Efficient Adsorbent-Desiccant Based on Aluminium Oxide

• Published in: Applied sciences Vol. 11; no. 6; p. 2457
• Main Authors: Meshcheryakov, Eugene P., Reshetnikov, Sergey I., Sandu, Mariya P., Knyazev, Alexey S., Kurzina, Irina A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 01-03-2021
• Subjects: adsorbent; Adsorbents; Adsorption; adsorption activity; aluminium oxide; Aluminum; Aluminum oxide; Bayer process; Cations; Compressed air; Desiccants; Gibbsite; Humidity; Hydroxides; Liquor; material modification with ions; Metals; Methods; Phase composition; Raw materials; Sintering; Water vapor; water vapour adsorption; Zeolites
• ISSN: 2076-3417; 2076-3417
• DOI: 10.3390/app11062457

The review describes the main methods of obtaining hydroxides and aluminium oxides (AO) of various structures from gibbsite. The promising techniques of obtaining AO adsorbents are discussed, namely the technique of thermal activation in the mode of pneumatic transport with gibbsite by heated air (TCA Gb) and the technique of thermal activation of gibbsite in centrifugal flash reactors (CTA Gb). The main methods of improving the adsorbent properties of AO, such as the optimisation of texture characteristics and phase composition, as well as the influence of the modification of aluminium oxide adsorbents, obtained using CTA and TCA technologies with cations of alkaline metals, are considered. It is shown that the modification allows a controlled variation of the characteristics of donor and acceptor active sites on the surface of adsorbents and, thus, a substantial increase in their adsorption activity, in particular, with respect to water vapour.