Purification and decoloration method and process of polyaluminium chloride solution for papermaking sizing precipitant
Technical Field
The invention relates to a method and a process for purifying and decoloring common polyaluminium chloride flocculating agent, in particular to a method and a process for decoloring polyaluminium chloride used for a papermaking sizing precipitator.
Background
The traditional acidic paper making process adopts dispersed rosin size as sizing agent and aluminum sulfate as sizing precipitator, so that the produced paper has poor whiteness, easy yellowing, easy brittleness, short storage life and poor sizing effect, and is not easy to manufacture high-grade paper. And polyaluminium chloride is adopted to replace aluminum sulfate as a papermaking sizing precipitator, sizing can be carried out under a neutral condition of pH 6.5-7.5, and the produced paper has high whiteness, fine surface, good smoothness, small difference between two surfaces, good glossiness, low yellowing value and high bursting strength, and calcium carbonate with high whiteness, small granularity and low price can be adopted as a papermaking filler. Meanwhile, the neutral sizing by adopting the polyaluminium chloride also has the advantages of reducing equipment corrosion, reducing the dosage of the sizing agent, increasing the retention rate of the sizing agent, accelerating dehydration and the like.
Polyaluminium chloride used in the sizing process for paper manufacture must be colorless or otherwise interfere with the whiteness of the paper and impart color to the paper. At present, the polyaluminium chloride is produced by using various raw materials and production processes in China, and except that a few polyaluminium chloride products prepared by using high-purity raw materials are colorless, most polyaluminium chloride products are produced by using aluminiferous ores, waste aluminium scraps, aluminium slag and byproduct hydrochloric acid, have certain color and cannot be used as a papermaking sizing precipitator. The polyaluminium chloride prepared by the high-purity raw material is expensive, the sizing cost is high, and the polyaluminium chloride is difficult to accept by paper-making manufacturers, so that the popularization and the application of the papermaking process using the polyaluminium chloride as the sizing precipitator in China are limited. Therefore, the practical and feasible process method is adopted to decolor the colored polyaluminium chloride, and the production of cheap and colorless polyaluminium chloride becomes the key for popularizing the papermaking process using the polyaluminium chloride as the sizing precipitator.
The invention provides a simple, convenient, rapid, efficient and economic method and process for purifying and decoloring polyaluminium chloride by adopting the micro-electrolysis principle of aluminic acid solubility and metallic aluminum surface corrosion to meet the requirement.
The purification and decoloration of the solution are mainly to remove or destroy chromophoric groups of inorganic ions, particularly heavy metal ions and organic matters which develop in the solution, and the color in the polyaluminium chloride solution is mainly formed by heavy metal ions, particularly Fe3+、Fe2+The main removal methods include chemical precipitation, chemical reduction, ion exchange, adsorption, electrolysis, and microelectrolysis. Wherein, the chemical precipitation method and the chemical reduction method need to add a precipitator and a reducing agent, the treatment cost is high, and the process is complex; the ion exchange method and the adsorption method have slow decoloring speed, high cost, easy saturation of ion exchange resin and adsorbent and complex regeneration process; the electrolysis method mainly removes color-developing substances by oxidation-reduction reactions occurring on the cathode and anode electrodes when energized, but consumes electric energy and requires a special electrolysis facilityThe power supply facilities and the formed electrode materials have high operating cost; the micro-electrolysis method is characterized in that substances with different oxidation-reduction potentials are subjected to primary cell reaction in an electrolyte solution, and chromogenic substances are removed by utilizing the oxidation-reduction reaction of a cathode and an anode of the primary cell. Chinese patent CN1277940 discloses a method for removing heavy metal ions and organic matters in polyaluminium chloride prepared by the reaction of high-alumina ash and waste acid by using an aluminum-carbon micro-electrolysis bed. The process needs additional active carbon, increases the production cost, carries out micro-electrolysis reaction at normal temperature, and has slow removal speed of heavy metals and organic matters and long reaction time.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to provide a simple, convenient, quick, efficient and economic purification and decoloration method and process for polyaluminium chloride.
The invention adds aluminum scraps, aluminum ingots, aluminum slag, aluminum wires and the like into common polyaluminium chloride for reductionThe heavy metal and organic impurities, especially Fe, in the polyaluminium chloride solution are removed by redox of the cathode and the anode by utilizing the acid dissolution of aluminum and the surface corrosion of metallic aluminum in the galvanic cell reaction at high temperature3+、Fe2+So as to achieve the purpose of decoloring. The reaction mechanism is as follows: when aluminum scraps and the like are added to the acidic polyaluminum chloride electrolyte, the surfaces of the aluminum scraps dissolve due to acidity, and Fe in the solution3+、Fe2+The heavy metal ions are reduced on the surface of the aluminum scraps and deposited on the surface of the aluminum scraps, so that the potential of a local electrode on the surface of the aluminum scraps is unbalanced, countless corrosion primary batteries are formed, and aluminum is dissolved in the anode of each primary battery; galvanic cellCathode of (H)+And other heavy metal ions are reduced and deposited, and meanwhile, organic matters in the solution are reduced or oxidized on the surface of the aluminum scraps or are newly generated by H in the solution2And (4) reducing.
