Rice Husk Ash Extraction With Organic Acid Leaching As The Pra-Treatment of Green Silica Production For Sustainable Industry Purpose
Rice Husk Ash Extraction With Organic Acid Leaching As The Pra-Treatment of Green Silica Production For Sustainable Industry Purpose
Rice Husk Ash Extraction With Organic Acid Leaching As The Pra-Treatment of Green Silica Production For Sustainable Industry Purpose
ISSN No:-2456-2165
Abstract:- Rice production in Indonesia has increased chemically, and thermochemically6. In general, the silica
in the last 3 years. This condition resulted an increase in separation process consists of removing inorganic
rice husk production as one of kind of its by-product. compounds (metal impurities) K, Ca, Na, Al, Mg, and Mn,
The high silica content encourages the potential of rice followed by the removal of organic compounds such as
husk to become the raw material for green silica cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin contained in rice husks
production. The utilization of rice husk to produce silica [2].
can shift the production of commercial silica (TEOS
and LUDOX) due to the low cost of raw material, Rice husks treated with acid leaching produced the
production costs, and of couse- energy consumption. final silica purity of 92-93%. However, rice husk has a stiff
Treatments of different kind of organic acid (C4H6O6 texture, so in the acid leaching process, the acid solution is
and CH3COOH), variation of temperature (28oC, 75oC) challenging to diffuse to the inner layer of the husk, and the
in duration of process (1h, 2h) in acid leaching was operation process can only be carried out under certain
applied in this study. The parameters on this study are conditions. In the study by Steven, S. et al.,[3] it was
acid concentration and aging time on precipitation. The shown that soaking rice husks requires operating conditions
experimental result shows that the use of C4H6O6 and at a temperature of 200oC, a pressure of 6-8 bar, and
CH3COOH has been shown to reduce the levels of metal vigorous stirring to break up rice husk particles and bring
impurities, producing green-silica with 92.21% purity impurities out. While the structure of rice husk ash is more
on the best silica product (C4H6O6,28oC,2h) with an brittle, so the acid solution quickly diffuses, and acid
amorphous phase of 61,26%, increasing surface area leaching can be carried out at atmospheric pressure and low
and pore volume of silica to reach 154,570 m2/g and temperature9. Acid leaching carried out on rice husk ash
44,2513 cm3/g. The high silica yield was reached at produced silica purity up to 96.44% [3].
99,26%. The highest adsoption capacity of 756,4 mg/g,
824 mg/g, and 824 mg/g meet the quality standart of There is still metal impurity content which is one of
SNI no. 06-2477-1991 for silica product with good the factors for the low purity of silica products [4]. The
adsoption quality. The main analysis process using acid leaching treatment has attracted attention for its ability
Scanning Electron Microscopy with Energy Dispersive to remove mineral impurities and increase the purity of
X-Ray Spectroscopy (SEM-EDX), X-Ray Diffraction silica products [5]. However, the application of acid
(XRD), and Brunauer Emmet Teller-Surface Area leaching is generally still using strong acids such as nitric
Analyzer (BET-SAA). The obtained result suggest that acid (HNO3), sulfuric acid (H2SO4), and hydrochloric acid
appliying organic acid leaching unsing C4H6O6 can (HCl) [6]. This inorganic acid is commonly used as a metal
reduce impurities on silica product, producing component remover during the silica production process
mesopore-sized amorphous green silica with good [7]. However, the application of solid and hazardous
adsorption qualities an an alternative hazardous to chemicals can cause side effects on the human body and
good material in the implementation of environmentally the environment in the long-term production design [8].
friendly chemical on micro-scale cleaner production. The characteristics of organic acids, which have low
Keywords:- Acetic acid, Green silica, Impurities, Organic molecular weight, have potential as metal chelating agents.
acid leaching, Tartaric acid. Tartaric acid (C4H6O6) is an environmentally friendly
