More than 90% of the world's commercial manufacture of alumina is obtained by hydrochemical sodium hydroxide extraction of bauxite through the conventional Bayer process. The Bayer process is, however, associated with the generation of bauxite residue which cannot easily be disposed due to its high alkaline content, which can degrade the ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377The Bayer process is used worldwide for the alumina production. This process involves the alkaline leaching of bauxite to extract Al, followed by the precipitation of Al(OH) 3 to recycle the solution [1,2,3].The leaching process results in the formation of a solid residue, commonly referred to as a bauxite residue, which consists of iron minerals, hydrous aluminosilicates, which are formed ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Based on lime sintering method, a novel process of alumina production from lowgrade bauxite containing sulfur or fly ash is carried out in this paper. The phase of alumina transforms from 12CaO·7Al 2 O 3 (C 12 A 7) to 4CaO·3Al 2 O 3 ·SO 3 (C 4 A 3 S), whose alumina leaching property is better, through decreasing sinter temperature and time ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377The doublecycle process is pressure leaching of hydrochloric acid—extraction and separation of leaching solution—direct pyrolysis of aluminum chloride solution for producing alumina. Firstly, highiron bauxite is used as raw material to extract aluminum and iron elements in it by hydrochloric acid leaching.
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377The Bayer process holds an exclusive status for alumina extraction, but a massive amount of caustic "red mud" waste is generated. In this work, three oxalate reagents: potassium hydrogen oxalate (KHC 2 O 4), potassium tetraoxalate (KHC 2 O 4 ·H 2 C 2 O 4), and oxalic acid (H 2 C 2 O 4) were investigated for the Al and Fe extraction process from NIST SRM 600 AustralianDarling range ...
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WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Alkali process primarily contains sintering and hydrochemical process. In the sintering process, aluminacontaining materials are mixed with limestone and sintered, transforming silica into dicalcium silicate and alumina into calcium aluminate. Then, alumina can be separated from silica efficiently in followed sodium carbonate leaching process .
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377However, high alumina in the bauxite residue increases the flux and acid consumption. Therefore, alumina needs to be removed by alkali roasting prior to smelting in order to decrease the flux and acid consumption. The alkali roastingsmeltingleaching process allows recovery of aluminum, iron, titanium, and REEs from bauxite residue.
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377The leaching process with dilute HNO 3 was performed at pilot scale and optimized for the extraction of scandium from bauxite residue ( OchsenkühnPetropoulou et al., 2002 ). Xue et al. (2010) found that at a reaction temperature of 90 °C and an L/S ratio of 3:1, over 80% of the scandium in bauxite residue could be leached by H 2 SO 4.
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377This article looks into the possibility of REE concentration into red mud by leaching an intermediate product of the bauxite sintering process at Russian alumina refineries, namely electrostatic ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377The separation of the alumina from the impurities in the bauxite ore is usually accomplished by the Bayer Process. In this process the ground bauxite is leached with caustic soda (NaOH) to produce soluble sodium aluminate (NaAlO2), leaving the impurities in the insoluble residue.
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377The excessive production of bauxite residue (red mud) in the Bayer process is one of the major challenges amongst alumina producers. The Pedersen process is known as a combination of smelting reduction of bauxite and leaching treatment of the produced slag for alumina production, and the process also produces an inert bauxite residue (grey mud), which is more suitable for further processing ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Abstract The recovery of major components of bauxite residue by carbothermic reduction at °C and subsequent slag leaching in a Na3CO3(aq) solution is studied. Iron recovers primarily to pigiron and lime is added to tune the calcium aluminate slags towards the highly leachable mayenite phase. The concentration of aluminum in the leachate correlates well with the occurrence of ...
WhatsApp: +86 182036953771 Citations Abstract Using ammonium bisulfate solution to extract alumina from low grade bauxite process was developed. Most alumina and ferric oxide of the bauxite was leached into the solution. All of silica was retained in solid phase. The separation of aluminum and silicon was realized by this method.
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Recycling a ton of aluminum requires only about 5 percent of the energy and saves almost nine tons of bauxite from being hauled from mines. Even antiplastics campaigners agree that recycling ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Red mud (RM) is a waste generated during bauxite processing for alumina production. The most common method for bauxite processing is the Bayer process, where raw material is digested under high pressure by NaOH to obtain a pregnant sodium aluminate solution [].During highpressure leaching, nonsoluble elements such as iron, titanium, and refractory or precipitated during washing step aluminum ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Experimental Method. In this study, the recovery of precious metals from bauxite ore was examined by a twostage leaching process. The stages of this process were Stage I: Removing iron to a large extent and revealing the solubility conditions of titanium by treating the bauxite ore with oxalic acid, Stage II: Determining the recovery conditions of aluminum from the residue obtained after the ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377As a hybrid process, bauxite residue undergoes a reductive smelting process with lime addition in an electric arc furnace in order to generate aluminaenriched slag. This slag is subsequently treated with highpressure caustic leaching at moderated (200300 g/l) and high (572762 g/l) sodium hydroxide concentrations.
