Lithium iron phosphate new ultrafine powder spray dryer

Lithium iron phosphate new ultrafine powder spray dryer

Jun 19, 2024

Case profile: After drying, the product size D50 of the new ultrafine powder spray dryer developed by Longxin can achieve :15~20μm/5~10μm two specifications, sphericity: high sphericity, particle hollowness: solid ball, capacity scale :25~3000kg/h evaporation.

Since the United States and Japan have published reports on olivine structure lithium iron phosphate (LiMPO4), lithium iron phosphate materials have received great attention from the market, and caused extensive research and rapid development. Compared with the traditional lithium ion secondary battery cathode material, spinel structure lithium manganate (LiMn2O4) and  Lithium cobalt acid (LiCoO2), lithium iron phosphate (LiMPO4) raw material source is more extensive, cheaper and no environmental pollution, so the world is competing to achieve the industrial production of lithium iron phosphate.

At present, the Chinese market almost all uses the high temperature solid phase process to produce lithium iron phosphate. Solid phase production of lithium iron phosphate is divided into ferrous oxalate process, iron red process and iron phosphate process according to different iron raw materials. The main processes are ferrous oxalate and ferrous phosphate. The cost of ferrous oxalate process is high because of the low yield, low production capacity and large amount of alcohol consumed in the mixing process. Although the raw material cost is high, the iron phosphate process has large yield, large production capacity and good product performance, and the previous process can be mixed by water ball grinding and sand grinding, and spray drying, and the cost is comparable to the ferrous oxalate process.

Longxin technical engineers found that most lithium iron phosphate manufacturers in the use of spray dryer drying, there will be high particle size, sphericity of irregular particles, hollow particles, single equipment production capacity can not be quantified and other problems, in view of such practical problems, Longxin by fully understanding the characteristics of the material, find a lot of data, under the premise of existing domestic drying equipment technology ,Independent innovation, developed a new type of ultrafine powder spray dryer for lithium iron phosphate, which can not only achieve particle size specifications, but also achieve the requirements of spherical lithium iron phosphate.

The new type of ultrafine powder spray dryer for lithium iron phosphate mainly distributes the material liquid into droplets through the centrifugal force of the high-speed rotating atomizer, and dries instantly after contacting the hot air through the volute hot air distributor. Since the liquid material is atomized from the edge of the disk by centrifugal force in the high-speed turntable (linear speed above 110m/s), the relative size of the droplets is relatively uniform, the droplets are dried immediately when they contact with the hot air, and the droplets are basically hollow powder, and the particle size is relatively uniform.

The finished product dried by the new ultrafine powder spray dryer of lithium iron phosphate has good uniformity, fluidity and solubility, high product purity and good quality. The production process has also been simplified, not only the operation control is convenient, and the drying speed is fast, the surface area of the material liquid is greatly increased after atomization, in the hot air stream, 95% - 98% of the water can be evaporated instantly, the dried product does not need to be crushed and screened, and the purity of the product is reduced at the same time. The particle size, bulk density and final water content of the product can be adjusted by changing the operating conditions within a certain range.

Lithium iron phosphate new ultrafine powder spray dryer after drying product quality report:
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