organic acid [9]. C4H6O6 not only functions as a
I. INTRODUCTION precipitating agent but also as a metal chelating agent [10].
At the same time, acetic acide (CH3COOH) is one type of
There have been many studies state that rice husk ash organic acid that can form complex bonds with several
contains a range of 88-95% silica content. With the metal ions [11]. Studies on carboxylic acid as a metal
combustion treatment, it was found that 94.95% silica complexing agent with tartaric acid as a chelating agent are
content in rice husks was found4. In another study, it was still minimal. Replacing the use of hazardous materials
shown that it was possible to isolate 93.67% of silica from with less hazardous materials is the implementation of
rice husks [1]. environmentally friendly chemistry in micro-scale cleaner
production. Thus, this study was conducted to analyze the
The technique of extracting silica from its source in effectiveness of organic acids as environmentally friendly
the form of rice husks can be carried out by various additives and is expected to be an alternative to dangerous
separation methods, such as hydrothermally, biologically, strong acids in producing high purity low-impurity silica
The experimental results also show that the is supported by the statement [20] where CH3COOH
application of CH3COOH in the acid leaching process at a belongs to the bidentate ligand group so that it can act as a
temperature of 28oC for 2 hours can reduce Mg levels from complexing agent such as oxalic acid, ethanediol, and
1.26% to 0.01% and Ca levels from 1.28% to 0.04%, ethylenediamine. CH3COOH has a carboxylic group (-
thereby reducing the formation of MgO compounds and COOH) which can act as a connecting ligand that can
CaO in green silica products. In this operating condition, 1 connect metal centers [21] to reduce metal impurities in
mol/L CH3COOH also increased silica purity by 72.62%, silica, as well as with the characteristics of a relatively
from 51.84% to 89.49%. CH3COOH acts as a complexing cheap and easy- to-obtain cost [11], making CH3COOH
agent that forms bonds with metal elements in RHA. This
Fig. 2: Morphology By Sem Analysis Of: A) Rha, B) Control, C) The Best Silica (C4h6o6,28oc,2h), D) The Best Silica
(Ch3cooh,28oc,2h) From 1000x Magnification
Calcination plays a vital role in the carbon oxidation C. Crystallinity Ratio of Green Silica Product
process. In this study, high levels of carbon were found in The crystallinity index of the best silica product from
the green silica product, as evidenced by the detection of the results of this study was calculated using the Segal
carbon in the surface morphology of the silica (see Fig. 1). method (see eq. 2), where the intensity value of the most
This is presumably because the decomposition process of substantial absorption spectra (It) became a function of the
volatile materials does not run perfectly during calcination, percentage of crystalline in the silica product (CI). CI=It-
causing oxidation to consume less carbon, so that the solids Ia/It (expressed in %) where CI shows the crystallinity
resulting from ashing still contain high levels of fixed index of the green silica product (expressed in %), which
carbon. This is probably one of the causes of the difficulty was synthesized using C4H6O6 at 28oC for 2 hours, and It
in achieving silica products with purity above 99%. is the total intensity of the most substantial absorption
Another cause is thought to be because the purity of silica peak. The results of XRD analysis showed that the
in RHA in this study was only 51.84%, whereas, in other strongest absorption peak of the best silica product was
studies, the percentage of silica was found to be much achieved at 869 counts. Substitute this value into equation
larger (73.85%-82.80%) [22][23]. However, adding an acid to obtain a silica crystallinity index of 38.74%. This
leaching treatment helped to obtain low-impurity green indicates that the best silica product from this study
silica with high pore volume characteristics, as shown in contains 61.26% amorphous silica. Based on the literature
Table 2. [24] the amorphous phase of silica is at 2<26o, for the
quartz phase is at 2=26o, the tridymite stage is at 2=31o,
Ratio
Acid
CI (%) Amorphous (%)
C4H6O6 38,74 61,26
CH3COOH 72,82 27,18
Table 2: Chemical Composition Of Green Silica By Edx
The XRD results show that the green silica product product from 1000x magnification which shows an
has an amorphous phase, and cristobalite is supported by irregular silica structures. It indicates that the best silica
the results of the crystallinity calculation using the Segal product contain amorphous phase.
method, as well as the surface morphology of the silica
D. The Testing of Best Silica Product on Moisture Green silica is formed from siloxane (Si-O-Si) and
Adsorption Process silanol (Si-OH) [27] groups which act as active sites. The
The amount of mass of silica products and water silica sample's active site begins in the thermal process at a
molecules that can be adsorbed to the saturation limit is a temperature of 400oC. The active site synthesized with
function of the adsorption capacity of silica. Based on the CH3COOH at 28oC for 60 minutes worked well, as
data in Fig. 4, it shows that the highest water molecule indicated by the high adsorption capacity of silica against
adsorption capacity is obtained by silica synthesized with water molecules. The acid leaching treatment increased the
CH3COOH at 28oC for 60 minutes, which is 825.6 mg/g, porosity of SiO2 [28]. Data support that all silica treated
followed by silica synthesized by CH3COOH at 28oC for with acid leaching had a moisture absorption capacity of
120 minutes at 824.4 mg/g which increased by 0.14%. The 47.6%-78.78% higher than the control sample. This is
lowest moisture adsorption capacity was obtained from the because it has a high pore void space, thereby increasing
control silica sample without acid leaching treatment, the moisture adsorption capacity, and is supported by the
which was 395.2 mg/g [26]. The silica quality standard results of the silica adsorption test on nitrogen gas which
based on SNI No. 06-2477-1991 has a minimum silica shows a pore volume value of 44.2513 cm3/g, where the
absorption capacity of 750 mg/g. Therefore, four samples higher the pore volume of a material, the higher pore
of green silica from the research meet the quality standards, volume of material will be the higher the adsorption power
which have adsorption capacities of 756.4 mg/g, 761,1 as expressed in figure 4.
mg/g, 824.4 mg/g, and 825 mg/g, respectively.
Variables
Method
Surface Area (m2/g) Pore Volume (cc/g) Pore Diameter (Á)*
Adsorption 114,205 0,649 288,768
Desorption 242,20 0,736 126,279
BET 154,570 44,2513 -
Table 3: Saa Analysis Of Best Silica Product