The invention relates to
spinel high-strength
petroleum fracturing proppant and a production method thereof. The proppant comprises the following raw materials: 63-70% of raw
bauxite, 5-10% of
forsterite, 2.5-6% of
dolomite, 0.5-3% of
boric acid, 3-7% of
manganese ore
powder and 13-20% of
magnesium spinel. The production method comprises the following steps of: respectively
grinding each
raw material into
fine powder during the preparation and screening by a 320-mesh
sieve; mixing uniformly to obtain a mixture, then feeding the mixture to a rotary granulator while adding atomized
moisture, preparing the mixed material into round grains and screening by a
sieve with 18-30 meshes to obtain a half-finished product;
drying the half-finished product till the
moisture content is less than 6%; and transferring the dried half-finished product to a
rotary kiln to bake, controlling temperature of a
kiln head to be 1285 to 1400 DEG C and temperature of a
kiln end to be 280 to 325 DEG C and burning for 6-8h and the discharging out of the
kiln. According to the invention, the raw materials form a large amount of
magnesium aluminate spinel phases at high temperature so as to play a supporting role of a skeleton; the obtained spinel high-strength
petroleum fracturing proppant has the advantages of good compactness and strong anti-crushing capacity; the breakage rates of the spinel high-strength
petroleum fracturing proppant at 52 MPa, 69 MPa and 86 MPa respectively are respectively less than 3.5%, less than 7.5% and less than 10.5%, the strength of the spinel high-strength petroleum fracturing proppant is higher than that of the products of the same kind and the performance of the spinel high-strength petroleum fracturing proppant is excellent; and meanwhile, the production techniqueis optimized, low in cost and easy to promote and implement.