Contents
1.Summary
2.Introduction
3.Production
4.Natural zeolite resources and production
- Canmark International Resources Inc.
- Highwood Resources Ltd.
- Industrial Mineral Processors
- W-Way Zeolites
China
Cuba
France
Georgia
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Indonesia
- Dwijaya Perkasa Abadi
- Eastmet Ltd
- Icon Enterprises Limited
Italy
Japan
- Nippon Kasseihakudo Co. Ltd.
- Nitto Funka Kogyo K.K.
- Sun Zeolite Industry Co. Ltd.
- Zeiklite Chemical and Mining Co. Ltd.
Jordan
- Green Technology Corporation
- Jordan Cement Factories Company
Kazakhstan
Korea South
Mexico
New Zealand
Poland
Romania
Russia
Slovakia
Slovenia
South Africa
Spain
Syria
Turkey
- Zeolitas Turizm Yapi Ticaret ve Sanayi AS.
UK
Ukraine
- Perspectiva
- Zatisyansky Chemical Plant JSC
USA
- Addwest Minerals International Ltd
- Agricola Metals Corporation
- American Absorbents Natural Products Inc.
- Badger Mining Corporation.
- Bear River Zeolite
- GSA Resources
- Moltan Co
- National Zeolite Industries Inc
- St. Cloud Mining Co
- Steelhead Speciality Minerals
- Teague Mineral Products
- UOP
- Victor Industries Inc
- Zeo Inc
- Zeotech Corp.
Other countries with deposits
5. Consumption of natural zeolites
6. End-uses of natural zeolites
- Building materials
- Pozzolanic cements and concrete
- Dimension stone
- Lightweight aggregates
- Fillers
- Ion exchange applications
- Agriculture
- Aquaculture
- Detergents
- Waste treatment
- Heavy metal removal
- Radioactive waste
- effluent treatment
- Water and sewage treatment
- Animal feed supplements
- Adsorption
- Water absorption and desorption
- Desiccation
- Solar energy
- heat exchange
- Oil spill cleanup
- Gas adsorption
- Natural gas treatment
- Industrial gas separation
- purification
- Air purification and odour control
- Flue gas treatment
- Catalysts
- Flocculants
7. Synthetic zeolites
- Methods of synthesis
- Hydrogel process
- Clay conversion
- Asbestos
- Bentonite
- Coal and incinerator ash
- Perlite, pumice and tuff
- Sand
- Synthetic zeolite production capacity
- Sodium silicate
8.Production of synthetic zeolites by country & company
- Australia
- Belgium
- Bosnia-Herzegovena
- Brazil
- Akzo Chemie BV
- INEOS Silicas Brasil Ltda
- Canada
- Engelhard Corporation
- WR Grace and Co.
- China
- Croatia
- Estonia
- France
- Germany
- Akzo-PQ Silica
- Chemische Fabrik Silicium
- Degussa-Hüls AG
- Grace & Co.
- Henkel KGaA
- Hoechst Aktiengesellschaft
- Lurgi Oel Gas Chemie
- Sud-Chemie
- UOP
- Hungary
- India
- Chemicals India
- Henkel SPIC
- National Aluminium Co.
- Italy
- Ausidet
- Birac Enterprise
- INEOS Silicas Italia Spa
- Laviosa-Rhône-Poulenc Spa
- Japan
- Asahi Chemical Co.
- Catalysts and Chemicals Industries Co.
- Kanto Chemical Co. Inc.
- Kao Corp.
- Mizusawa Industrial Chemicals Ltd.
- Mobil Catalysts Corp. of Japan
- Nippon Builder Co. Ltd.
- Nippon Chemical Industrial Co. Ltd.
- Shinanen New Ceramics Corp.
- Sud-Chemie Catalysts Inc Japan
- Sumitomo Aluminium Smelting Co.
- Taki Chemicals Co.
- Toray Industries Inc.
- Tosoh Corp.
- Union Showa K.K.
- South Korea
- Malaysia
- Netherlands
- Akzo-PQ Silica
- Dow Chemical
- Engelhard
- INEOS Silicas Netherlands BV
- Zeolyst International
- Poland
- Slovenia
- South Africa
- Spain
- FMC Foret S.A.
- Químicas del Ebro
- Rio Rodano SA
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Taiwan
- Thailand
- PQ HACO Chemicals
- Thai Silicate Chemicals
- Turkey
- UK
- INEOS Silicas Limited
- Laporte Inorganics
- USA
- Akzo Nobel
- Albemarle Corp.
- Atofina
- Criterion Catalyst Company
- Engelhard Corp.
