The invention relates to a
tail gas circulating process in
acrylic acid production by chemical product materials through a
propane one-
step method. The
tail gas circulating process is characterized by comprising the following steps of: entering steam,
oxygen gas and
nitrogen gas from a pre-mixer and then entering a charging mixer with
propane; feeding the mixture to an oxidation reactor for carrying out
chemical reaction after the materials are sufficiently mixed to generate
acrylic acid and
carbon monoxide,
carbon dioxide,
acetic acid and propylene by-products; exchanging heat for the reaction products through a first cooler, enabling the heat-exchanged reaction products to enter a washing
tower, and using most of emitted gases from the
tower top of the washing
tower as circulating gases. The
tail gas circulating process has the advantages that part of the
propane-containing reaction tail gases are compressed and returned to the reactor by adopting the reaction tail gas circulating process for continuously participating in the oxidization reaction, so that the consumption of the propane is reduced. If the circulation volume is extremely large, by-product Co is accumulated in a vast manner and safety
hazard is generated due to extremely high CO concentration; if the circulation volume is extremely small, the total yield of the reaction is reduced, and 85% of circulated gases are preferably fed to a compressor.