DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PREPARING PARA-XYLENE AND CO-PRODUCING LIGHT OLEFINS FROM METHANOL AND/OR DIMETHYL ETHER AND TOLUENE

Abstract

Disclosed are a fast fluidized bed reactor, device and method for preparing para-xylene and co-producing light olefins from methanol and/or dimethyl ether and toluene, with the reactor, device and method being capable of solving or improving the problem of competition between an alkylation reaction and an MTO reaction during the process of producing the para-xylene and co-producing light olefins from toluene and methanol, thus achieving a synergistic effect between the MTO reaction and the alkylation reaction. By controlling the mass transfer and reaction, the competition between the alkylation reaction and the MTO reaction is coordinated and optimized to achieve a synergistic effect, thereby increasing the conversion rate of toluene, the yield of para-xylene and the selectivity of the light olefins. The fast fluidized bed reactor comprises a first reactor feed distributor and a plurality of second reactor feed distributors, the first reactor feed distributor and the plurality of second reactor feed distributors are sequentially arranged along the gas flow direction in a reaction zone of the fast fluidized bed reactor.

Claims

1. A fast fluidized bed reactor for preparing para-xylene and co-producing light olefins from methanol and/or dimethyl ether and toluene, wherein the fast fluidized bed reactor comprises a first reactor feed distributor and a plurality of second reactor feed distributors, the first reactor feed distributor and the plurality of second reactor feed distributors are sequentially arranged along the gas flow direction in the fast fluidized bed reactor.

2. The fast fluidized bed reactor of claim 1, wherein the fast fluidized bed reactor comprises a first reactor gas-solid separator and a second reactor gas-solid separator, the first reactor gas-solid separator is placed in a dilute phase zone or outside a reactor shell, and the second reactor gas-solid separator is placed in the dilute phase zone or outside the reactor shell; the first reactor gas-solid separator is provided with a regenerated catalyst inlet, a catalyst outlet of the first reactor gas-solid separator is placed at the bottom of a reaction zone, and a gas outlet of the first reactor gas-solid separator is placed in the dilute phase zone; an inlet of the second reactor gas-solid separator is placed in the dilute phase zone, a catalyst outlet of the second reactor gas-solid separator is placed in the reaction zone, and a gas outlet of the second reactor gas-solid separator is connected to a product gas outlet of the fast fluidized bed reactor; the reaction zone is located in a lower part of the fast fluidized bed reactor, and the dilute phase zone is located in an upper part of the fast fluidized bed reactor; preferably, the first reactor gas-solid separator and the second reactor gas-solid separator are cyclone separators.

3. (canceled)

4. The fast fluidized bed reactor of claim 1, wherein the number of the second reactor feed distributors is in a range from 2 to 10.

5. The fast fluidized bed reactor of claim 1, wherein the fast fluidized bed reactor comprises a reactor heat extractor, and the reactor heat extractor is arranged inside or outside the shell of the fast fluidized bed reactor; preferably, the reactor heat extractor is arranged between the plurality of reactor feed distributors.

6. (canceled)

7. The fast fluidized bed reactor of claim 1, wherein the fast fluidized bed reactor comprises a reactor stripper, the reactor stripper passes through the reactor shell from the outside to the inside at the bottom of the fast fluidized bed reactor and is opened in the reaction zone of the fast fluidized bed reactor, and a reactor stripping gas inlet and a spent catalyst outlet are arranged at the bottom of the reactor stripper; preferably, the horizontal height of opening of the reactor stripper in the reactor shell is higher than that of the first reactor feed distributor.

8. (canceled)

9. A device for preparing para-xylene and co-producing light olefins from methanol and/or dimethyl ether and toluene, wherein the device comprises at least one of the fast fluidized bed reactor according to claim 1 and a fluidized bed regenerator for regenerating a catalyst.

10. The device of claim 9, wherein the fluidized bed regenerator is a turbulent fluidized bed regenerator, and the fluidized bed regenerator comprises a regenerator shell, a regenerator gas-solid separator, a regenerator heat extractor and the regenerator stripper; the lower part of the fluidized bed regenerator is a regeneration zone, the upper part of the fluidized bed regenerator is a dilute phase zone of the regenerator, the regenerator feed distributor is placed at the bottom of the regeneration zone, the regenerator heat extractor is placed in the regeneration zone, and the regenerator gas-solid separator is placed in the dilute phase zone or outside the regenerator shell; the inlet of the regenerator gas-solid separator is placed in the dilute phase zone of the regenerator, the catalyst outlet of the regenerator gas-solid separator is placed in the regeneration zone, and the regenerator stripper is opened at the bottom of the regenerator shell.

