Study on the preparation of novel NiB/H13-Al2O3 micro-mesoporous suppressant and its inhibition mechanism of coal dust explosion flame

Coal dust explosion is one of the serious accidents in the coal industry. It is of great significance to study the flame suppression of coal dust explosions. In this paper, a novel active component NiB with amorphous structure for explosion suppression was synthesized by the chemical reduction method. Furthermore, the novel explosion suppressant NiB/H13-Al2O3 was prepared through the kneading method by loading novel amorphous NiB nanoparticles on H13-Al2O3 with the micro-mesoporous structure as the carrier. The morphology and structure of NiB/H13-Al2O3 were characterized by XRD, BET, SEM, and FTIR, which showed that the NiB/H13-Al2O3 has proper pore structure and NiB nanoparticles are uniformly distributed as active components for explosion suppression in suppressant. Hartmann tube was used to evaluate the inhibition of coal dust deflagration. The results showed that the flame propagation distance and velocity decreased with the increase of the explosion suppressant. When the addition of explosion suppressant was 30 wt%, the explosion of coal dust was suppressed effectively. Furthermore, combing with the analysis results of the products after coal dust deflagration, the physical and chemical inhibition mechanism of the novel NiB/H13-Al2O3 explosion suppressant on coal dust deflagration was put forward.