PARTIALLY CRYSTALLINE TRANSITION ALUMINUM OXIDE, ITS PRODUCTION, AND PRODUCTION OF MOLDED ARTICLE, CERAMIC MATERIAL, ABRASIVE MATERIAL, AND ABRASIVE PARTICLE

摘要

1. Partially crystalline transition aluminium oxides, process for their preparation and use thereof for the production of mouldings essentially comprising gamma-Al2O3. 2.1 The decomposition products obtained by the known processes still contain crystalline fractions of undecomposed aluminium trihydroxide, especially of hydrargillite and/or fractions of hydrothermally produced boehmite, and as a result the required solid state reactivity is not always achieved. 2.2 The object is to produce partially crystalline transition aluminium oxides, which have a uniform phase composition and a high solid state reactivity, and which in the rehydration process even at atmospheric pressure make it possible to achieve a high degree of conversion of the solids particles into a finely fibrous boehmite, so as to ensure efficient further processing to give mouldings, which essentially comprise gamma-Al2O3 and which have a well developed internal surface and high mechanical stability. The partially crystalline transition aluminium oxide is characterised in that the solid, in addition to aluminium having coordination numbers of 4 and 6 also comprises aluminium with a coordination number of 5 vis-à-vis oxygen, the proportion of aluminium with a coordination number of 5 comprising at least 50% of the content of aluminium with a coordination number of 4. 2.3 The Al2O3 mouldings produced by the process according to the invention are suitable for the use as adsorbents, gas purification compositions, catalyst components or catalyst supports.