Technique for cleanly recovering byproduct methyl chloride of glyphosate acid

Abstract

A process for recovering chloromethane from the tail gas exhausted in the procedure of preparing glyphosate by phosphorus acid-phytanic acid method is disclosed. As said tail gas contains chloromethane (20-90%) and impurities (methanol, methylal, H2O and hydrogen chloride), it uses solvent to absorb impurities, or condenses the impurities, or convents the impurities to chloromethane, so obtaininghigh-purity chloromethane.

Description

technical field [0001] The invention relates to a method for purifying and recovering hydrolysis tail gas during the synthesis of glyphosate acid, more specifically, recovering methyl chloride as a by-product with high yield from the tail gas discharged from the production of glyphosate acid, and the process does not produce secondary pollution. Background technique [0002] Glyphosate is the herbicide with the largest sales volume and the fastest growth rate in the world. The total production of glyphosate technical products in the world has reached 260,000 tons. With the successful development and popularization of glyphosate-resistant transgenic crops, It provides a new opportunity for the continued development of glyphosate. There are two main methods for global glyphosate industrial production: one is the IDA method, which uses diethanolamine as the starting material, and foreign companies such as Monsanto in the United States generally adopt this...

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Problems solved by technology

However, this process has some shortcomings in recovery rate and environmental protection: ① low recovery rate

Since the tail gas contains saturated or supersaturated methylal and methanol under normal pressure, if it cannot be removed during washing, it will cause high consumption of desiccant after being brought into the drying system, and affect the quality of recovered methyl chloride.

However, affected by the solubility and mass transfer rate of methylal and methanol in water, in order to ensure the quality of reclaimed methyl chloride, it is necessary to wash with a large amount of water (6 tons/ton of methyl chloride), and methyl chloride has a certain solubility in water ( 0.38 g/liter), the large amount of washing water causes the dissolution loss of methyl chloride in water to increase, which affects the recovery rate; 2. pollutes the environment

Although this process can recover most of the methyl chloride in the exhaust tail gas and reduce the environmental pollution caused by the production of glyphosate