Preparation method and application of lithium iron phosphate
Technical Field
The invention relates to the technical field of preparation of lithium ion battery anode materials, in particular to a preparation method and application of lithium iron phosphate.
Background
With the increasing exhaustion of petroleum resources, the development of electric vehicles is imperative. At present, the most critical technology of electric vehicles is to develop a secondary battery that is inexpensive, safe, and environmentally friendly. Lithium ion batteries are known as the best candidates for power batteries of electric vehicles due to their high voltage, high specific energy and high power. For lithium ion batteries, the positive electrode material is a key factor in determining electrochemical performance, safety performance, energy density, and price cost. The first report in 1997 of olivine-structured LiFePO by Goodenough et al4The reversible lithium intercalation-deintercalation characteristics of (1). The lithium ion battery anode material has the advantages of good safety performance, long cycle life, wide raw material source, environmental friendliness and the like, and is always a hotspot for research and development of lithium ion battery anode materials.
The current mainstream process of lithium iron phosphate takes anhydrous iron phosphate as a precursor, and the synthesis of the lithium iron phosphate by adopting the anhydrous iron phosphate has the following advantages: 1. the operation process is simple, and the industrialization maturity is high; 2. the obtained lithium iron phosphate has high capacity and high compaction density; 3. the safety performance is good; 4 the cycle life is long.
At present, the conventional lithium iron phosphate is synthesized by generally adopting ferrous salt, phosphate and an oxidant to obtain ferric phosphate dihydrate, then drying and calcining at high temperature to obtain anhydrous ferric phosphate, then mixing the anhydrous ferric phosphate, lithium carbonate, glucose and pure water according to a certain proportion, and obtaining the battery-grade lithium iron phosphate by ball sanding, spray drying, high-temperature calcination (nitrogen protection), air flow crushing, iron removal and packaging. The process has high maturity and is generally used. However, it has the following disadvantages:
firstly, the environmental protection pressure is large in the production process of the anhydrous iron phosphate, the wastewater treatment cost is high, according to statistics, nearly seventy tons of wastewater are generated by each ton of iron phosphate, and the wastewater contains some pollution factors such as sulfate radicals, phosphate radicals, ammonium radicals and iron ions, the treatment capacity is large, and the treatment cost is high.
Secondly, the production process of the anhydrous ferric phosphate is long in process flow, the process flow comprises the processes of synthesis of the dihydrate ferric phosphate, washing, drying, high-temperature calcination and dehydration and the like, the equipment investment is large, the labor cost and the energy consumption cost are high, the cost of the final anhydrous ferric phosphate product is high, and the cost of the lithium iron phosphate is high.
Thirdly, lithium carbonate is expensive in production of lithium iron phosphate, energy consumption is high in the production process, and cost is high.
In view of the above, the present invention is particularly proposed.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to provide a preparation method of lithium iron phosphate, which is simple and short in process, realizes a one-step synthesis process of anhydrous iron phosphate in an inorganic system, does not use steam and an oxidant in the process, simplifies the process flow, produces less wastewater, and has low cost, and the obtained anhydrous iron phosphate has good dispersibility and uniform particle size distribution. Meanwhile, in the pyrogenic synthesis stage of the lithium iron phosphate material, low-cost Li is adopted3PO4And H3PO4Commonly used and relatively expensive Li as substitute material2CO3The lithium ion battery anode material lithium iron phosphate prepared by the method has lower cost, and the comprehensive performances of the material such as compaction density, specific capacity and the like are ensured.
The second purpose of the present invention is to provide the use of the lithium iron phosphate prepared by the above method for preparing lithium iron phosphate in the preparation of a lithium ion battery anode, which simplifies the process flow, saves the preparation cost, and has high compacted density and specific capacity of the prepared lithium ion battery anode.
In order to achieve the above purpose of the present invention, the following technical solutions are adopted:
a preparation method of lithium iron phosphate comprises the following steps:
(a) mixing a ferrous sulfate solution and a phosphate solution and carrying out a synthesis reaction, aging the solution after the synthesis reaction, carrying out solid-liquid separation on the aged solution, washing a filter cake, drying, calcining, crushing, screening and removing iron to obtain a mixture of anhydrous iron phosphate and ferric oxide;
(b) the mixture obtained in step (a) and Li3PO4、H3PO4Adding glucose in sequenceObtaining mixed slurry in the solution, grinding the mixed slurry to obtain nanoscale mixed slurry, and drying the nanoscale mixed slurry to obtain a mixed powder material;
(c) and (c) roasting the mixed powder material obtained in the step (b) at the temperature of 700 ℃ and 800 ℃, and crushing to obtain the lithium iron phosphate.
