Disclosure of Invention
In order to improve the porosity of the NCM precursor product, and further improve the first effect performance, the cycle performance and the rate capability of the material after the synthesized precursor is sintered into the anode material, thereby forming a high-power battery product. The invention provides a high-power NCM precursor and a preparation method thereof.
The technical scheme adopted by the invention is as follows: the preparation method of the high-power NCM precursor is characterized by comprising the following steps: comprising the step of using an additive consisting of SDBS, AES and SAS in a co-precipitation reaction.
As is readily understood by those skilled in the art, the terms SDBS, AES and SAS as used herein refer to sodium dodecylbenzenesulfonate, sodium fatty alcohol-polyoxyethylene ether sulfate and secondary alkyl sodium sulfonate, respectively.
As a further improvement of the invention, the additive comprises SDBS, AES and SAS according to the mass ratio of SDBS to AES to SAS being 1: 0.01-1.
As a further improvement of the invention, the addition mode of the additive is as follows: and when the coprecipitation reaction is carried out until the granularity reaches 50-80% of the granularity required by the process, adding the additive at a certain flow rate until the granularity required by the process is reached.
As a further improvement of the invention, the using amount of the additive is that the adding amount of the additive in unit time is not more than 5% of the dry weight mass of the precursor slurry generated by precipitation of the mixed salt solution entering the reaction system in the same unit time. The additive solution flow rate can be calculated specifically according to the following formula: the additive solution flow rate is the mixed salt solution flow rate x the mixed salt solution metal ion concentration x 91.7 (calculated constant, about precursor relative molecular mass) x the additive mass ratio ÷ 338 (calculated constant, about additive average relative molecular mass) ÷ additive solution concentration.
The invention can be implemented specifically according to the following steps:
s1, preparing nickel sulfate, cobalt sulfate and manganese sulfate into a mixed salt solution with metal ion concentration of 0.1-2 mol/L by using deionized water;
s2, preparing a sodium hydroxide precipitator into an alkali solution with the concentration of 3-15 mol/L by using deionized water;
s3, diluting ammonia water into an ammonia water solution of 5-10 mol/L by using deionized water;
s4, mixing and dissolving SDBS, AES and SAS with deionized water to obtain an additive solution with the concentration of 0.001-0.02 mol/L;
s5, adding a required amount of base solution into a reaction container, introducing nitrogen for air replacement, opening stirring and heating, keeping the stirring speed and the temperature in the kettle stably controlled at a certain value, adjusting the pH value of the base solution and the ammonia concentration to a required value, continuously adding the mixed salt solution, the alkali solution and the ammonia solution into the reaction kettle at a certain flow rate according to a required product proportion, and introducing the additive solution at a certain flow rate until the granularity reaches the required technological granularity when the granularity reaches 50-80% of the required technological granularity to obtain precursor slurry;
and S6, sequentially filtering, washing, centrifugally dewatering and drying the precursor slurry to obtain the high-power NCM precursor.
The invention also discloses a high-power NCM precursor, which is prepared by the preparation method of the high-power NCM precursor.
The invention also discloses a production method of the lithium battery anode material, which is characterized in that the production raw material comprises the high-power NCM precursor.
The invention also discloses a lithium battery anode material which is prepared by the production method of the lithium battery anode material.
The invention also discloses a lithium ion battery comprising the lithium battery anode material.
The invention has the beneficial effects that: the porosity of the NCM precursor product can be obviously improved, so that the first efficiency performance, the cycle performance and the rate capability of the material are improved after the synthesized precursor is sintered into the anode material, and a high-power battery product is formed.
Detailed Description
The present invention is further illustrated by the following examples.
