PREPARATION OF NANO SILICA FROM SILICA SAND THROUGH ALKALI FUSION PROCESS
| Main Authors: | Wahyudi, Agus; R&D Centre for Mineral and Coal Technology, Amalia, Dessy; R&D Centre for Mineral and Coal Technology, Sariman, Sariman; R&D Centre for Mineral and Coal Technology |
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| Format: | Article info application/pdf eJournal |
| Bahasa: | eng |
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Puslitbang tekMIRA
, 2017
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| Online Access: |
http://jurnal.tekmira.esdm.go.id/index.php/imj/article/view/383 http://jurnal.tekmira.esdm.go.id/index.php/imj/article/view/383/256 |
Daftar Isi:
- Silica (SiO2) materials play an important role for industries, especially those in micron or even nano-scale size. The later has better properties and improves its quality. Nano silica is applied widely in building material, notably as a mixture of concrete. The material is also promising to be developed into amorphous nano silicon for solar cell materials. Indonesia has a lot of silica sand resources and faces a challenge to increase its quality into high product such as nano silica. Synthesizing silica nano through alkali fusion is a process that includes using the particles along with sodium hydroxide at temperature of 400-1100 °C then recrystalizing the molecules to get materials in nano size. The recrystalizing process was conducted by water leaching and filtration. The derived nano particles (gel) ranged between 40-60 nm. TEM characterization showed that the products are homoge- neous, well dispersed and has specific surface area around 157 m2/g.