INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

101-105

Authors: Mundhe Annarao M and *Munde Bhaskar S

Different kinds of papers are needed for various purposes. The developing country like India, having high growth rate population, demands large production of quality papers. Number of paper industries are established all over the world for the production of different papers such as, printing paper, writing paper, drawing paper, art paper, packing paper, tissue paper, crape paper, tracing paper, currency paper, daily newspaper, filter paper etc. Now a day papers are used for preparation of plates, cups, dishes and others. Waste wood, waste cotton cloth, and some other fillers are the basic materials usually used for production of all kind of papers. For the production of quality papers different chemicals are used as fillers, which are polluting the environment. Zeolites are crystalline aluminosilicate mineral having skeletal structure, with well – defined voids and channels filled with considerable amount of water in it. Due to fascinating properties and presence of well – defined voids and channels, zeolite crystals have countless eco-friendly application in various fields. Natural zeolite crystals Stilbite brown and Heulandite brown collected from different parts of Maharashtra particularly from Marathwada region, quarries near Ajanta caves (Aurangabad) is used for this study. All Zeolite crystals are grinded for less than 212 μ size and characterized for TG/DTA, TG DTA characterization. 10 % of each Zeolite powder is used as paper filler and papers are prepared, dried in sun light for seven days. Properties of paper on which the quality of the paper decided are studied. Results obtained are presented in this paper.