Zeolite, calcium

Five common desiccant materials are used to adsorb water vapor montmorillonite clay ([(Na,Cao.5)o.33(Al,Mg)2Si40io(OH)2 H20], silica gel, molecular sieves (synthetic zeolite), calcium sulfate (CaS04), and calcium oxide (CaO). These desiccants remove water by a variety of physical and chemical methods adsorption, a process whereby a layer or layers of water molecules adhere to the surface of the desiccant capillary condensation, a procedure whereby the small pores of the desiccant become filled with water and chemical action, a procedure whereby the desiccant undergoes a chemical reaction with water. 

Propylene cokage experiments followed by gravimetry have shown that higher is the 5A zeolite calcium content, higher are the cokage kinetics and carbon content inside the pores (Fig. 1). The total carbon contents retained in the porosity after desorption at 350°C of physisorbed propylene are 14.5% and 11% for 5A 86 and 5A 67 samples respectively. These carbon contents are relatively important and probably come from the formation of heavy carbonaceous molecules (coke) as it has been observed by several authors [1-2], The coke formation requires acid protonic sites which seems to be present in both samples but in more important quantity for the highly Ca-exchanged one (5A 86). 

As a final example, we balance the reaction between the zeolite calcium clinop-tilolite and the mica prehnite [Ca2Al2Si30io(OH)2] in the presence of quartz, and calculate at 200 °C the equilibrium activity ratio aC d i i /a, . The commands... 

Fe2+ R3 - Fe3+, Al3+, Ti4+ M+ = Na+, K+ and 2 x Ca2+. An M+R3 pole represents the bulk composition of feldspars, commonly found associated with clay minerals. They are the most alkali-rich minerals present (excluding zeolites). Calcium is considered to fulfill a chemical role similar to the alkali ions in most clay minerals. It is notably not present in micas stable at low temperatures (Velde, 1971, Hemley, ejt al., ... 

A difficulty in running substitution reactions with these materials is that it is easy to destroy the geometry of the lattice, especially when acid sites are created, even, temporarily, in the lattice. Thus, when CHC1F2 is sorbed by the zeolite Calcium A (4), a marked increase in amorphous background is found when the solid is examined by x-ray diffraction (5). The reaction employed here therefore involved a fully substituted halomethane, CF2C12. Zeolite Calcium A sorbs CC12F2... 

As a final example, we balance the reaction between the zeolite calcium... 

The choice of antiblocking additive depends on the polymer, the desired film quality, and whether there is a pigment. Several inorganic substances are used, including synthetic amorphous precipitated silica, diatomaceous earths, nepheline syenite, calcined clay, coated calcium carbonate, magnesium carbonate, magnesium sulphate, mica, talc and various zeolites. Calcium carbonate particles are approximately spherical, but silica ones are irregular mica forms sheets and talc is plate-like. 

Calcium caiix)nate, surface treated Titanium dioxide, rutile Hydrated lime Synthetic zeolite Calcium peroxide Phthalate plasticizer Ganuna aminopropyltriethoxy silane Toluol Total... 

The degree of concentration that can be achieved by RO may be limited by the precipitation of soluble salts and the resultant scaling of membranes. The most troublesome precipitate is calcium sulfate. The addition of polyphosphates to the influent will inhibit calcium sulfate scale formation, however, and precipitation of many of the other salts, such as calcium carbonate, can be prevented by pretreating the feed either with acid or zeolite softeners, depending on the membrane material. 

When the permanent hardness salt CaS04 passes through the bed, calcium zeolite (CaZ) and sodium sulfate (Na2S04 ) are formed, which are then flushed away. 

Zeolites are naturally occurring hydrous aluminum-sodium silicates in porous granule form. They are capable of exchanging their sodium base for calcium or magnesium and of expelling these alkaline earth metals for sodium by treatment with salt. Thus, they are a type of ion-exchange media. (Some zeolites act as molecular sieves by adsorption of water and polar compounds.)... 

External treatment also meant the removal of calcium and magnesium hardness by zeolite softening using either a variety of silcate-based, natural zeolites [such as analcite, (Na AljS O, 2 2H20)], or manufactured carbon zeolites. 

Zeolite softeners were limited in application because of their potential for rapid fouling by ferric hydroxide or calcium carbonate, and a narrow operating pH range of 5.8 to 8.3 was therefore preferred to minimize this problem. 

Carbon zeolites could be regenerated by acid and were forerunners to modem SAC(H) resins. They proved useful at removing iron, as well as calcium and magnesium, and did not contribute any silica to the water. 

