Microwave heating and the fast ADOR process for preparing zeolites

Abstract

The microwave assisted ADOR process was applied to quickly disassemble zeolites IWW and UTL in acidic media and obtain the novel IPC-5 zeolite from IWW and a variant of the IPC-6 structure from UTL. XRD and C-s aberration-corrected STEM were used to characterise the structures.

The results show that the speed of the process can be vastly increased using microwave heating.

Keywords

• membranes
• zeolites
• microwave heating
• ADOR
• IPC-6
• aberration-corrected STEM