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Hydrothermal transformation of kaolinite to illite at 200 and 300ºC

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2018

M. Bentabol ,
M. D. Ruiz Cruz ,
F. J . Huertas  and
J . Linares
M. Bentabol
Affiliation:
Departamento de Química Inorgánica, Cristalografía y Mineralogía, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Málaga
M. D. Ruiz Cruz*
Affiliation:
Departamento de Química Inorgánica, Cristalografía y Mineralogía, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Málaga
F. J . Huertas
Affiliation:
Estación Experimental del Zaidín, C.S.I.C. Granada, Spain
J . Linares
Affiliation:
Estación Experimental del Zaidín, C.S.I.C. Granada, Spain
*
*E-mail: mdruiz@uma.es
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Abstract

The hydrothermal reaction of kaolinite in the system Na2O-K2O-(MgO)-Al2O3-SiO2- H2O has been investigated at 200 and 300ºC. The study of the solid products indicates that, at 200ºC, disordered illite was the first phase formed, which evolved at increasing run times towards well ordered illite and analcime. After longer reaction times illite and kaolinite were the sole phases identified by XRD. The b parameter of the illites increased at longer reaction times, from 9.05 to 9.08 Å. Study by TEM/AEM revealed the presence of surface chlorite-like layers, covering the illite packets, however. The trend observed in the products of the reaction at 300ºC was similar, except for the presence of boehmite or pseudoboehmite at the higher temperature. The values of the bparameter of illite, of the order of 9.12 –9.16 Å, indicate that illites formed at 300ºC have a more trioctahedral character. The results obtained also indicate that Mg determines which product will be formed, Kand Na-zeolites and Al-rich illites being the phases formed in the absence of Mg.

Keywords

hydrothermal synthesisclinochlorekaoliniteilliteTEMAEMXRD.
Type
Research Article
Information
Clay Minerals , Volume 38 , Issue 2 , June 2003 , pp. 161 - 172
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 2003

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