A Preliminary Study of the Carbon-Based Solid Acid Preparation Process

Cotton and sulfuric acid that concentration is 98% as the raw material, to compare the resulting solid carbon sulfonic acid content of the material under different reaction temperatures. FTIR analysis shows that the cotton carbon is an amorphous carbon after sulfonation reactions, a sulfonic acid group present in the resulting material. When the sulfonation temperature is 170 °C, the prepared cotton carbon sulfonic acid has the highest acid content. By the sulfuric acid TG/DTG curve analysis, it verify: 170 °C is the highest activity temperature point of sulfuric acid sulfonation reaction.