The preparation method of the lithium iron phosphate provided by the invention is simple and feasible, has short process, realizes the one-step synthesis process of the anhydrous iron phosphate in an inorganic system, does not use steam and an oxidant in the process, simplifies the process flow, has small wastewater generation amount and low cost, and the obtained anhydrous iron phosphate has good dispersibility and uniform particle size distribution. Meanwhile, in the pyrogenic synthesis stage of the lithium iron phosphate material, low-cost Li is adopted3PO4And H3PO4Commonly used and relatively expensive Li as substitute material2CO3The lithium ion battery anode material lithium iron phosphate prepared by the method has lower cost, and the comprehensive performances of the material such as compaction density, specific capacity and the like are ensured.
The preparation method involves the following main chemical reactions:
3FeSO4+2NH4H2PO4+4NH3H2O+4H2O→Fe3(PO4)2·8H2O↓+3(NH4)2SO4;
4Fe3(PO4)2·8H2O+3O2→8FePO4+2Fe2O3+32H2O;
8FePO4+2Fe2O3+3C+4Li3PO4→12LiFePO4+3CO2。
the method comprises the steps of synthesizing ferrous phosphate in the first step, controlling the concentration, temperature, pH and mixing speed of a ferrous sulfate solution and a phosphate solution, controlling the stirring speed, temperature and time after the ferrous sulfate solution and the phosphate solution enter a reaction kettle, and thus obtaining pure ferrous phosphate precipitate.
And washing the obtained ferrous phosphate, and then drying, calcining, screening and removing iron to obtain a battery-grade anhydrous ferric phosphate and ferric oxide mixture with good dispersibility, high purity and uniform particle size distribution. Wherein, the concentrated iron removal is carried out by adopting an electromagnetic dry powder iron remover with the medium node field intensity up to 13000GS, and the magnetic impurity (Fe) in the product is less than or equal to 0.5 ppm.
The obtained filtrate and washing liquid are treated step by step, the wastewater is concentrated through RO (reverse osmosis), the produced fresh water is recycled, the water cost is saved, the concentrated water is subjected to MVR (multiple effect evaporation) system to obtain byproducts of ammonium sulfate and ammonium phosphate which are high-quality fertilizer raw materials, the ammonium sulfate and the ammonium phosphate can be used for agricultural organic fertilizers and water-soluble fertilizers, and half of the sewage treatment cost is recovered.
Secondly, in the pyrogenic process synthesis stage of the lithium iron phosphate material, low-cost Li is adopted3PO4And H3PO4Common and expensive Li as substitute material2CO3And carrying out ball milling, spray drying, high-temperature calcination (under nitrogen protection), airflow crushing, iron removal and packaging to obtain the battery-grade lithium iron phosphate.
The battery-grade lithium phosphate used by the obtained lithium iron phosphate material not only solves the problem of a lithium source, but also supplements a phosphorus source, and the material cost is lower than that of the battery-grade lithium carbonate used alone by more than 20%. Compared with the traditional process method, the compaction density and the specific capacity of the obtained lithium iron phosphate material are more coordinated and improved to a certain extent.
Through comprehensive calculation, the value of the by-product of the anhydrous iron phosphate is calculated, by adopting the process, the cost of each ton of iron phosphate is lower than 5000 yuan, while the cost of each ton of iron phosphate in the conventional process is generally 8000-; the cost of each ton of lithium iron phosphate is lower than 17000 yuan, the current power type lithium iron phosphate is 3.5-3.7 ten thousand yuan/ton, the energy storage type lithium iron phosphate is 2.5-2.8 ten thousand yuan/ton, and the integral price advantage is very obvious.
Preferably, the mixed powder material obtained in the step (b) is baked under the heat preservation condition of 720-780 ℃, and 730 ℃, 740 ℃, 750 ℃, 760 ℃ or 770 ℃ can be selected.
Preferably, in the step (a), the ferrous sulfate solution is prepared by dissolving, reducing, filtering and clarifying ferrous sulfate heptahydrate crystals which are titanium white byproducts.
