Silicon modified macroporous alumina and preparation method thereof
Technical Field
The invention relates to silicon modified macroporous alumina and a preparation method thereof, belonging to the field of inorganic material preparation.
Background
The activated alumina is used as a good hydrogenation catalytic carrier material and has wide application in the oil refining industry. An activated alumina support with excellent performance requires not only good pore structure properties but also good surface properties. The larger pore channel structure is beneficial to mass transfer of reaction materials and improves the reaction efficiency, and the appropriate surface property plays an important role in the reaction performance of the catalyst.
In the report of physical chemistry, 2005, 21 (02) '221-224 preparation of Al2O3 bulk aerogel by normal pressure drying method', aluminum nitrate is taken as a precursor, ethanol is taken as a solvent, formamide is taken as a drying control chemical additive, propylene oxide is taken as a gel network inducer, alumina gel is prepared by a sol-gel method, and light and bulk alumina aerogel with concentrated mesopore distribution is obtained under the drying condition of normal pressure. But the mesopores of the aerogel material are less than 20nm, and macropores with the size of more than 100nm are not contained; meanwhile, pure ethanol is used as a solvent, and one of the purposes is to keep the block system as far as possible from shrinking during drying under normal pressure, which also results in the aerogel material having low density and weak mechanical strength. Therefore, the block aerogel material is not suitable for the heterogeneous catalysis field of the petrochemical industry in terms of pore size distribution and mechanical strength.
CN 1184078A adopts aluminium hydroxide produced by parallel-flow gelling as seed crystal, and utilizes the oscillation of pH value to control the growth and size of alumina crystal grains, so that larger pore channels are formed among the crystal grains. However, the method has limited overall pore-forming effect, the obtained pore size is generally less than 100nm, the distribution of macropores is dispersed, and the connectivity is weak.
In US 4448896, US 4102822 and EP 0237240, carbon black, starch and carbon fiber are used as pore-enlarging agents to prepare macroporous alumina, the dosage of the used physical pore-enlarging agent is more than 10wt% of alumina, the method is to add the physical pore-enlarging agent into the alumina precursor, the dosage of the pore-enlarging agent is large, the formed macropores are distributed and dispersed, the macropore pore channel is in an ink bottle shape, the pore opening is small, the pore channel can not form a continuous through-pore channel, and the mass transfer effect on macromolecules is poor.
CN 201010221297.6 discloses a preparation method of integral macroporous alumina. The method comprises the following steps: uniformly mixing an aluminum source, polyethylene glycol and at least one selected from low-carbon alcohol and water, adding alkylene oxide into the mixture, aging, soaking, drying and roasting to obtain the integral macroporous alumina with the pore diameter of 0.05-10 microns (50-10000 nm). The method mainly controls the formation of macropores and the pore diameter thereof by taking the content of polyethylene glycol as a main component, and although macropores with the size of 50nm-10000nm can be obtained, the method has the following defects: (1) Macropores with the diameter of more than 1 mu m can be generated more easily, macropores with the diameter of less than 1 mu m can be controlled more easily, and macropores with the diameter of more than 1 mu m are obtained in the practical preparation of the embodiment; (2) The obtained macro-pores have isolated appearance and poor spatial continuity, and are not beneficial to mass transfer of macromolecules; (3) The resulting material forms amorphous, macroporous alumina at relatively low firing temperatures (550-650 c), which is detrimental to catalytic applications.
Modern chemical engineering, 2011, 31 (3): 46-48+50 'preparation and characterization of three-dimensional ordered macroporous alumina with mesoporous pore walls', the three-dimensional ordered macroporous alumina is prepared by polystyrene microspheres, the pore walls are thin, and the mechanical strength is extremely weak.
The above techniques mainly relate to the role of the alumina channels, but do not consider the effect of the modification of the material and its surface properties on the catalysis. The surface of the alumina has acidity, but the traditional alumina only has L acid sites, and the surface of the alumina generates B acid sites on the basis of keeping L acid by adopting a proper modification method, thereby being beneficial to improving the catalytic performance of the catalytic material.
