500ppm.Alkali metal promoter can be before dipping silver, simultaneously or be applied to afterwards on the carrier, also can after silver compound is reduced, be immersed on the carrier.
Base earth metal promoter among the present invention can be the compound of magnesium, calcium, strontium or barium, as oxide, oxalates, sulfate, acetate or nitrate, or its mixture, the compound of preferred barium or strontium.The total content of alkaline-earth metal is 5ppm~22000ppm in the final catalyst, preferred 10ppm~15000ppm.Base earth metal promoter can be before dipping silver, simultaneously or be applied to afterwards on the carrier, also can after silver compound is reduced, be immersed on the carrier.
Except alkali metal promoter above-mentioned and base earth metal promoter, can also add other auxiliary agents such as rhenium compound and coassist agent thereof, as ammonium perrhenate and coassist agent chromium thereof, molybdenum, tungsten, boron etc., with the activity of further improvement gained silver catalyst, selectivity and active and stability optionally.These other auxiliary agents can be before dipping silver, simultaneously or be applied to afterwards on the carrier, also can after silver compound is reduced, be immersed on the carrier.
The mensuration of catalyst performance
Various silver catalyst of the present invention is tested its initial performance and stability with laboratory reaction device (following letter " little anti-") evaluating apparatus.The reactor that the micro anti-evaluation device uses is the stainless steel tube of internal diameter 4mm, and reactor places heating jacket.The admission space of catalyst is 1ml, and inert filler is arranged at the bottom, makes beds be positioned at the flat-temperature zone of heating jacket.
Initial activity, optionally measure
The activity that the present invention uses and optionally condition determination is as follows:
Reacting gas is formed (mol%)
Ethene (C
2H
4) 28.0 ± 1.0
Oxygen (O
2) 7.4 ± 0.2
Carbon dioxide (CO
2)<8.0
Cause steady gas (N
2) surplus
Inhibitor dichloroethanes 0.1ppm~2.0ppm
Reaction pressure 2.1MPa
Air speed 7000/h
Reactor goes out EO concentration 1.35%
Space-time yield 185gEO/mlCat./h
When stable reach above-mentioned reaction condition after the METHOD FOR CONTINUOUS DETERMINATION reactor go into, exit gas forms.Measurement result carries out calculating as follows after volume contraction is proofreaied and correct selectivity:
Wherein Δ EO works off one's feeling vent one's spleen poorly with the inlet gas ethylene oxide concentration, gets the result of the test of the average of 10 groups of above test datas as the same day.
The present invention compares following advantage with prior art: porous alumina carrier is not subjected to the influence of pore creating material quality made in accordance with the present invention, make the stable performance of silver catalyst, and have higher activity, be specially adapted to the reaction that oxirane is produced in the ethene oxidation.
Embodiment
The present invention is described further below in conjunction with embodiment, but scope of the present invention is not limited to these embodiment.
Carrier comparative example 1 and 2 preparation
With 50~500 purposes, three water α-Al
2O
3312g is greater than the false water Al of 200 purposes
2O
392g, petroleum coke are respectively 0 and 81g, NH
4F 7g and Mg (NO
3)
2Mix 8.5g put into blender, change in the kneader, add 0.12 liter in rare nitric acid (nitric acid: water=1: 3, weight ratio), but be kneaded into the paste of extrusion molding.Extrusion molding is the five hole columns of external diameter 8.0mm, long 6.0mm, internal diameter 1.0mm, dries more than 2 hours down at 80~120 ℃, and free water content is reduced to below 10%.
The preparation of carrier embodiment 1-3
With 50~500 purposes, three water α-Al
2O
3312g is greater than the false water Al of 200 purposes
2O
392g, petroleum coke are respectively 5,11 and 21g, NH
4F 7g and Mg (NO
3)
2Mix 8.5g put into blender, change in the kneader, add 0.12 liter in rare nitric acid (nitric acid: water=1: 3, weight ratio), but be kneaded into the paste of extrusion molding.Extrusion molding is the five hole columns of external diameter 8.0mm, long 6.0mm, internal diameter 1.0mm, dries more than 2 hours down at 80~120 ℃, and free water content is reduced to below 10%.
The preparation of carrier comparative example 3
With 50~500 purposes, three water α-Al
2O
3212g is greater than the false water Al of 200 purposes
2O
3192g, petroleum coke 81g, the barium sulfate of 4g porphyrize, NH
4F 7g and Mg (NO
3)
2Mix 8.5g put into blender, change in the kneader, add 0.12 liter in rare nitric acid (nitric acid: water=1: 3, weight ratio), but be kneaded into the paste of extrusion molding.Extrusion molding is the five hole columns of external diameter 8.0mm, long 6.0mm, internal diameter 1.0mm, dries more than 2 hours down at 80~120 ℃, and free water content is reduced to below 10%.
The preparation of carrier embodiment 4
Different with comparative example 3 is in batching Jiao's of PetroChina Company Limited. addition is 21g, mixes then, mediates, extrudes, dries, and free water content is reduced to below 10%.
Above-mentioned nine kind of five hole column put into top-hat kiln, and through being elevated between 1350 ℃~1550 ℃ from room temperature about 30 hours, constant temperature 2 hours obtains white α-Al
2O
3Support samples.
The carrier property data of measuring are listed in table 1.