The first embodiment is as follows:
the NCM precursor was synthesized as follows:
s1, preparing nickel sulfate, cobalt sulfate and manganese sulfate (Ni: Co: Mn: 55:20:25) into mixed salt solution with metal ion concentration of 1.5mol/L by using deionized water;
s2, preparing the sodium hydroxide precipitator into an alkali solution with the concentration of 5mol/L by using deionized water;
s3, diluting ammonia water into 5mol/L ammonia water solution by using deionized water;
s4, mixing and dissolving SDBS, AES and SAS (mass ratio of SDBS to AES: SAS is 1:0.5:0.5) into additive solution with concentration of 0.02mol/L by using deionized water;
s5, adding a base solution (the pH control range of the base solution is 12.00-12.20, the ammonia concentration control range of the base solution is 0.40-0.50 mol/L; nitrogen is introduced for air replacement, stirring and heating are started, the stirring speed is 700rpm, the temperature in the kettle is stably controlled at 60 ℃, the pH value of the base solution is adjusted to 11.70 +/-0.1, the ammonia concentration is adjusted to 0.40-0.50 mol/L, and the salt-alkali ratio is calculated according to the required proportion of the product: 2: 1-1.2, salt-ammonia ratio: and (3) continuously adding the mixed salt solution, the alkali solution and the ammonia water solution into the reaction kettle at the same time according to the flow ratio of 5: 1-1.5, introducing the additive solution when the granularity reaches 3.0 mu m, wherein the additive usage amount per hour is 2% of the dry weight mass of the precursor slurry generated by the precipitation of the mixed salt solution entering the reaction system per hour. The additive flow calculation formula is as follows: the additive solution flow rate is the mixed salt solution flow rate × 1.5mol/L × 91.7 (calculation constant, about precursor relative molecular mass) × 2% ÷ 338 (calculation constant, about additive average relative molecular mass) ÷ 0.02 mol/L. Introducing the additive solution until the particle size D50 which is required by the process is 5.0-6.0 mu m, and obtaining precursor slurry;
and S6, aging the precursor slurry for 5h, feeding the precursor slurry into a filtering device, centrifugally washing the obtained filter cake with 8 times of dilute alkali solution by weight, centrifugally washing with 10 times of deionized water by weight, filtering to obtain a filter cake after the content of each impurity reaches the standard, and drying for 24h at 130 ℃ to obtain the NCM precursor.
S7, cutting the section of the precursor particle and detecting and shooting the section by adopting an ion beam section detection method for the NCM precursor material, and detecting the internal structure of the product particle, wherein the result is shown in figure 2.
Example two:
the NCM precursor was synthesized as follows:
s1, preparing nickel sulfate, cobalt sulfate and manganese sulfate (Ni: Co: Mn: 51:20:29) into mixed salt solution with metal ion concentration of 2mol/L by using deionized water;
s2, preparing the sodium hydroxide precipitator into an alkali solution with the concentration of 10mol/L by using deionized water;
s3, diluting ammonia water into 5mol/L ammonia water solution by using deionized water;
s4, mixing and dissolving SDBS, AES and SAS (mass ratio of SDBS to AES: SAS is 1:1:1) into an additive solution with the concentration of 0.01mol/L by using deionized water;
s5, adding a base solution (the pH control range of the base solution is 12.00-12.20, the ammonia concentration control range of the base solution is 0.30-0.40 mol/L; nitrogen is introduced for air replacement, stirring and heating are started, the stirring speed is 900rpm, the temperature in the kettle is stably controlled at 55 ℃, the pH value of the base solution is adjusted to 11.50-11.60, the ammonia concentration is adjusted to 0.30-0.40 mol/L, and the salt-alkali ratio is calculated according to the required proportion of the product: 2: 1-1.2, salt-ammonia ratio: and (2) continuously adding the mixed salt solution, the alkali solution and the ammonia water solution into the reaction kettle at the same time according to the flow ratio of 5: 1-1.5, introducing the additive solution when the granularity reaches 3.4 mu m, wherein the additive usage amount per hour is 2% of the dry weight mass of the precursor slurry generated by the precipitation of the salt solution entering the reaction system per hour. The calculation formula is as follows: additive solution flow rate ═ salt solution flow rate × 2.0mol/L × 91.7 (calculated constant, about precursor relative molecular mass) × 4% ÷ 338 (calculated constant, about additive average relative molecular mass) ÷ 0.01 mol/L. Introducing the additive solution until the particle size D50 which is required by the process is 4.5-5.5 mu m, and obtaining precursor slurry;
and S6, aging the precursor slurry for 5h, feeding the precursor slurry into a filtering device, centrifugally washing the obtained filter cake with 8 times of dilute alkali solution by weight, centrifugally washing with 10 times of deionized water by weight, filtering to obtain a filter cake after the content of each impurity reaches the standard, and drying for 24h at 130 ℃ to obtain the NCM precursor.