The coagulant sodium aluminate (NaA102) is strongly caustic (contributing hydroxide alkalinity to the BW) and reacts with calcium and magnesium salts and any silica present to form a zeolite sludge of calcium-magnesium-aluminum silcate. 

Several different possible zeolite structures may result, and if the sodium content is too high, calcium and magnesium are excluded and a hard zeolite scale of sodium-aluminum silicate preferentially forms. If only calcium is present, calcium-aluminum silicate zeolite forms, also as a hard scale. If only magnesium is present in solution, it forms the flocculant magnesium aluminate, MgAl204. 

Ion exchange zeolites are builders in washing powder, where they have gradually replaced phosphates to bind calcium. Calcium and, to a lesser extent, magnesium in water are exchanged for sodium in zeolite A. This is the largest application of zeolites today. Zeolites are essentially nontoxic, and pose no... 

Calcium silicates such as wairakite, epidote, prehnite, laumontite, and stilbite are common in the wall rocks of some Au-Ag deposits in the Izu peninsula. Epidote occurs as a gangue mineral coexisting with sulfides and quartz in some Cu deposits, but none of the other above-mentioned Ca and Mn silicates have been reported from these deposits. Laumontite is a common mineral in propylite, which is the host rock for Au-Ag deposits. Other zeolites such as mordenite and dachiardite are not generally common, but they are the main gangue minerals associated with Au-Ag minerals in the Ohnoyama and Awagano Au-Ag deposits. 

Scale prevention methods include operating at low conversion and chemical pretreatment. Acid injection to convert COs to CO2 is commonly used, but cellulosic membranes require operation at pH 4 to 7 to prevent hydrolysis. Sulfuric acid is commonly used at a dosing of 0.24 mg/L while hydrochloric acid is to be avoided to minimize corrosion. Acid addition will precipitate aluminum hydroxide. Water softening upstream of the RO By using lime and sodium zeolites will precipitate calcium and magnesium hydroxides and entrap some silica. Antisealant compounds such as sodium hexametaphosphate, EDTA, and polymers are also commonly added to encapsulate potential precipitants. Oxidant addition precipitates metal oxides for particle removal (converting soluble ferrous Fe ions to insoluble ferric Fe ions). 

Molecular sieves (zeolites) are artificially prepared aluminosilicates of alXali metals. The most common types for gas chromatography are molecular sieve 5A, a calcium aluminosilicate with an effective pore diameter of 0.5 nm, and molecular sieve 13X, a sodium aluminosilicate with an effective pore diameter of 1 nm. The molecular sieves have a tunnel-liXe pore structure with the pore size being dependent on the geometrical structure of the zeolite and the size of the cation. The pores are essentially microporous as the cross-sectional diameter of the channels is of similar dimensions to those of small molecules. This also contrilsutes to the enormous surface area of these materials. Two features primarily govern retention on molecular sieves. The size of the analyte idiich determines whether it can enter the porous... 

Hirschler and co-workers (82) have reported the formation of a radical when benzene was adsorbed on a calcium exchanged Y-type zeolite. A... 

The acidic character of 5A zeolite as a function of the calcium content has been explored by different techniques propylene adsorption experiments, ammonia thermodesorption followed by microgravimetry and FTIR spectroscopy. Propylene is chemisorbed and slowly transformed in carbonaceous compounds (coke) which remain trapped inside the zeolite pores. The coke quantities increase with the Ca2+ content. Olefin transformation results from an oligomerization catalytic process involving acidic adsorption sites. Ammonia thermodesorption studies as well as FTIR experiments have revealed the presence of acidic sites able to protonate NH3 molecules. This site number is also correlated to the Ca2+ ion content. As it has been observed for FAU zeolite exchanged with di- or trivalent metal cations, these sites are probably CaOH+ species whose vas(OH) mode have a spectral signature around 3567 cm"1. 

The 4A and 5A zeolite samples come from the French Institute of Petroleum (IFP). These samples named in the text 5A 67, 5A 73.5 and 5A 86 are exchanged at 67%, 73.5% and 86% by calcium ions, respectively. Prior each microgravimetric measurement, 20 mg of zeolite sample are outgassed at 350°C under primary vacuum... 

The formation of heavy carbonaceous compounds in 5A calcium exchanged zeolites depends on the calcium content. These zeolites are able to protonated ammonia molecules in ammonium ions. This Bronsted acidity results from the presence of CaOH+ species which are formed by water dissociation on Ca2+ ions and have an IR signature at 3515 cm"1. 

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