Efficient Adsorbent-Desiccant Based on Aluminium Oxide

Abstract

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.