Disclosure of Invention
Aiming at the defects of the prior art, the invention provides a preparation method of an adsorbent. Firstly, uniformly mixing 5A molecular sieve raw powder, clay and an auxiliary agent, then forming and roasting, then placing the formed body adsorbent into urea aqueous solution, hydrolyzing urea to form alkali solution by increasing the temperature, dissolving the clay blocked between the molecular sieve adsorbents, and realizing the smoothness of pore channels of the adsorbent. Meanwhile, urea is used as an alkali source, so that the urea can be effectively prevented from being exchanged into a 4A molecular sieve, the original structure of the molecular sieve adsorbent is protected, and the adsorption efficiency is effectively improved.
The preparation method of the pressure swing adsorbent comprises the following steps:
(1) Taking 75-90 parts by weight of 5A molecular sieve, 10-25 parts by weight of binder and 2-10 parts by weight of bonding auxiliary agent, uniformly mixing, and then forming, drying and roasting to obtain an intermediate adsorbent;
(2) Adding 10-30 parts by weight of an intermediate adsorbent into urea solution with a certain concentration, uniformly stirring, reacting for 1-8 hours at 90-150 ℃, and dissolving out a binder blocked in an adsorbent pore canal by alkali generated by urea hydrolysis to realize the smoothness of the adsorbent pore canal;
(3) And (3) separating the product obtained in the step (2), and washing, drying and roasting the obtained solid to obtain the final adsorbent product.
Further, the binder in the step (1) is generally one or more selected from kaolin, attapulgite, diatomite and bentonite, and the binding aid can be one or more selected from sesbania powder, carboxymethyl cellulose and sodium carboxymethyl cellulose. The molding method adopts the conventional method in the field, such as extrusion, rolling, extrusion and rolling.
Further, the conditions of drying and baking in step (1) are conventional conditions in the art. If the drying temperature is generally 80-120 ℃, the drying time is generally 6-24 hours; the roasting temperature is generally 350-550 ℃, and the roasting time is generally 1-6 h.
Further, the concentration of the urea aqueous solution in the step (2) is generally 0.2 to 1.0 mol/L. The liquid-solid ratio of the urea aqueous solution to the intermediate adsorbent is generally 3 to 10mL/g. Preferably, a certain amount of hydrolysis inhibitor is added into the urea aqueous solution in the heating reaction process, so that the urea hydrolysis reaction is stably carried out, and the side effect caused by the instant over-high pH value of the system is avoided.
Further, the inhibitor added in the step (2) is selected from more than one of ammonium chloride, ammonium sulfide, ammonium bicarbonate or ammonium carbonate.
Further, the hydrolysis inhibitor is preferably added in two steps to maintain a relatively stable alkalinity in the system. When the temperature of the system reaches 80-95 ℃, adding a hydrolysis inhibitor into the solution at a speed of 0.001-0.008 mol/L per ten minutes, and when the temperature is raised to 95-120 ℃, adding the hydrolysis inhibitor into the system at a speed of 0.01-0.02 mol/L per ten minutes until the concentration of the inhibitor in the urea aqueous solution reaches 0.1-0.5 mol/L.
Further, the reaction temperature in the step (2) is preferably 95-120 ℃, and the reaction time is preferably 4-6 hours.
Further, the temperature raising process in the step (2) is performed in two steps: the initial reaction speed is 5-10 ℃/min; and after the inhibition is started to be added into the system, the temperature rising rate is adjusted to be 0.5-2 ℃/min.
Further, the separation, washing, drying and calcination in step (4) are conventional operations in the art. If separation can be achieved by filtration, washing refers to washing with deionized water several times; the drying temperature is generally 80-150 ℃, and the drying time is generally 12-48 h; the roasting temperature is generally 300-550 ℃, and the roasting time is generally 2-10 h.
Compared with the prior art, the invention has the beneficial effects that:
1. the invention provides a preparation method of a pressure swing adsorbent, which adopts urea as an alkali source, utilizes the characteristic that urea solution is neutral at low temperature, and the pH value of the solution is gradually increased by urea decomposition after the solution reaches a certain temperature, replaces the traditional strong alkali sodium hydroxide, and hydroxyl ions generated by urea hydrolysis can react with clay blocked in pore channels and dissolve the clay so as to realize the smoothness of the pore channels of the adsorbent, solve the problem that the formed body adsorbent is influenced by the blocking of the clay, and further improve the mass transfer rate of the formed body adsorbent.
2. The hydrolysis rate of urea is greatly affected by temperature, and at low temperature, the hydrolysis rate of urea is slower, and after reaching a certain temperature, the hydrolysis reaction is more severe, but the 5A formed body needs a relatively stable environment, so that the temperature rising rate and the reaction time need to be controlled very accurately, and the operation severity is increased. In the invention, in order to slow down or inhibit the severe hydrolysis reaction of urea after the temperature of the system is raised, a proper amount of inhibitor is added into the system so as to create a relatively stable alkaline environment. The addition of the inhibitor can effectively control the excessive ionization speed of the ammonia water and maintain the stable alkalinity environment of the system, so that on one hand, the controllable dissolution reaction of the binder in the adsorbent pore canal can be realized, and on the other hand, the operation severity can be greatly reduced.
3. According to the invention, the urea aqueous solution without sodium ions is used as an alkali source, so that the 5A molecular sieve is prevented from being exchanged into the 4A molecular sieve or the sodalite as much as possible on the premise of effectively solving the problem that clay blocks the pore canal of the adsorbent, the original structure of the 5A molecular sieve is maintained, and the adsorption efficiency is further improved.