- WR Grace & Co.
- Industrial Zeolite
- INEOS Silicas Americas LLC
- Mobil Research and Development Corp.
- PQ Corp.
- UOP
- Zeochem USA.
- Zeolyst International
- US sodium silicate manufacturers
9. Consumption of synthetic zeolites
- Detergent builders
- Production of zeolite detergent builders
- The detergent market
- North America
- Western Europe
- Latin America
- Asia
- Eastern Europe
- Phosphate pollution
- Outlook for zeolites in detergents
Catalysts
- Petroleum refining
- Catalytic cracking catalysts
- Hydroprocessing catalysts
- Future trends in zeolite refinery catalyst development
- Catalysis of aromatic reactions
- Xylene isomerisation
- Cumene production
- Ethylbenzene synthesis
- Styrene production
- Production of asymmetrically substituted ketones from aldehydes
- Freidel Crafts reactions
- Production of adipodinitrile
- Catechol and hydroquinone
- Direct oximation of cyclohexanone
- Amine production
- Reclamation of oil from waste plastics
- Cylar process
- Exhaust gas emission control
- Decomposition of nitrogen oxide exhausts
- Particulate removal
- New catalyst technology
- Outlook for zeolites in catalysts
Adsorption
- Purification
- Water removal
- Carbon dioxide
- Sulphur compounds
- Fluorocarbon adsorption
- Bulk separation
- Pressure-swing adsorption
Ion exchange
Other Markets
10. Trade and prices
List of tables
- 1: Physical Properties of natural zeolites
- 2: Properties and uses of Commercial Zeolites
- 3-4: World
- Zeolite resources
- Production of natural zeolites,
- 5: Zeolite Australia
- Zeolite production, 1990 to 20011
- 6: Bulgaria
- Analysis of clinoptilolite from the White Hill Deposit
- 7: Highwood Resources
- Typical product characteristics
- 8: China
- Principal zeolite producers
- 9: Cuba
- Chemical analyses of natural zeolite
- 10: Silver & Barytes
- Clinoptilolite composition & properties
- 11: Hungary
- Reserves of zeolites, 1994
- 12: Zeotrade
- 13: Indonesia
- 14: Italy
- 15: Nitto Funka Kogyo K.K
- Mordenite composition and properties
- 16-17: Jordan
- Characteristics of zeolite deposits north of Azraq
- Test work results on Jabal Hannoun zeolite deposit
- 18: Korea (South)
- Zeolite production 1992-2001
- 19: Mexico
- Principal zeolite deposits
- 20: Zeolitas
- 21-22: USA
- Production and sales of natural zeolites, 1988 to 2001
- Domestic natural zeolite producers, 2001
- 23: Steelhead Specialty Minerals
- Typical properties of CS- VR35000
- 24-25: Zeotech Corp.
- Zeolite products
- Properties of Zeobritea
- 26: Synthetic zeolites
- 27: Classification of industrial zeolites
- 28: Processes for zeolite manufacture
- 29: Examples of zeolites prepared from sodium aluminosilicate gels
- 30: Typical material balance for the hydrogel process
- 31: World
- Producers of synthetic zeolites
- 32: CECA S.A.
- Applications of Siliporiteâ
- zeolites
- 33: Mobil R&D Corp.
- Uses of ZSM-5 zeolite in process technology 34
- USA
- Sodium silicate producers 35
- World
- Demand for synthetic zeolites, 2000 36
- Main detergent builders 37
- World
- Detergent-grade zeolite capacity and estimated production, 2002
- 38-40: USA
- Detergent sales, by type, 1994- 2000
- Sales of laundry detergents, Compact powder market shares
- 41: Western Europe
- Household laundry detergent market
- 42: Market share of phosphate-free powder detergents in Europe (1998)
- 43: Eutrophication survey guidelines for lakes and reservoirs
- 44-45: World
- Market for refinery catalysts, 1997-2005
- Spending on refinery catalysts
- 46: Typical yields from zeolite-catalysed FCC
- 47: Fluid catalytic cracking catalysts:
- 48: Hydrocracking catalysts
- 49: Hydrotreating and hydrogenation catalysts
- 50: Other zeolite-based refinery catalysts
- 51: Trends in gasoline and diesel specifications
- 52-54: Summary of improved catalysts for gasoline production diesel
production and residue conversion
- 55: Mobil/Badger cumene process quality
- 56: European exhaust emission standards
- 57: Synthetic zeolites for adsorbent applications
- 58: Classification of adsorptive separation
- 59: Dimensions of zeolites, water & hydrocarbon molecules
- 60: Adsorbents for sulphur compounds