The invention relates to a
sodium methoxide and
dimethyl ether combined production technology, which comprises the following steps: a
raw material methanol is introduced in a
methanol vaporization tower for
vaporization, the vaporized
methanol in introduced in a synthetic
tower,
sodium hydroxide and methanol in the synthetic
tower are reacted to obtain reaction products containing
sodium methoxide, methanol steam and water,
sodium methoxide is discharged from the bottom of the synthetic tower and then collected, the aqueous methanol steam is introduce4d in a
dimethyl ether reactor, after
dehydration reaction,
dimethyl ether is extracted from upper side line of a dimethyl
ether rectifying tower, methanol and water are introduced in a methanol rectifying tower, and the rectified methanol is recovered and utilized in the methanol
vaporization tower. According to the invention, a dimethyl
ether production apparatus is used for producing a lot of absolute methanol steam, the absolute methanol steam is introduced in a
sodium methoxide synthesis reaction tower,
sodium methoxide is generated at bottom of the tower, and the aqueous methanol steam from the tower top is send to the dimethyl
ether reactor for producing dimethyl ether. The technology effectively use the heat released through sodium
methoxide generation reaction by methanol,
energy consumption and equipment investment are reduced, and the dimethyl ether and sodium methoxide production cost can be reduced.