CN114804877B - Pulse current internal heating type medium-temperature graphitized anode material and manufacturing method thereof - Google Patents

Pulse current internal heating type medium-temperature graphitized anode material and manufacturing method thereof Download PDF

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Abstract

The invention provides an economic and environment-friendly pulse current internal heating type medium-temperature graphitized anode material with high energy utilization efficiency and high production speed and a manufacturing method thereof, wherein the density of a graphite precursor preform after hot compaction is more than 1.70g/cm 3 The method comprises the steps of carrying out a first treatment on the surface of the The preform adopts a sheath type composite structure, the outer sleeve adopts a mixture of needle coke and asphalt, and the core material adopts a mixture of carbon materials and iron powder; carrying out vacuum carbonization heat treatment and medium-temperature graphitization on the preform by adopting pulse current internal heating, wherein the pulse current generates instant high temperature and deformation and mass transfer behaviors at a contact interface of powder, and the electromagnetic flow of core material part molten iron in the micro-porous interior of the carbon material and the crystallization function of cooled graphite can be combined and utilized, so that the rapid graphitization is facilitated; the highest graphitization temperature is 1750 to 2150 ℃, and the heating time is less than 5 hours; the d002 surface distance of the obtained anode material is less than 0.3450 nanometers, and the true density is between 2.15 and 2.27g/cm 3 The gram capacity is larger than 345mAh/g, and the first charge and discharge efficiency is larger than 92%.

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Pulse current internal heating type medium-temperature graphitized anode material and manufacturing method thereof
Technical Field
The invention belongs to the field of lithium ion secondary batteries, and particularly relates to an artificial graphite anode material used in the lithium ion secondary battery.
Background
The lithium ion secondary battery has high energy density and no memory effect, is widely applied to the fields of mobile phones, notebook computers, electric automobiles, energy storage and the like, is large in use amount of power batteries and energy storage batteries serving as mobile energy sources of electric automobiles or electric trucks at present, and has long service life, high energy density, good charge and discharge multiplying power characteristics and low manufacturing cost.
The graphite cathode has high specific capacity, low reduction potential, good electrochemical reversibility, low volume expansion rate, high electronic conductivity and wide raw material source, and is a main-stream cathode material of the current lithium ion secondary battery.
Commercial negative electrode materials mainly include artificial graphite and natural graphite. The natural graphite has the advantages of low cost and high compaction density, and has the main defects of rough surface of natural graphite powder, large specific surface area, and more lithium sources wasted in reaction in the process of forming an SEI film on the surface of the anode active material during the first charge and discharge, so that the first charge and discharge efficiency is low; the natural graphite has obvious multicrystal anisotropy, the volume expansion of the cathode materials is not easy to cancel each other during charging/discharging, the battery is easy to bulge, the interval fluctuation of the electrode group is large, the cycle life of the battery is reduced rapidly, in addition, the anisotropy of the multicrystal also causes that the insertion/extraction of lithium ions can only be carried out from certain end faces of the graphite powder multicrystal, the effective insertion/extraction area is small, and the charge/discharge multiplying power characteristic of the battery is poor.
Currently, the main stream of industry is to use artificial graphite as a negative electrode active material, such as artificial graphite which is subjected to high-temperature graphitization treatment at 2800-3100 ℃ by using mesophase carbon microspheres or calcined needle coke, wherein the artificial graphite polycrystal is basically isotropic, the powder surface is smooth, the specific surface area is small, the initial efficiency of the battery is high, the irreversible capacity is low, the cycle life is long, the multiplying power characteristic is good, and the defects are that the processing period of the high-temperature graphitization procedure of the artificial graphite is long and the energy consumption is high; the high-temperature graphitization temperature of the existing artificial graphite is up to 2800-3100 ℃, the graphitization degree of the graphite precursor is improved mainly by utilizing the thermal diffusion and the re-participation of carbon atoms in the part of the high Wen Xiafei crystal area, the raw material powder of the graphite precursor is basically loosely arranged in a graphite crucible in the traditional Acheson graphitization furnace, and the tap density is less than 1.10g/cm 3 The method comprises the steps of carrying out a first treatment on the surface of the The carbon resistance particles are added between the graphite crucibles, 70-80% of heating heat is used for the process auxiliary materials and external heat preservation materials, the heating and heat preservation time is about 15 days, the cooling time is about 10 days, the processing period of one furnace is close to one month, the whole energy consumption is high, the effective utilization rate of energy sources is low, the processing period is long, the fund occupation period is long, and the method becomes a bottleneck link for reducing the cost of the artificial graphite.
