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Synthesis <strong>of</strong> biomorphic zeolite honeycomb monoliths with 16000 cells per<br />
square inch<br />
Gang Li, 1,2 Ranjeet Singh, 1,2 Dan Li, 1 Chunxia Zhao, 1,3 Liying Liu 1,2,4 <strong>and</strong> Paul A. Webley 1,2<br />
1. Department <strong>of</strong> Chemical Engineering, Monash University, Wellington Road, Clayton, VIC<br />
3800, Australia<br />
2. Cooperative Research Centre for Greenhouse Gas Technologies, Grnd Flr NFF House, 14-<br />
16 Brisbane Ave, Barton, ACT 2600, Australia<br />
3. State Key Laboratory <strong>of</strong> Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis <strong>and</strong> Processing,<br />
School <strong>of</strong> Materials Science <strong>and</strong> Engineering, Wuhan University <strong>of</strong> Technology, Wuhan<br />
430070, PR China<br />
4. School <strong>of</strong> Materials & Metallurgy, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110004, PR China<br />
Zeolite NaX <strong>and</strong> silicalite honeycomb monoliths were synthesized via hydrothermal<br />
growth <strong>of</strong> zeolites on the interior surface <strong>of</strong> cuttlefish bone by a novel flow coating technique.<br />
The resultant samples were characterized by SEM, XRD, EDX, N2 adsorption <strong>and</strong> TGA. The<br />
loading <strong>of</strong> nano-crystalline silicalite (36.4 wt%) was higher than for NaX type zeolite. The<br />
biomorphic honeycomb monoliths were found to have an exceptionally high cell density <strong>of</strong><br />
16000 cells per square inch which is ten times higher than the best synthetic ones. The<br />
honeycombs were evaluated for their hydrodynamic <strong>and</strong> kinetic properties, showing<br />
substantial improvement <strong>of</strong> mass transfer rate with lower pressure drops than conventional<br />
zeolite packing.<br />
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