Manufacture of Silica Nanoparticles from Bamboo Leaves

Proposed process: Silica nanoparticles production through thermal combustion and alkaline extraction

Description

 Dried matured bamboo leaves are heated in a muffle furnace, treated with HCl to filter
impurities
 Extraction of silica nanoparticles by acid precipitation process followed by alkali extraction
 Calcination of pure silica

Advantage over Conventional

1. High temperature tubular muffle furnace reactor set-up:

 facilitate slow circular rotation with uniform burning of the leaves
 heavy weight rod that was fitted at the bottom of the furnace to tilt the furnace in a
horizontal axis
 a cost effective way to harvest the burnt ash in collector vessel/glass reactor

2. The bamboo waste is merely low cost resource yielding high purity (99%) than rice husk ash
(97%)

3. Compared with rice husk as raw material, 40% of the expense for the source materials is reduced
while using bamboo leaves for nanosilica production.

Reactions and Equilibrium Constants/ Equation

Raw Material:

Matured Bamboo Leaves

Sources:

1. A Lucrative Chemical Processing of Bamboo Leaf Biomass to Synthesize Biocompatible

Amorphous Silica Nanoparticles of Biomedical Importance (Rangaraj & Venkatachalam, 2017)
2. Physical, chemical, and mechanical properties of bamboo and its utilization potential for
fiberboard manufacturing (Li, 2004)