The hydrothermal crystallizations of two zeolite topologies (FAU and LTA) have been studied by simultaneous UV-Raman spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction in a home built setup. A wide angle X-ray diffractometer has been redesigned and combined with Raman components. The results revealed, despite similar structures of the starting gels, different aluminosilicate species evolved in the two systems,...

In this paper, the utilisation of zeolites synthesised from fly ash (FA) and related co-disposal filtrates as low-cost adsorbent material were investigated. When raw FA and co-disposal filtrates were subjected to alkaline hydrothermal zeolite synthesis, the zeolites faujasite, sodalite and zeolite A were formed. The synthesised zeolites were explored to establish its ability to remove lead and ...

One-part geopolymers were synthesized from two different silica materials (a silica-rich residue from chlorosilane production and a commercial microsilica) and sodium aluminate at three different SiO2/Al2O3 ratios and a nominal water/solids ratio of 0.5. The degree of reaction of the silica in the cured geopolymers (i.e. the fraction of silica dissolved to form aluminosilicates and minor produc...

A novel activated carbo-aluminosilicate material was prepared from oil shale by chemical activation. The chemicals used in the activation process were 95 wt% sulfuric and 5 wt% nitric acids. The produced material combines the sorption properties and the mechanical strength of both activated carbon and zeolite. An X-ray diffraction analysis shows the formation of zeolite Y, Na-X, and A-types, so...

The strong interest in the coherent generation and guiding of x rays is well known. Many papers have recently appeared treating different concepts of stimulated x-ray emissions, 1-3 and x-ray guiding in thin films was achieved. 4 Crystals were suggested as end reflectors to generate feedback.' Here we suggest a different type of cavity using zeolite crystals that would guide the emitted x-rays ...

Natural zeolites are commonly described as macromolecular sieves. Zeolite networks very trendy chemical due to their low-cost implementation. Sodalite network is one of the most studied types zeolite networks. It helps in removal greenhouse gases. To study this rich network, we use an authentic mathematical tool known M-polynomials topological index and show some physical properties numerical f...

The thermal conductivities of quartz and the siliceous zeolites sodalite, faujasite and zeolite-A have been calculated using molecular dynamics simulations. The predicted thermal conductivities range over one order of magnitude at room temperature, and the quartz values are in reasonable agreement with the available experimental data. Evidence of phonon scattering is found by considering the la...

Zeolite Y and its ultra-stabilized hierarchical derivative (USY) are the most widely used zeolite-based heterogeneous catalysts in oil refining, petrochemisty, other chemicals manufacturing. After almost 60 years of academic industrial research, their resilience is unique as no catalyst displaced them from key processes such FCC hydrocracking. The present study highlights difference leading to ...

the main goal of this work was to synthesize and evaluate the effect of dehydration temperature on the potential application of hydroxy sodalite zeolite membrane. hydroxy sodalite zeolite membranes were synthesized via direct hydrothermal method onto a tubular alumina support without seeding in a hot air oven. the synthesized membranes were characterized by x-ray diffraction (xrd) and scanning ...

Low silica zeolites are synthesized generally by sol-gel method in water. In this study, efforts were made to prepare low silica zeolites from sodium aluminate and sodium silicate, in the presence of alcohols, at 373 K under an atmospheric pressure. It was of our special interest to investigate how the addition of various alcohols into water affects the type of zeolites synthesized during cryst...