Gamma-alumina octahedral self-assembly particle material and preparation method thereof
Technical Field
The invention belongs to the field of inorganic material preparation, and particularly relates to a gamma-alumina octahedral self-assembled particle material and a preparation method thereof.
Background
The gamma-alumina is used as a good catalytic carrier material, and the surface property of the gamma-alumina has stronger correlation with the exposed crystal face of the crystal. For gamma-alumina, the results of prior studies indicate that the (110) crystal plane is thermodynamically most stable and is usually preferentially exposed. And other crystal faces of the gamma-alumina, such as the (111) face and the (100) face, have different atomic arrangement and interface properties from the (110) crystal face, so that the crystal face of the alumina can be regulated and controlled by a series of measures to obtain special physicochemical properties. However, the predominance of the gamma-alumina (110) crystal plane is difficult to change, depending on the crystal growth habit.
[ fine petrochemical, 2014, 31 (5): 38-43. It was found that the γ -alumina crystal mainly exposed the (110) plane family and the (111) plane family, in which the (110) plane family surface proportion was about 70.4% and the (111) plane family surface proportion was about 29.6%.
[ contemporary chemical engineering, 2015, 44 (5): 951-954 ] nanometer gamma-alumina single crystal particles containing high-index crystal planes such as (110), (752) and (541) are prepared. However, the crystal face of the high-index alumina has higher activity and is difficult to exist stably in thermodynamics.
[ petroleum refining and chemical engineering, 2013, 44 (9): 47-50 the crystal face distribution proportion of the alumina single crystal particles can be properly regulated and controlled by adding sodium nitrate into a hydrothermal system, but the gamma-alumina still takes the (110) crystal face as the main crystal face.
The self-assembly method is another means to adjust the crystal face distribution ratio of alumina. CN200910011627.6, CN200910206229.X and CN200910011626.1 adopt a molten salt super solubilization micelle self-assembly method to obtain more regular rod-shaped alumina secondary particles. [ Chinese science, 2009, 39 (5): 420-431 and [ journal of inorganic chemistry, 2015, 31 (8): 1539-1547 ] illustrate the mechanism of alumina supersolubilization micelle self-assembly. The self-assembly method can have important influence on the physical and chemical properties of the alumina material such as the pore structure, the aggregation state and the like, but the effect of regulating and controlling the crystal plane distribution is still not obvious.
Disclosure of Invention
Aiming at the defects of the prior art, the invention provides a gamma-alumina octahedron self-assembly particle material and a preparation method thereof.
The gamma-alumina octahedral self-assembled particle material has a pseudo single crystal structure and a prismatic appearance, the upper hexagonal bottom surface and the lower hexagonal bottom surface are (110) crystal planes, the rectangular side surfaces of the prism are (111) crystal planes and (100) crystal planes respectively, and based on the total exposed area of the crystal planes of the alumina material, the distribution proportion of the (110) crystal planes is 16-35%, the distribution proportion of the (111) crystal planes is 35-75%, and the distribution proportion of the (100) crystal planes is 5-30%. The alumina particles have a length of 200-10000nm, preferably 2000-6000nm, along the [110] crystal axis.
The pseudo single crystal structure of the gamma-alumina octahedral self-assembled particle material is a self-assembled body which has the appearance characteristic of single crystal and is actually formed by orderly arranging superfine nanometer crystal grains.
The preparation method of the gamma-alumina octahedral self-assembled particle material comprises the following steps:
(1) Roasting the alumina precursor powder, adding a certain amount of inorganic sodium salt and/or inorganic potassium salt, grinding the powder by using a ball mill, washing the ground powder with water to remove salt, drying, preparing a suspension with a certain concentration, adding a certain amount of organic acid, and uniformly mixing by using a shearing stirrer;
(2) Adding a certain amount of organic amine and low-carbon alcohol into the material obtained in the step (1) and uniformly stirring;
(3) And (3) carrying out closed hydrothermal treatment on the material obtained in the step (2), and after the treatment is finished, carrying out solid-liquid separation, drying and roasting to obtain a product.
In the method of the present invention, the alumina precursor in step (1) refers to pseudo-boehmite and pseudo-boehmite powder modified by various elements such as silicon, boron, titanium, magnesium, lanthanum, etc.
In the method of the invention, the roasting temperature in the step (1) is 350-650 ℃, preferably 450-550 ℃, and the roasting time is 1-48 hours, preferably 2-24 hours.
