SYNTHESIS OF ZEOLITES OF THE CHABAZITE GROUP BASED ON NATURAL MINERALS OF NAKHCHIVAN: THE INFLUENCE OF VARIOUS FACTORS ON THE PROCESS OF THEIR CRYSTALLIZATION
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https://doi.org/10.15421/jchemtech.v34i2.345095Keywords:
gmelinite, levyne, erionite, crystallization, hydrothermal synthesis, group of chabazite, zeolite, natural minerals.Abstract
Zeolites of the chabazite group (gmelinite, levyne, and erionite) having practical significance were synthesized on the basis of natural minerals of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic in the presence of a structure-directing agent – tetramethylammonium hydroxide. Samples of halloysite from the Pirigol deposit, volcanic glass (obsidian) from the peak of Gapydzhik, and dolomite from the Negram deposit, which were distinguished by phase purity, were used as natural minerals. The influence of temperature, concentration of the thermal solution, and processing time on the crystallization process of gmelinite, levyne, and erionite was studied. It is shown that the hydrothermal synthesis of gmelinite, levyne, and erionite was studied in the temperature range of 100–300 °C, with the concentration of thermal solution NaOH, varying in the range of 10–35 %, for 50–200 hours; 100–300 °C, with the concentration of the NaOH thermal solution varying in the range of 10–35%, for 50–200 hours; 100–300 °C, with a NaOH concentration of 10–35 %, for 50–150 hours; 100–200 °C, with a NaOH concentration of 10–30 %, for 10–20 hours, respectively.
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