FIELD: chemistry.
SUBSTANCE: invention relates to an improved method of producing (met)acrolein and/or (met)acrylic acid through heterogeneous catalytic partial oxidation in gaseous phase, in which a fresh fixed-bed catalyst at 100-600°C in a reactor is loaded with a mixture of loading gas, which along with at least, one C3/C4 organic precursor compound subject to partial oxidation and oxidation with molecular oxygen, contains at least one gas-diluent. The process is carried out after establishing content of the mixture of loading gas at constant conversion of organic precursor compound and at constant content of the mixture of loading gas initially in the input period for 3-10 days with load of 40-80% of higher final load, and then at higher filling load of the catalyst with a mixture of loading gas. In the input period, maximum deviation of conversion of organic precursor compound from arithmetic time-averaged and maximum deviation of the volume ratio of one component of the mixture loading gas, oxidising agent, organic precursor compound and gas-diluent, from the arithmetic time-averaged volume ratio of the corresponding component of the mixture of loading gas should not exceed ±10% of the corresponding arithmetic mean value.
EFFECT: method allows for eliminating shortcomings of previous technical level.
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