In the method, the material in the step (1) is subjected to ball milling treatment to obtain powder with the granularity of more than 2000 meshes, and the powder granularity is preferably 5000-20000 meshes.
In the method, the inorganic sodium salt in the step (1) is one or more of sodium nitrate, sodium chloride or sodium sulfate, and the inorganic potassium salt in the step (1) is one or more of potassium nitrate, potassium chloride or potassium sulfate. The dosage of the inorganic sodium salt and/or the inorganic potassium salt accounts for 0.1 to 10 percent of the mass of the alumina precursor powder. The inorganic sodium salt and the inorganic potassium salt may be mixed in an arbitrary ratio.
In the method of the present invention, the concentration of the suspension in the step (1) is 1 to 200g/L, preferably 20 to 150g/L.
In the method of the present invention, the organic acid in step (1) is one or more of formic acid, acetic acid or citric acid, and the amount of the organic acid is 0.1% to 8% of the mass of the alumina precursor powder, preferably 0.5% to 5%.
In the method, the shearing and stirring conditions in the step (1) are as follows: the stirring speed is 1000-20000rpm, the stirring time is 1-60 minutes, preferably 2000-10000rpm, the stirring time is 3-10 minutes.
In the method, the organic amine in the step (2) is one or more of ethanolamine, diethanolamine, triethanolamine, aniline, diphenylamine, benzidine or o-phenylenediamine. The concentration of the organic amine in the material system is 1-200g/L, preferably 5-50g/L.
In the method of the present invention, the lower alcohol in step (2) is one or more of methanol, ethanol, propanol and propylene glycol, preferably methanol and/or ethanol. The concentration of the lower alcohol in the material system is 5-200g/L, preferably 10-100g/L.
In the method, the closed hydrothermal conditions in the step (3) are as follows: hydrothermal treatment at 80-300 deg.C for 0.5-48 hr, preferably 100-200 deg.C for 5-24 hr.
In the method of the present invention, the drying temperature in the step (3) is not more than 200 ℃, preferably not more than 120 ℃, and the drying degree is that the material reaches a constant weight at the drying temperature.
In the method, the roasting conditions in the step (3) are as follows: roasting at 450-750 deg.c for 1-24 hr, preferably at 500-650 deg.c for 3-12 hr.
The gamma-alumina octahedron self-assembled particle has unique crystal face distribution characteristic, simple preparation method and good application prospect in the field of distillate oil hydrogenation catalysis.
Drawings
FIG. 1 is a scanning electron micrograph of the gamma-alumina octahedral self-assembled particulate material prepared in example 1.
FIG. 2 is an electron diffraction spectrum in the [110] direction of the gamma-alumina octahedral self-assembled particulate material prepared in example 1.
Fig. 3 is an XRD spectrum of the gamma-alumina octahedral self-assembled particulate material prepared in example 1.
Detailed Description
The process of the present invention is described in detail by examples below. The particle size of the gamma-alumina material was measured according to scanning electron microscope images. Randomly measuring 20 particles, and taking the average axial length value as the height value of the particles; the crystal form is characterized by X-ray diffraction; collecting an electron diffraction spectrum through a transmission electron microscope, and processing a sample through a slicing means before carrying out electron diffraction analysis on a large-particle sample.
Example 1
15g of pseudo-boehmite powder is roasted for 10 hours at 500 ℃, 1 g of sodium chloride is added and mixed evenly, the mixture is ground into micro powder by a ball mill, particles with about 5000 meshes are sieved, the sodium chloride is removed by washing with distilled water, and then 30g/L of aqueous suspension is prepared. Adding acetic acid into the suspension, wherein the dosage of the acetic acid is 0.8 percent of the mass of the calcined powder, and shearing and stirring the mixture for 10 minutes at 5000 rpm. Adding aniline and ethanol into the system, wherein the final mass percent concentration of the aniline and the ethanol is 15g/L and 30g/L respectively, uniformly stirring, sealing the system, and heating to 200 ℃ for hydrothermal treatment for 3 hours. And roasting the product dried at the temperature of 120 ℃ at the temperature of 550 ℃ for 5 hours to obtain the product. The observation of a scanning electron microscope shows that the appearance of the product is approximately regular hexagonal prism. The XRD result of the product shows that the phase state is gamma phase. According to the shape and the included angle relationship, the orientation along the height direction of the column is [110], the bottom surface is a (110) crystal plane (in a hexagon shape), and the side surfaces of the hexagonal prism are respectively a (100) plane and a (111) plane. Wherein, 2 (110) surfaces, 2 (100) and 4 (111) surfaces are provided. The length along [110] direction was 4190nm, the average size of (100) crystal planes was 720nm. Multidot.4190nm, and the average size of (111) crystal planes was 850. Multidot.4190nm. It is found by calculation that the proportion of (110) plane is 17%, the proportion of (111) plane is 61%, and the proportion of (100) plane is 22%.
