The invention discloses a method for preparing diisobutyl
ketone. The method comprises the following steps: 1, transferring a mixture
raw material extracted from a
tower kettle of a
methyl isobutyl ketone light component
tower and mainly containing diisobutyl
ketone into a reaction tank; 2, adding a silica-gel drier into the reaction tank, and performing stirring at rotating speed of 100 revolutions / min; 3, filtering the mixture
raw material in the reaction tank by virtue of a filter; 4, delivering filtrate obtained by
filtration into a preheater for preheating at preheating temperature of 76 to 94 DEG C; 5, delivery the preheated filtrate into a rectification
tower for rectification, wherein the temperature of the top of the tower is controlled to be 104 to 126 DEG C, the
side stream temperature is 156 to 177 DEG C, and the temperature of a tower kettle is 167 to 189 DEG C; 6, producing a diisobutyl
ketone finished product from a
side stream of the rectification tower, and charging the diisobutyl ketone finished product. According to the method, the
temperature difference of boiling points of each substance is increased, and the rectification efficiency of the rectification tower is favorably improved, so that the purity of the diisobutyl ketone is improved on the premise of simplifying a purification process, and the
economic benefits of the diisobutyl ketone are further greatly improved.