11. The device of claim 9, wherein the fluidized bed regenerator comprises a regenerator shell, a regenerator feed distributor, a regenerator gas-solid separator, a regenerator heat extractor, a flue gas outlet and a regenerator stripper; the lower part of the fluidized bed regenerator is a regeneration zone, and the upper part of the fluidized bed regenerator is a dilute phase zone; the regenerator feed distributor is placed at the bottom of the regeneration zone, the regenerator heat extractor is placed in the regeneration zone, the regenerator gas-solid separator is placed in the dilute phase zone or outside the regenerator shell, the inlet of the regenerator gas-solid separator is placed in the dilute phase zone, the catalyst outlet of the regenerator gas-solid separator is placed in the regeneration zone, the gas outlet of the regenerator gas-solid separator is connected to the flue gas outlet, and the regenerator stripper is opened at the bottom of the regenerator shell; the spent catalyst outlet of the reactor stripper is connected to the inlet of an inclined spent catalyst pipe, a spent catalyst sliding valve is arranged in the inclined spent catalyst pipe, the outlet of the inclined spent catalyst pipe is connected to the inlet of a spent catalyst lift pipe, the bottom of the spent catalyst lift pipe is provided with a spent catalyst lifting gas inlet, and the outlet of the spent catalyst lift pipe is connected to the dilute phase zone of the fluidized bed regenerator; the bottom of the regenerator stripper is provided with a regenerator stripping gas inlet, the bottom of the regenerator stripper is connected to the inlet of an inclined regenerated catalyst pipe, a regenerated catalyst sliding valve is arranged in the inclined regenerated catalyst pipe, the outlet of the inclined regenerated catalyst pipe is connected to the inlet of a regenerated catalyst lift pipe, the bottom of the regenerated catalyst lift pipe is provided with a regenerated catalyst lifting gas pipe, the outlet of the regenerated catalyst lift pipe is connected to the regenerated catalyst inlet of the first reactor gas-solid separator, and the first reactor gas-solid separator is placed in the dilute phase zone or outside the reactor shell of the fluidized bed reactor.

12. A method for preparing para-xylene and co-producing light olefins from methanol and/or dimethyl ether and toluene, wherein at least one of the fast fluidized bed reactors according to claim 1 is used.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein a raw material A containing methanol and/or dimethyl ether and toluene is fed into the reaction zone of the fast fluidized bed reactor from the first reactor feed distributor and a raw material B containing methanol and/or dimethyl ether is fed into the reaction zone of the fast fluidized bed reactor from a plurality of second reactor feed distributors respectively to be in contact with the catalyst, to form a material stream C containing para-xylene and light olefins products and a spent catalyst.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the material stream C is separated to obtain para-xylene, light olefins, C.sub.5+ chain hydrocarbons, aromatic by-products, and unconverted methanol, dimethyl ether and toluene; wherein the unconverted methanol and dimethyl ether are fed into the reaction zone of the fast fluidized bed reactor from a plurality of second reactor feed distributors, the aromatic by-products and the unconverted toluene are fed into the reaction zone of the fast fluidized bed reactor from the first reactor feed distributor to be in contact with a catalyst.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein the spent catalyst is regenerated in a fluidized bed regenerator and fed to the bottom of the reaction zone of the fast fluidized bed reactor.

