Zeolite

CRI's Zeolite Products

The zeolite particle size range available from CRI is from 4" to minus 150 mesh. Various standard particle sizes are available from warehouse stock. Custom particle sizing to 1500 mesh is available upon request.

CRI’s modern processing plant is complete with laboratory, crushing, drying, sizing, packaging, warehousing, administrative support and shipping facilities.  Services are available to meet virtually any custom needs.

About Zeolite

The mineral zeolite is an absorbent volcanic ash with commercial, industrial, agricultural, and environmental applications. Zeolite uses include horticultural products, soil conditioners, agricultural surfactants, feed supplements for the livestock industry, odor control and hygiene products, floor-drying agents, mineral fillers, water filtration and waste treatment systems, air filtration, petrochemical spills cleanup, and ion exchange products. The mineral also leaches oil stains, making it a natural for driveway use.

Zeolite is perhaps best known for it use as kitty litter. It readily eliminates odors from cat urine, ammonia, cigarette smoke, mildew, garbage, cooking, and carpet odors. In powder form it can even be applied directly to a pet’s fur. In a concentrate form, it is a particularly long-lasting odor killer.

The zeolite mineral also has effective commercial applications. Agricultural uses include enriching soil and supplementing feed. It is also a key ingredient in water and wastewater treatment. Petroleum refineries use zeolite in cracking hydrocarbons for gasoline use.

Charter Resources International has the mineral rights to natural zeolites located in Nevada and California. 

Properties of Zeolite

The word zeolite in Greek means “boiling stone.” The historic zeolite market has been composed of three distinct areas: natural, synthetic, and synthetic detergent builders.

Zeolite acts as a filter, retardation agent, and absorbent.  The properties that make natural zeolites commercially valuable include ammonium adsorption (aquaculture, aquarium filters, odor control applications, pet litter and water purification); moisture adsorption (desiccants, odor control, and pet litter); and ion-exchange capabilities (waste water cleanup and water purification). 

Unique properties of zeolite include:

• Adsorption: separation and sieving based upon selectivity; purification and bulk separations.
• Non-Regenerative processes: drying, windows, refrigerants which do not pollute.
• Metal separation: from liquids and solids; radioisotope removal and storage; artificial kidney dialysate regeneration; and aquaculture.

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