High-strength geopolymer hollow microsphere, preparation method thereof and phase change energy storage microsphere

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11685683-B2
Application number	US-201816485450-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 25, 2018
Priority date	Jun 21, 2017
Publication date	Jun 27, 2023
Grant date	Jun 27, 2023

Abstract

A high-strength geopolymer hollow microsphere, a preparation method thereof and a phase change energy storage microsphere are provided, including: dissolving sodium hydroxide, sodium silicate and spheroidizing aid in water to form a solution A, and adding active powder to the solution A, stirring and uniformly mixing to form a slurry B, adding the slurry B to an oil phase, stirring and dispersing into balls, filtering to obtain geopolymer microspheres I, washing the geopolymer microspheres I, and then carrying out a high-temperature calcination to obtain the high-strength geopolymer hollow microspheres II; using the high-strength geopolymer hollow microsphere as a carrier, absorbing a phase change material into the carrier, and mixing a microsphere carrying the phase change material with an epoxy resin, adding a powder dispersant and stirring to disperse the microsphere, after the epoxy resin is solidified, screening the superfluous powder dispersant to obtain the phase energy storage microsphere.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of preparing high-strength geopolymer hollow microspheres, comprising: dissolving sodium hydroxide (NaOH), sodium silicate (Na 2 SiO 3 .9H 2 O) and a spheroidizing aid in water to form a solution, adding active powder to the solution to obtain a first mixture, stirring and uniformly mixing the first mixture to form a slurry, adding the slurry to an oil phase dispersion medium to obtain a second mixture, stirring the second mixture to disperse the slurry into the oil phase dispersion medium to form balls, after the stirring, filtering the second mixture to obtain geopolymer microspheres, washing the geopolymer microspheres, and then carrying out a high-temperature calcination on the geopolymer microspheres to obtain the high-strength geopolymer hollow microspheres; wherein a mass percentage of the sodium hydroxide (NaOH), the sodium silicate (Na 2 SiO 3 .9H 2 O) and the spheroidizing aid is (10-40%): (20-60%): (20-60%), a mass ratio of the water to the active powder is 1:2-1, the slurry accounts for 5%-50% of a volume of the oil phase dispersion medium, a temperature of the high-temperature calcination is 800-1500° C., and a time of the high-temperature calcination is 1-8 hours.

2. The method of preparing the high-strength geopolymer hollow microspheres of claim 1 , wherein the mass percentage of the sodium hydroxide (NaOH), the sodium silicate (Na 2 SiO 3 .9H 2 O) and the spheroidizing aid is (12-20%): (40-60%): (30-50%), the mass ratio of the water to the active powder is 1:1.5-1, and the slurry B accounts for 10%-40% of the volume of the oil phase dispersion medium.

3. The method of preparing the high-strength geopolymer hollow microspheres of claim 1 , wherein the temperature of the high-temperature calcination is 850-1200° C., and the time of the high-temperature calcination is 1-2 hours.

4. The method of preparing the high-strength geopolymer hollow microspheres of claim 1 , wherein the spheroidizing aid is a sodium salt and a potassium salt.

5. The method of preparing the high-strength geopolymer hollow microspheres of claim 4 , wherein the sodium salt comprises one or more selected from the group consisting of sodium carbonate, sodium chloride, sodium nitrate, and sodium sulfate; and the potassium salt comprises one or more selected from the group consisting of potassium chloride, potassium carbonate, and potassium sulfate.

6. The method of preparing the high-strength geopolymer hollow microspheres of claim 1 , wherein the active powder comprises one or more selected from the group consisting of fly ash, metakaolin and slag, and the active powder has a mesh number of 500-1000 mesh.

7. The method of preparing the high-strength geopolymer hollow microspheres of claim 1 , wherein the oil phase dispersion medium is a corn oil, a soybean oil, a peanut oil, a kerosene, a castor oil, or a rapeseed oil.

8. The method of preparing the high-strength geopolymer hollow microspheres of claim 1 , wherein a temperature of the oil phase dispersion medium is 50-90° C.

9. The method of preparing the high-strength geopolymer hollow microspheres of claim 1 , wherein a stirring speed of dispersing the slurry into the oil phase dispersion medium is 400-1000 r/min, and a stirring time is 0.5-3 hours.

Assignees

• Univ China Petroleum East China

Inventors

• Liu Huajie
• Bu Yuhuan
• Ma Rui
• Guo Shenglai
• An Longlong

Classifications

• C03B19/1075 Primary

  by blowing, pressing, centrifuging, rolling or dripping · CPC title

• C04B20/1037

  obtained otherwise than by reactions only involving carbon-to-carbon unsaturated bonds · CPC title

• C04B14/044

  Polysilicates, e.g. geopolymers · CPC title

• C03B19/107 Primary

  Forming hollow beads (chemical aspects C03C11/002) · CPC title

• C04B12/005

  Geopolymer cements, e.g. reaction products of aluminosilicates with alkali metal hydroxides or silicates · CPC title