The invention discloses a
metaldehyde continuous synthesis process and a
production unit, and belongs to the field of
metaldehyde synthesis, the process comprises the following steps: S1, uniformly mixing
paraldehyde and
acetaldehyde as a reaction mother solution; s2, continuously dropwise adding
acetaldehyde and a catalyst into the reaction
mother liquor, controlling the
reaction temperature to be below-5 DEG C, continuously discharging the synthesized
metaldehyde crystals and reaction feed liquid, and carrying out
solid-liquid separation; s3, carrying out heat exchange and cooling on one part of the reaction material liquid obtained by separation, refluxing to the step S2 as a reaction mother solution, and depolymerizing the other part of the reaction material liquid to obtain
acetaldehyde as an acetaldehyde reactant continuously dropwise added in the step S2; and purifying the separated metaldehyde to obtain the product. And S4, the step S2 and the step S3 are cyclically carried out. According to the scheme, continuous synthesis of metaldehyde is realized, the composition and the temperature of a
reaction system are controlled through arrangement of the reaction
mother liquor and
reflux of the reaction feed liquid, the production efficiency and the product yield are improved, meanwhile, the production
energy consumption is reduced, the process is simple, and large-scale production is facilitated.