Disclosure of Invention
Therefore, the invention aims to provide a method for preparing mesophase pitch by co-carbonizing biomass pitch and medium-temperature coal tar pitch, the prepared mesophase pitch has a better tissue structure, can be used as an excellent raw material for preparing carbon materials such as high-quality needle coke, carbon foam and the like, and simultaneously provides a feasible method for the application of the biomass pitch.
The invention provides a preparation method of mesophase pitch, which comprises the following steps:
(1) placing the biomass asphalt in a centrifugal filter for centrifugal filtration to obtain filtered biomass asphalt;
(2) preparing a mixed solvent: mixing an aromatic hydrocarbon solvent and an aliphatic hydrocarbon solvent according to a certain weight ratio to prepare a mixed solvent;
(3) preparing mixed asphalt, mixing the filtered biomass asphalt obtained in the step (1) with coal tar asphalt according to a certain weight ratio to prepare mixed asphalt;
(4) mixing the mixed asphalt obtained in the step (3) and the mixed solvent obtained in the step (2) according to a certain weight ratio, and placing the mixture in a pressure separation kettle;
(5) introducing inert gas into the pressure separation kettle for purging, keeping the pressure of the inert gas atmosphere increased to 0.5-1Mpa, heating to 120-;
(6) taking out the upper layer solution after standing and settling in the pressurized polymerization kettle, placing the upper layer solution in a reduced pressure distillation device for reduced pressure distillation, and recovering the solvent to obtain refined mixed asphalt;
(7) and (4) placing the refined mixed asphalt obtained in the step (6) into a pressurized polymerization kettle, raising the pressure and the temperature under the inert gas atmosphere, and keeping the temperature and the pressure constant for a period of time to perform a co-carbonization thermal polycondensation reaction to obtain the mesophase asphalt.
Wherein, in the step (1), the rotation speed of the centrifugal filter is 4000-.
And (2) in the step (1), putting the biomass asphalt into a centrifuge tube with filter cloth, and carrying out centrifugal filtration in a centrifugal filter.
Wherein, in the step (1), a centrifugal filter is used for filtering and removing large impurities in the biomass asphalt, such as small branches and leaves, straws and the like.
Wherein in the step (2), the aromatic hydrocarbon solvent is wash oil, and the aliphatic hydrocarbon solvent is kerosene.
Wherein, in the step (2), the weight ratio of the aromatic hydrocarbon solvent to the aliphatic hydrocarbon solvent is 0.2-0.4: 1.
Wherein in the step (3), the weight ratio of the biomass pitch to the coal tar pitch is 0.1-0.2: 1.
Wherein in the step (4), the weight ratio of the mixed asphalt to the mixed solvent is 1: 2-4.
Wherein, in the step (5), the constant temperature standing time is 1-3h (preferably 2 h).
Wherein, in the step (6), the reduced pressure distillation is carried out at a pressure of-0.90 to-0.98 MPa.
Wherein, in the step (6), the solvent distilled out under reduced pressure is recovered for recycling.
Wherein, in the step (6), the removal of the quinoline insolubles is to remove the quinoline insolubles by using a pressurized separation kettle to prepare the refined mixed asphalt, wherein the extraction pressure is 0.5-1MPa, and the extraction temperature is 120-.
Wherein the quinoline insoluble content in the refined mixed asphalt obtained in the step (6) is not more than 0.1 wt%.
Wherein, in the step (7), the refined mixed asphalt is placed into a pressurized polymerization kettle, inert gas is firstly introduced for purging, then the inert gas atmosphere is maintained, the pressure is increased to 0.5-1Mpa, the temperature is increased to 400-.
Wherein, in the step (7), the temperature rise is gradient temperature rise, and includes: the temperature is raised from room temperature to 300 ℃ at a temperature raising rate of 4-6 ℃/min (preferably 5 ℃/min), and then from 300 ℃ to 400-440 ℃ at a temperature raising rate of 1-2 ℃/min.
Wherein, in the step (7), the stirring is started when the asphalt is heated to more than 100 ℃, and the stirring speed is 100-150 rmp.
Wherein, in the step (5) or (7), the inert gas is selected from one or more of nitrogen, helium and argon.