The ferrous sulfate heptahydrate crystal is a titanium white byproduct, and due to the fact that the titanium white byproduct is large in amount, low in utilization value and serious in environmental pollution, the problem of reasonable recycling of resources is effectively solved, and production cost is reduced.
Preferably, iron powder or low carbon steel is used in the reduction process, and the pH value of the solution is kept between 3.5 and 4.5; the pH of the solution may also be selected to be 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3 or 4.4.
Preferably, the concentration of the ferrous sulfate solution is 250-310g/L, and 260g/L, 270g/L, 280g/L, 290g/L, 300g/L or 305g/L can be selected.
Preferably, in step (a), the phosphate salt comprises at least one of ammonium phosphate, diammonium phosphate and ammonium dihydrogen phosphate.
Preferably, the phosphate solution has a pH of 7.0-9.0; alternatively, 7.5, 7.8, 8.2, 8.5 or 8.8 may be used.
Preferably, the mass concentration of phosphorus in the phosphate solution is 8% -12%, and 8.5%, 9%, 9.5%, 10%, 10.5% or 11% can be selected.
Preferably, in step (a), during the synthesis reaction, the molar ratio of iron to phosphorus in the reaction solution system is 0.97-1.0, and 0.98 or 0.99 can be selected.
Preferably, in the step (a), during the synthesis reaction, the temperature of the reaction solution system is 45-55 ℃, and 46 ℃, 47 ℃, 49 ℃, 51 ℃, 53 ℃ and 55 ℃ can be selected; more preferably, the time of the synthesis reaction is 60-80min, and can be selected from 65min, 68min, 71min, 74min, 77min or 79 min.
Preferably, in the step (a), the temperature of the solution system during the aging is 90-98 ℃, and 91 ℃, 92 ℃, 93 ℃, 94 ℃, 95 ℃, 96 ℃ or 97 ℃ can be selected; more preferably, the solution system is heated with steam.
Preferably, in step (a), the aging time is 2-4h, and 2.5h, 3h or 3.5h can be selected.
Preferably, in step (a), the drying is flash drying.
Preferably, in step (a), the washed filter cake is washed by pure water, the washing end point pH is 3.3 +/-0.5, and the conductivity is less than or equal to 300 us.
Preferably, the calcining temperature is 550-600 ℃, 560 ℃, 570 ℃, 580 ℃ or 590 ℃, and the time is 2-3h, and 2.5h can be selected; more preferably, the temperature of the calcination is 560-590 ℃.
Preferably, the specific surface area SSA of the anhydrous ferric phosphate and ferric oxide mixture is 8.0-10.0m2G, optionally 8.5m2/g、9.0m2G or 9.5m2The particle diameter D50 is 3-5 μm, and 4 μm can be selected.
Preferably, in the step (b), the molar ratio of each element in the mixed slurry is P: Fe: Li: C ═ 1.0 (0.97-1.00): (1.00-1.05): (0.40-0.50).
Preferably, in step (b), the pH of the mixed slurry is 8.0 to 10.0; alternatively 8.5, 8.8, 9.1, 9.4 or 9.8.
Preferably, in step (b), the nano-sized mixed slurry has a particle size of D50 ≦ 0.4 μm.
Preferably, in step (b), the particle diameter D50 of the mixed powder material is 10 to 30 μm, and may be 12 μm, 16 μm, 18 μm, 21 μm, 25 μm, or 27 μm.
Preferably, in the step (b), the drying is spray drying, and the inlet air temperature of the spray drying is 200 ℃ to 250 ℃, and can also be selected from 210 ℃, 220 ℃, 230 ℃, 240 ℃ or 245 ℃; the air outlet temperature is 85-90 ℃, and 86 ℃, 88 ℃ or 89 ℃ can also be selected.
Preferably, in the step (c), the heat preservation roasting time is 6-12 h; 7h, 8h, 9h, 10h or 11h can also be selected.
In the heat preservation roasting process, high-temperature solid phase reaction and carbonization reaction occur to generate the lithium iron phosphate material with a complete coated carbon layer.
Preferably, the heat preservation roasting process is carried out under a protective atmosphere; more preferably, the protective atmosphere comprises at least one of nitrogen, argon and helium.