16. The method of claim 12, wherein preferably the method comprises the steps of: (1) feeding a material stream A containing methanol and/or dimethyl ether and toluene into the reaction zone of the fast fluidized bed reactor from a first reactor feed distributor below the fast fluidized bed reactor to be in contact with the catalyst; (2) feeding a material stream B containing methanol and/or dimethyl into the reaction zone of the fast fluidized bed reactor from 2 to 10 second reactor feed distributors to be in contact with the catalyst, to form a material stream C containing para-xylene and light olefins products and a spent catalyst; the 2 to 10 second reactor feed distributors are arranged in sequence above the first reactor feed distributor; (3) separating the material stream C obtained from the step (2) to obtain a material stream C-1 containing unconverted methanol and dimethyl ether, a material stream C-2 containing aromatic by-products and unconverted toluene; the material stream C-1 is respectively fed into the reaction zone of the fast fluidized bed reactor from the 2 to 10 second reactor feed distributors to be in contact with the catalyst; the material stream C-2 is fed into the reaction zone of the fast fluidized bed reactor from the first reactor feed distributor to be in contact with the catalyst; the aromatic by-products comprise benzene, o-xylene, m-xylene, ethylbenzene and C.sub.9+ aromatics; (4) regenerating the spent catalyst obtained from the step (2) by the fluidized bed regenerator, the regenerated catalyst is gas-solid separated by the first reactor gas-solid separator, and then is fed to the bottom of the reaction zone in the fast fluidized bed reactor.

17. The method of claim 13, wherein in the mixture fed from the first reactor feed distributor into the fast fluidized bed reactor, the ratio of the molecular moles of aromatics to the carbon moles of methanol and/or dimethyl ether is greater than 0.5; preferably, the molar ratio of all oxygen-containing compounds in the mixture fed from a plurality of second reactor feed distributors into the fast fluidized bed reactor to the methanol fed from the first reactor feed distributor is greater than 1.

18. (canceled)

19. The method of claim 12, wherein the catalyst regeneration employs at least one device for preparing para-xylene and co-producing light olefins from methanol and/or dimethyl ether and toluene, wherein the device comprises at least one fast fluidized bed reactor for preparing para-xylene and co-producing light olefins from methanol and/or dimethyl ether and toluene, wherein the fast fluidized bed reactor comprises a first reactor feed distributor and a plurality of second reactor feed distributors, the first reactor feed distributor and the plurality of second reactor feed distributors are sequentially arranged along the gas flow direction in the fast fluidized bed reactor, and a fluidized bed regenerator for regenerating a catalyst.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the spent catalyst passes through the reactor stripper, the inclined spent catalyst pipe, the spent catalyst sliding valve and the spent catalyst lift pipe into the dilute phase zone of the fluidized bed regenerator; the regeneration medium enters the regeneration zone of the fluidized bed regenerator and reacts with the spent catalyst to perform calcination to produce the flue gas containing CO and CO.sub.2 and the regenerated catalyst, and the flue gas is discharged after dust removal by the regenerator gas-solid separator; the regenerated catalyst passes through the regenerator stripper, the inclined regenerated catalyst pipe, the regenerated catalyst sliding valve and the regenerated catalyst lift pipe into the inlet of the first reactor gas-solid separator, and after the gas-solid separation, the regenerated catalyst enters the bottom of the reaction zone in the fast fluidized bed reactor; the reactor stripping gas enters the reactor stripper via the reactor stripping gas inlet and contacts countercurrent with the spent catalyst, and then enters the fast fluidized bed reactor; the spent catalyst lifting gas enters the spent catalyst lift pipe via the spent catalyst lifting gas inlet and contacts cocurrent with the spent catalyst, and then enters the dilute phase zone of the fluidized bed regenerator; the regenerator stripping gas enters the regenerator stripper via the regenerator stripping gas inlet and contacts countercurrent with the regenerated catalyst, and then enters the fluidized bed regenerator; the regenerated catalyst lifting gas enters the regenerated catalyst lift pipe via the regenerated catalyst lifting gas inlet and contacts concurrent with the regenerated catalyst, and then enters the inlet of the first reactor gas-solid separator, the first reactor gas-solid separator is placed in the dilute phase zone or outside the reactor shell of the fluidized bed reactor.

21. The method of claim 20, wherein the carbon content of the regenerated catalyst is less than or equal to 0.5 wt %.

22. The method of claim 20, wherein the regeneration medium is at least one of air, oxygen-poor air or water vapor; and/or the reactor stripping gas, the regenerator stripping gas, the spent catalyst lifting gas and the regenerated catalyst lifting gas are water vapor and/or nitrogen.

23. The method of claim 12, wherein the reaction conditions in the reaction zone of the fast fluidized bed reactor are: the apparent linear velocity of gas is in a range from 1.0 m/s to 8.0 m/s, the reaction temperature is in a range from 350 C. to 600 C., the reaction pressure is in a range from 0.1 MPa to 1.0 MPa, and the bed density is in a range from 50 kg/m.sup.3 to 500 kg/m.sup.3.

