High-strength capsule hole alumina material and preparation method thereof
Technical Field
The invention belongs to the field of inorganic material preparation, and relates to a high-strength capsule cell alumina material and a preparation method thereof.
Background
Porous alumina is widely used as a support material for heterogeneous catalysts. The pore structure is an important physicochemical property of the catalyst, and in general, the characteristics of the pore have a decisive influence on the catalytic performance. For the catalytic reaction participated by the macromolecular material, the catalyst also needs to have a macroporous or even super macroporous (more than 1000 nm) structure so as to further improve the mass transfer capability of the macromolecular material.
Physicochemical journal, 2006, 22 (7): 831-835 provides a preparation method of macroporous alumina material, which comprises mixing polystyrene particles with alumina precursor, processing to obtain vesicle macroporous alumina, wherein the obtained material has low physical strength, can not be prepared into a fixed shape, and has high cost of the polystyrene particles and serious environmental pollution.
CN 201010221297.6 is prepared by mixing an aluminum source, polyethylene glycol, low-carbon alcohol, water and alkylene oxide, and has vesicle-shaped macropores with the pore diameter of 0.05-10 mu m, the alkylene oxide and other raw materials used by the method are expensive, the preparation cost is high, and the material obtained by the method does not have a fixed shape in appearance, so that the material is not beneficial to being filled in a reactor to control mass transfer of materials and pressure drop of a bed layer.
Disclosure of Invention
Aiming at the defects of the prior art, the invention provides a high-strength capsule hole alumina material and a preparation method thereof. The high-strength capsule cell alumina material has high mechanical strength, can meet the strength requirement of the existing heterogeneous catalytic reaction, and can be used as a heterogeneous catalyst carrier, a filler or a protective agent.
The high-strength capsule cell alumina material has a spherical particle shape, the diameter of the spherical particle is 1-5mm, the average pore diameter of the capsule cells is more than 500nm and less than 5000nm, and the content of the capsule cells is 5-60% by volume; the spherical particles have a crush strength of 10 to 50N/particle and a BET specific surface area of 100 to 350m 2 /g。
The preparation method of the high-strength capsule cell alumina material comprises the following steps:
(1) Uniformly mixing an alumina precursor, calcium carbonate powder, water, a surfactant and starch, and pulping to form a uniform sol-like mixture;
(2) Dripping the sol-like mixture obtained in the step (1) into melted vaseline to form liquid drop balls, aging, separating gel balls, and performing drying, roasting and acid liquor hydro-thermal treatment on the gel balls;
(3) And (3) washing, drying and roasting the product obtained in the step (2) to obtain the high-strength capsule-cell alumina material.
In the method of the invention, the alumina precursor in the step (1) is pseudo-boehmite powder, or pseudo-boehmite powder modified by elements such as silicon, boron, phosphorus, titanium or zirconium, or aluminum oxide which can be converted into alumina after roasting, and aluminum oxide which can be converted into oxide after roasting and is modified by elements such as silicon, boron, phosphorus, titanium or zirconium.
In the method of the invention, the calcium carbonate powder in the step (1) has the particle size of 500-5000nm and the shape of sphere or nearly sphere.
In the method of the present invention, the surfactant in the step (1) is one or more of sulfonate anionic surfactants, including but not limited to one or more of sodium dodecyl sulfonate, sodium dodecyl benzene sulfonate and the like.
In the method of the invention, the starch in the step (1) is corn starch, lotus root starch, potato starch or a mixture of any proportion thereof.
In the method, the beating in the step (1) is performed by means of mechanical stirring (including shearing stirring), magnetic stirring and the like, the beating degree meets the requirement of slurry sol, and the slurry sol is kept stable at least at room temperature for 30 minutes without obvious layering and precipitation phenomena. The beating temperature of the mixed materials in the step is kept at 80-100 ℃ and the beating time is 5-30 minutes.
In the method of the invention, based on the weight of the mixture obtained in the step (1), the water is added in an amount of 30 to 70wt%, the alumina precursor is added in an amount of 10 to 50wt%, the calcium carbonate powder is added in an amount of 5 to 25wt%, the surfactant is added in an amount of 0.5 to 10wt%, and the starch is added in an amount of 1 to 15wt%.
In the method of the invention, the vaseline in the step (2) is in a liquid state and the temperature is 50-80 DEG C
In the method of the invention, the aging conditions in the step (2) are as follows: aging at 50-80deg.C for 0.5-6 hr.
In the process of the invention, the drying described in step (2) is carried out at a temperature of not more than 150℃and preferably 40-120℃for 12-48 hours.
In the method of the invention, the acid liquor in the step (2) is one or more of hydrochloric acid, nitric acid or acetic acid, preferably acetic acid; the concentration of the acid solution is 0.1-3mol/L, preferably 0.5-2mol/L. The acid liquor is used in an amount sufficient to completely submerge the solid material in the container.
In the method of the present invention, the firing conditions described in step (2): the temperature is 300-550 ℃, and the roasting time is 0.5-12 hours.
In the method of the invention, the acid liquid hydrothermal reflux treatment condition in the step (2) is as follows: the hydrothermal treatment temperature is 50-100 ℃, and the hydrothermal treatment time is 0.5-6 hours. Generally, the process is carried out in an atmospheric vessel.
In the method of the invention, the medium used in the washing in the step (3) is water, and the washing degree is up to the neutral or near neutral pH value of the washing liquid.
In the process of the invention, the drying in step (3) is carried out at a temperature of not more than 200℃and preferably at a temperature of 100 to 150℃for a period of 12 to 24 hours.
