The invention belongs to the technical field of
anhydrous magnesium chloride production, and particularly relates to a preparation process of
anhydrous magnesium chloride, which comprises the following steps: firstly, dissolving
magnesium chloride hexahydrate in absolute ethyl
alcohol to form a magnesium chloride
ethanol aqueous solution, and then dehydrating the magnesium chloride
ethanol aqueous solution by using a
molecular sieve to obtain the magnesium chloride
ethanol solution; carrying out secondary cooling, stirring
crystallization, secondary
solid-liquid separation and
vacuum drying on the magnesium chloride ethanol solution to obtain high-purity
anhydrous magnesium chloride; and recycling ethanol liquid obtained by
solid-liquid separation and ethanol gas obtained by
vacuum drying. The technical scheme provided by the invention is simple in process flow, low in
energy consumption, low in
equipment requirement, high in product yield and high in purity, and can be directly applied to the fields of electrolytic preparation of magnesium, catalyst carriers and the like.