The invention relates to the technical field of
mesitylene production, in particular to a method for producing
mesitylene from C9 heavy aromatics, which comprises the following steps of: carrying out
hydrodealkylation reaction on C9 heavy aromatics and
hydrogen, separating an obtained dealkylation
reaction product, returning a gas-phase product to a reverse dealkylation reactor, separating a liquid-phase product, feeding a BTX
tower bottom product into a
mesitylene tower for separation, and separating the mesitylene from the BTX
tower bottom product. A mesitylene tower bottom product enters a mixing tower to be separated, and after a mixing tower top product is subjected to an
isomerization reaction, an
isomerization reaction product is separated to obtain mesitylene. The process flow is simple, the C9 heavy aromatics are adopted as the
raw material, and the combined production process of dealkylation reaction and trimethylbenzene
isomerization reaction is adopted, so that side reactions are few,
hydrogen consumption is low, by-products can be further utilized, the content of methyl-
ethylbenzene in the obtained product is lower than 0.5%, interference of methyl-
ethylbenzene on trimethylbenzene separation is eliminated, and the yield of trimethylbenzene is increased. The yield and the purity of mesitylene are improved, the production cost is reduced, and the utilization value of C9 heavy
aromatic hydrocarbon resources is improved.