In order to reduce the cost of artificial graphite, the mainstream improvement in the aspect of raw materials is to adopt a coated product with a core-shell structure, such as a natural graphite powder or needle coke powder is coated and modified by adopting graphite precursors such as asphalt or furfural resin, and then high-temperature carbonization and high-temperature graphitization treatment are carried out to prepare the artificial graphite, so that the coating process is complex, the product manufacturing period is long, and the overall energy consumption is still higher.
The invention is provided for overcoming the defects and shortcomings of the existing artificial graphite cathode material manufacturing method, especially for renovating the traditional high-temperature graphitization process of the artificial graphite material, reducing the production cost and the production period.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention provides an economical, environment-friendly, high energy utilization efficiency, high production speed and good product consistency pulse current internal heating type medium temperature graphitized anode material and a manufacturing method thereof, which are characterized in that the density of a preformed blank of a graphitized precursor after hot compaction is more than 1.70g/cm 3 The method comprises the steps of carrying out a first treatment on the surface of the Carrying out vacuum carbonization heat treatment and medium-temperature graphitization on the preform by adopting pulse current internal heating, wherein the highest temperature of graphitization is 1750 to 2150 ℃, and the effective heating time of the temperature interval is less than 5 hours; the d002 surface spacing of the negative electrode material obtained after graphitization is less than 0.3450 nanometers, and the true density is between 2.15 and 2.27g/cm 3 The gram capacity is larger than 345mAh/g, and the first charge and discharge efficiency is larger than 92%; the manufacturing method of the pulse current internal heating type medium temperature graphitized anode material mainly comprises the following four main steps:
step1, three main raw materials are prepared: graphite precursor fine powder (G1), wherein the graphite precursor raw material mainly comprises one or a plurality of compositions of needle coke (G1-1), coke (G1-2), anthracite (G1-3), mesophase carbon microspheres (G1-4) and natural graphite (G1-5); crushing and grading a graphite precursor raw material, carrying out acid washing and/or alkali washing purification according to ash content, neutralizing and drying, wherein ash content is less than 0.3%, and granularity is controlled to be between 6 and 18 microns, and D95 is less than 30 microns; the high-temperature binder adopts asphalt (HA 2) and comprises one or a combination of low-softening-point asphalt (LQ-1) and high-softening-point asphalt (LQ-2), wherein the softening point of (LQ-1) is between 100 and 200 ℃, the coking value is between 50 and 70 percent, the weight percentage of (LQ-1) in the two asphalts is between 0 and 35 percent, and the rest is (LQ-2); (LQ-2) having a softening point of 200 to 285 ℃ and a coking value of 55% to 80%; iron powder (Fe 3) is used as a medium-temperature graphitization auxiliary agent, the carbon content in the iron powder is less than 4wt.%, and the granularity is between 200 meshes and 800 meshes.