Preferably, in step (c), the particle size D50 of the lithium iron phosphate is (1.1 ± 0.5) μm, and 0.7 μm, 0.9 μm, 1.1 μm, 1.2 μm, 1.3 μm, 1.4 μm, or 1.5 μm may be selected.
The application also provides the application of the lithium iron phosphate prepared by the preparation method of the lithium iron phosphate in the preparation of the lithium ion battery anode. The process flow for preparing the lithium ion battery anode can be simplified, the cost of the prepared raw materials is saved, and the compaction density and the specific capacity of the prepared lithium ion battery anode are improved.
Compared with the prior art, the invention has the beneficial effects that:
(1) the preparation method of the lithium iron phosphate provided by the invention is simple and feasible, has short process, can realize one-step synthesis of anhydrous iron phosphate in an inorganic system, does not use steam and oxidant in the synthesis process, simplifies the process flow, has small wastewater generation amount, effectively reduces the cost, and the anhydrous iron phosphate prepared by the preparation method has good dispersibility and more uniform particle size distribution. Meanwhile, in the pyrogenic synthesis stage of the lithium iron phosphate material, low-cost Li is adopted3PO4And H3PO4Commonly used and relatively expensive Li as substitute material2CO3The cost is lower, and the comprehensive performances of the material such as compaction density, specific capacity and the like are ensured.
(2) The battery-grade anhydrous ferric phosphate and ferric oxide mixture prepared by the preparation method of the lithium ferric phosphate provided by the invention has the advantages of good dispersibility, high purity, uniform particle size distribution and the like.
(3) According to the preparation method of the lithium iron phosphate, the ferrous sulfate heptahydrate crystal is used as the titanium white byproduct, and the problems of large amount of the titanium white byproduct, low utilization value and serious environmental pollution are effectively solved.
(4) According to the preparation method of the lithium iron phosphate, the battery-grade lithium phosphate used by the obtained lithium iron phosphate material solves the problem of a lithium source, and supplements a phosphorus source, and the material cost is lower than that of the battery-grade lithium carbonate used alone by more than 20%. Compared with the traditional process method, the compaction density and the specific capacity of the obtained lithium iron phosphate material are more coordinated and improved to a certain extent.
(5) According to the preparation method of the lithium iron phosphate, the cost of each ton of the iron phosphate is lower than 5000 yuan, compared with the cost of each ton of the iron phosphate in the conventional process, the cost is reduced by 3000-; moreover, the cost of each ton of lithium iron phosphate is lower than 17000 yuan, the current power type lithium iron phosphate is 3.5-3.7 ten thousand yuan/ton, the energy storage type lithium iron phosphate is 2.5-2.8 ten thousand yuan/ton, and the whole price advantage is very obvious.
(6) The invention also provides the application of the lithium iron phosphate prepared by the preparation method of the lithium iron phosphate in preparing the lithium ion battery anode, so that the process flow is simplified, the preparation cost is saved, and the prepared lithium ion battery anode has high compaction density and specific capacity.
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Fig. 1 is an SEM image of lithium iron phosphate provided in embodiment 1 of the present invention;
fig. 2 is an SEM image of lithium iron phosphate provided in embodiment 2 of the present invention;
fig. 3 is an SEM image of lithium iron phosphate provided in embodiment 3 of the present invention;
fig. 4 is an SEM image of lithium iron phosphate provided in embodiment 4 of the present invention;
fig. 5 is an SEM image of lithium iron phosphate provided in embodiment 5 of the present invention;
fig. 6 is another SEM image of lithium iron phosphate provided in embodiment 5 of the present invention;
fig. 7 is an SEM image of lithium iron phosphate provided in comparative example 1 of the present invention.
Detailed Description
The technical solutions of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the accompanying drawings and the detailed description, but those skilled in the art will understand that the following described embodiments are some, not all, of the embodiments of the present invention, and are only used for illustrating the present invention, and should not be construed as limiting the scope of the present invention. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention. The examples, in which specific conditions are not specified, were conducted under conventional conditions or conditions recommended by the manufacturer. The reagents or instruments used are not indicated by the manufacturer, and are all conventional products available commercially.