Detailed Description
The technical contents and effects of the present invention are further described below with reference to the examples, but the present invention is not limited to the examples. The specific surface area of the 5A molecular sieve is 672m 2 Per g, pore volume of 0.2746cm 3 Kaolin/g was taken from Suzhou.
Example 1
Taking 90 parts by weight of 5A molecular sieve, 10 parts by weight of kaolin and 6 parts by weight of sesbania powder, mechanically mixing uniformly, molding, drying at 100 ℃ for 12 hours, and roasting at 400 ℃ for 3 hours to obtain an intermediate molded body. 15 parts by weight of the intermediate molded body was added to a urea solution (liquid-solid ratio: 6 mL/g) of 0.8mol/L and stirred uniformly. First, after raising the temperature to 80℃at a rate of 6℃per minute, the addition of ammonium chloride to the solution was started at a rate of 0.006mol/L per ten minutes while continuing to raise the temperature to 105℃at a rate of 1℃per minute, ammonium chloride was added to the solution at a rate of 0.015 mol/L per ten minutes until the concentration of the hydrolysis inhibitor in the solution reached 0.3mol/L, and reaction 4h was continued. After separation and washing, the mixture was dried at 100℃for 24 hours and calcined at 400℃for 2 hours to obtain a final product, and the results of the performance evaluation are shown in Table 1.
Example 2
Taking 85 parts by weight of 5A molecular sieve, 15 parts by weight of bentonite and 2 parts by weight of carboxymethyl cellulose, mechanically mixing uniformly, molding, drying at 120 ℃ for 6 hours, and roasting at 550 ℃ for 1 hour to obtain an intermediate molded body. 15 parts by weight of the intermediate molded body was added to a urea solution (3 mL/g in terms of liquid-solid ratio) of 0.2mol/L and stirred well. First, after raising the temperature to 95℃at a rate of 10℃per minute, the addition of ammonium chloride to the solution was started at a rate of 0.008mol/L per ten minutes while continuing to raise the temperature to 110℃at a rate of 2℃per minute, ammonium chloride was added to the solution at a rate of 0.01mol/L per ten minutes until the concentration of the hydrolysis inhibitor in the solution reached 0.2mol/L, and reaction 4h was carried out. After separation and washing, the mixture was dried at 150℃for 12 hours and calcined at 350℃for 10 hours to obtain a final product, and the results of the performance evaluation are shown in Table 1.
Example 3
Taking 80 parts by weight of 5A molecular sieve, 20 parts by weight of kaolin and 10 parts by weight of sesbania powder, mechanically mixing uniformly, molding, drying at 80 ℃ for 20h, and roasting at 350 ℃ for 2h to obtain an intermediate molded body. 15 parts by weight of the intermediate molded body was added to a 1.0mol/L urea solution (liquid-solid ratio: 10 mL/g) and stirred well. First, after raising the temperature to 90℃at a rate of 5℃per minute, the addition of ammonium chloride to the solution was started at a rate of 0.006mol/L per ten minutes while continuing to raise the temperature to 120℃at a rate of 1.5℃per minute, and ammonium chloride was added to the solution at a rate of 0.02mol/L per ten minutes until the concentration of the hydrolysis inhibitor in the solution reached 0.5mol/L, and reaction 4h was carried out. After separation and washing, the mixture was dried at 120℃for 20 hours and calcined at 500℃for 10 hours to obtain a final product, and the results of the performance evaluation are shown in Table 1.
Example 4
Taking 70 parts by weight of 5A molecular sieve, 30 parts by weight of attapulgite and 8 parts by weight of carboxymethyl cellulose, mechanically mixing uniformly, molding, drying at 110 ℃ for 24 hours, and roasting at 400 ℃ for 6 hours to obtain an intermediate molded body. 15 parts by weight of the intermediate molded body was added to a urea solution (liquid-solid ratio: 8 mL/g) of 0.6mol/L and stirred uniformly. First, after raising the temperature to 85℃at a rate of 8℃per minute, the addition of ammonium chloride to the solution was started at a rate of 0.005mol/L per ten minutes while continuing to raise the temperature to 95℃at a rate of 0.5℃per minute, ammonium chloride was added to the solution at a rate of 0.012mol/L per ten minutes until the concentration of the hydrolysis inhibitor in the solution reached 0.1mol/L, and reaction 6h was carried out. After separation and washing, the mixture was dried at 110℃for 18 hours and calcined at 300℃for 2 hours to obtain a final product, and the results of the performance evaluation are shown in Table 1.
Example 5
The adsorbent was prepared and evaluated essentially as in example 1. The difference is that: during the addition of the aqueous urea solution, no inhibitor was added. The results of evaluating the properties of the final product are shown in Table 1.
Comparative example 1
The adsorbent was prepared and evaluated as in example 1, except that: the molded product was directly used as a product without alkali treatment to prepare a reference agent B1, and the performance evaluation results are shown in Table 1.
Comparative example 2
The adsorbent was prepared and evaluated as in example 1, except that: the sodium hydroxide was used as an alkali source to prepare a reference agent B2, and the results of performance evaluation thereof are shown in Table 1.
In the examples and comparative examples of the present invention, the specific surface area was calculated by using nitrogen as the adsorbent and the BET method, the pore volume was calculated by using the t-plot method, and N 2 The adsorption quantity is measured by a volumetric adsorption instrument, and the intensity is measured by a GB/T13550-2515 method.
TABLE 1 evaluation results of adsorbent Performance