The invention discloses a process for synthesizing a
methanol catalyst. The process comprises the steps: preparing an
aqueous solution, of which the total concentration of
copper nitrate,
zinc nitrate and
aluminum nitrate is 0.5-2.0mol / L, and an
aqueous solution, of which the concentration of
sodium carbonate /
sodium bicarbonate is 0.5-3.0mol / L, controlling the pH value of precipitating
mother liquor to 6.5 to 8.5 at the temperature of 50 DEG C to 80 DEG C while carrying out stirring, carrying out a reaction, carrying out aging for 0.5 to 4 hours at the temperature of 60 DEG C to 90 DEG C, then, washing precipitates with deionized water, preparing a suspension, of which the
solid content is 5% to 30%, from the washed precipitates by using deionized water, and carrying out
spray drying; and finally,
roasting the dried precipitates for 1 to 5 hours in an
air atmosphere at the temperature of 300 DEG C to 400 DEG C, thereby obtaining the catalyst. According to the process for synthesizing the
methanol catalyst, the process is simple, the operating conditions are mild, and particularly, the particle size of the catalyst prepared by adopting
spray drying reaches a
micron scale; and proven by gas-liquid-
solid three-phase
slurry-
bed reactor tests, the synthesized catalyst is high in activity and good in stability. The
bottleneck that a process for synthesis of
methanol by a gas-liquid-
solid three-phase
slurry bed, which has many advantages and very superior economical efficiency, cannot be industrially generalized extensively due to the fact that proper high-stability catalysts capable of being applied to the gas-liquid-solid three-phase
slurry-
bed methanol synthesis process are absent is thoroughly solved.