PENCIRIAN DAN UJI AKTIVITAS KATALITIK ZEOLIT ALAM TERAKTIVASI

ABSTRACT: Natural zeolite reserves are spread in Indonesia, but they are not yet used optimally. Generally, naturalzeolite have poor crystalline,variouspore size, lowcatalytic activity, andhigh contaminant. Natural zeolite need to be activated and modified before it can be used. The objectives of thisresearch were to activite the natural zeolite that already got acid and thermal treatments and tocharacterizeitand catalyticactivitywas testedin interesterificationreaction.Fouriertransformation infrared (FTIR) spectra showed that the structure of natural zeolite activated by acid and thermal (NZAT) treatments were damaged. While, natural zeolite structure activated with acid (natural zeolite acid /NZA) did not show significant different to natural zeolite (NZ). Result of Si/Al ratio analysis showed that Si/Al ratio NZA higer than Si/Al ratio NZAT. The result of cation analysis by atomic absorption spectroscopy shoed that the general content of Na, K, Fe and Ca in the catalystdecreased because of acid and thermal treatments. Surface area and pore volume increased by thetreatments. Catalytic activity of NZA in interesterification reaction gave a white cork product andinyield35.78%.
Keywords: natural zeolite activated, catalytic activity, FTIR
Penulis: Charlena, Henny Purwaningsih dan Tina Rosdiana
Kode Jurnal: jpkimiadd080159

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Jp Kimia dd 2008