The invention relates to a method for preparing
lactide from
lactic acid, which comprises the following steps: mixing a
lactic acid solution with an
organic solvent, adding a Si-Beta / H-Beta core-shell
molecular sieve, carrying out a stirring
reflux reaction at normal pressure and a certain temperature, adding water after the reaction is completed, carrying out liquid-liquid two-phase separation, and carrying out reduced pressure
distillation on an organic phase to obtain a
lactide product, the
core shell of the Si-Beta / H-Beta core-shell
molecular sieve is a catalyst which takes an H-Beta
molecular sieve as a core and Si-Beta as a shell, and the catalyst comprises the following components in percentage by
mass: 91.1%-96.5% of the H-Beta molecular
sieve and 3.5%-8.9% of the Si-Beta molecular
sieve. The catalyst adopted by the invention can complete the synthesis of
lactide from
lactic acid by a one-
step method under normal pressure, and overcomes the defects of harsh
reaction conditions, complex process flow and the like in the existing lactide preparation.