from Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. The silica extraction
was performed through sequential base–acid treatment as described
in our previous publication.14 (link) The other
reactants were aluminum sulfate octadecahydrate (Al2(SO4)3·18H2O, Sigma–Aldrich),
sodium hydroxide (NaOH, Sigma–Aldrich), sodium silicate nonahydrate
(Na2SiO3·9H2O, Merck), tetrapropylammonium
bromide (TPABr, Sigma–Aldrich), ammonium chloride (NH4Cl, Sigma–Aldrich), and deionized water. All the reactants
were in reagent grade and utilized as received without further purification.
Note that Na2SiO3·9H2O, TPABr,
and NH4Cl were used only for the synthesis of the ZSM-5
seed, as described in the