Integral alumina material and preparation method thereof
Technical Field
The invention relates to an integral aluminum oxide material and a preparation method thereof, belonging to the field of inorganic material preparation.
Background
The integral macroporous oxide has a larger pore channel structure, a higher specific surface area and good thermal stability, and is widely applied to the fields of heterogeneous catalysts, catalyst carriers, adsorption separation materials, chromatographic packing, electrode materials, acoustic resistance and thermal resistance materials and the like.
"Synthesis of Porous Silica and Metal Oxide particles used Emulsion-modified Polymer foams" (Chemical Material,2004,16:4245-2、Al2O3、TiO2And ZrO2After the precursor is converted, the template is finally roasted to remove the template to obtain the corresponding macroporous oxide material, and the pore diameter of the macropore can be controlled between a micron level and a millimeter level. In the method, the preparation of the template needs to use a surfactant and a stabilizer, the preparation process is complicated, the cost of the used raw materials including the surfactant is high, and the used acrylamide organic monomer has carcinogenicity. In addition, when the template is removed by baking, the emission irritation is strong, and the environmental pollution is large.
"Macroporos aluminum monolithins prepared by filing polymer foamswitch aluminum hydrosols" (J Mater. Sci.,2009,44: 931-938.) reported a technique of preparing a Macroporous polystyrene foam template by a high concentration emulsion polymerization method, then filling the template with an alumina hydrosol, converting, and removing the template by calcination to obtain the monolithic Macroporous alumina. The technology takes styrene as an organic monomer, divinyl benzene as a cross-linking agent, SPAN-80 as a surfactant and azodiisobutyronitrile as an initiator, and the cost of the used organic raw materials and the surfactant is relatively low.
CN101200297A discloses a preparation method of monolithic macroporous alumina: preparing an integral macroporous organic template by using styrene and divinylbenzene as monomers by adopting a reverse concentrated emulsion method; preparation of Al by using aluminium isopropoxide or pseudo-boehmite as precursor2O3Hydrosol; mixing Al2O3Filling the hydrosol into the integral macroporous organic template; and drying the filled integral organic/inorganic composite, and roasting at 600-900 ℃ to remove the template to obtain the integral macroporous alumina. The method has the advantages that the preparation process is simple and easy to implement, and the prepared integral macroporous alumina has micron-sized interconnected macroporous channels with the pore diameter of 1-50 mu m. The method for preparing the integral macroporous alumina is simple and easy to implement, but the volume fraction of the water phase in the method accounts for 75-90%, and correspondingly the volume fraction of the organic monomer is relatively low. The mechanical strength of the material is low. Meanwhile, similar to the other patents, the organic monomer has a certain toxicity, and when the template is removed by roasting, the emission has strong irritation, and the environment is polluted.
In a word, the existing preparation method of the integral macroporous alumina generally adopts an organic high polymer template method. The preparation of the macroporous alumina comprises at least three steps: (1) preparing an organic high polymer template by taking an organic matter as a raw material through a polymerization reaction: (2) filling a precursor of the integral macroporous oxide into a template, and converting the filled precursor in the template: (3) and (4) roasting to remove the template to obtain the integral macroporous oxide. The preparation of the integral macroporous alumina material has the problems of certain toxicity of the monomer for preparing the template, large template dosage, high preparation cost, complex process implementation and the like in the preparation of the integral macroporous alumina material. The resulting material has only one type of macroporous distribution, and the mechanical strength of the material is low.
Disclosure of Invention
Aiming at the defects in the prior art, the invention provides an integral aluminum oxide material and a preparation method thereof. The method does not add an organic template, the preparation process is environment-friendly, the process is simple and easy to implement, and the product of the invention has macroscopic and microscopic macroporous structures, is very suitable to be used as a heterogeneous catalytic carrier, and is easy for industrial production.
The integral alumina material is a honeycomb structure, and the distribution number of honeycomb holes on the cross section is 1-50 holes/cm on the basis of the cross section vertical to the honeycomb pore passage2Preferably 2 to 25 pores/cm2An aperture; the shape of the opening of the honeycomb hole is round, clover-shaped, square or other special shapes, preferably round, clover-shaped and square; the walls of the honeycomb holes are provided with microscopic macroporous pores, the pore diameter of the macropores is 50-1000nm, the macropores are uniformly distributed and are communicated in a three-dimensional way, and the ratio of the pore diameter of the macropores to the corresponding wall thickness is 0.5-4.5, preferably 1-4.
