An appropriate acid leaching sequence in rice husk ash extraction to enhance the produced green silica quality for sustainable industrial silica gel purpose

•Silica content in rice husk ash is high and attractive to be utilized.•Rice husk ash acid leaching and extraction is performed to produce green silica.•The highest green silica quality has a 96.44% purity and 400.69 m2/g surface area.•Amorphous and mesoporous green silica is suitable for industrial...

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Published inJournal of the Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers Vol. 122; pp. 51 - 57
Main Authors Steven, Soen, Restiawaty, Elvi, Pasymi, Pasymi, Bindar, Yazid
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Elsevier B.V 01.05.2021
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Acid Leaching
Amorphous
Mesoporous
Purity
Surface area
Sustainable
Purity
Amorphous
Acid Leaching
Surface area
Mesoporous
Sustainable
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Summary:•Silica content in rice husk ash is high and attractive to be utilized.•Rice husk ash acid leaching and extraction is performed to produce green silica.•The highest green silica quality has a 96.44% purity and 400.69 m2/g surface area.•Amorphous and mesoporous green silica is suitable for industrial silica gel.•The green silica is sustainable and produced from a low-cost of raw material. The acid leaching process is believed to increase the silica extracted from rice husk ash (RHA). This study intended to investigate the influence of acid leaching sequences in RHA extraction on green silica purity and surface area. The sequences were RHA leaching (T1), aged gel leaching (T2), dried product leaching (T3), and without leaching as a control. The T1 sequence has been proven to improve the green silica purity and surface area reaching 96.44% and 400.69 m2/g, respectively. For T2 and T3 sequences, the green silica has a much lower surface area and purity compared to T1. The values were 87.69% and 55.49 m2/g for T2 as well as 62.46% and 11.40 m2/g for T3. Without acid leaching, the purity and surface area of green silica significantly reduced to 56.94% and 5.72 m2/g. This study concludes that green silica from T1 sequence has successfully obtained high purity, high surface area, and indicates an amorphous and mesoporous particle. It is suitable to be utilized as an industrial silica gel for moisture adsorber which more sustainable and greener process. [Display omitted]
ISSN:1876-1070
1876-1089
DOI:10.1016/j.jtice.2021.04.053