Manufacturing process for a high
viscosity lithium carboxymethylcellulose, wherein the
lithium carboxymethylcellulose has a 1%
viscosity of > 25000 mPa·s, characterized in that this process comprises the following steps: Mixing a
cellulose, an
aqueous solution of a polar
solvent, and a
sodium hydroxide solution in an
ethanol solution; filling with
nitrogen gas to create an
inert atmosphere after vacuuming to remove air; carrying out an alkalization reaction under the
inert atmosphere; subjecting a
reaction product to etherification under normal pressure to obtain crude CMC-Na; acidifying the crude CMC-Na to obtain CMC-H; and adding the prepared CMC-H to a
lithium salt
ethanol solution to carry out a
substitution reaction to obtain high-
viscosity lithium carboxymethylcellulose; The amounts of
cellulose,
aqueous solution of the polar
solvent,
sodium hydroxide solution, and
ethanol solution added in the alkalization reaction are 3 to 10 parts, 2 to 15 parts, 1 to 8 parts, and 5 to 25 parts, respectively, based on parts by weight; the
aqueous solution of the polar
solvent contains 20% to 85%
methanol or isopropanol; the
volume concentration of the ethanol solution is 70% to 95%; and the concentration of the
sodium hydroxide solution is 25% to 50%. Specific steps of the alkalization reaction are as follows: Place the raw materials in the specified weight parts into a reactor, vacuum-seal for the first time to -10 to -25 kPa, then fill with
nitrogen to 3 to 10 kPa, vacuum-seal a second time to -25 to -80 kPa, refill with
nitrogen to 3 to 10 kPa, carry out the alkalization reaction; maintain a
nitrogen gas pressure of 3 to 10 kPa during the reaction, and the duration of the alkalization reaction is 30 minutes; Specific steps of the etherification reaction are as follows: Addition of a product of the alkalization reaction to a
monochloroacetic acid-ethanol solution to carry out an etherification reaction under normal pressure; a
mass concentration of the
monochloroacetic acid in the
monochloroacetic acid-ethanol solution is 45% to 65%, a concentration of the ethanol in the monochloroacetic acid-ethanol solution is ≥93%, an amount of monochloroacetic acid-ethanol solution added is 2 to 10 parts by weight, and a duration of the etherification reaction is 30 to 80 min; The specific steps of the acidification reaction are as follows: Adding the crude CMC-Na to a
sulfuric acid solution to carry out the acidification reaction in a normal
pressure system; the concentration of the
sulfuric acid solution is 10% to 40%, and the duration of the acidification is 60 to 180 min; the pH of the
substitution reaction is 6.5 to 10.0 and the duration of the
substitution reaction is 30 to 120 min.