Allyl alcohol has a wide range of applications and the current industry development tends to be stable.

Allyl alcohol, also known as 2-propen-1-ol, is an important chemical intermediate and fine chemical. Allyl alcohol can be used to produce intermediates for spices, medicines, cosmetics, glycerin, and pesticides. It is also one of the main raw materials for the production of diallyl phthalate. Benefiting from the development of terminal industries, the current application demand for allyl alcohol is relatively stable.

In industrial production, allyl alcohol production methods mainly include propylene acetate hydrolysis, propylene chloride hydrolysis, propylene oxide isomerization, acrolein reduction, etc. European and American countries mainly use propylene oxide isomerization for production. , this process has the advantages of no pollution, simple process and high yield. Domestic small and medium-sized enterprises mainly use the propylene chloride hydrolysis method for production. This process has the disadvantage of serious environmental pollution, and at the same time has poor economics, and has gradually withdrawn from the market. However, Chinese foreign-funded enterprises, Japanese and Singaporean enterprises use allyl acetate hydrolysis for production. This process has problems such as low conversion rate, high energy consumption and high production cost, and does not meet national development requirements.

Allyl alcohol has a wide range of production areas and is also used in the production of BDO. Affected by the “plastic ban” in recent years, the domestic degradable plastic industry has developed rapidly. BDO, as the main raw material for the production of degradable plastic PBAT, has experienced rapid growth in production capacity in recent years. It is expected that my country’s total BDO production capacity will reach 1.46 million by the end of 2021 Ton. Using allyl alcohol as raw material to produce BDO has a simple process, low energy consumption, safe reaction, and high utilization value of by-products. It is a promising production route. However, due to the numerous BDO production processes, the current main production process is still smooth. Anhydride method.

According to the “China Allyl Alcohol Industry Application Market Demand and Development Opportunities Research Report 2021-2026” released by the Industrial Research Center, Benefiting from the development of downstream BDO, resin, coupling agent and other industries, the demand for allyl alcohol applications continues to rise, and the industry has developed rapidly. The global propylene alcohol market size was approximately US$3 billion in 2020, and is expected to reach US$3.1 billion by 2025, with industry development stabilizing. In terms of production, the current major producers of allyl alcohol in the world include DCC, LyondellBasell Industries, Showa Denko, Daicel of Japan, and Mingxing Chemical.

Industrial analysts said that allyl alcohol, as an important fine chemical product, has a wide range of applications, but the overall application demand is relatively high. There are few, lack of major application fields, current demand in the global market is limited, and industry development has entered a bottleneck period. In terms of production, except for Europe and the United States, most allyl alcohol production projects in the world currently use backward processes, which pose a certain threat to the environment. In the future, with the global economic downturn and domestic economic growth slowing down, some backward projects will gradually be eliminated. There is broad market development space for green and environmentally friendly processes in the future.