The invention provides an environment-friendly expandable
polystyrene bead and a preparation process thereof, and belongs to the technical field of foaming materials.The preparation process includes the steps that S1, 65.28 g of deionized water is injected into a reaction kettle, stirring is conducted, 0.13 g of dispersing agent and 0.16 g of compound stabilizer are added, after dispersion is conducted for 20 min, 31.95 g of
styrene monomer and 0.3 g of compound initiator are added, then
pentane and SiO2
micelle complex is added, and a basic solution is obtained; wherein the
mass ratio of the
pentane to the SiO2
micelle complex is 1: (0.2-0.3); the
mass of the
pentane is 3.1%-3.2% of the
mass of the basic solution; s2, stepwise heating the basic solution at 86-140 DEG C, carrying out stirring reaction, then stopping heating, continuously stirring, naturally cooling to 40 DEG C, stopping stirring, and carrying out total reaction for 8.5-9.5 hours to obtain a
reaction product; and S3, discharging, washing a
reaction product with
warm water, and filtering to obtain the environment-friendly expandable
polystyrene bead. According to the method, the average particle size of the prepared expandable
polystyrene beads is increased, and meanwhile,
fine powder is reduced.