The present invention provides a
lactide purification method, which comprises: (1) mixing an
alcohol and / or ester
solvent with crude
lactide, and dissolving to obtain a crude
lactide solution; and (2) adding water into the crude lactide solution, carrying out heat preservation, mixing and cooling to separate out lactide, carrying out
solid-liquid separation to obtain a
solid, and washing and
drying the
solid to obtain a lactide product. According to the method, the characteristic that the
solubility of the lactide in an
alcohol / ester
solvent is in nonlinear growth is utilized, the lactide is completely dissolved firstly, then water is added for cooling and
precipitation, m-lactide is hydrolyzed at the same time, then cooling is performed to enable the lactide to be continuously precipitated, and finally the
powder-state lactide is obtained, so that the whole process avoids the formation of large blocks in the product, no
impurity inclusion exists, and the purity of the product is greatly improved. The product quality is more uniform, the particle size range is kept at 50 + / -10 microns, the problems that a stirring
paddle is damaged and a pipeline is blocked due to the existence of large blocks are avoided, and the conveying problem in
engineering is solved.