Step2, preparing a preform (S/C) by hot press molding or extrusion molding, wherein the preform adopts a sheath type composite structure (S/C) of a core material (C) wrapped by a sheath (S); the outer sleeve (S) adopts a mixture (G1-1/HA 2) of needle coke (G1-1) and high-temperature binder asphalt (HA 2) as raw materials, wherein the high-temperature binder asphalt (HA 2) accounts for 25-30% of the two carbon materials in percentage by weight, and the rest is (G1-1); the core material (C) adopts a mixture of three main raw materials (G1), (HA 2) and (Fe 3), wherein the true volume percentage of the (Fe 3) and the core material is 15-30vol.%, and the weight percentage of the (HA-2) and the core material (G1) is 25-30 wt.%; when the core material (C) and the jacket/core material combination (S/C) are formed by hot press molding or extrusion, the compaction density of the jacket is controlled to be 1.70-2.00 g/cm by adopting a temperature range of 10-330 ℃ above the softening point of asphalt and adopting a pressure of 5-25 MPa 3 The method comprises the steps of carrying out a first treatment on the surface of the The contact surface part of the preform and the electrode is thermally pressed and sealed by taking a mixture (G1-1/HA 2) of needle coke (G1-1) and high-temperature binder asphalt (HA 2) as raw materials, wherein the high-temperature binder asphalt (HA 2) accounts for 25 to 30 percent of the weight of the two, the thickness of the contact surface material of the electrode after thermal compaction is 25 to 80mm, and the compaction density is controlled to be 1.70 to 2.00G/cm 3 The method comprises the steps of carrying out a first treatment on the surface of the The cross-sectional shape of the preform (S/C) is circular or square; the cross-sectional area of the sleeve (S) is between 0 and 35% of the overall cross-sectional area of the preform (S/C).
Step3, pulse current internal heating type vacuum carbonization heat treatment and medium temperature graphitization of the preform (S/C), putting the preform (S/C) workpiece into a pulse current internal heating type vacuum heating furnace when the preform (S/C) workpiece is in a thermal state of more than 150 ℃, vacuumizing a sealed furnace cover to be better than 200Pa, and applying at least more than 0.15MPa pressure between a graphite electrode pressure head and the preform (S/C) workpiece and compacting the graphite electrode pressure head and the preform (S/C) workpiece in a non-electrified state; then pulse current internal heating type vacuum carbonization heat treatment is carried outProcessing in two sequences of rational and medium-temperature graphitization, wherein the average current area density of the applied pulse current is 1-50A/cm 2 The duty ratio of the pulse current is 12:1 to 1:6, the frequency of the pulse current is 1 to 30Hz, and the pulse current can be unidirectional direct current or bidirectional alternating direct current; after the precursor is subjected to the previous preheating and compacting process, point contact can be formed between the powder bodies of the graphite precursor, and when the powder bodies are directly heated by the pulse current mode, instant high-temperature deformation and mass transfer behaviors can be generated at the contact interface of the powder bodies by utilizing the contact resistance heat of the powder bodies, so that the rapid graphitization is facilitated; (1) Vacuum carbonization heat treatment, heating the material at a temperature range of 150-450 ℃ at a heating rate of 5-50 ℃/h, preserving heat for at least 1 hour after the temperature of the material reaches 450 ℃, performing heat crosslinking treatment, and then continuing vacuum carbonization heat treatment at a temperature range of 450-850 ℃ at a heating rate of 50-100 ℃/h, wherein the temperature is preserved for at least 1 hour in a temperature range of 750-850 ℃; through the vacuum carbonization heat treatment, the preformed blank (S/C) forms a microstructure mainly comprising a three-dimensional penetrating microporous material carbon material with better electric conductivity, and the iron powder is dispersed and distributed in the micropores of the core material part carbon material; (2) Continuously electrifying the preform (S/C) subjected to vacuum carbonization heat treatment by adopting pulse current to perform internal heating type medium temperature graphitization, heating at a temperature range of 850-1450 ℃ at a heating rate of 100-300 ℃/h, heating at a temperature range of 1450-2150 ℃ at a heating rate of 50-150 ℃/h, preserving heat for at least 1-5 hours at a temperature range of 1750-2150 ℃, stopping heating, and cooling to 330 ℃ and then discharging; at high temperature of above 1350 ℃, the iron powder in the micro-porous interior of the carbon material of the core material part of the preform is melted, under the capillary action of the micro-porous pores of the carbon material, the micro-magnetic field effect formed when pulse current flows through the three-dimensional framework of the carbon material is combined, the molten iron generates endogenous electromagnetic stirring flow in the micro-porous pores of the carbon material, the flow of the molten iron realizes the mutual diffusion of iron and carbon elements in the carbon material at high temperature, and the molten iron carries out micro-melting corrosion on the micro-porous surface of the carbon material to changeThe specific surface area and the surface defect of the carbon material are improved, the flowing of molten iron also forms an internal friction effect on the carbon material, microscopic shearing force is formed in polycrystal of the carbon material, carbon atoms in the polycrystal participate in the recrystallization process, and the auxiliary graphitization effect of the molten iron under the induction of stress is achieved; in the solidification temperature range from the subsequent temperature reduction to about 1250 ℃, the supersaturated carbon dissolved in the iron can be diffused and separated out, and a novel graphite coating shell layer with high isotropy grows on the inner surface of the micro-porous of the carbon material in a crystallization manner, so that the anisotropic effect and the power characteristic of the carbon material are improved.
