The industrial practice used to produce furfural is the dehydration of pentoses, which is carried out using highly corrosive and contaminating mineral acid catalysts. Because of the ecological and toxicological threats of ...

Two types of bentonites were modified using a cleaner method to prepare aluminum-pillared clays. This methodology involved a purifying stage, an intercalation process, and a microwave irradiation step at low energy power. ...

In thiswork, four aluminumpillared clays (Al-PILC)with different Al/clay ratioswere synthesized and evaluated for the removal of thiabendazole (TB) (a fungicide widely used in agricultural activities) from aqueous media. ...

The industrial practice used to produce furfural is the dehydration of pentoses, which is carried out using highly corrosive and contaminating mineral acid catalysts. Because of the ecological and toxicological threats of ...

Aluminum-pillared montmorillonites are useful materials for their application as catalysts, adsorbents and ceramic composites. The precursor is a pillared montmorillonite that is not thermally stabilized. The precursor ...

Three bentonite clays from deposits located in Brazil were used to study the pillar parameters such as the use of heating in the synthesis of the pillar agent; it was verified the feasibility of controlling the density of ...