Method for preparing taurine, methyltaurate and methyltaurine simultaneously

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for preparing taurine, methyltaurate and methyltaurine by using ethylene oxide, including: preparing taurine by an ethylene oxide process, and obtaining a taurine mother liquor; mixing the taurine mother liquor with methylamine, adding an alkaline catalyst, and carrying out an amination reaction to obtain a reaction solution; evaporating ammonia and methylamine from the reaction solution to obtain a methyltaurate solution; preparing a methyltaurine solution by using the methyltaurate solution; and concentrating and crystallizing the methyltaurine solution to obtain methyltaurine. The method of the invention avoids the problem of recycling a mother liquor in the existing taurine production to reduce the generation possibility of impurities, and meanwhile, can achieve quantitative conversion to methyltaurate and methyltaurine by controlling a molar ratio of raw materials to the catalyst in the reaction.

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