Aluminum acid dissolution:
cathode:
(M is a metal simple substance)
The polyaluminium chloride raw material adopted by the invention can be a product produced by various methods, and the chromaticity of the polyaluminium chloride is not limited.
The added substances containing reduced aluminum can be aluminum scraps, aluminum ingots, aluminum wires and aluminum particles, the aluminum consumed by dissolution can improve the concentration of total aluminum in the polyaluminum chloride solution, the basicity of the product is improved by 1.0-2.0%, and the undissolved aluminum scraps can be washed by acidic water to remove heavy metals deposited on the surface of the aluminum scraps and then recycled.
The method for improving the temperature of the polyaluminium chloride solution can greatly accelerate the decolorization rate, wherein the higher the temperature is, the faster the decolorization rate is, and the shorter the decolorization time is, the temperature range is 15-80 ℃, and the optimal temperature range is 60-70 ℃.
Because most of the production of the polyaluminium chloride is carried out at the temperature of more than 50 ℃, the high-temperature decolorization process adopted by the invention only needs to add a decolorization reaction tank after the hot filtration process of the polyaluminium chloride production, and the decolorized solution is filtered again, and no additional heating process is needed, so the energy consumption is low, and the operation is simple.
The decolorized polyaluminum chloride is filtered, the solution is colorless transparent liquid, the chroma is below 15 ℃, and the decolorization rate is more than 95%.
The invention is further illustrated by the following examples:
example 1:
taking 300ml of a commercial polyaluminum chloride solution with the chroma of 400 ℃, placing the commercial polyaluminum chloride solution in a 500ml beaker, adding 5g of aluminum scraps, covering a watch glass, placing the watch glass in a 70 ℃ water bath for heating for 40min, filtering the solution to obtain a filtrate, namely a required product, and washing the residual aluminum scraps with acidic water for recycling. The chromaticity of the polyaluminium chloride solution before and after decolorization is measured by adopting a platinum-cobalt visual colorimetry, the content of metal elements is measured by adopting ICP-AES, the total aluminium and basicity are measured by adopting a chemical titration method, and the results are as follows:
detecting items
| Before decolorization
| After decolorization
|
Chroma (degree)
|
400
|
15
|
Al2O3Content%
|
11.22
|
11.70
|
Degree of basicity%
|
65.70
|
67.97
|
Cd (mg/L)
|
0.001
|
0.001
|
Cr (mg/L)
|
0.94
|
0.90
|
Cu (mg/L)
|
0.63
|
0.18
|
Fe (mg/L)
|
858.55
|
156.26
|
Mn (mg/L)
|
1.15
|
1.08
|
Ni (mg/L)
|
0.12
|
0.064
|
Pb (mg/L)
|
0.05
|
0.10
|
Zn (mg/L)
|
0.80
|
0.85
|
Al (mg/L)
|
70995
|
78168
|
Example 2:
300ml of a commercially available polyaluminum chloride solution having a chroma of 400 ℃ was taken and placed in a 500ml beakerIn the cup, 5g of aluminum scraps were added, and the cup was covered with a watchAnd (3) making the mixture react for 24 hours at room temperature of 22 ℃ in a dish, then filtering the solution to obtain filtrate, namely the required product, and washing the residual aluminum scraps with acidic water for recycling. The chromaticity of the polyaluminium chloride solution before and after decolorization is measured by a platinum-cobalt visual colorimetry, the total aluminum and basicity are measured by a chemical titration method, and the results are as follows:
detecting items
| Before decolorization
| After decolorization
|
Chroma (degree)
|
400
|
15
|
Al2O3Content%
|
11.22
|
13.73
|
Degree of basicity%
|
65.70
|
66.28
|
The above examples show that the invention has the advantages of high decoloring speed, high efficiency, simple process, good removal effect on heavy metal impurities in the polyaluminium chloride solution, improvement of the total aluminum content and basicity of the product, improvement of the product grade and good industrial popularization and application value.
In the drawings: 1 is polyaluminium chloride solution before decolorization, and 2 is polyaluminium chloride solution after decolorization.