Disclosure of Invention
In view of the above, the invention provides a solid active material battery electrode material and a preparation method thereof, which are used for solving the problems of uneven slurry coating, uneven coating surface density, easy occurrence of defects, high energy consumption, high equipment requirement and the like of the existing battery electrode containing the gel active material.
In order to achieve the above purpose, the invention adopts the following technical scheme:
A preparation method of a solid active material battery electrode material comprises the following steps:
mixing the electrode components, and then sequentially carrying out kneading, grinding, secondary kneading, core extrusion, sintering, oil immersion and deoiling to obtain a solid active material battery electrode material;
the electrode component comprises 10-80 parts of graphite, 20-80 parts of carbon black, 5-20 parts of talcum powder, 1-10 parts of binder and 120 parts of water.
Preferably, the binder comprises one or more of polyvinylidene fluoride, polyacrylic acid, carboxymethyl cellulose, UV glue and xanthan gum.
Preferably, the kneading time is 1-4 hours, the kneading temperature is 0-85 ℃, the revolution speed of kneading is 20-300 rpm, and the rotation speed of kneading is 50-3000 rpm.
Preferably, the grinding time is 0.5-3 hours.
Preferably, the time of the secondary kneading is 0.5-2 hours, the temperature of the secondary kneading is 0-85 ℃, the revolution speed of the secondary kneading is 20-300 rpm, and the rotation speed of the secondary kneading is 50-3000 rpm.
Preferably, the extrusion core is formed by extruding the electrode component, and the pressure of the extrusion forming is 10-1000 kgf;
The sintering temperature is 60-150 ℃ and the sintering time is 0.5-2 h;
The temperature of the oil immersion is 50-100 ℃ and the time is 5-60 min;
the deoiling time is 2-30 min.
The invention also aims to provide the solid active material battery electrode material prepared by the preparation method.
Compared with the prior art, the invention has the following beneficial effects:
1. According to the invention, the consumption of glue and solvent is reduced on the basis of the preparation of the traditional battery active material electrode, so that the energy consumption waste is effectively reduced, the manufacturing cost of the battery is reduced, and the problem of product defects in the production process is reduced;
2. The invention aims at solving the problems that in the prior art, in the process of coating a battery pole piece by adopting liquid slurry, the problems of foil leakage, folds, scratches, dark marks, dry materials, high energy consumption and the like are easy to occur, and particularly, in order to ensure that a coating can be dried, an oven needs to be lengthened, the high temperature is needed, and the coating speed cannot be too high. The lengthened oven is mainly used for improving the coating speed, and the scheme of the invention can reduce the length of the oven at the same speed because the water content is relatively low; the solid active material battery electrode material prepared by the invention can be better used for battery production, improves the battery production efficiency, reduces the production energy consumption and improves the product defect problem in the process.
Detailed Description
The invention provides a preparation method of a solid active material battery electrode material, which comprises the following steps:
And mixing the electrode components, and then sequentially carrying out kneading, grinding, secondary kneading, core extrusion, sintering, oil immersion and deoiling to obtain the solid active material battery electrode material.
In the invention, the electrode component comprises 10-80 parts of graphite, 20-80 parts of carbon black, 5-20 parts of talcum powder, 1-10 parts of binder and 120 parts of water; preferably 20-40 parts of graphite, 30-50 parts of carbon black, 8-15 parts of talcum powder, 2-8 parts of binder and 120 parts of water; it is more preferable that the amount of graphite is 30 parts, carbon black is 40 parts, talc is 10 parts, binder is 5 parts, and water is 120 parts.
In the invention, the binder comprises one or more of polyvinylidene fluoride, polyacrylic acid, carboxymethyl cellulose, UV glue and xanthan gum.