Example 1
The preparation method of lithium iron phosphate provided by the embodiment comprises the following steps:
(1) dissolving and reducing (in the reduction process, using iron powder and keeping the pH value of the solution to be 3.5), filtering and clarifying the titanium white byproduct ferrous sulfate heptahydrate crystal to obtain a pure ferrous sulfate solution with the mass concentration of 250 g/L; and simultaneously dissolving ammonium dihydrogen phosphate into a certain amount of pure water, adding ammonia water to adjust the pH of the solution to 7.2, and preparing into a phosphate solution with the phosphorus content of 10%.
(2) Respectively heating a ferrous sulfate solution and a phosphate solution with water to adjust the ferrous sulfate solution and the phosphate solution to certain concentrations, maintaining the temperature of the two solutions at 45 ℃ and the molar ratio of iron to phosphorus at 0.97, synchronously adding the two solutions into a closed reactor for synthesis, reacting for 60min, then entering a reaction kettle for continuous aging, raising the temperature to 90 ℃ with steam under the condition of stirring, and continuing the reaction for 2h to obtain a reaction material.
(3) Filtering the reaction material by a filter press to obtain a filter cake, continuously adding pure water into the filter press containing the filter cake for washing, wherein the washing end point pH is 3.5, the conductivity is less than or equal to 300us, after washing, carrying out flash evaporation drying on the filter cake, calcining by a rotary furnace (the calcining temperature is 600 ℃, the calcining time is 2 hours), crushing, screening and deironing to obtain SSA (8.9 m)2(ii) anhydrous iron phosphate and iron sesquioxide having a particle size D50 of 4.2 [ mu ] mAn iron mixture.
(4) Mixing the mixture obtained in the step (3) and Li3PO4、H3PO4Adding the mixed slurry into a glucose solution in sequence to obtain mixed slurry, wherein the molar ratio of elements P to Fe to Li to C in the mixed slurry is 1.0:1.0:1.00:0.40, adding a small amount of industrial phosphoric acid, adjusting the pH of the mixed slurry to 8, performing coarse and fine grinding for two stages for 5 hours to obtain nanoscale mixed slurry (D50 is less than or equal to 0.4 mu m), conveying the nanoscale mixed slurry into centrifugal spray drying equipment (the inlet air temperature of spray drying is 200 ℃, the outlet air temperature is 85 ℃), and quickly dehydrating to obtain a mixed powder material D50 with good fluidity and uniform particles, wherein the D50 is 10 mu m.
(5) And (3) roasting the mixed powder material obtained in the step (4) at 700 ℃ in a kiln with a nitrogen protective atmosphere, roasting for 12h at the maintained temperature, crushing to D50 of 1.1 mu m, and performing rear-end treatment such as batch mixing, dry powder iron removal, packaging and the like to obtain the lithium iron phosphate.
SEM detection was performed on the lithium iron phosphate prepared in example 1, and the detection result is shown in fig. 1.
As can be seen from figure 1, the lithium iron phosphate anode material prepared by the method has the advantages of uniform particles, reasonable ball matching, small porosity, primary particle size of about 0.3-0.5 mu m, and uniform carbon layer coating, and the lithium iron phosphate anode material prepared by the method has high compaction density and excellent electrical property.
Example 2
The preparation method of lithium iron phosphate provided by the embodiment comprises the following steps:
(1) dissolving and reducing (in the reduction process, using iron powder and keeping the pH value of the solution to be 3.5), filtering and clarifying the titanium white byproduct ferrous sulfate heptahydrate crystal to obtain a pure ferrous sulfate solution with the mass concentration of 280 g/L; and dissolving diammonium phosphate in a certain amount of pure water, adding ammonia water to adjust the pH of the solution to 8.8, and preparing a phosphate solution with the phosphorus content of 8%.
(2) Respectively heating a ferrous sulfate solution and a phosphate solution with water to adjust the ferrous sulfate solution and the phosphate solution to certain concentrations, maintaining the temperature of the two solutions at 55 ℃ and the molar ratio of iron to phosphorus at 0.98, synchronously adding the two solutions into a closed reactor for synthesis, reacting for 80min, then entering a reaction kettle for continuous aging, raising the temperature to 95 ℃ with steam under the condition of stirring, and continuing the reaction for 4h to obtain a reaction material.
(3) Filtering the reaction material by a filter press to obtain a filter cake, continuously adding pure water into the filter press containing the filter cake for washing, wherein the washing end point pH is 3.5, the conductivity is less than or equal to 300us, after washing, carrying out flash evaporation drying on the filter cake, calcining by a rotary furnace (the calcining temperature is 580 ℃ for 2.5h), crushing, screening and deironing to obtain SSA (8.9 m)2(iii) a mixture of anhydrous iron phosphate and ferric oxide having a particle size D50 of 4.3 μm/g.
