Methanol Carbonylation Process with Rhodium Catalyst, an Iodide Salt and a Metallic Co-Catalyst Selected from Transition Metals, Indium, Strontium, Barium, Zinc, Tin and Heteropoly Acids
申请人:Celanese International Corporation
公开号:US20130102809A1
公开(公告)日:2013-04-25
A carbonylation process for making acetic acid uses a metallic co-catalyst composition effective as a rhodium stabilizer and rate promoter at molar ratios of metal/rhodium of from about 0.5 to 30. A preferred process includes: (a) reacting methanol with a carbon monoxide feedstock in a rhodium-based catalytic reaction mixture having: (i) a rhodium catalyst metal, (ii) methyl iodide maintained from about 1 to 20 weight percent, (iii) a lithium iodide co-catalyst, (iv) a metallic co-catalyst composition, (v) water maintained from 0.1 weight percent to less than 8 weight percent, (vi) methyl acetate maintained from about 0.5 to about 30 weight percent, and (vii) acetic acid; (b) flashing crude acetic acid from the reaction mixture; and (c) purifying the crude acetic acid. This process achieves stability and a STY greater than 10 mol/L/hr, with substantially less than a theoretically equivalent inorganic iodide content corresponding to the metallic co-catalyst and lithium iodide.
一种羰基化过程用于制造乙酸,该过程使用一种金属辅催化剂组成,其在金属/铑的摩尔比为0.5至30时有效作为铑稳定剂和速率促进剂。首选的过程包括:(a)在具有以下组分的铑基催化反应混合物中将甲醇与一种一氧化碳原料反应:(i)铑催化剂金属,(ii)维持在1至20重量%之间的甲基碘,(iii)碘化锂辅催化剂,(iv)金属辅催化剂组成,(v)维持在0.1重量%至少于8重量%的水,(vi)维持在0.5至约30重量%的乙酸甲酯,以及(vii)乙酸;(b)从反应混合物中闪蒸原油乙酸;和(c)纯化原油乙酸。该过程实现了稳定性和STY大于10 mol/L/hr,且其无机碘化物含量明显低于相应的金属辅催化剂和碘化锂的理论等效含量。