The invention provides the mesophase pitch prepared by the preparation method of the mesophase pitch.
Wherein the mesophase pitch optical structure is a streamline wide-area structure; the mesophase pitch content is 100%; the softening point is lower and is 300-320 ℃; the aromatic degree is higher, the high-temperature viscosity after melting is low, the rheological property is excellent, and the aromatic polycarbonate can be used as an excellent raw material for preparing carbon materials such as high-quality needle coke, carbon foam and the like.
The invention has the following beneficial technical effects:
1. the invention utilizes biomass asphalt mixed with coal tar asphalt as a raw material to prepare mesophase asphalt, the biomass asphalt is residue obtained by pyrolyzing biomass materials at high temperature, the biomass materials comprise tree sawdust, crop straws and the like, and the mesophase asphalt has the advantages of reproducibility, low cost, low nitrogen, low sulfur, sufficient global supply and the like, and the invention realizes the effective utilization of the biomass asphalt.
2. According to the invention, the biomass pitch is mixed with the coal tar pitch, the composition of the mixed pitch and the proportion of C, H, O, N, S element content are adjusted after refining, and the mesophase pitch with excellent performance is prepared. The biomass asphalt has the characteristics of small molecular weight, high hydrogen content, low heteroatom content and the like, so that the defects of low hydrogen content and high N, S heteroatom content in the coal asphalt are overcome, and a naphthenic structure can be introduced in the polymerization process of the mixed asphalt. The low impurity content can also effectively adjust the composition and the structure of the asphalt and reduce the influence of the dipole moment of the heteroatom-containing compound on the viscosity of the system. Under the condition of high-temperature co-carbonization, the system viscosity of the mesophase pitch is reduced, the system fluidity is enhanced, and the generated mesophase structure develops more orderly. The prepared mesophase pitch can be used as an excellent raw material for preparing high-quality carbon materials such as needle coke, carbon foam and the like.
Detailed Description
In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention more apparent, the present invention is further described in detail with reference to the following embodiments. It should be understood that the specific embodiments described herein are merely illustrative of the invention and are not intended to limit the invention.
Example 1
a) The aromatic hydrocarbon solvent is washing oil, the aliphatic hydrocarbon solvent is kerosene, and the aromatic hydrocarbon solvent and the aliphatic hydrocarbon solvent are mixed according to the weight ratio of 0.25:1 to prepare the mixed solvent.
b) And (3) filtering the biomass asphalt in a centrifugal filter, and separating out the filtered biomass asphalt. And mixing the filtered biomass pitch and the coal tar pitch according to the weight ratio of 0.1:1 to prepare the mixed pitch.
c) Mixing the mixed asphalt and the mixed solvent according to the weight ratio of 1:3, placing the mixture in a pressure separation kettle, introducing nitrogen, controlling the pressure in the kettle to be 0.5Mpa, heating to 130 ℃, controlling the temperature to be in a condition of stirring and reacting for 1h, and standing and settling for 2h at constant temperature and constant pressure.
d) And (3) carrying out reduced pressure distillation on the upper layer solution after standing and settling, and recovering the solvent to obtain the refined mixed asphalt, wherein the recovery rate of the solvent can reach more than 90%.
e) And (2) putting 30g of refined mixed asphalt into a pressurized polymerization kettle, blowing nitrogen, introducing nitrogen again, adjusting the pressure in the kettle to 0.5MPa, heating the kettle to 300 ℃ from room temperature at the heating rate of 5 ℃/min, heating the kettle to 410 ℃ at the heating rate of 1 ℃/min, performing carbonization thermal polycondensation for 4 hours, and naturally cooling to obtain the mesophase asphalt.
The content of quinoline insoluble in the refined mixed pitch obtained after removal of the quinoline insoluble was controlled to 0.04 wt%, the H/C atomic ratio of the refined mixed pitch was 0.055%, the proportion of n-Hexane Soluble (HS) was 16.68 wt%, the proportion of n-hexane insoluble toluene soluble (HI-TS) was 69.85 wt%, and the proportion of toluene insoluble quinoline soluble (TI-QS) was 13.43 wt%.
