The invention provides a method for recycling trimethylacetic acid from
pivaloyl chloride rectification
raffinate. According to the technical scheme, the method has the experiment ideas that components and contents of
pivaloyl chloride rectification
raffinate are analyzed firstly on the basis of experiment means, on the basis, procedures such as
hydrolysis, layering and rectification are confirmedaccording to chemical properties of
pivaloyl chloride and trimethylacetic anhydride, and trimethylacetic acid is recycled. Specifically, the method comprises the following steps: firstly, adding a certain amount of pivaloyl
chloride rectification
raffinate, controlling specific
temperature and pressure, adding a proper amount of water for
hydrolysis reactions for multiple times to sequentially convert pivaloyl
chloride and trimethylacetic anhydride into trimethylacetic acid, leaving to stand to layer water-containing
phosphorous acid and a crude trimethylacetic acid product, feeding back thecrude trimethylacetic acid product to a trimethylacetic acid rectification procedure, and performing decoloring refining. By adopting the method provided by the invention, more than 90% of the pivaloyl
chloride rectification raffinate can be converted into trimethylacetic acid, so that the utilization rates of raw materials are increased, the wastes are reduced, the environment protection burden of companies is alleviated, and meanwhile the production cost of products is effectively reduced.