Environmental Zeolites and Aqueous Media: Examples of Practical Solutions

What is it about?

The author of eBook is former project leader responsible for clinoptilolite-rich tuff utilization in water treatment and water purification processes, currently preparing some new advanced or innovated postmodified zeolite adsorbents able to be used more universally, testing together with plenty of other economic feasible natural or unconventional adsorption materials or even waste products and thus by certain portion contributing to future sustainability of our environment. Nearly all the examples contained in eBook are based on real experimental data.

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Why is it important?

This review highlights the characteristic features of adsorption and ion exchange onto natural zeolite (clinoptilolite) for environmental cleanup processes, especially for water purification, zeolite´s past, present and future, with an emphasis on the recent developments in this field, particularly in the synthesis and manufacturing of the advanced cost-effective organic-inorganic (hybridized) zeolite-based adsorbents. An organic-inorganic composite adsorbent termed as a hybrid material too, may be defined hereto as a combination of a polymerous substance immobilized onto surface of the inorganic e.g. zeolite carrier to avail advantages of both zeolitic and polymerous constituents as well. Accordingly, hybridization can be used to modify organic or inorganic materials, and those hybrids should therefore be considered as the new generation of composites, that may encompass a wide variety of applications.

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