Background
Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) have become an important source of atmospheric pollution, and the control and remediation of VOCs has become one of the key points in environmental protection. Along with the distribution of the emission standards of pollutants for the petroleum refining industry (GB 31570-2015) and the emission standards of pollutants for the petrochemical industry (GB 31571-2015), and the distribution of the emission charge trial solution for volatile organic pollutants, the requirement of waste gas treatment in the petrochemical industry is more and more strict. Therefore, the research and development of economic and efficient prevention and treatment technologies and the elimination of the atmospheric environmental pollution of VOCs are urgent.
At present, VOCs treatment technologies mainly comprise absorption, adsorption, condensation, combustion, photocatalytic oxidation, biodegradation, low-temperature plasma treatment technologies and the like. Compared with other treatment technologies, the adsorption method has the advantages of good purification effect, low energy consumption and low operating cost, and is an ideal VOCs treatment technology. Common adsorbents include activated carbon, biomass materials, silica, and the like. Activated carbon adsorption is a typical adsorption method, but the VOCs are adsorbed by using the activated carbon only, so that physical adsorption is mainly used, the adsorption capacity is small, and the adsorption effect needs to be improved. The activated carbon is subjected to chemical modification and other treatments, so that chemical adsorption is generated in the process of adsorbing organic substances, the adsorption performance of the adsorbent can be effectively improved, and the adsorption capacity is increased.
Some technologies for treating organic waste gas by activated carbon adsorption have been developed, but none of the technologies can break through the dynamic adsorption and desorption laws of organic matters on the surface of activated carbon, which are disclosed in empirical formulas of frandrichs and langmuir adsorption, i.e. the gas phase partial pressure of pollutants is lower than a certain value and then can not be adsorbed on the activated carbon adsorbent, so that the activated carbon adsorption is used for treating high-concentration organic waste gas, and the requirement that the total non-methane hydrocarbon content is lower than 120mg/m specified in GB31571-2015 is met3The emission limit of (2) requires the configuration of a multi-stage activated carbon adsorption tower, and the investment and operation cost will increase exponentially. In addition, the difference of adsorption capacities of different components in the same waste gas is large in the active carbon adsorption, and the research and development of adsorbents are needed according to different pollutants.
CN103623774A discloses a preparation method of modified activated carbon for fuel oil desulfurization, which is to add distilled water into a reactor, add sodium hydroxide solution to adjust the pH value to 6.8-14.3, then add activated carbon, and introduce mixed gas of ozone and air while stirring to carry out surface oxidation reaction on the activated carbon; and after the reaction is finished, taking out the activated carbon, washing the activated carbon with distilled water, drying the washed activated carbon, and cooling the dried activated carbon to room temperature to prepare the modified activated carbon for adsorbing the organic thiophene sulfide in the fuel oil. The invention utilizes ozone to modify the active carbon in liquid phase, can obviously increase the acidic oxygen-containing groups on the surface of the active carbon, and improves the adsorption capacity of the organic thiophene sulfide. However, the modified activated carbon is developed for adsorbing organic thiophene sulfide in fuel oil, and has poor adsorption selectivity for benzene series.
CN103041788A discloses an adsorbent for removing thiophene sulfides in gasoline, wherein the adsorbent is a spherical activated carbon material loaded with copper elements; the content of the copper element is 0.5-5% of the total weight of the adsorbent, and the copper element is in a simple substance state. The preparation method comprises the following steps: (a) ion exchanging the granular raw material with a soluble copper salt solution; (b) drying the copper-loaded particulate feedstock of step (a); (c) calcining the dried particles of step (b); (d) activating the calcined particles of step (c) with an activating agent. The adsorbent uses weak acidic phenolic cation exchange resin as a precursor, copper is loaded on the precursor through ion exchange, and then carbonization and CO are carried out2And in the activation process, the adsorbent with good sphericity and high mechanical strength is obtained. The adsorbent has higher adsorption capacity and adsorption selectivity to thiophene sulfides, and the preparation raw materials are easy to obtain, and the preparation method is simple. However, the adsorbent has good adsorption effect and adsorption selectivity for thiophene sulfides in the exhaust gas, and the adsorption effect on benzene series substances is not good.