In the invention, the kneading time is 1-4 h, and can be specifically 1.5 h, 2h, 2.5 h, 3 h and 3.5 h; the kneading temperature is 0-85 ℃, specifically 10 ℃, 20 ℃, 30 ℃, 40 ℃, 50 ℃, 60 ℃, 70 ℃ and 80 ℃; the revolution speed of kneading is 20-300 rpm, and can be specifically 40 rpm, 50 rpm, 80 rpm, 100 rpm, 120 rpm, 150 rpm, 180 rpm, 200 rpm, 220 rpm, 250 rpm and 280 rpm; the rotation speed of kneading is 50 to 3000rpm, and specifically may be 100 rpm, 200 rpm, 500 rpm, 800 rpm, 1000 rpm, 1500 rpm, 2000 rpm, 2500 rpm.
In the invention, the grinding time is 0.5-3 h, and can be specifically 1h, 1.5 h, 2h and 2.5 h.
In the invention, the time of the secondary kneading is 0.5-2 h, and can be specifically 0.8 h, 1h, 1.2 h, 1.5 h, 1.6 h and 1.8 h; the temperature of the secondary kneading is 0-85 ℃, and specifically can be 10 ℃, 20 ℃,30 ℃, 40 ℃, 50 ℃, 60 ℃, 70 ℃ and 80 ℃; the revolution speed of the secondary kneading is 20-300 rpm, and can be specifically 40 rpm, 50 rpm, 80 rpm, 100 rpm, 120 rpm, 150 rpm, 180 rpm, 200 rpm, 220 rpm, 250 rpm and 280 rpm; the rotation speed of the secondary kneading is 50 to 3000rpm, and specifically may be 100 rpm, 200 rpm, 500 rpm, 800 rpm, 1000 rpm, 1500 rpm, 2000 rpm, 2500 rpm.
In the invention, the extrusion core is used for extrusion molding of the electrode component, and the extrusion molding pressure is 10-1000 kgf, and can be specifically 50 kgf, 100 kgf, 200 kgf, 400 kgf, 500 kgf, 600 kgf and 800 kgf.
In the present invention, the extrusion is preferably performed by using a hydraulic press.
In the invention, the sintering temperature is 60-150 ℃, specifically 70 ℃,80 ℃, 90 ℃, 100 ℃, 120 ℃ and 140 ℃; the time is 0.5-2 h, and can be specifically 0.8 h, 1h, 1.2 h, 1.4 h, 1.5h, 1.6 h and 1.8 h.
In the invention, the temperature of the immersion oil is 50-100 ℃, specifically 55 ℃, 60 ℃, 65 ℃, 70 ℃, 75 ℃, 80 ℃, 85 ℃, 90 ℃ and 95 ℃; the oil immersion time is 5-60 min, and can be specifically 10 min, 20min, 30min, 40min and 50 min.
In the invention, the oil immersion is preferably carried out in an oil immersion pot, preferably silicone oil is adopted for oil immersion, and the oil immersion has the function of enabling lubrication to be smooth, soft and not easy to break.
In the invention, the deoiling time is 2-30 min, and can be specifically 5min, 10min, 15 min, 20min and 15 min.
In the present invention, the deoiling is preferably performed using a centrifugal deoiler.
The invention also provides the solid active material battery electrode material prepared by the preparation method.
The following description of the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clear and complete, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only some embodiments of the present invention, but not all embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be made by those skilled in the art based on the embodiments of the invention without making any inventive effort, are intended to be within the scope of the invention.
Example 1
Battery electrode composition: the weight portions of the components are as follows: 50 parts of graphite, 35 parts of carbon black, 10 parts of talcum powder, 5 parts of polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) and 120 parts of water.
The preparation process comprises the following steps: the components are mixed according to the weight parts, the mixture is kneaded in a kneader at 20 ℃ for 3h parts, the revolution speed of kneading is 100 rpm, the rotation speed is 500 rpm, the mixture is ground in a three-roll grinder for 1h after the kneading is finished, then the mixture is kneaded in a secondary kneader for 1h at 20 ℃, the revolution speed of the second kneading is 100 rpm, the rotation speed is 500 rpm, the mixture is extruded in a hydraulic press for 800 kgf and then dried in a core baking furnace, the mixture is sintered at 100 ℃ for 1h in an electric tunnel kiln, the mixture is immersed in an oil immersing pot (methyl silicone oil) for 30 min at 80 ℃, the oil is removed in a centrifugal deoiling machine for 10 min, and then the solid active material battery electrode material is obtained, the solid active material is rubbed and coated on a coating machine by a block finished product, and then the battery electrode plate is baked in an oven, as shown in fig. 1. The rubbed product is shown in fig. 1, and has fine surface quality, no problems of leakage, scratch, dark mark, etc., soft and fine chromaticity, and chromaticity of 55 (representing uniformity of surface density of electrode and uniformity of coating).
