Waste-based Zeolite

The focus of Waste-Based Zeolite: Synthesis and Environmental Applications is on the use of waste-based materials to fabricate zeolite, and its subsequent use in environmental applications. It presents recent progress in zeolite synthesis using wastes products such as fly ash, steel slag, biomass waste, water treatment plant sludge, and municipal waste, among others. It discusses the application of waste-based zeolite for environmental applications such as biodiesel production, as well as considering techniques for recovering spent zeolite. Many industries produce substantial quantities of waste material comprising various hazardous constituents that lead to pollution and threaten the environment. However, such waste can often be a rich source of precursor ingredients for zeolite synthesis, and waste-based zeolites could potentially provide an economically and environmentally viable alternative to commercially available zeolites. This book illuminates this fascinating avenue of research. The first few chapters concentrate on the fundamentals of waste-based zeolite, including classification and structure, characterization techniques, and waste valorization options from various industrial and alkaline solid waste materials. Then comes a comprehensive discussion of various approaches for zeolite synthesis employing silica- and alumina-enriched solid wastes (for example, steel slag, fly ash and biomass ash) as starting material, along with the advantages and disadvantages of each method. Subsequently the book covers advanced applications of solid waste-derived zeolites in various emerging sectors, as well as considering regeneration and recovery approaches of spent zeolite.