Example 2
15g of pseudo-boehmite powder is roasted for 10 hours at 550 ℃, then 0.5 g of sodium nitrate is added and mixed evenly, the mixture is ground into micro powder by a ball mill, particles about 8000 meshes are sieved, distilled water is used for washing to remove the sodium nitrate, and then 35g/L of water suspension is prepared. And adding formic acid into the suspension, wherein the amount of the formic acid is 2.5% of the mass of the calcined powder. The material was shear stirred at 5000rpm for 30 minutes. Adding ethanolamine and propanol into the system, wherein the mass percentage concentration of the ethanolamine and the propanol is 15g/L and 30g/L respectively, uniformly stirring, sealing the system, and heating to 200 ℃ for hydrothermal treatment for 12 hours. And roasting the product dried at the temperature of 120 ℃ for 4 hours at the temperature of 550 ℃ to obtain the product. The observation of a scanning electron microscope shows that the appearance of the product is approximately regular hexagonal prism. The XRD result of the product shows that the phase state is gamma phase. According to the relationship of the shape and the included angle, the orientation is [110] along the height direction of the column, the bottom surface is a (110) crystal face (in a hexagon shape), and the side surfaces of the hexagonal prism are respectively a (100) plane and a (111) plane. Wherein, 2 (110) surfaces, 2 (100) surfaces and 4 (111) surfaces are provided. The length along the (110) direction was 1580nm, the (100) plane average size was 255nm + 1580nm, and the (111) plane average size was 360 + 1580nm. The ratio of (110) planes was found to be 20%, the ratio of (111) planes was found to be 66%, and the ratio of (100) planes was found to be 14%.
Example 3
15g of pseudo-boehmite powder is roasted for 7 hours at 650 ℃, 1 g of potassium nitrate is added and mixed evenly, the mixture is ground into micro powder by a ball mill, particles with about 20000 meshes are sieved, the potassium nitrate is removed by washing with distilled water, and then 30g/L of aqueous suspension is prepared. And adding part of citric acid into the suspension, wherein the dosage of the citric acid is 3.5 percent of the mass of the calcined powder. The material was shear stirred at 10000rpm for 15 minutes. Adding aniline and ethanol into the system, wherein the mass percentage concentration of the aniline and the ethanol is 60g/L and 80g/L respectively, uniformly stirring, sealing the system, and heating to 180 ℃ for hydrothermal treatment for 12 hours. And roasting the product dried at the temperature of 120 ℃ for 4 hours at the temperature of 650 ℃ to obtain the product. The observation of a scanning electron microscope shows that the appearance of the product is approximately regular hexagonal prism. The XRD result of the product shows that the phase state is gamma phase. According to the relation of the shape and the included angle, the orientation is [110] along the column height direction, the bottom surface is a (110) crystal plane (in a hexagon), and according to the relation of the included angle, the side surfaces of the hexagonal prism are respectively a (100) plane and a (111) plane. Wherein, 2 (110) surfaces, 2 (100) surfaces and 4 (111) surfaces are provided. The length along [110] direction is 1050nm, the average size of (100) surface is 300nm 1050nm, and the average size of (111) surface is 285 nm 1050nm. It is found by calculation that the proportion of (110) plane is 35%, the proportion of (111) plane is 55%, and the proportion of (100) plane is 10%.
Comparative example 1
Reference [ petroleum refining and chemical, 2013, 44 (9): 47-50 ] by adding sodium nitrate to adjust the crystal plane distribution of the alumina single crystal grains. The test conditions were divided into two groups, group 1 without sodium nitrate and group 2 with sodium nitrate. The product is tested to contain (110), (111) and (100) low index crystal faces. The first set of three crystal planes is distributed: (110) % is 72.3%, (111)% is 20.5%, (100)% is 7.2%; the second set of three crystal planes are: (110) The number of facets was 64.2%, 26.4% for (111) facet, and 9.4% for (100) facet, and the distribution of (110) facet was more than 50% regardless of the addition of sodium nitrate.