Example 2
Battery electrode composition: the weight portions of the components are as follows: 40 parts of graphite, 45 parts of carbon black, 10 parts of talcum powder, 5 parts of polyacrylic acid (PAA) and 120 parts of water.
The preparation process is the same as in example 1, and the obtained battery electrode plate is shown in fig. 2. The rubbed product is shown in fig. 2, and has fine surface quality, no problems of leakage, scratch, dark mark, etc., soft and fine chromaticity, and chromaticity of 41 (representing uniformity of surface density of electrode and uniformity of coating).
Example 3
Battery electrode composition: the weight portions of the components are as follows: 30 parts of graphite, 55 parts of carbon black, 10 parts of talcum powder, 5 parts of carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) and 120 parts of water.
The preparation process is the same as in example 1, and the obtained battery electrode plate is shown in fig. 3. The rubbed product is shown in fig. 3, and has fine surface quality, no problems of leakage, scratch, dark mark, etc., soft and fine chromaticity, and chromaticity of 36 (representing uniformity of surface density of electrode and uniformity of coating).
Example 4
Battery electrode composition: the weight portions of the components are as follows: 80 parts of graphite, 60 parts of carbon black, 5 parts of talcum powder, 10 parts of polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) and 120 parts of water.
The preparation process comprises the following steps: the components are mixed according to the weight parts, the mixture is kneaded in a kneader at 50 ℃ for 1 h, the revolution speed of kneading is 200 rpm, the rotation speed is 1000 rpm, the mixture is ground in a three-roller grinder for 2 h after the kneading is finished, then the mixture is kneaded in a secondary kneader for 0.5 h at 20 ℃, the revolution speed of the secondary kneading is 200 rpm, the rotation speed is 800 rpm, the mixture is dried in a core baking furnace after being extruded by 200 kgf in a hydraulic press, the mixture is sintered in an electric tunnel kiln for 2 h at 60 ℃, the mixture is soaked in oil for 20 min at 100 ℃ in a soaking pot (methyl silicone oil), and the mixture is deoiled in a centrifugal deoiling machine for 15 min, thus obtaining the solid active material battery electrode material.
Example 5
Battery electrode composition: the weight portions of the components are as follows: 20 parts of graphite, 20 parts of carbon black, 6 parts of talcum powder, 3 parts of carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) and 120 parts of water.
The preparation process comprises the following steps: the components are mixed according to the weight parts, are kneaded in a kneader at 10 ℃ for 4 h, the revolution speed of kneading is 50 rpm, the rotation speed is 200 rpm, the mixture is ground in a three-roller grinder after the kneading is finished for 3 h, then the mixture is kneaded in a secondary kneader at 20 ℃ for 1.5 h, the revolution speed of the secondary kneading is 50 rpm, the rotation speed is 200 rpm, the mixture is dried in a core baking furnace after being extruded by 500 kgf in a hydraulic press, sintered in an electric tunnel kiln at 150 ℃ for 2h, soaked in oil 50 min at 50 ℃ in a soaking pot (methyl silicone oil), and deoiled in a centrifugal deoiling machine for 30 min, and the solid active substance battery electrode material is obtained.
In the present specification, each embodiment is described in a progressive manner, and each embodiment is mainly described in a different point from other embodiments, and identical and similar parts between the embodiments are all enough to refer to each other.
The previous description of the disclosed embodiments is provided to enable any person skilled in the art to make or use the present invention. Various modifications to these embodiments will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art, and the generic principles defined herein may be applied to other embodiments without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention. Thus, the present invention is not intended to be limited to the embodiments shown herein but is to be accorded the widest scope consistent with the principles and novel features disclosed herein.