The invention discloses a preparation method of aluminum
oxide microbeads. The preparation method comprises the following steps: by adopting aluminum
oxide powder with lower alpha
phase conversion rate (80-90%) as a main
raw material, adding a composite
sintering additive, ball-milling through an intermittent
ball mill and a vertical sand mill, and then performing centrifugal type spray pelletization, rolling to forming,
drying,
sintering in a
rotary kiln, and continuous
grinding and
polishing, to obtain the aluminum
oxide microbeads. According to the preparation method, the aluminum oxide
powder with relatively low alpha
phase conversion rate is adopted, activity of the remaining gamma-aluminum oxide phase in the aluminum oxide
powder promotes the
sintering of the aluminum oxide, the addition amount of the sintering additive is decreased, and meanwhile the problem that the aluminum oxide microbeads during the sintering of the
rotary kiln are caked and collided to be deformed due to excessive glass phase can be solved.
Rotary kiln sintering equipment is introduced, the microbeads are under a moving status during the sintering of the
rotary kiln, and are evenly heated during sintering, thus being uniform in the structure and performances. The prepared aluminum oxide microbeads have the characteristics of being low in abrasion, high in strength and density, uniform in particle size, free from breakage of beads, and the like.