摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To economically and continuously obtain an alkylamine in a simplified apparatus by preheating only an amine stream or only an aldehyde stream fed by separated stream during feed and reacting the amine with the aldehyde on a fixed bed catalyst in a reactor. SOLUTION: Only an aldehyde stream [e.g. formaldehyde aqueous solution having 50-90 wt.%, preferably 65-75 wt.% water content based on total weight of the solution] or only an amine stream (preferably 30-80 wt.% piperazine aqueous solution) fed by separated stream is preheated during a feed (a molar ratio of piperazine to formaldehyde is 1:1.0 to 1:5, preferably 1:2 to 1:2.7) is and the aldehyde is reacted with the amine in a reactor in which these compounds are mixed in a catalyst bed on a fixed bed catalyst in the presence of an isolated hydrogen to continuously provide the objective alkylamine. |