Disclosure of Invention
Aiming at the defects of the prior art, the invention provides a benzene series adsorbent and a preparation method thereof. The method takes petroleum coke as a raw material, synthesizes the activated carbon material through in-situ modification, and then carries out surface modification, the preparation method is simple, and the prepared modified activated carbon is used for benzene series adsorption and has higher adsorption selectivity and adsorption capacity.
The invention provides a preparation method of a benzene series adsorbent, which comprises the following steps: (1) drying petroleum coke, adding strong base and a divalent copper compound, and fully mixing; (2) carrying out high-temperature treatment on the mixture under the inert atmosphere condition; (3) cooling the sample, washing and drying to obtain an active carbon intermediate product; (4) carrying out surface oxidation modification on the active carbon intermediate product; (5) and drying the modified sample, and treating at low temperature under an inert atmosphere.
In the invention, the strong base in the step (1) is potassium hydroxide and the like. The mass ratio of the strong base to the petroleum coke is 0.1: 1-10: 1, and preferably 1: 1-6: 1.
In the present invention, the divalent copper compound in the step (1) is at least one of copper hydroxide, basic copper carbonate, and the like, and is preferably copper hydroxide. The mass ratio of the petroleum coke to the divalent copper compound is 50: 1-3: 1, preferably 30: 1-5: 1.
In the invention, the inert atmosphere in the step (2) is one of nitrogen, helium, argon and the like. The temperature of the high-temperature treatment is 600-1000 ℃, preferably 700-900 ℃, and the treatment time is 0.05-3 h, preferably 0.16-1 h. Further, the high-temperature treatment is carried out in the presence of microwaves, wherein the frequency of the microwaves is 2450MHz, and the power is 0.5-1.0 kw.
In the invention, the cooling in the step (3) is carried out under the protection of nitrogen. Grinding the sample obtained in the step (3) into powder before washing, adopting an acid solution with the pH value not more than 7, wherein the acid solution is one or more of hydrochloric acid, sulfuric acid, nitric acid, acetic acid and the like, and the concentration is 5-25 wt%, uniformly mixing, and then carrying out solid-liquid separation until the pH value of the filtrate is neutral.
In the invention, the drying in the step (3) is carried out under the vacuum condition, and the vacuum degree is-500-0 kPa.
In the invention, the modifier used for the surface oxidation modification in the step (4) is at least one of nitric acid solution, hydrogen peroxide solution and the like, preferably nitric acid solution, and the concentration of the nitric acid solution is 0.01-16 mol/L, preferably 0.2-10 mol/L. The mass ratio of the modifier to the intermediate product of the activated carbon is 200: 1-0.1: 1, preferably 20: 1-1: 1. Specifically, one of an isometric impregnation method, a supersaturation impregnation method and the like can be adopted, the supersaturation impregnation method is preferred, and the modification time is 0.5-72 hours, preferably 6-24 hours.
In the invention, the drying temperature in the steps (1), (3) and (5) is 60-150 ℃, preferably 80-120 ℃, and the drying time is 2-10 hours, preferably 4-8 hours.
In the invention, the inert atmosphere in the step (5) is one of nitrogen, helium, argon and the like. The low-temperature treatment temperature is 300-600 ℃, preferably 400-500 ℃, and the treatment time is 0.5-24 hours, preferably 3-12 hours.
The benzene series adsorbent is prepared by the method. The specific surface area of the prepared adsorbent is 1700-3600 m2A pore volume of 0.85-1.35 cm/g3The iodine adsorption value is 1500-3950 mg/g, and the Cu loading is 1.5-7.8 wt.%.