Step4, chemically corroding and dissolving iron in the semi-finished product mixture, machining or crushing the cooled semi-finished product, adopting mixed acid liquor of phosphoric acid and organic carboxylic acid as corrosive liquid, sieving the crushed product of the semi-finished product with a 150-mesh sieve, immersing in the corrosive liquid, simultaneously charging oxygen or compressed air into the corrosive liquid, chemically corroding and dissolving the iron in the mixture under an oxidizing atmosphere, filtering a solid-liquid mixture after the iron is completely dissolved, washing with water and neutralizing, finely ball-milling or air-flow milling the collected solid-phase graphite material, grading the granularity, and removing the magnetism to obtain the artificial graphite anode material; the corrosion residual liquid is used as a raw material for synthesizing lithium iron phosphate.
In order to balance the speed and degree of graphitization and reduce radiation loss at high temperature, the highest temperature of medium temperature graphitization is more preferably 1900-2000 ℃, the effective heating time in the temperature range is 2-3 hours, the d002 face spacing after graphitization is less than 0.3390 nanometers, and the true density is 2.20-2.27g/cm 3 The gram capacity is more than 355mAh/g, and the first charge and discharge efficiency is more than 93%.
In view of the fact that the saturated solubility of carbon in molten iron is higher than 5.5wt.% at a high temperature of 1650-2150 ℃, supersaturated carbon dissolved in iron can be separated out in the cooling solidification process, a novel graphite layer can be grown on the micropore surface of a carbon material by means of a crystal growth method, the isotropy characteristic of a graphite precursor polycrystal can be improved, compared with a traditional manufacturing method of artificial graphite by mechanical cladding/medium-temperature carbonization and high-temperature graphitization, the novel cladding type core-shell structure which is formed by naturally attaching and growing the supersaturated carbon separated out and recrystallized from molten iron is realized by the method, the interface strength between the core-shell is high, the shell of the artificial graphite negative electrode material powder is not easy to be fed by pressure in the compaction process of preparing a negative electrode plate, the prepared battery has high capacity, high first charge-discharge efficiency, good multiplying power characteristic and long cycle life.
The method for preparing the intermediate-temperature graphitization assisted by the molten iron skillfully utilizes the function of asphalt as a high-temperature binder, and connects graphite precursors into a complete three-dimensional penetrating microporous material after vacuum carbonization.
