King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals

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Zain Hassan Yamani

Akolade Idris Bakare

Mohammed Ahmed Sanhoob

The present disclosure relates to a method of making a zeolite. The method includes mixing an aluminum nitrate with an aqueous solution of NaOH to form a first mixture followed by mixing silica gel with the first mixture to form a second mixture. The second mixture is heated with microwave irradiation to form a first sample. The method further includes washing, drying, and ion exchanging the first sample with ammonium nitrate to form a second sample. The method includes calcining the second sample to form the zeolite, wherein the method does not use a seed or a structural directing agent.

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Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

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