Compared with the prior art, the method has the following advantages:
(1) the invention introduces Cu in the petroleum coke activation treatment process2+In-situ synthesizing Cu-containing high-specific-surface-area activated carbon; then, surface oxidation is carried out on the surface of the material, and functional groups such as hydroxyl, carboxyl, phenolic hydroxyl and the like are introduced; under the conditions of proper temperature and inert atmosphere, Cu2+Under the action of hydroxyl, carboxyl and phenolic hydroxyl functional groups, spontaneous reduction reaction is carried out to generate the Cu with a valence state+,Cu+The empty S orbit is easier to form sigma bonds with pi electrons of benzene series in the VOCs, and pi complexation occurs, so that the selectivity of the empty S orbit on the benzene series in the VOCs is improved.
(2) The adsorbent prepared by the invention has higher adsorption selectivity and adsorption capacity for benzene series in VOCs.
Detailed Description
The method and effects of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to examples. The embodiments are implemented on the premise of the technical scheme of the invention, and detailed implementation modes and specific operation processes are given, but the protection scope of the invention is not limited by the following embodiments. In the present invention, wt.% is a mass fraction.
The experimental procedures in the following examples are, unless otherwise specified, conventional in the art. The experimental materials used in the following examples were purchased from a conventional biochemical reagent store unless otherwise specified.
In the following examples and comparative examples, low temperature N was used for the specific surface area and pore size distribution of the samples2The content of the benzene series is measured by an adsorption method, the content of the benzene series is measured by a GC-FID/DB-WAX capillary column, and the copper load is detected by an ICP instrument.
Example 1
Taking 100g of petroleum coke, drying for 5h at 100 ℃, uniformly mixing with 300g of potassium hydroxide and 10g of copper hydroxide, and treating for 0.4h at 900 ℃ in a nitrogen atmosphere. The sample is cooled under the protection of nitrogen, ground into powder and added into a hydrochloric acid solution with the concentration of 10 weight percent for washing until the pH value of the filtrate is neutral. Then drying for 6h at 150 ℃ to obtain an active carbon intermediate product. Taking 40g of the activated carbon intermediate product, carrying out surface oxidation modification by using 100g of nitric acid solution with the concentration of 4mol/L, adopting supersaturated impregnation modification for 24h, filtering out solids, and drying at 120 ℃ for 4 h. The dried activated carbon was treated at 400 ℃ for 12h under nitrogen atmosphere and the resulting material was designated AC-1.
Example 2
Taking 100g of petroleum coke, drying for 5h at 100 ℃, uniformly mixing with 200g of potassium hydroxide and 4g of copper hydroxide, and treating for 0.3h at 700 ℃ in a nitrogen atmosphere. The sample is cooled under the protection of nitrogen, ground into powder and added into a 10wt% sulfuric acid solution for washing until the pH value of the filtrate is neutral. Then drying for 6h at 150 ℃ to obtain an active carbon intermediate product. Taking 40g of the activated carbon intermediate product, carrying out surface oxidation modification by using 100g of nitric acid solution with the concentration of 8mol/L, adopting supersaturated impregnation modification for 24h, filtering out solids, and drying at 120 ℃ for 4 h. The dried activated carbon was treated at 400 ℃ for 12h under nitrogen atmosphere and the resulting material was designated AC-2.
Example 3
Taking 100g of petroleum coke, drying for 5h at 100 ℃, uniformly mixing with 400g of potassium hydroxide and 20g of copper hydroxide, and treating for 1h at 1000 ℃ in a nitrogen atmosphere. Cooling the sample under the protection of nitrogen, grinding the sample into powder, adding the powder into 20wt% acetic acid solution for washing until the pH value of the filtrate is neutral, and then drying the filtrate at 150 ℃ for 6 hours to obtain an activated carbon intermediate product. Taking 40g of the activated carbon intermediate product, carrying out surface oxidation modification by using 400g of nitric acid solution with the concentration of 15mol/L, adopting supersaturated impregnation modification for 24h, filtering out solids, and drying at 120 ℃ for 4 h. The dried activated carbon was treated at 450 ℃ for 12h under nitrogen atmosphere and the resulting material was designated AC-3.