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377The principle are of aluminium, bauxite usually SiO(2) iron oxides and titanium oxide (TiO(2)) as impurities . Concentration is carried out by digesting the powdered ore with a concentrated solution of NaOH at 473523K and 3536 bar pressure. The way Al(2)O(3) is leached out as sodium aluminate (and SiO(2) too as sodium silicate) leaving the other impurities behind : Al(2)O(3)(s)+2NaOH(aq)+3H ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377This method is based on the leaching of precrushed bauxite in alkaline solutions. After leaching, aluminum hydroxide separates from the aluminate solution and is then calcinated to produce alumina. Highquality bauxites with an Al 2 O 3 to SiO 2 mass ratio of more than 8 are required as a raw material for alumina production by the Bayer process .
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377The bulk of bauxite production is used as feed for the manufacture of alumina via a wet chemical caustic leach process known as the Bayer process . The majority of the alumina produced from this refining process is smelted using the HallHéroult process to produce aluminum metal by electrolytic reduction in a molten bath of natural or ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377the Bayer process [4]. This process is based on the alkaline leaching of aluminumbearing ores (mostly bauxite) with sodium hydroxide solution. At this high pH value and elevated temperature and pressure, aluminum hydroxides from bauxite dissolve selectively as following Eq. 1 (in this case gibbsite), while most of the other compounds remain
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377The research on pressure leaching started in 1887. Karl Josef Bayer was the first one who proposed to leaching bauxite with sodium hydroxide solution at a temperature of 413453 K to obtain sodium ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Hall's process for leaching of alumina from bauxite: (1) Bauxite ore and sodium carbonate are fused toghether to convert aluminium oxide into soluble sodium metaaluminate. The insoluble residue contains the impurities of silica and iron oxide. The fused mass is treated with water.
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Literature leaning towards Bayer process efficiency often targets leaching conditions in Bayer digestion and selectivity of aluminum precipitation species for activated alumina recovery, and from the byproduct valorisation, the sintering of bauxite residues for the recovery of aluminum and sodium [25,26,27,28]. The scope of this work will be ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377DOI: /materproc Corpus ID: ; The Efficient Use of Sulfuric Acid in Bauxite Residue Leaching article{Toli2023TheEU, title={The Efficient Use of Sulfuric Acid in Bauxite Residue Leaching}, author={Aikaterini Toli and Dimis Kotsanis and Maria Psoma and Danai Marinos and Panagiotis Davris and Efthymios Balomenos and Dimis Panias}, journal={RawMat 2023}, year ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377The major commercial technology for the production of smelter grade alumina has conventionally been the Bayer process which converts bauxite ore, an aluminum containing ore which typically contains about 50 % Al 2 O 3, into smelter grade alumina that contains over % Al 2 O potential source of aluminum that is receiving renewed attention is coal fly ash (CFA), which is a by ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377AD contains a large amount of alumina, which is an important raw material for preparing alumina instead of bauxite. ... The apparent rate constant (k d) was found to be min −1 min −1 and the activation energy of aluminum in the leaching process was evaluated to be kJ/mol. The study of leaching kinetics can reveal ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377After smelting to remove iron from bauxite residue, alumina can be recovered from the ironfree slag by an acid leaching process. The aluminum recovery rates from the slag by most common inorganic acids can be listed as H 3 PO 4 >H 2 SO 4 >HCl>HNO 3. Since sulphuric acid is a diprotic acid, it donates more protons to the solution than both ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377The HCl leaching studies of bauxite indicated that as the concentration of HCl acid increases, the iron content reduces substantially, but at the same time, loss of alumina takes place. The change in bauxite colour from reddish brown to light colour indicated leaching of ore. It was found that bauxite of 300 µ size, leached with HCl of 25% ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377This study investigates applying the principles of the longdiscontinued Pedersen process as a possible route for producing metallurgical grade alumina from lowgrade and secondary feed materials. The investigation focused on the hydrometallurgical steps in the process, namely leaching, desilication, and precipitation, and adapting it to valorize bauxite residue. The test material used was a ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Bauxite mine tailings can be used as the reserve resources of aluminium and lithium. In this study, a less energy consumption treatment method for extracting aluminium and lithium from bauxite mine tailings has been proposed, which used mixed acid to leach aluminium and lithium from tailings directly, avoided roasting for reducing energy consumption, and obtained effective minerals ...
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