The invention discloses a method for preparing a
porous carbon material by taking waste plastic as a
carbon source in an
air atmosphere and application. The method comprises the following steps: uniformly mixing
ammonium pentaborate
tetrahydrate and a
carbon source to obtain a
pyrolysis precursor; covering
ammonium pentaborate
tetrahydrate above the
pyrolysis precursor, and vibrating to enable the
pyrolysis precursor to be more compact; transferring the pyrolysis precursor covered with
ammonium pentaborate
tetrahydrate into a tubular furnace, carbonizing in an
air atmosphere, and naturally cooling to
room temperature to obtain a pyrolysis product; adding water into the pyrolysis product, stirring, washing with water, filtering to respectively obtain filtrate and filter residues, and
drying the filter residues to obtain the B / N co-doped
porous carbon material. Compared with a traditional method,
inert atmosphere protection is not needed, the cost and
resource consumption are remarkably reduced, and the method has universality, environment friendliness, economical efficiency and high efficiency. The preparation process is simple, the period is short, the yield is high, the method is suitable for industrial large-scale production, and a new way is provided for precisely synthesizing the functional
porous carbon material through air pyrolysis under mild conditions and expanding the application field of the functional porous carbon material.