Example 4
Taking 100g of petroleum coke, drying for 5h at 100 ℃, uniformly mixing with 300g of potassium hydroxide and 20g of basic copper carbonate, and treating for 0.4h at 900 ℃ in a nitrogen atmosphere. And cooling the sample under the protection of nitrogen, grinding the sample into powder, adding the powder into a hydrochloric acid solution with the concentration of 10wt% for washing until the pH value of the filtrate is neutral, and then drying the filtrate at 150 ℃ for 6 hours to obtain an activated carbon intermediate product. Taking 40g of the activated carbon intermediate product, carrying out surface oxidation modification by using 100g of nitric acid solution with the concentration of 4mol/L, adopting supersaturated impregnation modification for 24h, filtering out solids, and drying at 120 ℃ for 4 h. And (3) treating the dried activated carbon at 400 ℃ for 12h under the condition of a nitrogen atmosphere, and marking the obtained material as AC-4.
Example 5
Drying 100g petroleum coke at 100 deg.C for 5 hr, mixing with 300g potassium hydroxide and 13g copper carbonate, and treating at 900 deg.C for 0.4 hr under nitrogen atmosphere.
And cooling the sample under the protection of nitrogen, grinding the sample into powder, adding the powder into a hydrochloric acid solution with the concentration of 10wt% for washing until the pH value of the filtrate is neutral, and then drying the filtrate at 150 ℃ for 6 hours to obtain an activated carbon intermediate product. Taking 40g of the activated carbon intermediate product, carrying out surface oxidation modification by using 100g of nitric acid solution with the concentration of 4mol/L, adopting supersaturated impregnation modification for 24h, filtering out solids, and drying at 120 ℃ for 4 h. And (3) treating the dried activated carbon at 400 ℃ for 12h under the condition of a nitrogen atmosphere, and marking the obtained material as AC-5.
Example 6
Taking 100g of petroleum coke, drying for 5h at 100 ℃, uniformly mixing with 300g of potassium hydroxide and 10g of copper hydroxide, and treating for 0.4h at 900 ℃ in a helium atmosphere. And cooling the sample under the protection of nitrogen, grinding the sample into powder, adding the powder into a hydrochloric acid solution with the concentration of 10wt% for washing until the pH value of the filtrate is neutral, and then drying the filtrate at 150 ℃ for 6 hours to obtain an activated carbon intermediate product. Taking 40g of the activated carbon intermediate product, carrying out surface oxidation modification by using 100g of nitric acid solution with the concentration of 4mol/L, adopting supersaturated impregnation modification for 24h, filtering out solids, and drying at 120 ℃ for 4 h. And (3) treating the dried activated carbon at 400 ℃ for 12h under the helium atmosphere, and marking the obtained material as AC-6.
Example 7
Drying 100g petroleum coke at 100 deg.C for 5 hr, mixing with 300g potassium hydroxide and 10g copper hydroxide, placing in microwave reactor with microwave frequency of 2450MHz and power of 1kw, and activating at 900 deg.C for 0.4 hr under nitrogen atmosphere. Cooling the sample, grinding the sample into powder, adding the powder into a hydrochloric acid solution with the concentration of 10wt% for washing until the pH value of the filtrate is neutral, and then drying the filtrate at 150 ℃ for 6 hours to obtain an activated carbon intermediate product. Taking 40g of the activated carbon intermediate product, carrying out surface oxidation modification by using 100g of nitric acid solution with the concentration of 4mol/L, adopting supersaturated impregnation modification for 24h, filtering out solids, and drying at 120 ℃ for 4 h. And treating the dried activated carbon at 400 ℃ for 12h under the condition of a nitrogen atmosphere, and marking the obtained material as AC-7.
Example 8
Taking 100g of petroleum coke, drying for 5h at 100 ℃, uniformly mixing with 300g of potassium hydroxide and 10g of copper hydroxide, and treating for 0.4h at 900 ℃ in a nitrogen atmosphere. And cooling the sample under the protection of nitrogen, grinding the sample into powder, adding the powder into a hydrochloric acid solution with the concentration of 10wt% for washing until the pH value of the filtrate is neutral, and then drying the filtrate at 150 ℃ for 6 hours to obtain an activated carbon intermediate product. Taking 40g of activated carbon intermediate product, carrying out surface oxidation modification by using 100g of hydrogen peroxide solution with the concentration of 4mol/L, adopting supersaturated impregnation modification for 24h, filtering out solid, and drying at 120 ℃ for 4 h. And treating the dried activated carbon at 400 ℃ for 12h under the condition of a nitrogen atmosphere, and marking the obtained material as AC-8.
