Summary:

The use of by-products from the production of food industry and farms hatching such as shell chicken eggs is an interesting alternative to conventional methods for the preparation of the potential implant material - calcium phosphates. Because of unique properties of hydroxyapatite such as bioactivity, biocompatibility and osteoconductive, this material is commonly use in the medical community. The main goal of this research is development of calcium phosphate synthesis method from waste material such as eggshells. Pre-cleaned eggshells were subjected to a single-stage calcination in furnace chamber in varying temperature condition, which were intended to examine the effect of temperature on the properties of the final product. Chicken eggshells contain approx. 94% (m/m) calcium carbonate, which in the thermal process decomposed to calcium oxide. HAp synthesis was carried out by wet methods, using as a starting materials calcium hydroxide suspension obtained from calcined eggshells and solution of phosphoric acid. The obtained powders were characterized using physicochemical method to confirm the presence of hydroxyapatite