The monolithic alumina materials of the present invention have a total porosity of 20% to 90%, preferably 30% to 75%; specific surface area of 100-450m2G, pore volume of 0.3-1.5cm3(ii) in terms of/g. The mechanical strength of the monolithic alumina material is 5-30N/mm, preferably 10-25N/mm.
Macroscopic appearances of the monolithic alumina materials of the present invention include, but are not limited to, cylindrical, bar-shaped, spherical, and other types of monolithic morphologies.
The preparation method of the monolithic alumina material comprises the following steps:
(1) uniformly dispersing boehmite powder in water to obtain a boehmite suspension, slowly adding a peptizing agent into the boehmite powder suspension, and after the addition is finished, heating and aging for a certain time to obtain clear alumina sol;
(2) uniformly mixing inorganic aluminum salt, polyethylene glycol, the alumina sol obtained in the step (1), an amide compound and a low-carbon alcohol aqueous solution, then adding propylene oxide and/or pyridine, uniformly mixing, casting the mixture into a reverse honeycomb mould, and waiting until gel is obtained; wherein the viscosity average molecular weight of the polyethylene glycol is 10000-;
(3) aging the gel obtained in the step (2) at 20-80 ℃ for 12-120 hours, and removing the die to obtain an aged product;
(4) and soaking the aged product in a low-carbon alcohol aqueous solution, then carrying out solid-liquid separation, and drying and roasting a solid phase to obtain the integral aluminum oxide material.
The solid content of the suspension liquid in the step (1) is 1-15 wt%.
The step (1) is carried out under the condition of stirring, and the aging is carried out in a heating reflux mode, wherein the reflux temperature is 70-95 ℃, and the reflux time is 1-12 hours.
The peptizing agent in the step (1) is a commonly used peptizing agent in the preparation process of the aluminum sol, and can be one or more of hydrochloric acid, nitric acid, sulfuric acid, formic acid or acetic acid. The peptizing agent (the dosage of which is H contained in the peptizing agent) in the step (1)+Calculated) with boehmite powder (in an amount calculated on the basis of Al contained)+The mol ratio of Al to Al is 0.05-1.
Based on the weight of the mixture obtained in the step (2), the adding amount of the lower alcohol aqueous solution is 10-80 wt%, the adding amount of the inorganic aluminum salt is 5-30 wt%, the adding amount of the aluminum sol is 1-10 wt%, and the adding amount of the polyethylene glycol is 0.1-3.0 wt%, preferably 0.2-2.0 wt%; wherein the mass ratio of water to the low-carbon alcohol in the low-carbon alcohol aqueous solution is 1.0-1.5; the addition amount of the amide compound is 0.1-5.0 wt%.
The order of adding the various materials in step (2) is not particularly limited, and is preferably: water, low carbon alcohol, inorganic aluminum salt, alumina sol, polyethylene glycol and organic compound containing amide group are added in sequence. Generally, before the latter material is added, the material added previously needs to be mixed uniformly.
The inorganic aluminum salt in the step (2) is one or more of aluminum nitrate, aluminum chloride or aluminum sulfate.
The lower alcohol in the steps (2) and (4) is generally C5The alcohol is preferably one or more of methanol, ethanol, n-propanol and isopropanol, and most preferably ethanol and/or propanol.
The amide compound in the step (2) can be one or more of formamide, acetamide, N-dimethylformamide, N-methylacetamide, benzamide and 2-phenylacetamide.
The propylene oxide and/or pyridine and Al in the step (3)3+(not including Al in the alumina sol) in a molar ratio of 1.5 to 9.5, preferably 3.0 to 7.5. The propylene oxide and pyridine may be mixed in any proportion.
The shape of the reverse honeycomb mold in the step (3) can be selected or manufactured according to actual needs, and the material of the mold includes but is not limited to various plastic materials, metal materials, wood materials and other materials.
The soaking conditions in the step (4) are as follows: the soaking temperature is 10-80 ℃, and the soaking time is 12-60 hours.
The mass concentration of the lower alcohol aqueous solution used for soaking in the step (4) is not less than 50 wt%.
The drying in the step (4) is ordinary normal pressure drying, the drying temperature is not more than 120 ℃, and is preferably 20-100 ℃, and the drying is carried out until the product is not obviously reduced in weight. The roasting is carried out at 400-700 ℃ for 1-24 hours, preferably at 500-650 ℃ for 2-12 hours.
