Causticization of sodium carbonate with rock-salt type magnesium aluminium oxide formed by the thermal decomposition of hydrotalcite-like layered double hydroxide

The causticization behaviour of Na₂CO₃ with rock-salt type oxide, Mg_2(1-x/(2+x) O (M = Al³⁺ and Fe³⁺, x = 0.2 and 0.33), produced by the thermal decomposition of hydrotalcite-like layered double hydroxide was investigated at 30–60°C. The degree of causticization increased with increasing the molar ratio of rock-salt type oxide]/Na₂CO₃] and increasing the temperature but decreased with increasing the initial concentration of Na₂CO₃. The causticization behaviour could be adequately described by the equation of anion exchange equilibria between CO₃^2- and OH^? for layered double hydroxide.