**Meet the editors**

Prof. Mohamed Nageeb Rashed is a Professor of Analytical and Environmental Chemistry and the previous Vice-dean for Environmental Affairs, Faculty of Science, Aswan University, Egypt. His research interests have been analytical and environmental chemistry with special emphasis on water pollution monitoring, control and treatment; bioindicators for water pollution monitoring; wastewater impact

and advanced oxidation treatment; photocatalysis, nanocatalyst, nanocomposite and adsorption techniques in water and wastewater treatment. Prof. Rashed supervised several MSc and PhD degree thesis in the fields of pollution, analytical and environmental chemistry. Ninety scientific papers were published in international journals and international conferences. He participated as an invited speaker in 20 conferences around the world. Prof. Rashed acts as an editor-in-chief and an editorial board member in several international journals in the fields of chemistry and environment. His society membership includes several national and international societies. Prof. Rashed was awarded the Egyptian National Award for Environmental Researches for the year 2001.

Dr. P. N. Palanisamy is a Professor and the Head of the Department of Chemistry, Kongu Engineering College, Perundurai, Erode. He has more than 21 years of research and teaching experience. His field of specialization includes catalysis, wastewater treatment by adsorption, electrocoagulation and photocatalysis. He successfully guided nine PhD degree students and is presently guiding another nine

PhD degree students in the field of water and wastewater treatment. He holds 98 research publications on the national and international level reputed journals in the area focused on catalysis and textile industrial dye removal efficiency. Dr. P. N. Palanisamy organized a number of sponsored national and international seminars, workshops and conferences. He presented and participated in more than 120 national and international conferences. He is a lifetime member of the Indian Council of Chemists and a reviewer/editorial board member of many journals. He authored three text books entitled *Applied Chemistry, Engineering Chemistry* and *Environmental Science*, for the benefit of budding engineers. Dr. P. N. Palanisamy has completed two R&D projects as Principal Investigator funded by UGC and DST and has one ongoing project funded by UGC. He received Best Performing Researcher Award (R&D projects) for the year 2014 from Kongu Engineering College, Outstanding Scientist Award for the year 2015 from Venus International Foundation, Shri P. K. Das Memorial Best Faculty of Chemistry (Senior Category) Award for the year 2016 by Nehru College of Educational and Charitable Trust and Best Scientist Award by SIAA (South Indian Association of Scientists, Developers and Faculties Award) in 2017 .

Contents

**Preface VII**

Chapter 1 **Introductory Chapter: Adsorption and Ion Exchange Properties of Zeolites for Treatment of Polluted Water 3** Mohamed Nageeb Rashed and Pachagoundanpalayam

Chapter 2 **Linde Type L Zeolite: A Privileged Porous Support to Develop Photoactive and Catalytic Nanomaterials 13**

Chapter 3 **Design and Evaluation of Gas Transport through a Zeolite Membrane on an Alumina Support 35**

Chapter 4 **Separation of Binary Solutions on the Basis of Zeolites 57**

Chapter 5 **Estimation of Nanoporosity of ZSM-5 Zeolites as Hierarchical**

Leire Gartzia Rivero, Jorge Bañuelos, Kepa Bizkarra, Urko Izquierdo, Victoria Laura Barrio, Jose Francisco Cambra and Iñigo López

Habiba Shehu, Edidiong Okon, Ifeyinwa Orakwe and Edward

Paranuk Arambiy, Saavedra Huayta Jose Angel and Khrisonidi Vitaly

Miguel Angel Hernández, A. Abbaspourrad, Vitalli Petranovskii, Fernando Rojas, Roberto Portillo, Martha Alicia Salgado, Gabriela Hernández, Maria de los Angeles Velazco, Edgar Ayala and Karla

Nachimuthugounder Palanisamy

**Section 2 Zeolites Morphology and Synthesis 11**

**Section 1 Introduction 1**

Arbeloa

Gobina

**Materials 73**

Fabiola Quiroz