The physical data of table 1 comparative example 1 and embodiment 1~5
| |
Comparative example 1 |
Comparative example 2 |
Embodiment 1 |
Embodiment 2 |
Embodiment 3 |
Comparative example 3 |
Embodiment 4 |
| Crushing strength (N/ grain) |
84 |
34 |
79 |
71 |
63 |
42 |
55 |
| Water absorption rate (%) |
47 |
70 |
50 |
54 |
58 |
74 |
73 |
| Bulk density (gram per centimeter
3)
|
0.64 |
0.52 |
0.63 |
0.62 |
0.60 |
0.49 |
0.54 |
| Specific surface (rice
2/ gram)
|
0.91 |
0.90 |
0.88 |
0.84 |
0.72 |
0.78 |
1.05 |
| Pore volume (milliliter/gram) |
0.58 |
0.64 |
0.60 |
0.61 |
0.61 |
0.65 |
0.62 |
| Distribute (accounting for total pore volume %)<1 microns 1~5 micron 5~10 microns 10~30 microns 30~50 microns>50 microns of pore radius |
6.2 74.5 9.0 7.5 0.8 2.0 |
4.6 53.7 11.7 17.8 4.9 7.3 |
5.4 72.1 10.2 8.5 1.0 2.8 |
5.8 71.6 9.8 9.1 2.3 1.4 |
8.2 68.5 9.6 9.4 1.9 2.4 |
5.6 56.2 10.8 16.2 5.8 5.4 |
6.9 60.7 10.6 14.8 3.1 3.9 |
The preparation of catalyst comparative example 1~3 and embodiment 1~4
Getting the 700g silver nitrate is dissolved in the 750ml deionized water.Get in the deionized water that the 325g ammonium oxalate is dissolved in 50 ℃ of 250ml.Under vigorous stirring, mix two kinds of solution, generate white silver oxalate precipitation.Aging more than 30 minutes, filter, spend deionised water and be precipitated to no nitrate ion.Filter cake argentiferous about 60%, moisture about 15%.
In the glass flask that band stirs, add the 300g ethylenediamine, 110g monoethanolamine, 375g deionized water.Stir following silver oxalate paste that makes and slowly add in the mixed liquor, temperature remains on below 40 ℃, and silver oxalate is all dissolved, and the addition of silver oxalate makes the maceration extract argentiferous 22% (weight) that makes.Add 2.2g cesium sulfate, 1.4g strontium acetate, add deionized water again and make the solution gross mass reach 2000g, make solution for later use.
Get the support samples of 100g carrier comparative example 1~3 and embodiment 1~4 preparation and put into the container that can vacuumize.Be evacuated to more than the 10mmHg, put into above maceration extract, the submergence carrier kept 30 minutes.Excessive solution is gone in leaching.Soaked carrier heated 5 minutes in 450 ℃ air stream, and silver catalyst for ethylene oxide is promptly made in cooling.
Silver and auxiliary agent content to the catalyst made are analyzed, and wherein content is in metal; Use the microreactor evaluating apparatus to measure the activity and the selectivity of catalyst sample under aforementioned process conditions, result of the test is listed in table 2.
The result of the test of the sample of table 2 Preparation of Catalyst comparative example 1~3 and embodiment 1~4
| The sample title |
Silver content (%) |
The content of caesium (ppm) |
The content of strontium (ppm) |
Reaction temperature (℃) |
EO (%) |
Selectivity (%) |
| Comparative example 1 |
13.8 |
538 |
218 |
216 |
1.35 |
83.9 |
| Comparative example 2 |
16.9 |
645 |
252 |
223 |
1.35 |
83.6 |
| Embodiment 1 |
14.2 |
542 |
223 |
218 |
1.35 |
84.2 |
| Embodiment 2 |
14.4 |
550 |
222 |
217 |
1.35 |
84.5 |
| Embodiment 3 |
15.2 |
564 |
229 |
218 |
1.35 |
84.1 |
| Comparative example 3 |
17.0 |
654 |
255 |
225 |
1.34 |
83.8 |
| Embodiment 4 |
15.4 |
586 |
231 |
218 |
1.35 |
84.5 |
The preparation of catalyst comparative example 4 and embodiment 5
In the glass flask that band stirs, add the 300g ethylenediamine, 110g monoethanolamine, 375g deionized water.Stir following silver oxalate paste that makes as catalyst comparative example 1~3 and embodiment 1~4 and slowly add in the mixed liquor, temperature remains on below 40 ℃, and silver oxalate is all dissolved, and the addition of silver oxalate makes the maceration extract argentiferous 22% (weight) that makes.Add 2.2g cesium sulfate, 2.6g barium acetate, 0.3g lithium sulfate, add deionized water again and make the solution gross mass reach 2000g, make solution for later use.
Get the support samples of 100g carrier comparative example 2 and embodiment 3 preparations and put into the container that can vacuumize.Be evacuated to more than the 10mmHg, put into above maceration extract, the submergence carrier kept 30 minutes.Excessive solution is gone in leaching.Soaked carrier heated 10 minutes in 350 ℃ air stream, and silver catalyst for ethylene oxide is promptly made in cooling.
Silver and auxiliary agent content to the catalyst made are analyzed, and wherein content is in metal; Use the microreactor evaluating apparatus to measure the activity and the selectivity of catalyst sample under aforementioned process conditions, result of the test is listed in table 3.
The result of the test of the sample of table 3 Preparation of Catalyst comparative example 4 and embodiment 5
| The sample title |
Silver content (%) |
The content of caesium (ppm) |
The content of lithium (ppm) |
The content of barium (ppm) |
Reaction temperature (℃) |
EO (%) |
Selectivity (%) |
| Comparative example 4 |
17.2 |
650 |
15 |
417 |
222 |
1.35 |
83.5 |
| Embodiment 5 |
15.2 |
583 |
13 |
347 |
217 |
1.35 |
84.0 |