The invention relates to a
reactive distillation device and method for automatically separating phases and refluxing to a reaction section, and belongs to the technical field of
chemical reaction and separation
coupling. The
reactive distillation tower (1) sequentially comprises a
distillation section (11), a reaction section (12) and a stripping section (13) from top to bottom, the
tower bottom of the
reactive distillation tower (1) is connected with a heater (2), the tower top of the reactive
distillation tower (1) is sequentially connected with a tower top condenser (3) and an automatic
phase splitter (4) through pipelines, materials are condensed by the tower top condenser (3) to form a water phase and an
oil phase which are not completely mutually soluble, and the water phase and the
oil phase are separated from each other. After automatic
phase splitting in the automatic
phase splitter (4), the water phase automatically and continuously flows into a water phase collecting tank (5) from the upper part of the automatic
phase splitter (4), the
oil phase automatically and continuously flows out from the lower part of the automatic phase splitter (4), one part of the oil phase returns to the rectifying section (11) through the
reflux ratio controller (6), and the other part of the oil phase returns to the rectifying section (11) through the
reflux ratio controller (6); one part of the gas automatically flows back into the reaction section (12) by virtue of the liquid level to continuously react, so that a high-purity product is obtained in the tower kettle. The device is simple in structure and control method and convenient to operate, unreacted raw materials are rectified and then automatically flow back into the reaction section in a split-phase mode to participate in the reaction again, the
raw material utilization rate is increased, the reaction conversion rate is high, and a water phase and an oil phase can be automatically extracted in a split-phase mode and flow back.