24. The method of claim 23, wherein the reaction conditions in the regeneration zone of the fluidized bed regenerator are: the apparent linear velocity of gas is in a range from 0.1 m/s to 2 m/s, the regeneration temperature is in a range from 500 C. to 750 C., the regeneration pressure is in a range from 0.1 MPa to 1.0 MPa, and the bed density is in a range from 200 kg/m.sup.3 to 1200 kg/m.sup.3.

Description

DRAWINGS

[0096] FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a device for producing para-xylene and co-producing light olefins from methanol and/or dimethyl ether and toluene according to an embodiment of the present application.

[0097] The reference numerals in the drawings are as follows: 1fast fluidized bed reactor; 2reactor shell; 3reactor feed distributors (3-13-n); 4reactor gas-solid separator; 5reactor gas-solid separator; 6reactor heat extractor;

[0098] 7product gas outlet; 8reactor stripper; 9reactor stripping gas inlet; 10inclined spent catalyst pipe; 11spent catalyst sliding valve; 12spent catalyst lift pipe; 13spent catalyst lifting gas inlet; 14fluidized bed regenerator; 15regenerator shell; 16regenerator feed distributor; 17regenerator gas-solid separator; 18regenerator heat extractor; 19flue gas outlet; 20regenerator stripper; 21regenerator stripping gas inlet; 22inclined regenerated catalyst pipe; 23regenerated catalyst sliding valve; 24regenerated catalyst lift pipe; 25regenerated catalyst lifting gas inlet.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0099] The present application will be described in detail below with reference to the embodiments, but the application is not limited to the embodiments.

[0100] Unless otherwise specified, the raw materials and catalysts in the embodiments of the present application are commercially available.

[0101] As an embodiment of the present application, a schematic diagram of a device for producing para-xylene and co-producing light olefins from methanol and/or dimethyl ether and toluene is shown in FIG. 1. The device comprises: the fast fluidized bed reactor 1, which comprises a reactor shell 2, n reactor feed distributors 3-1 to 3-n (the distributors between 3-1 and 3-n in FIG. 1 takes 3-i as an example), a reactor gas-solid separator 4, a reactor gas-solid separator 5, a reactor heat extractor 6, a product gas outlet 7 and a reactor stripper 8, wherein the lower part of the fast fluidized bed reactor 1 is a reaction zone, the upper part of the fast fluidized bed reactor 1 is a dilute phase zone, the n reactor feed distributors 3-1 to 3-n are arranged from bottom to top in the reaction zone, 3n11, the reactor heat extractor 6 is placed in the reaction zone or outside the reactor shell 2, the reactor gas-solid separator 4 and the reactor gas-solid separator 5 are placed in the dilute phase zone or outside the reactor shell 2, the inlet of the reactor gas-solid separator 4 is connected to the regenerated catalyst lift pipe 24, the catalyst outlet of the reactor gas-solid separator 4 is located at the bottom of the reaction zone, the gas outlet of the reactor gas-solid separator 4 is located in the dilute phase zone, the inlet of the reactor gas-solid separator 5 is located in the dilute phase zone, the catalyst outlet of the reactor gas-solid separator 5 is located in the reaction zone, the gas outlet of the reactor gas-solid separator 5 is connected to the product gas outlet 7, the inlet of the reactor stripper 8 is in the reaction zone of the fast fluidized bed reactor 1, with the horizontal height than that of the first reactor feed distributor.

[0102] As shown in FIG. 1, the device comprises: a fluidized bed regenerator 14 comprising a regenerator shell 15, a regenerator feed distributor 16, a regenerator gas-solid separator 17, a regenerator heat extractor 18, a flue gas outlet 19 and a regenerator stripper 20, wherein the lower part of the fluidized bed regenerator 14 is a regeneration zone, the upper part of the fluidized bed regenerator 14 is a dilute phase zone, the regenerator feed distributor 16 is placed at the bottom of the regeneration zone, the regenerator heat extractor 18 is placed in the regeneration zone, the regenerator gas-solid separator 17 is placed in the dilute phase zone or outside the regenerator shell 15, the inlet of the regenerator gas-solid separator 17 is placed in the dilute phase zone, the catalyst outlet of the regenerator gas-solid separator 17 is placed in the regeneration zone, the gas outlet of the regenerator gas-solid separator 17 is connected to the flue gas outlet 19, and the inlet of the regenerator stripper 20 is connected to the bottom of the regenerator shell 15.

