Changzhou University

Fu'an Sun

Qun Chen

Mingyang He

Weiyou Zhou

Xuan Dai

Zhonghua Sun

The present disclosure relates to a process for acid-catalyzed decomposition of aryl &#x3b1;-hydroperoxide with a continuous flow tubular reactor. The process is a novel process performed in a tubular reactor, taking the aryl &#x3b1;-hydroperoxide such as cumene hydroperoxide (CHP) as a raw material and taking acids as a catalyst, performing acid-catalyzed decomposition of the aryl &#x3b1;-hydroperoxide solution in a short reaction time ranging from tens of seconds to several minutes, thereby obtaining the phenols; wherein an inert component may be filled in the reactor, so that the effects of heat transmission and mass transfer can be enhanced. The aryl &#x3b1;-hydroperoxide and acid are respectively introduced by a metering pump into a mixing module to be mixed, and then enter the tubular reactor to be reacted so as to produce the products such as phenols.

Process for acid-catalyzed decomposition of aryl &#x3b1;-hydroperoxide with continuous flow tubular reactor

The present invention relates to the technical field of peroxide decomposition, and discloses a method for preparing phenol, which comprises the following steps: (1) mixing cumene hydroperoxide and liquid acid or solid acid with a solvent to form a homogeneous solution or uniformly dispersed system; (2) loading the homogeneous solution or uniformly dispersed system of cumene hydroperoxide with a homogeneous solution or uniformly dispersed system of acid into a preheating module and preheating in a micro-channel continuous flow mode, preliminarily mixing the preheated materials for reaction in a mixing module in a micro-channel continuous flow mode, and then further mixing the materials for reaction in a series of mixing and reaction module groups in a micro-channel continuous flow mode, to obtain phenol. The method provided in the present invention is easy, simple and safe to operate, can implement continuous production of phenol product at a high yield ratio; in addition, since the reaction in the present invention is a cracking reaction, which releases heat strongly, the safety factor of the process is significantly improved owing to the strong heat release characteristic in conjunction with the unique heat transfer property of the micro-channels. With the method provided in the present invention, the yield of the product is higher than 99%.

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