The invention relates to a PA6 resin continuous
polymerization process, which comprises: (1) heating, stirring and mixing
caprolactam, water, a catalyst and a molecular weight
regulator to obtain an auxiliary agent solution, feeding a formed mixture into a
storage tank, conducting heating, and carrying out
thermal insulation; (2) mixing and preheating
caprolactam and an auxiliary agent solution, pumping a heated mixture into the top of a
polymerization tube, and carrying out catalytic ring-opening
polymerization reaction; (3) pumping the
reaction system into a vertical film devolatilization device, and carrying out high-vacuum devolatilization; (4) feeding the
system into a single-screw or
helical ribbon extruder, and carrying out high-vacuum devolatilization; and (5) feeding the material into a multi-screw extruder for screw
extrusion devolatilization, and conducting cooling,
pelletizing and
drying to obtain PA6 resin
pellets. The process provided by the invention can replace and reduce four working procedures of recovering
caprolactam through
water extraction, preparing deionized water, refining recovered monomers and post-polymerizing, the relative
intrinsic viscosity of the product is high, the content of monomers and low-molecular substances is low, the process is close to the level of the existing hydrolytic polymerization process, the process is simple, the production period is short, the
energy consumption is low, the investment is small, and the process is suitable for industrial production.