[0103] As shown in FIG. 1, the bottom of the reactor stripper 8 is provided with a reactor stripping gas inlet 9, the bottom of the reactor stripper 8 is connected to the inlet of the inclined spent catalyst pipe 10, a spent catalyst sliding valve 11 is arranged in the inclined spent catalyst pipe 10, the outlet of the inclined spent catalyst pipe 10 is connected to the inlet of a spent catalyst lift pipe 12, the bottom of the spent catalyst lift pipe 12 is provided with a spent catalyst lifting gas inlet 13, and the outlet of the spent catalyst lift pipe 12 is connected to the dilute phase zone of the fluidized bed regenerator 14;

[0104] As shown in FIG. 1, the bottom of the regenerator stripper 20 is provided with a regenerator stripping gas inlet 21, the bottom of the regenerator stripper 20 is connected to the inlet of the inclined regenerated catalyst pipe 22, a regenerated catalyst sliding valve 23 is arranged in the inclined regenerated catalyst pipe 22, the outlet of the inclined regenerated catalyst pipe 22 is connected to the inlet of the regenerated catalyst lift pipe 24, the bottom of the regenerated catalyst lift pipe 24 is provided with a regenerated catalyst lifting gas inlet 25, and the outlet of the regenerated catalyst lift pipe 24 is connected to the inlet of the reactor gas-solid separator 4.

[0105] In the above embodiment of the present application, the fluidized bed regenerator 14 may be a turbulent fluidized bed regenerator; the reactor gas-solid separator 4, the reactor gas-solid separator 5 and the regenerator gas-solid separator 17 may be cyclone separators.

[0106] As a specific embodiment of the present application, the method according to the present application for producing para-xylene and co-producing light olefins from methanol and/or dimethyl and toluene comprises: [0107] a) sending a raw material containing toluene and methanol from the lowermost reactor feed distributor 3-1 of the fast fluidized bed reactor 1 into the reaction zone of the fast fluidized bed reactor 1, sending methanol from the reactor feed distributors 3-2 to 3-n in the fast fluidized bed reactor 1 into the reaction zone of the fast fluidized bed reactor 1, and contacting with a catalyst, to generate a material stream containing para-xylene and light olefins products and a spent catalyst containing carbon; [0108] b) sending the material stream discharged from the fast fluidized bed reactor 1 containing para-xylene and light olefins product into a product separation system, obtaining para-xylene, ethylene, propylene, butane, C.sub.5+ chain hydrocarbons, aromatic hydrocarbon by-products and unconverted methanol, dimethyl ether and toluene after separation, in which aromatic by-products comprising benzene, o-xylene, m-xylene, ethylbenzene and C.sub.9+ aromatics, sending unconverted methanol and dimethyl ether from the reactor feed distributor 3-2 to 3-n into the reaction zone of the fast fluidized bed reactor 1, sending the aromatic by-products and unconverted toluene from the reactor feed distributor 3-1 into the reaction zone of the fast fluidized bed reactor 1, and contacting with a catalyst to convert to product; [0109] c) the spent catalyst passes through the reactor stripper 8, the inclined spent catalyst pipe 10, the spent catalyst sliding valve 11 and the spent catalyst lift pipe 12 into the dilute phase zone of the fluidized bed regenerator 14; [0110] d) the regeneration medium enters the regeneration zone of the fluidized bed regenerator 14 from the regenerator feed distributor 16, the regeneration medium reacts with the spent catalyst to perform calcination to produce a flue gas containing CO and CO2 and a regenerated catalyst, and the flue gas is discharged after dust removal by the regenerator gas-solid separator 17; [0111] e) the regenerated catalyst passes through the regenerator stripper 20, the inclined regenerated catalyst pipe 22, the regenerated catalyst sliding valve 23 and the regenerated catalyst lift pipe 24 into the inlet of the reactor gas-solid separator 4, and after gas-solid separation, the regenerated catalyst enters the bottom of the reaction zone of the fast fluidized bed reactor 1; [0112] f) the reactor stripping gas enters the reactor stripper 8 via the reactor stripping gas inlet 9 and contacts countercurrent with the spent catalyst, and then enters the fast fluidized bed reactor 1; the spent catalyst lifting gas enters the spent catalyst lift pipe 12 via the spent catalyst lifting gas inlets 13 and contacts concurrent with the spent catalyst, and then enters the dilute phase zone of the fluidized bed regenerator 14; [0113] g) the regenerator stripping gas enters the regenerator stripper 20 via the regenerator stripping gas inlet 21 and contacts countercurrent with the regenerated catalyst, and then enters the fluidized bed regenerator 14; the regenerated catalyst lifting gas enters the regenerated catalyst lift pipe 24 via the regenerated catalyst lifting gas inlet 25 and contacts cocurrent with the regenerated catalyst, and then enters the inlet of the reactor gas-solid separator 4.