Example 9
Taking 100g of petroleum coke, drying for 5h at 100 ℃, uniformly mixing with 300g of potassium hydroxide and 10g of copper hydroxide, and treating for 0.4h at 900 ℃ in a nitrogen atmosphere. And cooling the sample under the protection of nitrogen, grinding the sample into powder, adding the powder into a hydrochloric acid solution with the concentration of 10wt% for washing until the pH value of the filtrate is neutral, and then drying the filtrate for 6 hours at the temperature of 100 ℃ under the condition of-300 kPa to obtain an activated carbon intermediate product. Taking 40g of an activated carbon intermediate product, carrying out surface oxidation modification by using 100g of nitric acid solution with the concentration of 4mol/L, adopting supersaturated impregnation modification for 24h, filtering out a solid, and drying at 120 ℃ for 4 h. And treating the dried activated carbon at 400 ℃ for 12h under the condition of a nitrogen atmosphere, and marking the obtained material as AC-9.
Comparative example 1
Drying 100g of coconut shell carbonized material at 100 ℃ for 5h, uniformly mixing with 300g of potassium hydroxide and 10g of copper hydroxide, and treating at 900 ℃ for 0.4h in a nitrogen atmosphere. And cooling the sample under the protection of nitrogen, grinding the sample into powder, adding the powder into a hydrochloric acid solution with the concentration of 10wt% for washing until the pH value of the filtrate is neutral, and then drying the filtrate at 150 ℃ for 6 hours to obtain an activated carbon intermediate product. Taking 40g of the activated carbon intermediate product, carrying out surface oxidation modification by using 100g of nitric acid solution with the concentration of 4mol/L, adopting supersaturated impregnation modification for 24h, filtering out solids, and drying at 120 ℃ for 4 h. And treating the dried activated carbon at 400 ℃ for 12h under the condition of a nitrogen atmosphere to obtain the material D-1.
Comparative example 2
Taking 100g of petroleum coke, drying for 5h at 100 ℃, uniformly mixing with 300g of potassium carbonate and 10g of copper hydroxide, and treating for 0.4h at 900 ℃ in a nitrogen atmosphere. And cooling the sample under the protection of nitrogen, grinding the sample into powder, adding the powder into a hydrochloric acid solution with the concentration of 10wt% for washing until the pH value of the filtrate is neutral, and then drying the filtrate at 150 ℃ for 6 hours to obtain an activated carbon intermediate product. Taking 40g of the activated carbon intermediate product, carrying out surface oxidation modification by using 100g of nitric acid solution with the concentration of 4mol/L, adopting supersaturated impregnation modification for 24h, filtering out solids, and drying at 120 ℃ for 4 h. And (3) treating the dried activated carbon for 12 hours at the temperature of 400 ℃ under the nitrogen atmosphere, and recording the obtained material as D-2.
Comparative example 3
Taking 100g of petroleum coke, drying for 5h at 100 ℃, uniformly mixing with 300g of potassium hydroxide and 10g of nickel hydroxide, and activating for 0.4h at 900 ℃ in a nitrogen atmosphere. And cooling the sample under the protection of nitrogen, grinding the sample into powder, adding the powder into a hydrochloric acid solution with the concentration of 10wt% for washing until the pH value of the filtrate is neutral, and then drying the filtrate at 150 ℃ for 6 hours to obtain an activated carbon intermediate product. Taking 40g of the activated carbon intermediate product, carrying out surface oxidation modification by using 100g of nitric acid solution with the concentration of 4mol/L, adopting supersaturated impregnation modification for 24h, filtering out solids, and drying at 120 ℃ for 4 h. And (3) treating the dried activated carbon for 12 hours at the temperature of 400 ℃ under the nitrogen atmosphere, and recording the obtained material as D-3.