S7, cutting the section of the precursor particle and detecting and shooting the section by adopting an ion beam section detection method for the NCM precursor material, and detecting the internal structure of the product particle, wherein the result is shown in figure 3.
Comparative example one:
this comparative example is a control experiment of example one, conducted according to the same procedures and conditions as example one, except that: no additives were used. The method comprises the following specific steps:
the NCM precursor was synthesized as follows:
s1, preparing a mixed salt solution with metal ion concentration of 1.5mol/L from nickel sulfate, cobalt sulfate and manganese sulfate (Ni: Co: Mn: 55:20:25) by using deionized water;
s2, preparing the sodium hydroxide precipitator into an alkali solution with the concentration of 5mol/L by using deionized water;
s3, diluting ammonia water into 5mol/L ammonia water solution by using deionized water;
s4, adding a base solution (the pH control range of the base solution is 12.00-12.20, the ammonia concentration control range of the base solution is 0.40-0.50 mol/L; nitrogen is introduced for air replacement, stirring and heating are started, the stirring speed is 700rpm, the temperature in the kettle is stably controlled at 60 ℃, the pH value of the base solution is adjusted to 11.70 +/-0.1, the ammonia concentration is adjusted to 0.40-0.50 mol/L, and the salt-alkali ratio is calculated according to the required proportion of the product: 2: 1-1.2, salt-ammonia ratio: continuously adding the mixed salt solution, the alkali solution and the ammonia water solution into a reaction kettle at a flow ratio of 5: 1-1.5 at the same time until the granularity D50 which is required by the process is 5.0-6.0 mu m, and obtaining precursor slurry;
and S5, aging the precursor slurry for 5h, feeding the precursor slurry into a filtering device, centrifugally washing the obtained filter cake with 8 times of dilute alkali solution by weight, centrifugally washing with 10 times of deionized water by weight, filtering to obtain a filter cake after the content of each impurity reaches the standard, and drying for 24h at 130 ℃ to obtain the NCM precursor.
S6, cutting the section of the precursor particle and detecting and shooting the section by adopting an ion beam section detection method for the NCM precursor material, and detecting the internal structure of the product particle, wherein the result is shown in figure 4.
Comparative example two:
this comparative example is a control experiment of example one, conducted according to the same procedures and conditions as example one, except that: the additive of example one was replaced with an equal amount of SDBS (i.e., only one additive was used). The method comprises the following specific steps:
the NCM precursor was synthesized as follows:
s1, preparing nickel sulfate, cobalt sulfate and manganese sulfate (Ni: Co: Mn: 55:20:25) into mixed salt solution with metal ion concentration of 1.5mol/L by using deionized water;
s2, preparing the sodium hydroxide precipitator into an alkali solution with the concentration of 5mol/L by using deionized water;
s3, diluting ammonia water into 5mol/L ammonia water solution by using deionized water;
s4, dissolving the SDBS into an additive solution with the concentration of 0.02mol/L by using deionized water;
s5, adding a base solution (the pH control range of the base solution is 12.00-12.20, the ammonia concentration control range of the base solution is 0.40-0.50 mol/L; nitrogen is introduced for air replacement, stirring and heating are started, the stirring speed is 700rpm, the temperature in the kettle is stably controlled at 60 ℃, the pH value of the base solution is adjusted to 11.70 +/-0.1, the ammonia concentration is adjusted to 0.40-0.50 mol/L, and the salt-alkali ratio is calculated according to the required proportion of the product: 2: 1-1.2, salt-ammonia ratio: continuously adding the mixed salt solution, the alkali solution and the ammonia water solution into a reaction kettle at the same time according to the flow ratio of 1: 1-1.5, and introducing the additive solution in the introduction manner and the introduction amount of the additive in the first embodiment when the granularity reaches 3.0 mu m until the granularity D50 which is the technological requirement is 5.0-6.0 mu m to obtain precursor slurry;
and S6, aging the precursor slurry for 5h, feeding the precursor slurry into a filtering device, centrifugally washing the obtained filter cake with 8 times of dilute alkali solution by weight, centrifugally washing with 10 times of deionized water by weight, filtering to obtain a filter cake after the content of each impurity reaches the standard, and drying for 24h at 130 ℃ to obtain the NCM precursor.