[0114] In order to better illustrate the present application and facilitate the understanding of the technical scheme of the present application, representative but non-restrictive examples of the present application are listed as follows.

EXAMPLE 1

[0115] The device shown in FIG. 1 is employed, but the reactor gas-solid separator 4 is not included in the fast fluidized bed reactor 1, and the regenerated catalyst lift pipe 24 is directly connected to the dilute phase zone of the fast fluidized bed reactor 1. The fast fluidized bed reactor 1 contains one reactor feed distributor 3-1.

[0116] The reaction conditions in the reaction zone of the fast fluidized bed reactor 1 are as follows: the apparent linear velocity of gas is about 1.0 m/s, the reaction temperature is about 500 C., the reaction pressure is about 0.15 MPa, and the bed density is about 350 kg/m.sup.3.

[0117] The reaction conditions of the regeneration zone of the fluidized bed regenerator 14 are as follows: the apparent linear velocity of gas is about 1.0 m/s, the regeneration temperature is about 650 C., the regeneration pressure is about 0.15 MPa, and the bed density is about 350 kg/m.sup.3. The catalyst contains a HZSM-5 molecular sieve. The carbon content of the regenerated catalyst is a about 0.2 wt. %.

[0118] The regeneration medium is air; the reactor stripping gas, the regenerator stripping gas, the spent catalyst lifting gas and the regenerated catalyst lifting gas are water vapor.

[0119] In the mixture entering from the lowest reactor feed distributor 3-1 of the fast fluidized bed reactor, the mass ratio of aromatics to methanol is 0.5.

[0120] The results show that the conversion rate of toluene is 22%, the conversion rate of methanol is 95%, the selectivity of para-xylene is 99%, the single-pass yield of para-xylene based on aromatics is 21%, and the selectivity of light olefins (ethylene+propylene+butane) in chain hydrocarbons is 64%.

EXAMPLE 2

[0121] The device shown in FIG. 1 is employed, the fast fluidized bed reactor 1 contains three reactor feed distributors 3-1 to 3-3, and the reactor gas-solid separator 4 is placed outside the reactor shell 2.

[0122] The reaction conditions of the reaction zone of the fast fluidized bed reactor 1 are as follows: the apparent linear velocity of gas is about 1.0 m/s, the reaction temperature is about 500 C., the reaction pressure is about 0.15 MPa, and the bed density is about 350 kg/m.sup.3.

[0123] The reaction conditions in the regeneration zone of the fluidized bed regenerator 14 are as follows: the apparent linear velocity of gas is about 1.0 m/s, the regeneration temperature is about 650 C., the regeneration pressure is about 0.15 MPa, and the bed density is about 350 kg/m.sup.3.

[0124] The catalyst contains a HZSM-5 molecular sieve. The carbon content of the regenerated catalyst is about 0.2 wt. %.

[0125] The regeneration medium is air; the reactor stripping gas, the regenerator stripping gas, the spent catalyst lifting gas, and the regenerated catalyst lifting gas are water vapor.

[0126] In the mixture entering from the lowest reactor feed distributor 3-1 of the fast fluidized bed reactor, the mass ratio of aromatics to methanol is 2.

[0127] The mass ratio of the oxygen-containing compounds entering from the reactor feed distributors 3-2 to 3-3 and the methanol entering from the reactor feed distributor 3-1 is 3.

[0128] The results show that the conversion rate of toluene is 50%, the conversion rate of methanol is 93%, the selectivity of para-xylene is 96%, and the single-pass yield of para-xylene based on aromatics is 48%, and the selectivity of light olefins (ethylene+propylene+butane) in chain hydrocarbons is 72%.