Comparative example 4
Taking 100g of petroleum coke, drying for 5h at 100 ℃, uniformly mixing with 300g of potassium hydroxide and 10g of copper hydroxide, and activating for 0.4h at 900 ℃ in a nitrogen atmosphere. And cooling the sample under the protection of nitrogen, grinding the sample into powder, adding the powder into a hydrochloric acid solution with the concentration of 10wt% for washing until the pH value of the filtrate is neutral, and then drying the filtrate at 150 ℃ for 6 hours to obtain an activated carbon intermediate product. 40g of the activated carbon intermediate product was taken and treated at 400 ℃ for 12h under a nitrogen atmosphere, and the obtained material was designated as D-4.
Comparative example 5
Taking 100g of petroleum coke, drying for 5h at 100 ℃, uniformly mixing with 300g of potassium hydroxide and 10g of copper hydroxide, and treating for 0.4h at 900 ℃ in a nitrogen atmosphere. And cooling the sample under the protection of nitrogen, grinding the sample into powder, adding the powder into a hydrochloric acid solution with the concentration of 10wt% for washing until the pH value of the filtrate is neutral, and then drying the filtrate at 150 ℃ for 6 hours to obtain an activated carbon intermediate product. Taking 40g of an activated carbon intermediate product, carrying out surface oxidation modification by using 100g of nitric acid solution with the concentration of 4mol/L, adopting supersaturated impregnation modification for 24h, filtering out a solid, and drying at 120 ℃ for 4h to obtain the material D-5.
Comparative example 6
Taking 100g of petroleum coke, drying for 5h at 100 ℃, uniformly mixing with 300g of sodium hydroxide and 10g of copper hydroxide, and treating for 0.4h at 900 ℃ in a nitrogen atmosphere. And cooling the sample under the protection of nitrogen, grinding the sample into powder, adding the powder into a hydrochloric acid solution with the concentration of 10wt% for washing until the pH value of the filtrate is neutral, and then drying the filtrate at 150 ℃ for 6 hours to obtain an activated carbon intermediate product. Taking 40g of the activated carbon intermediate product, carrying out surface oxidation modification by using 100g of nitric acid solution with the concentration of 4mol/L, adopting supersaturated impregnation modification for 24h, filtering out solids, and drying at 120 ℃ for 4 h. And (3) treating the dried activated carbon for 12 hours at the temperature of 400 ℃ under the condition of a nitrogen atmosphere, and marking the obtained material as D-6.
Comparative example 7
The procedure used in CN103623774A example 1 was followed to give the material D-7.
Comparative example 8
The difference from example 1 is that: the preparation method of CN103041788A example 1 is adopted, and the material is marked as D-8.
Test example 1
The adsorbing materials prepared in examples 1 to 9 of the present invention and comparative examples 1 to 8 were used for the adsorption of benzene series. Respiratory gas generated in benzene storage tank area of a certain refinery, benzene concentration is 2.7 multiplied by 104 mg/m3Adsorbing at normal temperature and normal pressure, and setting the benzene content at the outlet of the adsorption tank to be lower than 4mg/m3When the benzene content is higher than 4mg/m3The adsorption results are shown in Table 1, where the time is the point of penetration of the adsorbent.
TABLE 1 Properties of benzene-series adsorbents
Test example 2
The adsorbing materials prepared in the invention example 1 and the comparative examples 1 to 7 are respectively used for adsorbing toluene and xylene gas, wherein the concentration of the toluene is 1133mg/m3The xylene concentration is 285.3mg/m3Adsorbing at normal temperature and normal pressure, setting the toluene or xylene content at the outlet of the adsorption tank to be lower than 4mg/m3When the toluene or xylene content is higher than 4mg/m3And at the point of sorbent breakthrough. The adsorption results are shown in table 2.
TABLE 2 Properties of benzene-series adsorbents
As can be seen from tables 1 and 2, the adsorbent prepared by the invention has good adsorption selectivity and adsorption capacity for benzene series.