Zeolite-common earth minerals presentation

1. ZEOLITE
By: Cielo Acuzar

2. LOCATIONS WHERE THEY CAN BE
FOUND OR MINED
• Locations: Clinoptilolite zeolite is
primarily mined in California,
Idaho, New Mexico, Oregon,
and Texas. New Mexico is the
leading producing state, followed
by California.

3. How They Are
Mined?
• Conventional open-pit mining techniques are used to
mine natural zeolites. The overburden is removed to
to allow access to the ore. The ore may be blasted
or stripped for processing by using tractors
equipped with ripper blades and front-end loaders.
In processing, the ore is crushed, dried, and milled.
• Conventional open pit mining techniques:
• Open-pit mining, also known as opencast mining,
mining, is a surface mining technique that extracts
extracts minerals from an open pit in the ground.

4. Primary
example of
conventional
open pit
mining.

5. In What Way They’re
Processed.
• For softening of water by zeolite process, hard
water is percolated at a specified rate through
a bed of zeolite. Zeolite holds sodium ion
loosely and can be represented as Na2Z, where
Z represents insoluble radical frame work.
• When the water passes through the zeolite the
hardness causing ions (Ca+2, Mg+2 etc.) are
retained by the zeolite as CaZ and MgZ
respectively, while the outgoing water contains
equivalent amount of sodium salts.

6. In What Way They Are Processed.
• After some time, when the zeolite is completely changed into calcium and
magnesium zeolites, then it gets exhausted (saturated with Ca+2 and Mg+2
ions) and it ceases to soften water. It can be regenerated and reused by
treating it with a 10% brine (sodium chloride) solution.

7. What Are Their
Industrial or
Commercial Use.
• The main industrial application
areas are: petroleum refining,
synfuels production, and
petrochemical production.
Synthetic zeolites are the most
important catalysts in
petrochemical refineries.

8. Petroleum refining.
• Petroleum refining processes are the chemical engineering
processes and other facilities used in petroleum refineries
to transform crude oil into useful products such as liquefied
petroleum gas, gasoline or petrol, kerosene, jet fuel, diesel
oil and fuel oils.

9. Petroleum
refining.

10. Synfuels Production.
• Synthetic Fuel Development
• Today, synthetic fuel production is
synonymous with producing liquid fuel
from a mixture of CO and H2 (syngas).
Syngas is typically derived from
nonrenewable fossil-based resources
such as coal and natural gas.

11. Petrochemical
Production.
• A petrochemical is any chemical
manufactured from crude oil and
natural gas as distinct from fuels and
other products (Speight, 2014, 2019a),
derived from crude oil and natural gas,
and used for a variety of commercial
purposes. The definition has been
broadened to include the whole range
of organic chemicals.

12. Petrochemicals
Productions.

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Reported by Cielo Acuzar