CN201510213566.7 the present invention provides a method for preparing silicon modified alumina, and a product and an application thereof. Reacting alumina with tetraethoxysilane in an alkaline environment to obtain the silicon modified alumina material. However, in an alkaline environment, tetraethoxysilane is easy to hydrolyze and precipitate, is difficult to uniformly act with alumina, and cannot form homogeneous doping. CN201611126412.5 first peptizes an alumina precursor into a sol, then adds silica sol, and after mixing and dissolution, carries out subsequent treatment on the silica-modified alumina. Because the properties of the aluminum sol and the silica sol are completely different, the aluminum sol and the silica sol are easy to be coagulated when being mixed and dissolved, a homogeneous system is difficult to generate, and the uniformly doped silicon modified alumina is difficult to form.
Disclosure of Invention
Aiming at the defects of the prior art, the invention provides silicon modified macroporous alumina and a preparation method thereof. The macropores of the macroporous alumina are three-dimensionally communicated, the material has high mechanical strength, can meet the strength requirement of the existing heterogeneous catalytic reaction, and can be used as a good carrier of a catalyst.
The silicon modified macroporous alumina has the following properties: the macroporous alumina is gamma crystalline state, the total porosity is 60-85%, the pore diameter of the macropore is 100-1000nm, and the proportion of macropores in the total porosity is 40-75%, preferably 50-70%; the macropores are uniformly distributed and are communicated in a three-dimensional way; the ratio of the wall thickness of the large hole to the aperture size is 0.7-3, preferably 1-2; the lateral pressure crushing strength is 8-25N/mm, preferably 10-20N/mm. According to the silicon modified macroporous alumina, silicon elements are uniformly distributed in an alumina bulk phase, and the silicon content is 0.5-15 wt%, preferably 1-10 wt%; the molar ratio of L acid to B acid is 0.5-12, preferably 1.0-8.0.
The BET specific surface area of the silicon modified macroporous alumina is 200-480m 2 Per g, pore volume of 0.40-1.80cm 3 /g。
The preparation method of the silicon modified macroporous alumina comprises the following steps:
(1) Slowly adding a peptizing agent into the boehmite suspension, and then heating and aging for a certain time to obtain clear aluminum sol;
(2) Uniformly mixing the aluminum sol, inorganic aluminum salt, silicon alkoxide, polyethylene glycol and lower alcohol aqueous solution of amide compounds, then adding propylene oxide and/or pyridine, and uniformly mixing to obtain gel;
(3) And (3) aging the gel obtained in the step (2) to obtain an aged product, then soaking the aged product in a low-carbon alcohol aqueous solution, performing solid-liquid separation, and drying and roasting a solid phase to obtain the silicon-modified macroporous alumina.
In the method of the present invention, the solid content of the boehmite suspension described in the step (1) is 1wt% to 15wt%, and the boehmite suspension is generally obtained by uniformly dispersing boehmite powder in water.
In the method, the step (1) is carried out under the condition of stirring, and the aging is carried out in a heating reflux mode, wherein the reflux temperature is 70-95 ℃, and the reflux time is 1-12 hours.
In the method, the peptizing agent in the step (1) is a commonly used peptizing agent in the preparation process of the aluminum sol, and can be one or more of hydrochloric acid, nitric acid, sulfuric acid, formic acid or acetic acid. The peptizing agent in the step (1) is H + The molar ratio of the boehmite powder to the boehmite powder in terms of Al is 0.05-1.
In the method, the weight of the material system in the step (2) is taken as the reference, the adding amount of the lower alcohol aqueous solution is 10-80 wt%, the adding amount of the inorganic aluminum salt is 5-30 wt%, and the silicon alkoxide is addedThe adding amount is 1 to 10 weight percent, the adding amount of the aluminum sol is 1 to 10 weight percent, and the adding amount of the polyethylene glycol is 0.1 to 3.0 weight percent, and the optimized adding amount is 0.2 to 2.0 weight percent. Wherein the mass ratio of water to the low-carbon alcohol in the low-carbon alcohol aqueous solution is 1.0-1.5; the content of the amide compound is 0.1-5.0 wt%; propylene oxide and/or pyridine with Al 3+ (not including Al in the alumina sol) in a molar ratio of 1.5 to 9.5, preferably 3.0 to 7.5. The propylene oxide and pyridine may be mixed in any proportion.