The invention casts the sol of inorganic aluminum salt on the reverse honeycomb mould to finally form a super large honeycomb pore structure. For the pore wall of the honeycomb super-large pore, the invention can obtain the three-dimensional through and uniformly distributed large pore by utilizing the sol-gel reaction characteristic of inorganic aluminum salt: the aluminum sol crystal seeds are introduced into the preparation system to induce the aluminum oxide precursor to evolve from the amorphous precursor to the crystalline precursor, so that the aluminum oxide precursor can be easily converted into the gamma crystalline state at a lower roasting temperature, and the energy consumption can be obviously saved. The introduction of the alumina sol crystal seed ensures that the wall of the macroporous hole generates a large amount of particles, and the wall of the macroporous hole is changed from a smooth compact state into a particle aggregate, which is beneficial to generating particle pores and improving the specific surface area of the material, thereby enlarging the contact area of the reaction material and the catalyst to improve the reaction activity. The addition of the amide compound can inhibit the generation of ultra-large pores, so that the large pores are more uniformly concentrated, and the stress effect caused by nonuniform pore sizes is favorably eliminated. The alumina material of the present invention ultimately forms a monolithic morphology having a macro-super macro pore structure.
The integral macroporous alumina can be used as a carrier of a heterogeneous catalyst, and is applied to various macromolecular catalytic reactions, such as hydrogenation reaction, alkylation reaction, desulfurization and denitration reaction, pollutant adsorption and degradation in the water treatment process and the like.
Drawings
Fig. 1 is a schematic view of the pore channel structure of the monolithic macroporous alumina material, and the right side in the figure is a scanning electron microscope image of the macroporous alumina prepared in example 1.
Figure 2 is an XRD pattern of the monolithic macroporous alumina prepared in example 1.
Detailed Description
The present invention will be described in further detail with reference to examples. In the invention, the shape of the honeycomb super-large hole of the integral material is directly observed or photographed by an optical microscope or an optical camera, and the large hole on the wall of the honeycomb hole and the three-dimensional through condition of the large hole are observed by a scanning electron microscope. The crystalline state was tested by XRD. The porosity and the average pore diameter of the macroporous alumina are characterized and tested by a mercury intrusion method. The mechanical strength of the material was tested using a DL2 type strength tester manufactured by daintian scientific and technological development ltd. The boehmite powder is a product sold in the market or manufactured by self.
Example 1
Preparing aluminum sol: mixing boehmite powder and distilled water to form a suspension (solid content is 3 wt%), dropwise adding hydrochloric acid under the condition of continuous stirring to meet the acid/aluminum molar ratio of 0.07, and heating to 85 ℃ after the dropwise adding, and refluxing for 5 hours to form clear aluminum sol.
Uniformly mixing water, absolute ethyl alcohol, aluminum chloride, polyethylene glycol, aluminum sol and formamide at room temperature (about 25 ℃), and then adding pyridine, wherein the mixture comprises the following components in parts by weight: 22% of water, 21% of ethanol, 18% of aluminum chloride, 0.3% of polyethylene glycol (viscosity average molecular weight is 100 ten thousand), 5% of alumina sol, 1% of formamide and 32.7% of pyridine. And after uniform mixing, casting the mixture into a selected reverse honeycomb mould, continuing aging for 48 hours at 40 ℃ after gelation, soaking the aged mixture for 48 hours by using 55wt% of ethanol aqueous solution after demoulding, drying at 40 ℃ until the product is not obviously reduced after soaking and removing a liquid phase, and then roasting for 3 hours at 550 ℃ to obtain the cylindrical integral aluminum oxide material.
The obtained monolithic alumina material had a total porosity of 81% and a specific surface area of 347m2G, pore volume 0.55cm3(ii) in terms of/g. The mechanical strength of the monolithic alumina material was 13N/mm. The shape of the hole opening of the honeycomb holes is that the diameter of a circular hole is 1mm, and the distribution number of the honeycomb holes on the cross section is 30 holes/cm2The honeycomb holes are distributed in order on the cross section. The walls of the honeycomb holes are provided with microscopic macroporous pores, the pore diameter of the macropores is 440nm, the macropores of the walls of the honeycomb holes are uniformly distributed and are communicated in a three-dimensional mode, and the ratio of the pore diameter of the macropores contained in the walls of the honeycomb holes to the corresponding wall thickness is 0.7.
Example 2
The preparation of the aluminum sol was the same as in example 1.
