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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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