In the method of the present invention, the viscosity average molecular weight of the polyethylene glycol is 10000 to 3000000, preferably 100000 to 2000000.
In the method of the present invention, the order of adding the materials in step (2) is not particularly limited, wherein the lower alcohol and water in the lower alcohol aqueous solution may be added separately, preferably: water, low carbon alcohol, inorganic aluminum salt, silicon alkoxide, polyethylene glycol, alumina sol and amide compounds are added in sequence. Generally, before the latter material is added, the material added previously needs to be mixed uniformly.
In the method of the present invention, the inorganic aluminum salt in step (2) is one or more of aluminum nitrate, aluminum chloride or aluminum sulfate.
In the method of the invention, the silicon alkoxide in the step (2) is methyl orthosilicate, ethyl orthosilicate, propyl orthosilicate or a mixture of methyl orthosilicate, ethyl orthosilicate and propyl orthosilicate in any proportion.
In the process of the present invention, the lower alcohol is generally C 5 The alcohol is preferably one or more of methanol, ethanol, n-propanol and isopropanol, and preferably ethanol and/or propanol.
In the method of the present invention, the amide compound in step (2) may be one or more of formamide, acetamide, N-dimethylformamide, N-methylacetamide, benzamide, or 2-phenylacetamide.
In the method of the invention, the aging conditions in the step (3) are as follows: aging at 20-80 deg.C for 12-120 hr.
In the method, the soaking conditions in the step (3) are as follows: the soaking temperature is 10-80 ℃, and the soaking time is 12-60 hours; the mass concentration of the low-carbon alcohol aqueous solution used for soaking is not less than 50wt%.
In the method, the drying in the step (3) is ordinary normal pressure drying, the drying temperature is not more than 60 ℃, and preferably 20-40 ℃, and the drying is carried out until the product does not obviously lose weight any more. The roasting is carried out at 400-700 ℃ for 1-24 hours, preferably 500-650 ℃ for 2-12 hours.
The invention can induce the evolution of the aluminum oxide precursor from the amorphous precursor to the crystalline precursor by introducing the alumina sol seed crystal into the preparation system, thereby being easily converted into the gamma crystalline state at lower roasting temperature and obviously saving energy consumption. The introduction of the alumina sol crystal seed ensures that the wall of the macroporous hole generates a large amount of particles, and the wall of the macroporous hole is changed from a smooth compact state into a particle aggregate, which is beneficial to generating particle pores and improving the specific surface area of the material, thereby enlarging the contact area of the reaction material and the catalyst to improve the reaction activity. The addition of the amide compound can inhibit the generation of ultra-large pores, so that the large pores are more uniformly concentrated, and the stress effect caused by nonuniform pore sizes is favorably eliminated. The precursor of silicon adopted in the invention is silicon alkoxide, which has good miscibility with other components in a reaction system containing a large amount of lower alcohol, and the pH of the system is acidic, so that homogeneous gel can be formed, and the precursor can be uniformly doped in the final alumina bulk phase.
The macroporous alumina can be used as a carrier of a heterogeneous catalyst and applied to various macromolecular catalytic reactions, such as hydrogenation reaction, alkylation reaction, pollutant adsorption and degradation in the water treatment process and the like.
Drawings
FIG. 1 is a scanning electron microscope image of the macroporous alumina prepared in example 1.
Figure 2 is an XRD pattern of the macroporous alumina prepared in example 1.
FIG. 3 is a MAPPING profile of the bulk local silicon element of the macroporous alumina prepared in example 1.