Comparative example three:
this comparative example is a control experiment of example one, conducted according to the same procedures and conditions as example one, except that: the additive of example one was replaced with an equal amount of AES (i.e. only one additive was used). The method comprises the following specific steps:
the NCM precursor was synthesized as follows:
s1, preparing nickel sulfate, cobalt sulfate and manganese sulfate (Ni: Co: Mn: 55:20:25) into mixed salt solution with metal ion concentration of 1.5mol/L by using deionized water;
s2, preparing the sodium hydroxide precipitator into an alkali solution with the concentration of 5mol/L by using deionized water;
s3, diluting ammonia water into 5mol/L ammonia water solution by using deionized water;
s4, dissolving AES into an additive solution with the concentration of 0.02mol/L by using deionized water;
s5, adding a base solution (the pH control range of the base solution is 12.00-12.20, the ammonia concentration control range of the base solution is 0.40-0.50 mol/L; nitrogen is introduced for air replacement, stirring and heating are started, the stirring speed is 700rpm, the temperature in the kettle is stably controlled at 60 ℃, the pH value of the base solution is adjusted to 11.70 +/-0.1, the ammonia concentration is adjusted to 0.40-0.50 mol/L, and the salt-alkali ratio is calculated according to the required proportion of the product: 2: 1-1.2, salt-ammonia ratio: continuously adding the mixed salt solution, the alkali solution and the ammonia water solution into a reaction kettle at the same time at a ratio of 1: 1-1.5, and introducing the additive solution in the manner and amount of introduction of the additive of the first embodiment when the particle size reaches 3.0 μm until the particle size D50 which is the process requirement is 5.0-6.0 μm, so as to obtain precursor slurry;
s6, aging the precursor slurry for 5h, then feeding the precursor slurry into a filtering device, centrifugally washing the obtained filter cake with 8 times of dilute alkali solution by weight, centrifugally washing with 10 times of deionized water by weight, filtering to obtain a filter cake after the content of each impurity reaches the standard, and drying for 24h at 130 ℃ to obtain the NCM precursor.
Comparative example four:
this comparative example is a control experiment of example one, conducted according to the same procedures and conditions as example one, except that: the additives of example one were replaced with equal amounts of SAS (i.e., only one additive was used). The method comprises the following specific steps:
the NCM precursor was synthesized as follows:
s1, preparing nickel sulfate, cobalt sulfate and manganese sulfate (Ni: Co: Mn: 55:20:25) into mixed salt solution with metal ion concentration of 1.5mol/L by using deionized water;
s2, preparing the sodium hydroxide precipitator into an alkali solution with the concentration of 5mol/L by using deionized water;
s3, diluting ammonia water into 5mol/L ammonia water solution by using deionized water;
s4, dissolving SAS into additive solution with the concentration of 0.02mol/L by using deionized water;
s5, adding a base solution (the pH control range of the base solution is 12.00-12.20, the ammonia concentration control range of the base solution is 0.40-0.50 mol/L; nitrogen is introduced for air replacement, stirring and heating are started, the stirring speed is 700rpm, the temperature in the kettle is stably controlled at 60 ℃, the pH value of the base solution is adjusted to 11.70 +/-0.1, the ammonia concentration is adjusted to 0.40-0.50 mol/L, and the salt-alkali ratio is calculated according to the required proportion of the product: 2: 1-1.2, salt-ammonia ratio: continuously adding the mixed salt solution, the alkali solution and the ammonia water solution into a reaction kettle at the same time at a ratio of 1: 1-1.5, and introducing the additive solution in the manner and amount of introduction of the additive of the first embodiment when the particle size reaches 3.0 μm until the particle size D50 which is the process requirement is 5.0-6.0 μm, so as to obtain precursor slurry;
and S6, aging the precursor slurry for 5h, feeding the precursor slurry into a filtering device, centrifugally washing the obtained filter cake with 8 times of dilute alkali solution by weight, centrifugally washing with 10 times of deionized water by weight, filtering to obtain a filter cake after the content of each impurity reaches the standard, and drying for 24h at 130 ℃ to obtain the NCM precursor.
