Quantitative analysis of zeolite ferrierite, ZSM-5 and mordenite present in synthesized samples

In studies for obtaining zeolitic materials common to the formation of mixtures of crystalline phases due to the relative stability of these materials in the medium used in the synthesis. Thus, it is extremely important to quantify the various phases present in the system to optimize methods of synthesis of a zeolite without determining the presence of contaminants. Specifically, it was found that during the synthesis of zeolites ZSM-5(MFI), mordenite (MOR) and ferrierite (FER) in various experimental conditions, is the formation of binary mixing phases (FER + MOR) and (FER + MFI), sometimes ternary (FER + MOR + MFI). The purpose of this work was to perform various binary mixtures at various percentages of these materials in order to obtain a methodology to quantify the presence of each of the stages (FER, MOR and MFI) samples synthesized under different experimental conditions. With this objective, physical mixtures were prepared with different contents of the phases MFI, MOR and FER, from highly crystalline samples of each phase. These known compositions phases were analyzed by X-ray diffraction to quantify the areas of the peaks characteristic of each material, thus being able to obtain a ratio of the percentage of phase/area of each blend component.

X-ray diffraction; zeolites