The invention discloses shell
powder and
chitosan composite microspheres for absorbing
heavy metals, and a preparation method of the shell
powder chitosan composite microspheres. In the composite microspheres, the weight ratio of
chitosan powder to shell powder is equal to 1 to (0.3-0.45). The preparation method comprises the steps of soaking shell into acid, washing,
drying, calcining, and
grinding into coarse shell powder; crushing the coarse shell powder to obtain nano shell powder; carrying out
liquid drop molding on the chitosan powder and the shell powder, then carrying out crosslinkingmodification, cleaning up, and
drying to obtain composite microspheres; adding the composite microspheres into a solution containing
thiourea and
epoxy chloropropane, and carrying out a reaction to obtain a composite
microsphere product. The shell powder and chitosan composite microspheres provided by the invention combines the advantages of the shell powder and chitosan; due to the addition of the shell powder, not only is the
mechanical stability of a chitosan carrier improved, but the complexing capability between the carrier and transition metals can be also improved, and the recycling ofthe
heavy metals can be further realized; the microspheres prepared by the preparation method provided by the invention have high monodispersity, and are controllable in particle sizes, morphology, particle diameters and components, uniform in particle diameters and high in
mechanical strength.