The invention provides a method for continuously extracting
durene from
coal-sourced
aromatic hydrocarbon. The method comprises the steps: adding a
coal-sourced
aromatic hydrocarbon raw material intoa primary
distillation tower, separating light components such as trimethylbenzene in the
raw material from the top of the primary
distillation tower by utilizing the negative pressure inside the primary
distillation tower, and placing the light components into a light component
storage tank by a heat radiator; making a residual tower bottom in the primary distillation tower enter a rectifying tower to obtain a
durene-enriched solution with the
mass percentage of 90%-95% at the top of the rectifying tower; and storing the
durene-enriched solution into a middle durene
storage tank, and then, delivering the durene-enriched solution into a multistage crystallizer for fractional
crystallization to refine durene with the purity of 99% or above. By using the method, the purity of durene can be increased to 99% or above, a product is a white powdery / sheet-like
crystal, and the conversion ratio of the product can be increased by 5%-10% during downstream
pyromellitic dianhydride processing. Compared with a traditional freezing-centrifuging-squeezing process, the method is simple and safe in
process operation and low in
energy consumption and risk; and the method can be used for
processing durene with different contents according to market demands, so that the market demands are met.