The invention relates to the technical field of adsorbents, in particular to a 13X
molecular sieve adsorbent and a preparation method thereof. The preparation method comprises the following steps: firstly, performing
lanthanum ion replacement treatment on 13X
molecular sieve raw
powder, then generating an MFI
molecular sieve coating layer on the surface of the 13X molecular
sieve raw
powder,
etching by using
sodium hydroxide to prepare a mesoporous structure, and then performing hydrophobic modification treatment on the mesoporous structure, so that water molecules are difficult to adsorb by the molecular
sieve raw
powder and mesoporous surfaces thereof due to a
methyl group on the surface, and the molecular
sieve raw powder and the mesoporous surfaces are not easy to adsorb;
hydrogen bond connection cannot be formed, so that a rapid'adsorption-
diffusion 'transfer process cannot be realized in molecular sieve raw powder, the polarity of
carbon dioxide is far smaller than that of water molecules, the
carbon dioxide cannot be repelled by methyl, and the
diffusion of the
carbon dioxide in mesopores is far higher than that in micropores due to the existence of the mesopores. Therefore, the
carbon dioxide flux in the molecular sieve raw powder is effectively improved, and the carbon dioxide adsorption rate of the molecular sieve raw powder is improved.