Synthesis and characterization of hydrophobic zeolite for the treatment of hydrocarbon contaminated ground water

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Funding Acknowledgements

This study was supported by the Particulate Fluids Processing Centre, a Special Research Centre of the Australian Research Council and the Kanazawa Institute of Technology. The St Cloud zeolite was supplied by the Australian Antarctic Division. Special thanks to Meifang Zhou from the School of Chemistry, the University of Melbourne, for advice on the TGA and nitrogen adsorption techniques, Dr Yujiro Watanabe (KIT) and Professor Kaoru Fujinaga (KIT) for assistance with the XRD and GC measurements.