(4) Mixing the mixture obtained in the step (3) and Li3PO4、H3PO4Adding the mixed slurry into a glucose solution in sequence to obtain a mixed slurry, wherein the molar ratio of elements P to Fe to Li to C is 1.0:0.98:1.05:0.40, adding a small amount of industrial phosphoric acid, adjusting the pH of the mixed slurry to 9, performing coarse and fine grinding for two stages for 5 hours to obtain a nanoscale mixed slurry (D50 is less than or equal to 0.4 mu m), conveying the nanoscale mixed slurry into centrifugal spray drying equipment (the inlet air temperature of spray drying is 250 ℃ and the outlet air temperature is 90 ℃), and quickly dehydrating to obtain a mixed powder material D50 which is good in fluidity and uniform in particles and is 20 mu m.
(5) And (3) roasting the mixed powder material obtained in the step (4) at 700 ℃ in a kiln with argon protective atmosphere, roasting for 6h at the maintained temperature, crushing to D50 of 1.3 mu m, and performing rear-end treatment such as batch mixing, dry powder iron removal, packaging and the like to obtain the lithium iron phosphate.
XRD detection was performed on the lithium iron phosphate prepared in example 2, and the detection result is shown in fig. 2.
As can be seen from FIG. 2, the size of the primary particles of the lithium iron phosphate anode material prepared by the method is about 0.2-0.5 μm, and carbon uniformly coats the surfaces of the lithium iron phosphate particles.
Example 3
The preparation method of lithium iron phosphate provided by the embodiment comprises the following steps:
(1) dissolving and reducing (in the reduction process, using iron powder and keeping the pH of the solution at 4), filtering and clarifying the titanium white byproduct ferrous sulfate heptahydrate crystal to obtain a pure ferrous sulfate solution with the mass concentration of 310 g/L; meanwhile, ammonium phosphate is dissolved in a certain amount of pure water, ammonia water is added to adjust the pH value of the solution to 8.0, and a phosphate solution with the phosphorus content of 12% is prepared.
(2) Respectively heating a ferrous sulfate solution and a phosphate solution with water to adjust the ferrous sulfate solution and the phosphate solution to certain concentrations, maintaining the temperature of the two solutions at 48 ℃ and the molar ratio of iron to phosphorus at 1, synchronously adding the two solutions into a closed reactor for synthesis, reacting for 70min, then entering a reaction kettle for continuous aging, raising the temperature to 98 ℃ with steam under the condition of stirring, and continuing the reaction for 2.5h to obtain a reaction material.
(3) Filtering the reaction material by a filter press to obtain a filter cake, continuously adding pure water into the filter press containing the filter cake for washing, wherein the washing end point pH is 3.3, the conductivity is less than or equal to 300us, after washing, carrying out flash evaporation drying on the filter cake, calcining by a rotary furnace (the calcining temperature is 550 ℃, the calcining time is 3h), crushing, screening and deironing to obtain SSA (9.3 m)2(iii) a mixture of anhydrous iron phosphate and ferric oxide having a particle size D50 of 4.2 μm/g.
(4) Mixing the mixture obtained in the step (3) and Li3PO4、H3PO4Adding the mixed slurry into a glucose solution in sequence to obtain mixed slurry, wherein the molar ratio of elements P to Fe to Li to C in the mixed slurry is 1.0:0.98:1.00:0.50, adding a small amount of industrial phosphoric acid, adjusting the pH of the mixed slurry to 10, performing coarse and fine grinding for two stages for 5 hours to obtain nanoscale mixed slurry (D50 is less than or equal to 0.4 mu m), conveying the nanoscale mixed slurry into centrifugal spray drying equipment (the inlet air temperature of spray drying is 220 ℃ and the outlet air temperature is 87 ℃), and quickly dehydrating to obtain a mixed powder material D50 with good fluidity and uniform particles, wherein the D50 is 28 mu m.
(5) And (3) roasting the mixed powder material obtained in the step (4) at 700 ℃ in a kiln with a nitrogen protective atmosphere, roasting for 8h at a constant temperature, crushing to D50 of 1.4 mu m, and performing rear-end treatment such as batch mixing, dry powder iron removal, packaging and the like to obtain the lithium iron phosphate.