Uniformly mixing water, absolute ethyl alcohol, aluminum chloride, polyethylene glycol, aluminum sol and acetamide at room temperature (about 25 ℃), and then adding propylene oxide, wherein the mixture comprises the following components in parts by weight: 23% of water, 20% of ethanol, 22% of aluminum chloride, 0.5% of polyethylene glycol (viscosity-average molecular weight is 100 ten thousand), 2% of alumina sol, 2.0% of formamide and 30.5% of propylene oxide. After even mixing, casting into a selected reverse honeycomb mould, continuously aging for 48 hours at 40 ℃ after gelation, soaking the aged mixture for 48 hours by ethanol after demoulding, and drying at 40 ℃ until the product is not obviously reduced in weight any more after soaking and removing a liquid phase. Then calcined at 450 ℃ for 5 hours and then cooled to room temperature to obtain square monolithic macroporous alumina.
The obtained monolithic alumina material had a total porosity of 84% and a specific surface area of 422m2/g,Pore volume of 0.62cm3(ii) in terms of/g. The mechanical strength of the monolithic alumina material was 11N/mm. The shape of the openings of the honeycomb holes is circular. The pore diameter is 1.5mm, and the honeycomb pores on the cross section are distributed at 20 pores/cm2The holes are distributed orderly, the wall of the honeycomb hole is provided with microscopic macroporous pores, the pore diameter of the macropores is 210nm, the macropores of the wall of the honeycomb hole are distributed uniformly and are communicated in a three-dimensional mode, and the ratio of the pore diameter of the macropores contained in the wall of the honeycomb hole to the corresponding wall thickness is 1.5.
Example 3
Preparing aluminum sol: mixing boehmite powder and distilled water to form suspension (solid content is 1.5 wt%), dropwise adding acetic acid under the condition of continuous stirring to meet the acid/aluminum molar ratio of 0.1, and heating to 90 ℃ after the dropwise adding is finished, and refluxing for 10 hours to form clear sol.
Uniformly mixing water, absolute ethyl alcohol, aluminum chloride, polyethylene glycol, aluminum sol and N, N-dimethylformamide at room temperature (about 25 ℃), and then adding pyridine, wherein the mixture comprises the following components in parts by weight: 20% of water, 20% of ethanol, 22% of aluminum chloride, 0.5% of polyethylene glycol (viscosity-average molecular weight is 100 ten thousand), 5% of alumina sol, 2.5% of formamide and 30.0% of pyridine. After uniform mixing, the sol is cast into a reverse honeycomb mould, after gelling, the sol is aged for 48 hours at 40 ℃, then the aged mixture is soaked in 80wt% ethanol water for 72 hours, after soaking and liquid phase removal, the mixture is dried at 40 ℃ until the product is not obviously reduced. Then roasting at 700 ℃ for 2.5 hours to obtain the cylindrical integral macroporous alumina.
The obtained monolithic alumina material had a total porosity of 79% and a specific surface area of 443m2G, pore volume 0.74cm3The mechanical strength of the monolithic alumina material was 17N/mm. The shape of the hole of the honeycomb holes is square. The side length of the square hole is 3mm, and the honeycomb holes on the cross section are distributed at 8 holes/cm2The holes are distributed orderly, the wall of the honeycomb hole is provided with microscopic macroporous pores, the pore diameter of the macropores is 184nm, the macropores of the wall of the honeycomb hole are distributed uniformly and are communicated in a three-dimensional mode, and the ratio of the pore diameter of the macropores contained in the wall of the honeycomb hole to the corresponding wall thickness is 1.2.
Example 4
The monolithic alumina obtained in example 1 was used as an adsorbent for adsorbing lead-containing wastewater. The adsorbent was added to the lead-containing wastewater at a ratio of 6 g/L. The lead content in the test wastewater is reduced to 0.8mg/L from 35mg/L by static adsorption for 10 minutes at room temperature, and the lead adsorption removal rate reaches 97.7 percent.
Comparative example 1
Macroporous alumina was prepared according to the method of Chemical materials, 2004,16: 4245-. The material obtained has only one type of macropore distribution and a mechanical strength of only 1N/mm.
Comparative example 2
Monolithic macroporous alumina was prepared according to the method of CN101200297A, and the obtained material had only one type of macroporous distribution and mechanical strength of only 2N/mm. When the material is used for the lead-containing wastewater in example 4, the lead adsorption removal rate is only 74.4%.