Green Synthesis of ZSM-5-Like Material from Rice Husk: Structural and Morphological Characterization

Year 2025, Volume: 9 Issue: 2, 250 - 257

Aasthiya Bharathinathan , Karthikeyan Duraisamy , Sethuraman Narayanan

https://doi.org/10.31127/tuje.1545313

Abstract

This study proposes the derivation of SiO2 from rice husk ash and reports the properties of in-house made zeolite ZSM-5, correlated with the commercial one. The rice husk ash is treated with an alkaline solution followed by hydrothermal treatment (850oC). The synthesized samples were characterized by XRF, XRD, FESEM and FTIR. The XRF analysis on the synthesized rice husk ash confirms the presence of 92% silica, while the XRD analysis shows the formation of amorphous structure and crystalline form it was observed the presence of crystalline silica in the form of cristobalite. in addition, the field-emission scanning electron microscope (FE-SEM), shows the presence of micro scale shapeless morphology and varying SiO2/Al2O3 molar ratios from 20 to 40, the cubic crystals appears zeolite-like material. Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) appears to be a technique of the outcome of double-ring tetrahedral vibration and in-house zeolite prepared from the rice husk ash possesses the asymmetric stretching of the Si tetrahedral within the zeolite framework. It is inferred that the extraction of silica from raw rice husk is an economical and environmentally beneficial substitute. In addition, this novel approach proposes the development of green chemical techniques for ZSM-5 production from agricultural byproducts

Keywords

Amorphous, silica, crystallization, temperature, hydrothermal treatment.

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