XRD detection was performed on the lithium iron phosphate prepared in example 3, and the detection result is shown in fig. 3.
As can be seen from fig. 3, the lithium iron phosphate anode material prepared by the method has different sizes, but has reasonable matching of the large balls and the small balls and low porosity, and the lithium iron phosphate anode material prepared by the method has high compaction density and excellent electrical property.
Example 4
The preparation method of lithium iron phosphate provided by the embodiment comprises the following steps:
(1) dissolving and reducing a titanium dioxide byproduct ferrous sulfate heptahydrate crystal (low-carbon steel is used in the reduction process, and the pH value of the solution is kept at 3.8), filtering and clarifying to obtain a pure ferrous sulfate solution with the mass concentration of 275 g/L; and simultaneously dissolving ammonium dihydrogen phosphate into a certain amount of pure water, adding ammonia water to adjust the pH of the solution to 7.5, and preparing into a phosphate solution with the phosphorus content of 9%.
(2) Respectively heating a ferrous sulfate solution and a phosphate solution with water to adjust the ferrous sulfate solution and the phosphate solution to certain concentrations, maintaining the temperature of the two solutions at 50 ℃ and the molar ratio of iron to phosphorus at 0.99, synchronously adding the two solutions into a closed reactor for synthesis, reacting for 65min, then entering a reaction kettle for continuous aging, raising the temperature to 93 ℃ with steam under the condition of stirring, and continuing the reaction for 3.5h to obtain a reaction material.
(3) Filtering the reaction material by a filter press to obtain a filter cake, continuously adding pure water into the filter press containing the filter cake for washing, wherein the washing end point pH is 3.8, the conductivity is less than or equal to 300us, after washing, carrying out flash evaporation drying on the filter cake, calcining by a rotary furnace (the calcining temperature is 570 ℃, the calcining time is 2 hours), crushing, screening and deironing to obtain SSA (8.9 m)2(iii) a mixture of anhydrous iron phosphate and ferric oxide having a particle size D50 of 4.6 μm/g.
(4) Mixing the mixture obtained in the step (3) and Li3PO4、H3PO4Sequentially adding the glucose solution into a mixed slurry to obtain a mixed slurry, wherein the molar ratio of the elements in the mixed slurry is P, Fe, Li and C is 1.0:0.98:1.03:0.45, and adding a small amount of the mixed slurryThe industrial phosphoric acid is prepared by adjusting the pH value of the mixed slurry to 8.5, grinding the mixed slurry for 5 hours in a coarse grinding and fine grinding way to obtain the nanoscale mixed slurry (D50 is less than or equal to 0.4 mu m), conveying the nanoscale mixed slurry into centrifugal spray drying equipment (the air inlet temperature of spray drying is 230 ℃ and the air outlet temperature is 88 ℃), and quickly dehydrating to obtain the mixed powder material D50 with good fluidity and uniform particles, wherein the D50 is 15 mu m.
(5) And (3) roasting the mixed powder material obtained in the step (4) at 700 ℃ in a kiln with a nitrogen protective atmosphere, roasting for 10h at the maintained temperature, crushing to D50 of 1.6 mu m, and performing rear-end treatment such as batch mixing, dry powder iron removal, packaging and the like to obtain the lithium iron phosphate.
XRD detection was performed on the lithium iron phosphate prepared in example 4, and the detection result is shown in fig. 4.
As can be seen from FIG. 4, the size of the lithium iron phosphate anode material prepared by the method is 200nm-400nm, carbon uniformly wraps the surface of the lithium iron phosphate, and the lithium iron phosphate anode material prepared by the method has high compaction density and excellent electrical property.
Example 5
The preparation method of lithium iron phosphate provided by the embodiment comprises the following steps:
(1) dissolving and reducing (in the reduction process, using iron powder and keeping the pH value of the solution to be 3.6), filtering and clarifying the titanium white byproduct ferrous sulfate heptahydrate crystal to obtain a pure ferrous sulfate solution with the mass concentration of 290 g/L; and simultaneously dissolving ammonium dihydrogen phosphate into a certain amount of pure water, adding ammonia water to adjust the pH of the solution to 8.3, and preparing into a phosphate solution with the phosphorus content of 11%.