In the method of the present invention, the firing conditions described in step (3): the temperature is 450-750 ℃ and the roasting time is 1-12 hours.
The capsule cell alumina material has higher crushing strength, contains the capsule cells with controllable content and aperture, can be used as a carrier of heterogeneous catalysts, and is applied to specific reaction processes in various macromolecular catalytic reactions, such as residual oil and wax oil hydrogenation reactions.
Drawings
Fig. 1 is an optical camera photograph of the high-strength capsule hole alumina spherical particles prepared in example 1.
FIG. 2 is a scanning electron microscope image of the high-strength capsule hole alumina spherical particles prepared in example 1.
Detailed Description
The present invention will be described in further detail with reference to examples. In the present invention, the diameters of 100 particles were randomly measured with a vernier caliper, and the average diameter was calculated. And observing the shape of the capsule holes by using a scanning electron microscope, and measuring the sizes of the pore channels. Specific surface area was measured by BET method, and mechanical strength of the support was measured by DL 3-type intensity meter. Calculation of the volume content of vesicle macropores: and observing the section of the sample by adopting a scanning electron microscope, searching for the largest capsule hole and the smallest capsule hole, calculating the average diameter value of the capsule holes, taking the average diameter value as the thickness of the section to obtain the volume of the section, calculating the total volume of all the capsule holes observed by the section, and multiplying the total volume by 100% of the volume of the capsule holes compared with the volume of the section to obtain the volume content of the capsule holes.
Example 1
Water, SB powder, calcium carbonate powder (average particle size: 1100 nm), sodium dodecylbenzenesulfonate and corn starch were mixed uniformly at room temperature, and the mixture was made into a stable sol by using a shearing stirrer, and the final system temperature was brought to 95 ℃. The mixture comprises the following components in parts by weight: 60% of water, 30% of SB powder, 3% of calcium carbonate powder, 1% of sodium dodecyl benzene sulfonate and 6% of starch. Dropping the sol into liquid vaseline at 70 deg.c to form liquid drop, ageing for 5 hr, filtering to obtain gel ball, stoving at 90 deg.c for 12 hr, roasting at 500 deg.c for 5 hr, soaking in 2.0mol/L acetic acid solution, hydrothermal reflux treatment at 60 deg.c for 3 hr, filtering with distilled water to wash until the washing liquid is near neutral, drying at 120 deg.c and roasting at 550 deg.c for 3 hr to obtain final sample.
The obtained product was spherical particles of uniform size with an average diameter of 1.7mm. The product is observed by a scanning electron microscope to form a particle section, and the particle section has capsule holes with the diameter of about 0.8 mu m, the volume content of the large holes of the capsule is 11 percent, the crushing strength of the material is 12N/particle, and the BET specific surface area is 256m 2 /g。
Example 2
Water, SB powder, calcium carbonate powder (average particle diameter 2500 nm), sodium dodecyl sulfate, potato starch were mixed uniformly at room temperature, and the mixture was made into a stable sol by using a shear mixer, and the final system temperature was brought to 80 ℃. The mixture comprises the following components in parts by weight: 50% of water, 30% of SB powder, 10% of calcium carbonate powder, 4% of sodium dodecyl sulfate and 6% of starch. Dropping the sol into liquid vaseline at 60 deg.c to form liquid drop, ageing for 5 hr, filtering to obtain gel ball, stoving at 120 deg.c for 12 hr, roasting at 500 deg.c for 5 hr, soaking in acetic acid solution of 0.5mol/L, hydrothermal reflux treatment at 70 deg.c for 3 hr, filtering with distilled water to wash until the washing liquid is near neutral, drying at 120 deg.c and roasting at 650 deg.c for 5 hr to obtain final sample.
The obtained product is spherical particles with uniform size and average diameter of 2mm. The product is observed by a scanning electron microscope to form a particle section, and the particle section has capsule holes with the diameter of about 2.3 mu m, the volume content of the large holes of the capsule is 18 percent, the crushing strength of the material is 13N/particle, and the BET specific surface area is 277m 2 /g。
Example 3
Water, alumina powder, calcium carbonate powder (average particle size 5000 nm), sodium dodecyl sulfate and lotus root starch are mixed uniformly at room temperature, and then a shearing stirrer is used to make the mixture into stable sol-like substance, so that the final system temperature reaches 100 ℃. The mixture comprises the following components in parts by weight: 40% of water, 25% of SB powder, 20% of calcium carbonate powder, 5% of sodium dodecyl sulfate and 10% of starch. Dropping the sol into liquid vaseline at 80 deg.c to form liquid drop, ageing for 5 hr, filtering to obtain gel ball, stoving at 120 deg.c for 12 hr, roasting at 500 deg.c for 5 hr, soaking in acetic acid solution of 0.5mol/L, hydrothermal reflux treatment at 80 deg.c for 3 hr, filtering with distilled water to wash until the washing liquid is near neutral, drying at 120 deg.c and roasting at 750 deg.c for 5 hr to obtain final sample.
The obtained product was spherical particles of uniform size with an average diameter of 2.5mm. The product is observed by a scanning electron microscope to form a particle section, the particle section has capsule holes with the diameter of about 4.7 mu m, the volume content of the large holes of the capsule is 39%, the crushing strength of the material is 17N/particle, and the BET specific surface area is 212m 2 /g。
Example 4
The calcium carbonate powder was replaced with an equal amount of water, and the other conditions were the same as in example 3. The obtained sample has compact section and no obvious capsule holes.
Comparative example 1
Materials were prepared as in example 1 of CN 201010221297.6, the resulting samples contained vesicle-like macropores, and the morphology of the resulting product was that of particles that did not have a fixed shape and determined size.