Detailed Description
The present invention will be described in further detail with reference to examples. In the present invention, the large pore and the penetration thereof are observed by a scanning electron microscope. The crystalline state was tested by XRD. The porosity and the average pore diameter of the macroporous alumina are characterized and tested by a mercury intrusion method. The mechanical strength of the carrier was expressed as lateral pressure strength, which was measured using a DL2 type strength meter produced by the university linkage penghy scientific and technological development ltd. The boehmite powder is a product sold in the market or manufactured by self. The XRF method measurement of the silicon content material is carried out, the silicon bulk phase dispersion uniformity is characterized by adopting an EDS element distribution MAPPING method of an electronic probe, 10 positions of a sample are randomly selected in the test, a silicon element MAPPING graph is made, the maximum distance between bright spots representing silicon elements in the graph is not more than 30nm, and the silicon elements are considered to be uniformly distributed in the area. The acidity measurement was carried out by IR method.
Example 1
Preparing aluminum sol: mixing boehmite powder and distilled water to form a suspension (solid content is 3 wt%), dropwise adding hydrochloric acid under the condition of continuous stirring to meet the acid/aluminum molar ratio of 0.07, and heating to 85 ℃ after the dropwise adding, and refluxing for 5 hours to form clear aluminum sol.
Uniformly mixing water, absolute ethyl alcohol, aluminum chloride, ethyl orthosilicate, polyethylene glycol, alumina sol and formamide at room temperature (about 25 ℃), and then adding pyridine, wherein the weight percentages of the components of the mixture are respectively: 22% of water, 20% of ethanol, 20% of aluminum chloride, 4% of ethyl orthosilicate, 0.5% of polyethylene glycol (viscosity average molecular weight is 100 ten thousand), 2% of alumina sol, 1.5% of formamide and 30% of pyridine. After mixing uniformly, the gel obtained is aged for 48 hours at 40 ℃, then the aged mixture is soaked for 48 hours by 70wt% of ethanol water solution, after soaking is finished and liquid phase is removed, and the gel is dried at 40 ℃ until the product is not reduced obviously any more. Then calcined at 550 ℃ for 3 hours and then cooled to room temperature to obtain the macroporous alumina. XRD test shows that the crystal has excellent gamma crystalline state, total porosity of 84%, homogeneous macroporous distribution, three-dimensional connectivity, macroporous diameter of 470nm, macroporous porosity of 66%, and large pore sizeThe inch ratio was 0.9, the lateral pressure strength was 17N/mm, and the BET specific surface area was 374m 2 Per g, pore volume of 0.68cm 3 (iv) g. The silicon content was 13.8wt%, and the electron probe EDS-MAPPING showed that the silicon element was uniformly distributed in the alumina phase. The molar ratio of L acid/B acid of the material was 1.5.
Example 2
The preparation of the aluminum sol was the same as in example 1.
Uniformly mixing water, absolute ethyl alcohol, aluminum chloride, tetraethoxysilane, polyethylene glycol, alumina sol and acetamide at room temperature (about 25 ℃), and then adding propylene oxide, wherein the mixture comprises the following components in parts by weight: 22% of water, 20% of ethanol, 20% of aluminum chloride, 5% of ethyl orthosilicate, 1% of polyethylene glycol (with the viscosity average molecular weight of 150 ten thousand), 1% of alumina sol, 1.0% of acetamide and 30% of propylene oxide. After uniform mixing, the gel obtained is aged for 72 hours at 40 ℃, then the aged mixture is soaked for 72 hours by ethanol, and after the soaking is finished and the liquid phase is removed, the gel is dried at 40 ℃ until the product does not lose weight obviously any more. Then roasting at 450 ℃ for 5 hours, and then cooling to room temperature to obtain the macroporous alumina. XRD test shows that the material has excellent gamma crystalline state, total porosity of 84%, homogeneous macroporous distribution, three-dimensional connectivity, macroporous size of 240nm, macroporous porosity of 74%, wall thickness and size ratio of 1.7, side pressure strength of 15N/mm, BET specific surface area of 401m 2 Per g, pore volume of 0.74cm 3 (ii) in terms of/g. The silicon content was 12.1wt%, and the electron probe EDS-MAPPING showed that the silicon element was uniformly distributed in the alumina phase. The molar ratio of L acid/B acid of the material was 1.8.