The invention uses the medium high temperature range of 1750-2150 ℃ to graphitize, can greatly reduce the radiant heat, combines electromagnetic stirring of molten iron to form internal friction on the carbon material, and forms microscopic shear stress in the carbon material, thereby having the recrystallization characteristic under stress induction, being capable of realizing effective improvement of graphitization degree at the medium high temperature of 1750-2150 ℃ without depending on the traditional thermal diffusion type high temperature graphitization at 2800-3150 ℃, and preparing the artificial graphite anode material for lithium ion batteries; the invention adopts a pulse current internal heating type direct heating mode under a vacuum condition, the heat energy utilization efficiency is far higher than that of the traditional high-temperature graphitization furnace, the invention adopts a precursor with high compaction density, the effective specific surface area of a heated workpiece is smaller, and a large amount of heat is not wasted on a furnace shell material and a crucible material and a resistor material which occupy a larger volume of the traditional graphitization furnace; the method comprehensively reduces the heating time of graphitization, reduces the energy consumption, and can obtain the artificial graphite anode material with high graphitization degree and good isotropy; the carbon material is in vacuum during medium-temperature graphitization, which is favorable for the migration and mass transfer of volatile matters, and the pure artificial graphite material is easy to obtain.
The byproduct ferric phosphate obtained after corrosion is used as the raw material for producing the lithium iron phosphate, the production process basically has no solid waste, and the process is environment-friendly.
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The following examples are given by taking the technical scheme and spirit of the present invention as a premise to implement the detailed implementation and specific process, but not limiting the scope of the present invention, and all the technical schemes obtained by adopting alternative or equivalent transformation forms, such as proper adjustment of carbon content in iron plates, or the like, or that the iron powder contains a certain amount of alloy elements such as Si, ce, mg, mn, etc. are understood to fall within the scope of the present invention.
Example 1 the density of the preform of graphitized precursor after hot compaction is in the range of 1.80 to 1.90g/cm 3 The method comprises the steps of carrying out a first treatment on the surface of the Carrying out vacuum carbonization heat treatment and medium-temperature graphitization on the preform by adopting pulse current internal heating, wherein the highest temperature of graphitization is 1900-2000 ℃, and the effective heating time of the temperature interval is 3 hours; the d002 surface distance of the negative electrode material obtained after graphitization is 0.3383 nanometers, and the true density is 2.21 to 2.25g/cm 3 The gram capacity is larger than 360mAh/g, and the first charge and discharge efficiency is 94.3%; the manufacturing method of the pulse current internal heating type medium temperature graphitized anode material mainly comprises the following four main steps:
stepl, three main raw materials are prepared: fine graphite precursor powder (G1), wherein needle coke (G1-1) is adopted as a raw material of the graphite precursor; crushing and grading the graphite precursor raw material, wherein ash content is less than 0.1%, and granularity is controlled to be between 8 and 12 microns, and D95 is less than 20 microns; the high-temperature binder adopts asphalt (HA 2), and adopts high-softening-point asphalt (LQ-2), wherein the softening point of the (LQ-2) is 240-255 ℃, and the coking value is 73-78%; iron powder (Fe 3) is used as a medium-temperature graphitization auxiliary agent, the carbon content in the iron powder is less than 1wt.%, the granularity is between 325 and 500 meshes, and the iron powder manufactured by a water atomization process is selected.
Step2, preparing a preform (S/C) by hot press molding or extrusion molding, wherein the preform adopts a sheath type composite structure (S/C) with a core material (C) wrapped by a sheath (S)) The method comprises the steps of carrying out a first treatment on the surface of the The outer sleeve (S) adopts a mixture (G1-1/HA 2) of needle coke (G1-1) and high-temperature binder asphalt (HA 2) as raw materials, wherein the high-temperature binder asphalt (HA 2) accounts for 27 percent of the two carbon materials by weight; the core material (C) adopts a mixture of three main raw materials (G1), (HA 2) and (Fe 3), wherein the true volume percentage of the (Fe 3) and the core material (C) is 25.6vol percent, and the weight percentage of the (HA-2) and the (G1) is 27wt percent; when the core material (C) and the jacket/core material combination (S/C) are formed by hot press molding or extrusion, the material temperature is controlled to be 280-295 ℃, the compaction density of the jacket is controlled to be 1.80-1.90g/cm by adopting the pressure of 10-15 MPa 3 The method comprises the steps of carrying out a first treatment on the surface of the The contact surface part of the preform and the electrode is thermally pressed and sealed by taking a mixture (G1-1/HA 2) of needle coke (G1-1) and high-temperature binder asphalt (HA 2) as raw materials, wherein the high-temperature binder asphalt (HA 2) accounts for 27 percent of the weight of the two, the thickness of the contact surface material of the electrode after being thermally pressed is 50-55mm, and the compaction density is controlled to be 1.80-1.90G/cm 3 The method comprises the steps of carrying out a first treatment on the surface of the The cross-sectional shape of the preform (S/C) is circular; the cross-sectional area of the jacket (S) is 20% of the overall cross-sectional area of the preform (S/C).
