The invention discloses a 5A
molecular sieve adsorbent for adsorptive separation of distillate containing n-
alkane and a preparation method of the 5A
molecular sieve adsorbent. The preparation method comprises the following steps: adding polyquaternary
ammonium salt serving as a
crystallization synthetic soft template agent into a
sol system formed by mixing a
silicon source with an aluminum source, and carrying out
hydrothermal synthesis to obtain a hierarchically porous 4A
molecular sieve with a microporous-mesoporous structure; after the 4A molecular
sieve is subjected to soft template agent removal, carrying out
roll forming on the treated 4A molecular
sieve and a binder to obtain small balls with particle sizes of 0. 2 to 0.8mm;
drying,
roasting and then carrying out
calcium ion exchange and activating to obtain the 5A molecular
sieve adsorbent with the microporous-mesoporous structure, wherein the proportion of a 5A molecular sieve in the adsorbent is 90 to 97 weight percent, and the proportion of the binder is 3 to 10 percent. The preparation method of the adsorbent, provided by the invention, has the advantages that a
diffusion coefficient of the n-
alkane in the molecular sieve is remarkably improved while the synthesized hierarchically porous 5A molecular sieve maintains higher equilibrium adsorption capacity for the n-
alkane, thereby increasing the rate of adsorptive separation.