Extraction of edingtonite from a natural zeolite under hydrothermal conditions

In the present study, edingtonite has been extracted from natural zeolite clinoptilolite by simulating the natural hydrothermal conditions in the laboratory, under the influence of solutions with different concentrations of Ba+2 and Na+, varying from 0.5 to 2.8 mol/L, at 150 °C. In this work, the essential hydrothermal conditions have been provided by hydrothermal autoclaves. The natural and laboratory prepared samples were characterized by XRD, XRF and SEM methods.