Step3, pulse current internal heating type vacuum carbonization heat treatment and medium temperature graphitization of the preform (S/C), putting the preform (S/C) workpiece into a pulse current internal heating type vacuum heating furnace when the preform (S/C) workpiece is in a thermal state above 230 ℃, vacuumizing a sealed furnace cover to be better than 100Pa, and applying a pressure of 0.35MPa between a graphite electrode pressure head and the preform (S/C) workpiece in a non-electrified state and compacting; then pulse current internal heating type vacuum carbonization heat treatment and medium temperature graphitization are carried out, and the average current area density of the applied pulse current is between 2 and 25A/cm 2 The duty ratio of the pulse current is 3:1, the frequency of the pulse current is 16Hz, and the pulse current adopts unidirectional direct current; (1) Vacuum carbonization heat treatment, heating the material at a temperature range of 230-450 ℃ according to a heating rate of 9 ℃/h, preserving heat for 2 hours after the temperature of the material reaches 450 ℃, performing heat crosslinking treatment, and then continuing vacuum carbonization heat treatment at a temperature range of 450-850 ℃ according to a heating rate of 50 ℃/h, wherein the temperature is preserved for 1 hour at a temperature range of 800-850 ℃; (2) Medium-temperature graphitization treatmentContinuously electrifying the preform (S/C) subjected to vacuum carbonization heat treatment by adopting pulse current to carry out internal heating type medium-temperature graphitization, heating at the temperature interval of 850-1950 ℃ according to the heating rate of 150 ℃/h, preserving heat for 3 hours at the temperature interval of 1900-1950 ℃, stopping heating, cooling to below 800 ℃ along with a furnace, introducing nitrogen, cooling to 330 ℃, and then maintaining for 1 hour and discharging.
Step4, chemically corroding and dissolving iron in the semi-finished product mixture, machining or crushing the cooled semi-finished product, adopting mixed acid liquor of phosphoric acid and organic carboxylic acid, wherein the ratio of the mixed acid liquor to the organic carboxylic acid is 1:0.25, sieving the crushed product of the semi-finished product by a 200-mesh sieve, immersing the crushed product in the corrosive liquid according to the solid-to-liquid ratio of 1:20, simultaneously filling compressed air into the corrosive liquid, chemically corroding and dissolving the iron in the mixture under the oxidizing atmosphere, filtering the solid-liquid mixture after the iron is completely dissolved, washing and neutralizing, carrying out fine ball milling or air flow milling on the collected solid-phase graphite material, grading the granularity, and carrying out demagnetization to obtain the artificial graphite anode material; the corrosion residual liquid is used as a raw material for synthesizing lithium iron phosphate.

