环氧乙烷吸收和转化合成碳酸酯工艺研究进展

doi:10.16085/j.issn.1000-6613.2020-0541

摘要/Abstract

摘要：

碳酸乙烯酯是重要的化工基础原料和中间体，也是CO₂资源化利用的路径之一，越来越受到人们的关注。然而，在生产过程中广泛存在着环氧乙烷纯化能耗高、反应过程催化效率低和工艺复杂等问题。本文综述了在生产碳酸乙烯酯过程中环氧乙烷的吸收单元、转化单元以及生产工艺，重点总结了吸收剂的类型、催化剂的种类和催化机理以及生产工艺。最后，针对碳酸乙烯酯的生产技术，探讨了该研究领域亟待解决的问题和面临的挑战，并指出多位点离子液体催化剂的开发以及吸收转化耦合工艺的应用将成为未来研究的热点，具有较好的工业化前景。

关键词: 吸收, 回收, 催化, 环氧乙烷, 碳酸乙烯酯

Abstract:

As an important chemical raw material and intermediate produced from CO₂ utilization, ethylene carbonate has attracted more and more attentions. However, there are common problems in the production process, such as high energy consumption for purification of ethylene oxide, low catalytic efficiency in the reaction, and complex process. In this paper, the absorption and conversion units of ethylene oxide and the production process of ethylene carbonate were reviewed. The types of absorbents, the kinds of catalysts as well as the catalytic mechanism and the production process were summarized emphatically. Finally, based on the production technology of ethylene carbonate, the urgent problems and challenges in this research field were discussed. It was also pointed out that the development of multi-site ionic liquid catalysts and the application of absorption-conversion coupling processes would become the highlights of future research and have good industrialization prospect.

Key words: absorption, recovery, catalysis, ethylene oxide, ethylene carbonate

中图分类号:

TQ225.24

褚俊杰, 常洁, 罗志斌, 侯明明, 李谦. 环氧乙烷吸收和转化合成碳酸酯工艺研究进展[J]. 化工进展, 2021, 40(1): 195-204.

Junjie CHU, Jie CHANG, Zhibin LUO, Mingming HOU, Qian LI. Research progress on absorption and conversion of ethylene oxide to ethylene carbonate[J]. Chemical Industry and Engineering Progress, 2021, 40(1): 195-204.

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