Continuous preparation of Fe3O4 nanoparticles using impinging stream-rotating packed bed reactor and magnetic property thereof

Autor: Shao-Feng Zhou, You-Zhi Liu, Hong-Lei Fan, Gui-Sheng Qi
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 662:497-504
ISSN: 0925-8388
Popis: A novel impinging stream-rotating packed bed (IS-RPB) was adopted for preparing Fe 3 O 4 nanoparticles via reactive precipitation using aqueous solutions of FeCl 3 /FeCl 2 and NaOH as raw materials. In order to establish the optimum conditions for the preparation of monodispersed magnetite Fe 3 O 4 particles, experimental conditions such as high gravity factor, liquid flow rate and reactant concentration were investigated in detail. It shows that the size of Fe 3 O 4 nanoparticles became smaller under the higher gravity factor, liquid flow rate and reactant concentration. And the as-prepared Fe 3 O 4 nanoparticles displays superparamagnetic behavior with the saturation magnetizations in the range from 39.0 to 74.0 emu/g. Based on the experimental results, a set of suitable operating parameters (high gravity factor of 65.32, liquid flow rates of 60 L/h and FeCl 3 ·6H 2 O concentration of 0.321 mol/L) were recommended for the preparation of Fe 3 O 4 nanoparticles. Under this condition, the as-prepared Fe 3 O 4 nanoparticles is monodispersed quasi-spherical nanoparticles with an average diameter of about 8.9 nm and saturation magnetization of 60.5 emu/g, and the production rate reaches 2.23 kg/hour. Through the strong micromixing intensification performance of IS-RPB, this novel approach is suitable for industrial production of magnetic nanoparticles at massive scale.
Databáze: OpenAIRE