As can be seen from the comparison of the first embodiment, the second embodiment and the comparative example in FIGS. 2, 3 and 4, the product has a compact particle structure when no additive is used, and a special structure with a compact inner structure and a loose outer structure and high porosity is formed when the additive is used in the preparation process.
Detecting the electrochemical performance of the anode material:
the NCM precursor and lithium hydroxide of each of the above examples and comparative examples were uniformly mixed at a molar ratio M (Ni + Co + Mn): M (li): 1:1.05, and then calcined at 450 ℃ for 4 hours, then taken out and ground, and further calcined at 750 ℃ for 20 hours, and then taken out and ground to obtain a positive electrode material, and electrochemical properties of each positive electrode material were measured by the following method:
preparing the positive electrode materials prepared by the method into slurry according to the ratio of the positive electrode material to the conductive carbon to the polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) of 90:5:5, and preparing into a positive electrode piece (the compaction density of the electrode piece is 3.3 g/cm)2) And a metal lithium sheet is selected as a negative electrode material to assemble the button cell 2025.
1. First effect performance: calculating the formula: first-effect is first discharge capacity/first charge capacity;
2. rate capability: using 1M LiPF6 EC, DEC and DMC as 1:1: 1V% as electrolyte, respectively activating for three circles at 0.1, 0.2, 0.5, 1.0, 2.0, 5.0 and 8.0C multiplying power, cycling for 100 times at XC multiplying power, respectively measuring the discharge capacity at the 1 st cycle and the discharge capacity at the 100 th cycle, and calculating the capacity retention rate of 100 cycles; calculating the formula: capacity retention (%) at 100 cycles was 100 discharge capacity at 100 cycles/discharge capacity at 1 cycle x 100%, and the specific capacity and cycle retention of the material were obtained.
3. Cycle performance: after the batteries are charged to 4.2V at constant current and constant voltage at 1C after the batteries are charged to 3.0V/battery at the temperature of 0.2C, the current is cut off to be 20mA, after the batteries are placed for 1h, the batteries are discharged to 3.0V at the temperature of 0.2C for one cycle, and after the cycle is repeated for 500 times, the capacity is more than 60 percent of the initial capacity.
The results are shown in Table 1 and FIG. 5.
TABLE 1 first Effect and cycle Performance test results
Detecting items
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Example one
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Example two
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Comparative example 1
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Comparative example No. two
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Comparative example No. three
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Comparative example No. four
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First effect
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89.4%
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88.7%
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84.6%
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85.7%
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86.1%
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85.9%
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Cycle performance
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75.4%
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74.6%
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65.7%
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68.8%
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69.2%
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68.9% |
As can be seen from the comparison between the battery performances of the first embodiment and the first comparative example in table 1 and fig. 5, the first effect, the charge-discharge cycle performance and the rate performance of the high-power type special structure NCM product are significantly improved, and after 100 cycles, the capacity retention rate of the high-power type special structure NCM positive electrode material is higher than that of the conventional NCM ternary positive electrode material with the same proportion; the high-power NCM cathode material with the special structure has more stable cycle performance, obviously improves the rate capability and obviously improves the power.
As can be seen from table 1 and a comparison between the first example and the second comparative example, the third comparative example, and the fourth comparative example in fig. 5, when 3 additives, namely SDBS, AES, and SAS, are used alone in the production of the NCM precursor, the first effect, the charge-discharge cycle performance, and the rate performance of the battery are improved to some extent; when the three additives are combined and used according to the proportion of the invention, under the same usage amount, the improvement effect on the first effect, the charge-discharge cycle performance and the rate performance of the battery is obviously better than the effect of the respective additives used independently, and the components of the additive formula provided by the invention have obvious synergistic effect.