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3.1.3 Synthesis and characterization of lithium manganese oxide-polymer beads In order to employ the synthesized lithium manganese oxide adsorbents in an adsorption column, the size of particles must be increased from microns to millimeters to overcome the large pressure drop. Inorganic supporting materials like silica and alumina are used to address this problem. In general, the active material was mixed with supporting material in a mixture and impregnated or coated on the supporting material by various methods [95]. In this study these methods were found insufficient in impregnating the lithium manganese oxide onto silica or alumina. Even the synthesis of lithium manganese oxides were done on targeted surfaces, but the expected adhesion could not be observed. A suspension polymerization technique was used in order to overcome this problem and lithium manganese oxide particles are tried to be covered by a polymeric matrix. In this technique, an organic phase and aqueous phase were prepared separately. In organic phase, glycidyl methacrylate (GMA), methyl methacrylate, ethylene glycol dimethacrylate and AIBN were dissolved in toluene. In aqueous phase, water, sodium sulfate, polyvinyl pyrrolidone were dissolved. Lithium manganese oxide particles were added to organic phase and then dripped into aqueous phase slowly at 65 oC. After polymerization reaction was completed, lithium manganese oxides were weighed and it was found as 0.85 g of polymer covers 1 g of lithium manganese oxides, which shows that the polymerization reaction works and covers the LiMnO particles. Unfortunately the size of the manganese oxide-polymer particles at the end of the reaction was still in micron level. In order to increase the polymer content around the particles, an additional synthesis was done where the monomer amount was increased by five folds. But the polymer around manganese oxides was found as 1.5 g per 1 g of MnO2 and the size of the particles were still in microns. Therefore this method was found insufficient to increase the particle size of the lithium manganese oxides. As an alternative, a precipitation method was used. In this method, a polymer binder, targeted material and solvent were mixed to form a slurry of suspended particles in 64PDF Image | SEPARATION OF LITHIUM FROM BRINES
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