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1. The pulse current internal heating type medium temperature graphitized anode material manufacturing method is characterized in that the density of a preformed blank of a graphitized precursor after hot compaction is more than 1.70g/cm 3 The method comprises the steps of carrying out a first treatment on the surface of the Vacuum carbonization heat treatment and medium-temperature graphitization are carried out on the preform by adopting pulse current internal heating, the highest temperature of graphitization is between 1750 and 2150 ℃, the effective heating time of the temperature interval is less than 5 hours, the d002 face spacing after graphitization is less than 0.3450 nanometers, and the true density is between 2.15 and 2.27g/cm 3 The gram capacity is larger than 345mAh/g, and the first charge and discharge efficiency is larger than 92%; the manufacturing method of the pulse current internal heating type medium temperature graphitized anode material mainly comprises the following four main steps:
step1, three main raw materials are prepared: graphite precursor fine powder (G1), wherein the graphite precursor raw material mainly comprises one or a plurality of compositions of needle coke (G1-1), coke (G1-2), anthracite (G1-3), mesophase carbon microspheres (G1-4) and natural graphite (G1-5); crushing and grading a graphite precursor raw material, carrying out acid washing and/or alkali washing purification according to ash content, neutralizing and drying, wherein ash content is less than 0.3%, and granularity is controlled to be between 6 and 18 microns, and D95 is less than 30 microns; the high-temperature binder adopts asphalt (HA 2), and comprises high-softening-point asphalt (LQ-2) and low-softening-point asphalt (LQ-1), wherein the softening point of the low-softening-point asphalt (LQ-1) is between 100 and 200 ℃, the coking value is between 50 and 70%, the weight percentage of the low-softening-point asphalt (LQ-1) in the two asphalts is between 0 and 35%, the zero point is not included, and the rest is the high-softening-point asphalt (LQ-2); the softening point of the high softening point asphalt (LQ-2) is 200 to 285 ℃, and the coking value is 55 to 80 percent; iron powder (Fe 3) is used as a medium-temperature graphitization auxiliary agent, the carbon content in the iron powder is less than 4 weight percent, and the granularity is between 200 meshes and 800 meshes;
step2, preparing a preform (S/C) by hot press molding or extrusion molding, wherein the preform (S/C) adopts a sheath type composite structure in which a core material (C) is wrapped by a sheath (S); the outer sleeve (S) adopts a mixture (G1-1/HA 2) of two carbon materials of needle coke (G1-1) and high-temperature binder asphalt (HA 2) as raw materials, wherein the high-temperature binder asphalt (HA 2) accounts for 25-30% of the two carbon materials by weight percent, and the rest is the needle coke (G1-1); the core material (C) adopts a mixture of three main raw materials, namely graphite precursor fine powder (G1), asphalt (HA 2) and iron powder (Fe 3), wherein the iron powder (Fe 3) accounts for 15-30 vol% of the three main raw materials, and the asphalt (HA 2) accounts for 25-30wt% of both the graphite precursor fine powder (G1) and the asphalt (HA 2); when the core material (C) and the jacket/core material combination are formed by hot press molding or extrusion, the temperature range of 10 ℃ to 330 ℃ above the softening point of asphalt is adopted, the pressure of 5 to 25MPa is adopted, and the compaction density of the jacket is controlled to be 1.70 to 2.00g/cm 3 The method comprises the steps of carrying out a first treatment on the surface of the The contact surface part of the preform and the electrode is thermally pressed and sealed by taking a mixture (G1-1/HA 2) of needle coke (G1-1) and high-temperature binder asphalt (HA 2) as raw materials, wherein the high-temperature binder asphalt (HA 2) accounts for 25 to 30 percent of the weight of the two, the thickness of the contact surface material of the electrode after being thermally compacted is 25 to 80mm, and the compaction density is 1.70 to 2.00G/cm 3 The method comprises the steps of carrying out a first treatment on the surface of the The cross-sectional shape of the preform (S/C) is circular or square; the sleeve (S) having a cross-sectional area of 0 to 0% of the overall cross-sectional area of the preform (S/C)35%; step3, pulse current internal heating type vacuum carbonization heat treatment and medium temperature graphitization of the preform (S/C), putting the preform (S/C) workpiece into a pulse current internal heating type vacuum heating furnace when the preform (S/C) workpiece is in a thermal state of more than 150 ℃, vacuumizing a sealed furnace cover to be better than 200Pa, and