The invention discloses a clean process for continuously synthesizing
glycine. The process comprises the following steps: preheating a
carbon dioxide ammonia water solution prepared from an
ammonia source, a
carbon source and water, mixing the preheated solution with
glycolonitrile, performing continuous synthesis, reduced pressure
flash evaporation, continuous
hydrolysis, gas stripping, concentrating, cooling and crystallizing, centrifuging for the first time, carrying out hot-melting recrystallization, centrifuging for the second time and
drying to obtain a
glycine product. Part of
carbon dioxide generated by
hydrolysis in the
hydrolysis reaction process is continuously separated; and a
carbon dioxide and
ammonia recovery system sequentially absorbs the
gas phase obtained by gas stripping, hydrolysis separation and reduced pressure flash separation to obtain a carbon dioxide ammonia water solution, and the carbon dioxide ammonia water solution is recycled to the
reaction system. According to the process, the yield of
glycine is increased by restraining iminodiacetonitrile
side reaction; through timely release of each
gas phase in the
system and reasonable arrangement of the
recovery sequence, the difficulty of recycling carbon dioxide and ammonia in the
system is reduced, the loss of carbon dioxide and ammonia is reduced, the hydrolysis one-way conversion rate is improved, the hydrolysis time is greatly shortened, and the process is an environment-friendly and clean process for producing glycine.