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Resource saving and creation of environmentally safe environment are the guidelines of modern world policy in the field of waste management. This paper considers a possible method of utilization of a by-product of aluminum fluoride production—silica gel—as an alternative high-silica raw material for hydrothermal synthesis of LTA-type zeolites. To obtain synthetic zeolites, industrial silica gel was subjected to sulfuric acid purification and used to obtain one of the hydrogel components—sodium silicate. As a result of investigation of the influence of hydrogel molar composition on the phase composition of the obtained samples, the optimal molar ratios of SiO2:Al2O3, Na2O:Al2O3 and H2O:SiO2 were identified. The phase composition of the obtained samples and morphological pattern were evaluated using X-ray diffraction and scanning electron microscopy techniques. According to the obtained results, the use of hydrogel of composition 1.8SiO2:Al2O3:4Na2O:28H2O allows to obtain a monophase of LTA type zeolite with high ion exchange capacity, the particles of which have a regular cubic shape with the size of the main fraction up to 10 μm.
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Pyagay, I.N., Svakhina, Y.A., Titova, M.E. et al. Effect of Hydrogel Molar Composition on the Synthesis of LTA-type Zeolites in the Utilization of Technogenic Silica Gel. Silicon 16, 4811–4819 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12633-024-03053-1
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