Selective synthesis of epichlorohydrin: Via liquid-phase allyl chloride epoxidation over a modified Ti-MWW zeolite in a continuous slurry bed reactor

  • Luoyi Ding
  • , Jinpeng Yin
  • , Wen Tong
  • , Rusi Peng
  • , Jingang Jiang
  • , Hao Xu*
  • , Peng Wu*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The epoxidation of allyl chloride (ALC) to epichlorohydrin (ECH) with H2O2 using a piperidine (PI)-modified Ti-MWW catalyst (Ti-MWW-PI) in a continuous slurry reactor was investigated to develop an efficient reaction system for the corresponding industrial process. The reaction parameters, including solvent, reaction temperature, t-butanol/ALC mass ratio, ALC/H2O2 molar ratio, weight hourly space velocity of H2O2, and the addition amount of ammonia, were studied in detail to pursue high H2O2 conversion and ECH selectivity. A long catalytic lifetime of 244 h was achieved at high H2O2 conversion (>97.0%) and ECH selectivity (>99.8%) under optimized reaction conditions. The crystallinity was well maintained for the deactivated Ti-MWW-PI catalyst, which was regenerated by a combination of calcination and piperidine treatment.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)331-342
Number of pages12
JournalNew Journal of Chemistry
Volume45
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 7 Jan 2021

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