The optical structure of the mesophase pitch was a streamline wide area structure measured by a polarization microscope, the mesophase content was 100%, the content of C, H, N, S, O of the mesophase pitch was 91.61 wt.%, 5.06 wt.%, 1.09 wt.%, 1.21 wt.% and 1.03 wt.%, respectively, as measured by an element analyzer, the atomic ratio of H/C was 0.523, the aromaticity index of the mesophase pitch was 0.494 as measured by a fourier transform infrared spectrometer, and the softening point of the mesophase pitch was 327.6 ℃ as measured by a thermomechanical analyzer, and the viscosity at 410 ℃ was 12.81 mpa.s. The high-temperature viscosity after melting is low, the rheological property is excellent, and the high-temperature melt-processed high-viscosity carbon can be used as an excellent raw material for preparing carbon materials such as high-quality needle coke, foam carbon and the like.
Example 2
a) The aromatic hydrocarbon solvent is washing oil, the aliphatic hydrocarbon solvent is kerosene, and the aromatic hydrocarbon solvent and the aliphatic hydrocarbon solvent are mixed according to the weight ratio of 0.25:1 to prepare the mixed solvent.
b) And (3) filtering the biomass asphalt in a centrifugal filter, and separating out the filtered biomass asphalt. And mixing the filtered biomass pitch and the coal tar pitch according to the weight ratio of 0.15:1 to prepare the mixed pitch.
c) Mixing the mixed asphalt and the mixed solvent according to the weight ratio of 1:3, placing the mixture in a pressure separation kettle, introducing nitrogen, controlling the pressure in the kettle to be 0.5Mpa, heating to 130 ℃, controlling the temperature to be in a condition of stirring and reacting for 1h, and standing and settling for 2h at constant temperature and constant pressure.
d) And (3) carrying out reduced pressure distillation on the upper layer solution after standing and settling, and recovering the solvent to obtain the refined mixed asphalt, wherein the recovery rate of the solvent can reach more than 90%.
e) And (2) putting 30g of refined mixed asphalt into a pressurized polymerization kettle, blowing nitrogen, introducing nitrogen again, adjusting the pressure in the kettle to 0.5MPa, heating the kettle to 300 ℃ from room temperature at the heating rate of 5 ℃/min, heating the kettle to 410 ℃ at the heating rate of 1 ℃/min, performing carbonization thermal polycondensation for 4 hours, and naturally cooling to obtain the mesophase asphalt.
The content of quinoline insoluble in the refined mixed pitch obtained after removal of the quinoline insoluble was controlled to 0.06 wt%, the H/C atomic ratio of the refined mixed pitch was 0.056 wt%, the proportion of n-Hexane Soluble (HS) was 15.39 wt%, the proportion of n-hexane insoluble toluene soluble (HI-TS) was 73.63 wt%, and the proportion of toluene insoluble quinoline soluble (TI-QS) was 10.92 wt%.
The optical structure of the mesophase pitch was measured to be a streamline wide area structure by a polarizing microscope, the mesophase content was 100%, the content of C, H, N, S, O of the mesophase pitch was measured to be 92.98 wt.%, 4.15 wt.%, 0.98 wt.%, 0.76 wt.% and 1.13 wt.% by an element analyzer, the atomic ratio of H/C was 0.536, the aromaticity index of the mesophase pitch was measured to be 0.492 by a fourier transform infrared spectrometer, and the softening point of the mesophase pitch was measured to be 321.2 ℃ by a thermomechanical analyzer, and the viscosity at 410 ℃ was 17.12 mpa.s. The high-temperature viscosity after melting is low, the rheological property is excellent, and the high-temperature melt-processed high-viscosity carbon can be used as an excellent raw material for preparing carbon materials such as high-quality needle coke, foam carbon and the like.
