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Leaching of alumina from bauxite: The process has been successfully applied in the case of bauxite ( (Al_2O__2O)), an ore of aluminium associated with the impurities of iron oxide ((Fe_2O_3)), titanium oxide ((TiO_2)) and sand ((SiO_2)). The powdered ore is leached with concentrated NaOH solution at 473 523 K temperature and 35 ...
The 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% ...
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AD 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 ...
the 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
The Bayer process is currently used to produce cellgrade alumina from bauxite. However, if the reactive silica content in the bauxite exceeds 7%, losses of caustic and aluminium as sodalite (2 Na 2 Al 2 O 3 ·3 SiO 2 ·2 H 2 O) become economically unacceptable. As Australia possesses large tonnages of bauxite containing more than 7% ...
Roasting and Leaching. Kaolin was roasted at 850 °C for 2 h in a muffle furnace. The sample was placed in an alumina crucible and kept inside the chamber, and the temperature was maintained at 850 °C in the fivestage program. The roasted Kaolin was leached in HCl and H 2 SO 4 to liberate alumina.
Bauxite residue is the voluminous byproduct of alumina production after Bayer process. Its high alkalinity causes disposal problems and harmful environmental impacts. However, the residue contains . Expand. 23 [PDF] 1 Excerpt; ... During acid leaching of bauxite residue (red mud), the increase in dissolution of rareearth elements ...
Alumina is extracted from bauxite by the Bayer process. The waste slurry generated in this process is called red mud and its solid fraction is called bauxite residue. About 12 metric tonnes of bauxite residue is generated for each tonne of alumina produced ( Kumar et al., 2006 ). The global annual generation of bauxite residue is around 120 ...
The 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 ...
direct acid leaching are the consumption of large amounts of acid for neutralization, the handling of large volumes of effluents, and the difficulty in using the bauxite residue after leaching. Recovery of iron prior to leaching can improve the economics of the process. However, high alumina in the bauxite residue increases the flux and acid
A closedloop valorization process, combining carbothermic smelting and acid baking water leaching was developed to recover scandium, aluminum, and iron from bauxite residue, a major side product of aluminum production. This process employs carbothermic smelting to recover 99% of the iron in the starting residue as crude metallic iron, which can be separated from slag that contains ...
As 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.
Valeev et al. [111] found that precalcination of Severoonezhsk bauxite at 700 • C for h resulted in a significant increase in the leaching rate of alumina in solution through...
The Bayer process is used for refining bauxite to smelting grade alumina, the precursor to aluminum. Typically, depending upon the quality of the ore, between and tonnes of bauxite is required to produce 1 ton of alumina. The Bayer process involves the digestion of crushed bauxite in the concentrated sodium hydroxide (caustic) solution at
In this study, extraction of aluminum, iron, and titaniumbearing constituents from diasporetype bauxite ores was investigated by stepwise treatment consisting of predesilication via alkalileaching of bauxite ore, extraction of alumina via Bayer process, and recovery of iron from red mud via magnetic separation. The predesilication results showed that the removal of silica reached % ...
In the Bayer's process of extracting alumina from bauxite using caustic soda, the waste generated is called as red mud/bauxite residue. About tonne of bauxite residue is generated per tonne of alumina produced depending upon the bauxite and process conditions used. It is generally stockpiled into the red mud ponds situated near the industrial area and is highly alkaline which is a ...
Red mud is a slimy caustic residue generated from alumina refining of bauxite ores. During the alumina extraction process, about 35 %40 % of the bauxite ores go into the residue as highly alkaline red mud slurry (pH ) which contains 15 %40 % of solid phase in volume [1, 2].Depending on the quality of bauxite ores, producing 1 t alumina basically generates t red mud [].
Gibbsitic bauxite from Australia was leached by hydrochloric acid in this work. Analysis on kinetics for the extraction of Al 2 O 3 was quantitatively studied. It was concluded that the hydrochloric acid leaching process of gibbsitic bauxite was controlled by chemical reaction. Moreover, the mechanism for the dissolution followed the equation ...
Bauxite 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 ...
Aluminum, which has the outstanding advantages of light weight and corrosion resistance, has a wide range of use in industries including aircraft, construction, automobile, and so on [].Unlike the iron direct extraction from iron ore, pure powder alumina should be firstly extracted from bauxite by alkali methods (Bayer process and sintering process), and then aluminum is produced through ...
During the Bayer process, REEs Fe, Ti and other undissolved material along with remain unchanged. As a result rare earths end up in BR with an enrichment factor of approximately 2 comparing to the initialore [3]. Therefore, the aluminum industry throughthe Bayer process concentrates the critical metals found in bauxite into bauxite residue.