Abstract:
The industrial production of H
310BO
3 (
10B>19.8%) requires monitoring the extent of the reaction and determining the endpoint of the reaction. In order to solve the problems of complicated steps, large human error and low accuracy of the existing monitoring methods, an experimental device for on-line monitoring the progress of the reaction was designed and built, and the experiment of H
310BO
3 prepared by the reaction of
10B-enriched boron trifluoride (
10BF
3,
10B>19.8%) and strontium carbonate (SrCO
3) insoluble in water (H
2O) was monitored in situ, in real time and on-line by using this experimental device. The data curves of the ion concentration of the solution changing with time obtained by the test can be fitted by the formula of
ct−
c1=
c0e
−kt, and the fitting coefficient
R2 is 1.000 00. Under the same conditions, four data curves of the ion concentration of the solution changing with time are fitted by the formula of
ct−
c1=
c0e
−kt, and the fitting coefficient
R2 are all equal to 1.000 00. The long-term and repeated test results of this experimental device indicate that the obtained data has high accuracy, small error, and good reproducibility. The standard deviations (
s) of the three parameters of
c1,
c0 and
k of the fitting equation are all less than 0.3%, which shows that the fitting precision of
ct−
c1=
c0e
−kt equation is high. The equation of
ct−
c1=
c0e
−kt can be used to monitor the progress of the reaction of preparing H
310BO
3 from
10BF
3. The fitting equation
ct−
c1=
c0e
−kt of the data curve of ion concentration changing with time obtained from the experiment is consistent with the first-order kinetic equation of
ct=
c0e
−kt of chemical reaction, which shows that the progress of the reaction of preparing H
310BO
3 by fitting
10BF
3 with
ct−
c1=
c0e
−kt equation is in line with the essence of chemical reaction, and the equation
ct−
c1=
c0e
−kt can be used as
10BF
3 to prepare H
310BO
3. The most reasonable feeding method for preparing H
310BO
3 from
10BF
3 is that insoluble solid powder SrCO
3 and H
2O are mixed and stirred to form a suspension, then the suspension is heated to a set temperature and kept constant, and then
10BF
3 is added to the suspension. The on-line monitoring results show that the preparation of H
310BO
3 from
10BF
3 requires three steps of defluorination hydroxyl substitution reaction, in which the first two steps of defluorination hydroxyl substitution are fast reactions, and the third step of defluorination hydroxyl substitution is slow reactions, that is, the third step of hydroxyl substitution reaction is the rate control step of the preparation of H
310BO
3 from
10BF
3. The reaction of preparing H
310BO
3 from
10BF
3 is an apparent chemical first-order kinetic reaction.