The Properties Of Commercial Alumina Base Materials And Their Effect On The Manufacture Of Active Porous Alumina Supports By Means Of Extrusion

The behaviour of 60 commercial base aluminas (macrocrystalline non-porous gibbsites, microcrystalline non-porous and porous boehmites, thermally activated porous boehmites and gibbsites) was studied via paste processing and extrusion in order to produce active porous alumina pellets. The most decisive properties of the base materials with respect to extrusion were: the degree of dehydration, the mean of aggregate size, the shape of aggregate size distribution, the shape of aggregates, the size of primary crystallites and the specific surface area. The relevance of these properties to those of the final pellets, i.e. crushing strength, porosity, pore volume distribution and specific surface …