Example 3
a) The aromatic hydrocarbon solvent is washing oil, the aliphatic hydrocarbon solvent is kerosene, and the aromatic hydrocarbon solvent and the aliphatic hydrocarbon solvent are mixed according to the weight ratio of 0.25:1 to prepare the mixed solvent.
b) And (3) filtering the biomass asphalt in a centrifugal filter, and separating out the filtered biomass asphalt. And mixing the filtered biomass pitch and the coal tar pitch according to the weight ratio of 0.2:1 to prepare the mixed pitch.
c) Mixing the mixed asphalt and the mixed solvent according to the weight ratio of 1:3, placing the mixture in a pressure separation kettle, introducing nitrogen, controlling the pressure in the kettle to be 0.5Mpa, heating to 130 ℃, controlling the temperature to be in a condition of stirring and reacting for 1h, and standing and settling for 2h at constant temperature and constant pressure.
d) And (3) carrying out reduced pressure distillation on the upper layer solution after standing and settling, and recovering the solvent to obtain the refined mixed asphalt, wherein the recovery rate of the solvent can reach more than 90%.
e) And (2) putting 30g of refined mixed asphalt into a pressurized polymerization kettle, blowing nitrogen, introducing nitrogen again, adjusting the pressure in the kettle to 0.5MPa, heating the kettle to 300 ℃ from room temperature at the heating rate of 5 ℃/min, heating the kettle to 410 ℃ at the heating rate of 1 ℃/min, performing carbonization thermal polycondensation for 4 hours, and naturally cooling to obtain the mesophase asphalt.
The content of quinoline insoluble in the refined mixed pitch obtained after removal of the quinoline insoluble was controlled to 0.07 wt%, the H/C atomic ratio of the refined mixed pitch was 0.061%, the proportion of n-Hexane Soluble (HS) was 20.26 wt%, the proportion of n-hexane insoluble toluene soluble (HI-TS) was 71.16 wt%, and the proportion of toluene insoluble quinoline soluble (TI-QS) was 8.51 wt%.
The optical structure of the mesophase pitch was a streamline wide area structure measured with a polarizing microscope, the mesophase content was 100%, the content of C, H, N, S, O of the mesophase pitch was 91.69 wt.%, 4.44 wt.%, 1.02 wt.%, 0.63 wt.% and 2.22 wt.%, respectively, as measured with an element analyzer, and the H/C atomic ratio was 0.581, the aromaticity index of the mesophase pitch was 0.488 as measured with a fourier transform infrared spectrometer, and the softening point of the mesophase pitch was 301.6 ℃ as measured with a thermomechanical analyzer, and the viscosity was 12.48mpa.s at 410 ℃. The high-temperature viscosity after melting is low, the rheological property is excellent, and the high-temperature melt-processed high-viscosity carbon can be used as an excellent raw material for preparing carbon materials such as high-quality needle coke, foam carbon and the like.
Comparative example 1
Same as in embodiment 1, except that: in the step b), biomass pitch is not added to prepare mixed pitch, and in the step c), only coal tar pitch is adopted to be mixed with the mixed solvent.
After quinoline insoluble substances are removed, the content of quinoline insoluble substances in the coal tar pitch is controlled to be 0.08 wt%, the H/C atomic ratio of the refined mixed pitch is 0.048%, the proportion of n-hexane soluble substances (HS) is 43.21 wt%, the proportion of n-hexane insoluble toluene soluble substances (HI-TS) is 48.28 wt%, and the proportion of toluene insoluble quinoline soluble substances (TI-QS) is 8.51 wt%.
The optical structure of the mesophase pitch was a streamline wide area structure measured by a polarizing microscope, the mesophase content was 100%, the content of C, H, N, S, O in the mesophase pitch was 94.48 wt.%, 3.70 wt.%, 1.15 wt.%, 0.89 wt.% and 0.31 wt.%, respectively, as measured by an elemental analyzer, the atomic ratio of H/C was 0.470, the aromaticity index of the mesophase pitch was 0.502 as measured by a fourier transform infrared spectrometer, the softening point of the mesophase pitch was 334.3 ℃ as measured by a thermomechanical analyzer, and the viscosity at 410 ℃ was 136.51 mpa.s.
It should be understood that the above examples are only for clarity of illustration and are not intended to limit the embodiments. Other variations and modifications will be apparent to persons skilled in the art in light of the above description. And are neither required nor exhaustive of all embodiments. And obvious variations or modifications therefrom are within the scope of the invention.