(2) Respectively heating a ferrous sulfate solution and a phosphate solution with water to adjust the ferrous sulfate solution and the phosphate solution to certain concentrations, maintaining the temperature of the two solutions at 53 ℃ and the molar ratio of iron to phosphorus at 0.97, synchronously adding the two solutions into a closed reactor for synthesis, reacting for 75min, then entering a reaction kettle for continuous aging, raising the temperature to 96 ℃ with steam under the condition of stirring, and continuing the reaction for 3h to obtain a reaction material.
(3) Filtering the reaction material by a filter press to obtain a filter cake, and continuously adding pure water into the filter press containing the filter cakeWashing with water, washing to obtain final pH of 3.6 and conductivity of 300us or less, flash drying, calcining in rotary kiln at 590 deg.C for 3 hr, pulverizing, sieving and removing iron to obtain SSA of 9.1m2(iii) a mixture of anhydrous iron phosphate and ferric oxide having a particle size D50 of 4.1 [ mu ] m.
(4) Mixing the mixture obtained in the step (3) and Li3PO4、H3PO4Adding the mixed slurry into a glucose solution in sequence to obtain mixed slurry, wherein the molar ratio of elements P to Fe to Li to C is 1.0:0.97:1.05:0.50, adding a small amount of industrial phosphoric acid, adjusting the pH of the mixed slurry to 9.2, grinding the mixed slurry for 5 hours in a coarse grinding stage and a fine grinding stage to obtain nanoscale mixed slurry (D50 is less than or equal to 0.4 mu m), conveying the nanoscale mixed slurry into centrifugal spray drying equipment (the inlet air temperature of spray drying is 240 ℃ and the outlet air temperature is 89 ℃), and quickly dehydrating to obtain a mixed powder material D50 which is good in fluidity and uniform in particles and 23 mu m.
(5) And (3) roasting the mixed powder material obtained in the step (4) at 700 ℃ in a kiln with a nitrogen protective atmosphere, roasting for 9h at a constant temperature, crushing to D50 of 1.5 mu m, and performing rear-end treatment such as batch mixing, dry powder iron removal, packaging and the like to obtain the lithium iron phosphate.
XRD detection was performed on the lithium iron phosphate prepared in example 5, and the detection result is shown in fig. 5.
As can be seen from FIG. 5, the size of the lithium iron phosphate cathode material prepared by the method is 200nm-500nm, the porosity is relatively low, and the lithium iron phosphate cathode material prepared by the method has high compaction density and excellent electrical property.
Comparative example 1
The preparation method of the lithium iron phosphate provided by the comparative example is basically the same as that of the example 5, and the difference is only that in the step (2), hydrogen peroxide is added while the phosphate solution is added. Wherein the mass fraction of the hydrogen peroxide is 20%, and in the reaction process, Fe and H2O2The molar ratio of (A) to (B) is 2:1 to 1: 2.
Test example 1
Physicochemical parameter detection was performed on the lithium iron phosphate prepared in each of the above examples and comparative examples, and the results are shown in table 1 below.
Table 1 results of measuring physicochemical parameters of lithium iron phosphate in examples 1 to 5 and comparative example 1
As can be seen from table 1, the lithium iron phosphate prepared by the present invention has a large tap density, a high first discharge specific capacity, and a high first efficiency, while the lithium iron phosphate prepared by the comparative example 1 has a low tap density, a low first discharge specific capacity, and a low first efficiency.
Test example 2
SEM examination was performed on lithium iron phosphate prepared in example 5 and comparative example 1, and the examination results are shown in fig. 6 and 7. As can be seen from fig. 6, the lithium iron phosphate prepared in embodiment 5 of the present invention has good dispersibility and uniform particle size distribution. As can be seen from fig. 7, the lithium iron phosphate prepared in comparative example 1 has poor dispersibility and relatively non-uniform particle size distribution.
While particular embodiments of the present invention have been illustrated and described, it will be appreciated that the above embodiments are merely illustrative of the technical solution of the present invention and are not restrictive; those of ordinary skill in the art will understand that: modifications may be made to the above-described embodiments, or equivalents may be substituted for some or all of the features thereof without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention; the modifications or the substitutions do not make the essence of the corresponding technical solutions depart from the scope of the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention; it is therefore intended to cover in the appended claims all such alternatives and modifications that are within the scope of the invention.