The invention relates to the technical field of C9 heavy aromatics, in particular to a method and device for producing
mesitylene from C9 heavy aromatics, and the method comprises the following steps: firstly, in the presence of a catalyst, mixing the C9 heavy aromatics with
hydrogen, performing dealkylation
isomerization reaction and
dehydrogenation separation to obtain a liquid-phase product, and then performing two-stage separation on the liquid-phase product to obtain
mesitylene. And
mesitylene is produced to the maximum extent. The C9 heavy aromatics are subjected to selective dealkylation and trimethylbenzene
isomerization reaction, and the obtained product does not contain
propylbenzene, and the content of methyl-
ethylbenzene is 1t; the method has the advantages that the yield of mesitylene is more than or equal to 0.2%, the interference of methyl ethyl
benzene on the separation of the mesitylene is eliminated, the loss of the mesitylene is small, the one-way yield of the mesitylene is more than or equal to 12%, the reaction process is simple, the mesitylene and unsym-trimethylbenzene products are high in purity, the unsym-trimethylbenzene can be recycled to further increase the yield of the mesitylene, the process is flexible, byproducts are few, the
product value is high, and the utilization value of C9 heavy
aromatic hydrocarbon resources is obviously improved.