The invention relates to a refining method and device for n-
propyl acetate esterification synthesis. The refining method comprises the following steps: feeding a crude product obtained in an n-
propyl acetate reaction section into an esterification
tower, performing preliminary separation on the n-
propyl acetate in the esterification
tower through a rectifying mode, and evaporating out raw ester consisting of the n-propyl acetate, water and part of n-propyl
alcohol from the
tower top of the esterification tower; after condensing the raw ester through a tower-top condenser, feeding the condensed raw ester into a tower-top layering
machine for layering, refluxing a lower-layer water-phase part to an esterification tower, completely extracting and feeding an upper-layer organic phase into a
pervaporation membrane separator to perform separation, so as to obtain dehydrated raw ester; enabling water and a little n-propyl acetate in a solution at a feed liquid side to penetrate through the
pervaporation membrane in the form of steam, so as to obtain a penetrating fluid, and returning the penetrating fluid to tower-top layering
machine of the esterification tower and discharging the layered penetrating fluid from the water phase; re-feeding the dehydrated raw ester into a refining tower to obtain a n-propyl acetate finished product. According to the refining method, the
recovery rate is high, the process is simple, the
safety coefficient is high, the feed
liquid circulation volume is small, the operation
energy consumption is low, and a third component is not added.