applying and compacting pressure of more than or equal to 0.15MPa between a graphite electrode pressure head and the preform (S/C) workpiece in a non-electrified state; then pulse current internal heating type vacuum carbonization heat treatment and medium temperature graphitization are carried out, and the average current area density of the applied pulse current is 1 to 50A/cm 2 The duty ratio of the pulse current is between 12:1 and 1:6, the frequency of the pulse current is between 1 and 30Hz, and the pulse current is unidirectional direct current or bidirectional alternating direct current; (1) Vacuum carbonization heat treatment, heating the material at a temperature range of 150-450 ℃ at a heating rate of 5-50 ℃/h, preserving heat for at least 1 hour after the temperature of the material reaches 450 ℃, performing heat crosslinking treatment, and then continuing vacuum carbonization heat treatment at a temperature range of 450-850 ℃ at a heating rate of 50-100 ℃/h, wherein the temperature is preserved for at least 1 hour in a temperature range of 750-850 ℃; through the vacuum carbonization heat treatment, the preformed blank (S/C) forms a microstructure mainly comprising a three-dimensional penetrating microporous material carbon material with better electric conductivity, and the iron powder is dispersed and distributed in the micropores of the core material part carbon material; (2) Continuously electrifying the preform (S/C) subjected to vacuum carbonization heat treatment by adopting pulse current to perform internal heating type medium temperature graphitization, heating at the temperature interval of 850-1450 ℃ at the heating rate of 100-300 ℃/h, heating at the temperature interval of 1450-2150 ℃ at the heating rate of 50-150 ℃/h, preserving heat for 1-less than 5 hours at the temperature interval of 1750-2150 ℃, stopping heating, and cooling to 330 ℃ and then discharging; at the high temperature of 1400 ℃ and above, the iron powder in the micro-porous interior of the carbon material of the core material part of the preform is melted, under the capillary action of the micro-porous pores of the carbon material, the micro-magnetic field effect formed when pulse current flows through the three-dimensional framework of the carbon material is combined, the molten iron generates endogenous electromagnetic stirring flow in the micro-porous pores of the carbon material, and the flow of the molten iron realizes the mutual action of the iron and carbon elements in the carbon material at the high temperatureThe diffusion, the micro-corrosion of molten iron on the micro-porous surface of the carbon material, the effect of improving the specific surface area and surface defects of the carbon material is achieved, the flow of the molten iron also forms an internal friction effect on the carbon material, a micro shear force is formed in the polycrystal of the carbon material, carbon atoms in the polycrystalline body are accelerated to participate in the recrystallization process, and the auxiliary graphitization effect of the molten iron under stress induction is achieved; in the solidification temperature range from the subsequent temperature reduction to 1250 ℃, the supersaturated carbon dissolved in the iron can be diffused and separated out, and a graphite coating shell layer with high isotropy grows on the micro-porous inner surface of the carbon material in a crystallization way, so that the anisotropic effect and the power characteristic effect of the carbon material are improved;
step4, chemically corroding and dissolving iron in the semi-finished product mixture, machining or crushing the cooled semi-finished product, adopting mixed acid liquor of phosphoric acid and organic carboxylic acid as corrosive liquid, sieving the crushed product of the semi-finished product with a 150-mesh sieve, immersing in the corrosive liquid, simultaneously charging oxygen or compressed air into the corrosive liquid, chemically corroding and dissolving the iron in the mixture under an oxidizing atmosphere, filtering a solid-liquid mixture after the iron is completely dissolved, washing with water and neutralizing, finely ball-milling or air-flow milling the collected solid-phase graphite material, grading the granularity, and removing the magnetism to obtain the artificial graphite anode material; the corrosion residual liquid is used as a raw material for synthesizing lithium iron phosphate.
2. The process according to claim 1, wherein the medium temperature graphitization has a maximum temperature of 1900-2000℃and an effective heating time of 2-3 hours, the d002 face pitch after graphitization is less than 0.3390 nm, and the true density is 2.20-2.27g/cm 3 The gram capacity is more than 355mAh/g, and the first charge and discharge efficiency is more than 93%.
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