The invention provides a preparation method of N, N-dimethyl-1, 3-
propane diamine, which comprises the following steps: mixing
acrylonitrile and a
dimethylamine solution, injecting the mixture into a micro-channel reaction device for
addition reaction, mixing the reaction liquid with
hydrogen, preheating the mixture, feeding the preheated mixture into a continuous hydrogenation reactor filled with a Ni-based
alloy hydrogenation catalyst, carrying out
hydrogenation reaction and carrying out vacuum rectification separating to obtain the required product. According to the preparation method disclosed by the invention, the microchannel reactor has the advantages of continuity, high
mass and
heat transfer efficiency, narrow
residence time distribution, no amplification effect and the like, so that the
addition reaction of
acrylonitrile and
dimethylamine has the characteristics of high efficiency, high conversion rate and few byproducts; and the
hydrogenation reaction is carried out under extremely mild
reaction conditions by using the novel Ni-based
alloy catalyst, and meanwhile, very high conversion rate and product selectivity are obtained, so that the whole
reaction system has the advantages of
continuous production, convenience in operation, high
resource utilization rate and the like.