The method of catalytic hydrogenation was used to improve production of ethylene glycol (EG) over Raney nickel catalyst.Under the reaction condition of temperature 353 K
EG liquid hourly space velocity 30 h-1
H2 pressure 0.25 MPa
H2 mass space velocity 0.02 g·ml-1·h-1 and hydrogenation time 90 d
ultraviolet light transmittance of EG with water content at 220 nm
275 nm and 350 nm were improved averagely from 49.6%
88.2%
97.7% to 73.8%
93.2%
99.7% respectively
and further to 84.2%
95.1%
99.9% after rectification.The removal efficiency of impurities was up to 75.5%
60% and 95.8%.The amount of aldehyde was reduced from 11.5 μg·g-1 to 3.7 μg·g-1.