Example 3
Preparing aluminum sol: mixing boehmite powder and distilled water to form a suspension (solid content is 1.5 wt%), dropwise adding acetic acid under the condition of continuous stirring to meet the acid/aluminum molar ratio of 0.15, and heating to 90 ℃ after the dropwise addition, and refluxing for 8 hours to form a clear sol.
Uniformly mixing water, absolute ethyl alcohol, aluminum chloride, propyl orthosilicate, polyethylene glycol, alumina sol and N, N-dimethylformamide at room temperature (about 25 ℃), and then adding pyridine, wherein the weight percentages of the components of the mixture are respectively as follows: 21% of water, B20% of alcohol, 22% of aluminum chloride, 3% of propyl orthosilicate, 1% of polyethylene glycol (viscosity average molecular weight is 100 ten thousand), 3% of alumina sol, 2% of N, N-dimethylformamide and 28% of pyridine. After uniform mixing, the gel obtained is aged for 48 hours at 40 ℃, then the aged mixture is soaked for 72 hours by 90wt% ethanol water solution, and after the soaking is finished and the liquid phase is removed, the gel is dried at 40 ℃ until the product is not obviously reduced. Then roasting at 700 ℃ for 2.5 hours, and then cooling to room temperature to obtain the macroporous alumina. XRD test shows that the material has excellent gamma crystalline state, total porosity of 74%, homogeneous macroporous distribution, three-dimensional penetration, 184nm macroporous diameter, 86% macroporous porosity, wall thickness and size ratio of 1.9, side pressure strength of 22N/mm, BET specific surface area of 451m 2 Per g, pore volume 1.01cm 3 (iv) g. The silicon content was 6wt%, and the electron probe EDS-MAPPING showed that the silicon element was uniformly distributed on the alumina phase. The molar ratio of L acid/B acid of the material was 3.1.
Comparative example 1
This example is compared with example 1. Except that the weight of the alumina sol (seed) was not added and was replaced by equal amounts of ethanol and water.
Uniformly mixing water, absolute ethyl alcohol, aluminum chloride, polyethylene glycol and formamide at room temperature (about 25 ℃), and then adding propylene oxide, wherein the mixture comprises the following components in parts by weight: 21% of water, 21% of ethanol, 23% of aluminum chloride, 0.5% of polyethylene glycol (viscosity average molecular weight is 100 ten thousand), 2% of alumina sol, 2.0% of formamide and 30.5% of pyridine. After uniform mixing, the obtained gel is aged for 48 hours at 40 ℃, then the aged mixture is soaked for 48 hours by using a mixed solution of ethanol and water, and after the soaking is finished and a liquid phase is removed, the gel is dried at 40 ℃ until the product is not obviously reduced. Then calcined at 450 ℃ for 5 hours and then cooled to room temperature to obtain the macroporous alumina. The product is amorphous by XRD test.
Comparative example 2
This example is compared with example 1. Except that no silicon source is introduced, and the weight of the silicon source is replaced by equal amount of ethanol and water. The resulting sample was tested by IR method and contained no B acid.
Comparative example 3
Alumina aerogels were prepared according to the Proc. Physico-chemical report, 2005, 21 (02): 221-224, and the products obtained had no significant macropores and a lateral pressure strength of 0.2N/mm.
Comparative example 4
In "modern chemical industry, 2011, 31 (3): 46-48+ 50' of three-dimensional ordered macroporous alumina, the pore wall is thin, the ratio of the pore wall to the pore diameter is about 0.1, and the lateral pressure strength is 1N/mm.
Comparative example 5
Silicon modified alumina was prepared in the method of CN 201510213566.7. The obtained material does not contain three-dimensionally through macropores, and the distribution of silicon on the alumina phase is very uneven.