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China Surfactant Detergent & Cosmetics ›› 2022, Vol. 52 ›› Issue (9): 951-959.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1001-1803.2022.09.006

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Effect of surfactant structure on filtration dewatering of fine coal and its mechanism research

Zhao Ke,Liu Shengyu,Zhang Suhong*()   

  1. College of Mining, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, Shanxi 030024, China
  • Received:2021-11-16 Revised:2022-08-30 Online:2022-09-22 Published:2022-09-23
  • Contact: Suhong Zhang E-mail:zhangsh04@sina.com.

Abstract:

In order to reduce the moisture content of fine coal, both nonionic polyoxyethylene surfactants with different hydrophobic groups such as AEO9, LAE9, OP9 and surfactants with different hydrophilic groups including AEO4, AEO7, AEO9, AEO15, and AEO20 were selected for fine coal filtration dewatering experiments. The filter cake moisture, filter speed, filter cake specific resistance and permeability were used as the evaluation indexes for the dewatering effect. The surface tension, infrared spectroscopy, wetting heat, adsorption capacity and Zeta potential were employed. The results of the fine coal dewatering experiments show that AEO9 among the surfactants with different hydrophobic groups has best performance, and AEO7 among AEO series surfactants with different hydrophilic groups has best performance. The mechanism of the surfactant AEO7 in the filtration and dewatering of fine coal was studied. The obtained results show that when the dosage of AEO7 is 120 mg/L, the maximum amount of oxygen-containing functional groups have been decreased and the lowest wetting heat of the fine coal treated by AEO7 indicating that the hydrophobicity of the coal surface has significantly been enhanced. At this time, the moisture content of the filter cake is reduced by 4.66%. The surface tension of the filtrate solution hardly decreases when the dosage of AEO7 agent exceeds 120 mg/L. The adsorption capacity results show that when the surfactant dosage exceeds 120 mg/L, it is possible that double-layer adsorption on the coal surface may make the coal surface hydrophilic, thereby weaken the filtration and dewatering performance.

Key words: fine coal, dewatering, surfactant, hydrophobicity

CLC Number: 

  • TQ423