[0129] The present example is different from Example 1 in that [0130] 1. the regenerated catalyst enters the bottom of the fast fluidized bed reactor, while the regenerated catalyst of Example 1 enters the dilute phase zone of the fast fluidized bed reactor; [0131] 2. methanol is separately fed from three reactor feed distributors (3-1 to 3-3), while the methanol in Example 1 is fed from one reactor feed distributor 3-1.

[0132] Comparing the present example with Example 1, it can be seen that the catalyst is first exposed to a high concentration of aromatic raw material, and the conversion rate of toluene, the yield of para-xylene and the selectivity of light olefins are greatly improved.

EXAMPLE 3

[0133] The device shown in FIG. 1 is employed, the fast fluidized bed reactor 1 contains six reactor feed distributors 3-1 to 3-6, and the reactor gas-solid separator 4 is placed inside the reactor shell 2.

[0134] The reaction conditions in the reaction zone of the fast fluidized bed reactor 1 are as follows: the apparent linear velocity of gas is about 6.0 m/s, the reaction temperature is about 570 C., the reaction pressure is about 0.7 MPa, and the bed density is about 60 kg/m.sup.3. The reaction conditions in the regeneration zone of the fluidized bed regenerator 14 are as follows: the apparent linear velocity of gas is about 1.7 m/s, the regeneration temperature is about 600 C., the regeneration pressure is about 0.7 MPa, and the bed density is about 220 kg/m.sup.3.

[0135] The catalyst contains a HZSM-11 molecular sieve. The carbon content of the regenerated catalyst is about 0.1 wt. %.

[0136] The regeneration medium is air; the reactor stripping gas, the regenerator stripping gas, the spent catalyst lifting gas and the regenerated catalyst lifting gas are water vapor.

[0137] In the mixture entering from the lowest reactor feed distributor 3-1 of the fast fluidized bed reactor, the mass ratio of aromatics to methanol is 4.

[0138] The mass ratio of the oxygen-containing compounds entering from the reactor feed distributors 3-2 to 3-6 and methanol entering from the reactor feed distributor 3-1 is 20.

[0139] The results show that the conversion of toluene is 55%, the conversion rate of methanol is 74%, the selectivity of para-xylene is 90%, the single-pass yield of para-xylene based on aromatics is 58%, and the selectivity of light olefins (ethylene+propylene+butane) in chain hydrocarbons is 73%.

EXAMPLE 4

[0140] The device shown in FIG. 1 is employed, the fast fluidized bed reactor 1 contains four reactor feed distributors 3-1 to 3-4, and the reactor gas-solid separator 4 is placed outside the reactor shell 2.

[0141] The reaction conditions in the reaction zone of the fast fluidized bed reactor 1 are as follows: the apparent linear velocity of gas is about 3.0 m/s, the reaction temperature is about 420 C., the reaction pressure is about 0.3 MPa, and the bed density is about 180 kg/m.sup.3.

[0142] The reaction conditions in the regeneration zone of the fluidized bed regenerator 14 are as follows: the apparent linear velocity of gas is about 1.2 m/s, the regeneration temperature is about 700 C., the regeneration pressure is about 0.3 MPa, and the bed density is about 330 kg/m.sup.3.

[0143] The catalyst contains a HZSM-5 molecular sieve. The carbon content of the regenerated catalyst is about 0.1 wt. %.

[0144] The regeneration medium is water vapor; the reactor stripping gas, the regenerator stripping gas, the spent catalyst lifting gas and the regenerated catalyst lifting gas are nitrogen.

[0145] In the mixture entering from the lowest reactor feed distributor 3-1 of the fast fluidized bed reactor, the mass ratio of aromatics to methanol is 3.

[0146] The mass ratio of the oxygen-containing compounds entering from the reactor feed distributors 3-1 to 3-4 and methanol entering from the reactor feed distributor 3-1 is 10.

[0147] The results show that the conversion rate of toluene is 52%, the conversion rate of methanol is 83%, the selectivity of para-xylene is 91%, the single-pass yield of para-xylene based on aromatics is 53%, and the selectivity of light olefins (ethylene+propylene+butane) in chain hydrocarbons is 71%.

[0148] While the present application has been described above with reference to preferred embodiments, but these embodiments are not intended to limit the claims. Without departing from the spirit of the present application, people skilled in the art will be able to make several possible variations and modifications and thus the protection scope shall be determined by the scope as defined in the claims.