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Acid leaching. In order to recover scandium and other rare earth metals, red mud is often dissolved by leaching with acids. The investigations on acid leaching of scandium from bauxite residue were extensively carried out [51, 53, 78, 8993].Zhang et al. [] used HCl for leaching of scandium from red mud, and the optimum leaching condition was determined as HCl concentration of 6 mol·L ...
The lateritic bauxite hydrochloric acid leaching process showed that when the ore granularity was less than 55 μm, the liquid/solid ratio (L/S ratio) was 100:7, the leaching temperature was 373383 K, the leaching time was 120 min and the HCl concentration was 10%, both the leaching rates of Al and Fe were over 95% . But the hydrochloric ...
The process of Leaching is used to concentrate the ore. NaAlO 2 + 2H 2 O → NaOH + Al(OH) 3. Serpek's process: This process is used when the bauxite ore contains a higher percentage of silica as an impurity. In this process, powdered bauxite ore is mixed with carbon (coke) and heated to 1473K in a current of nitrogen.
The process of extracting aluminum from bauxite involves crushing and refining the mineral to produce alumina, which is then used to produce aluminum metal. ... Leaching: This process involves the removal of minerals from rocks through the action of water. In the case of bauxite formation, silica and other minerals are leached out of the rock ...
1. Introduction. Red mud (RM) is a solid waste generated by alkali (NaOH) leaching of bauxite by the Bayer process for alumina production [].More than one ton of RM is produced for one ton of alumina (Al 2 O 3), and over 150 Mt of RM is annually stored in landfills and sea [].The RM utilization degree is extremely low due to the high Na, Al, Si, and Ca content because these elements increase ...
In general, the lithium content in bauxite ore is negatively correlated with the alumina content,, the lithium content in bauxite decreases with increasing Al 2 O 3 content. 25,28 Lithium in bauxite tailings 27 can be recovered using acid leaching; however, this leaching process is not selective and the leachate purification process is ...
Thus, this process doesn't look compatible with laterite where the iron content is much higher than typical lowgrade bauxite. Hence, an alternative acid leaching extraction was planned. For any earth material extraction process, the study of the kinetic behavior of element extraction is crucial to make the process efficient.
The Bayer process is the main method of alumina production worldwide. The use of lowquality bauxites for alumina production results in the formation of a significant amount of technogenic waste—bauxite residue (BR). The Bayer reductive method is one possible way to eliminate BR stockpiling, but it requires highpressure leaching at temperatures higher than 220 °C.
The separation of iron and aluminum in highiron bauxite has been a field of interest for quite a while. For example, in the early studies of iron removal from bauxite, acid leaching [9,10,11] and biological leaching [12,13] were applied. In the process of acid leaching, hematite can be removed by acid dissolution.
Roastleachelectrowinning for the treatment of zinc concentrates and nonoxidative leaching of bauxite for the production of alumina by the Bayer process are of worldwide standards [6] [7][8][9]. ...
Principle processflow diagram of bauxite leaching with HCl based on reference [112]. Many metallic elements in bauxite can be leached in an acid solution. Thus, iron, aluminum or other metallic elements are leached and recovered together during the acidleaching process. However, some problems with acid treatment remain, including severe ...
Due to drawbacks of the direct leaching route from bauxite residue, such as silica gel formation and low selectivity towards these valuable metals, a novel leaching process based on oxidative ...
The circulation liquid and lime (75% active CaO) for Bayer leaching were obtained from Guizhou, China. Methods. Three different AlFe recovery processes can be found in Fig. shown in Fig. 2, the LRS process means that the bauxite is firstly subjected to Bayer leaching, followed by magnetic roasting of red mud, and then, the roasted red mud would be magnetically separated for ...
Hall'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.
Acid leaching followed by thermal activation and water or alkaline solution leaching followed by lime or sodalime mixture sintering are the main developed processes to produce alumina from nonbauxite ores [].However, removing silica due to its solubility before carbonation of aluminate solutions by alkaline leaching and removing iron solubilized before alumina precipitation by acid leaching ...
The 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. The aluminate solution is then decomposed producing Al (OH)3 ...
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. ... In order to minimize the input material for the leaching process ...
The 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.
Primary aluminum production is achieved by the combination of two metallurgical processes: (a) the Bayer process, which refines bauxite to metallurgicalgrade alumina (MGAl 2 O 3), and (b) the HallHéroult process, which produces aluminum metal by electrolytically reducing MGAl 2 O 3 in a cryolite bath. Increasing the sustainability of both these processes and of the entire primary ...
Leaching is used for the purification of Bauxite ore. Leaching is a process that is used in extractive metallurgy. How bauxite ore is purified by chemical method? It can be purified by either Hall's process or Baeyer's process or Serperck's process. Here, Mond's process is used for refining the nickel metal and Liquation process is used ...
The Bayer process is the principal industrial means of refining bauxite to produce alumina (aluminium oxide) and was developed by Carl Josef, the most important ore of aluminium, contains only 3060% aluminium oxide (Al 2 O 3), the rest being a mixture of silica, various iron oxides, and titanium dioxide. The aluminium oxide must be further purified before it can be refined ...
The acid leaching reactions of the bauxite would be thermodynamically easy and completed. Under the conditions that ore granularity is less than −55 μm, the L/S ratio is 100:7, and the leaching temperature is 373383 K, the leaching time is 120 min and the concentration of HCl is 10%, both the leaching rates of Al and Fe are over 95%.
Thus, Bayer process is economically unsuitable to process the bauxite resource with silica content greater than 8% by weight (A/S≤) . As to the bauxite with A/S of, the A/S in concentrate fed to the Bayer process can be increased by predesilication with flotation dressing [ 26, 27 ], roastingleaching process [ 28, 29 ], or ...
The results indicated that leaching of bauxite is the rate controlling process. The activation energy was determined to be kJ/mole, which was characteristic for a chemically controlled process. ... The effect of particle size on leaching of bauxite was studied using different size fractions (100+150 mesh, 150+200 mesh and 200+270 mesh
Because the water leaching process does not consume additional reagents, it is economical. Still, this process is timeconsuming because longterm leaching and repeated dealkalization are necessary for the water leaching process. ... Red mud which is a byproduct from Bauxite ores process has a strong alkali component contg. % of Na2O ...
The process consists of the following steps: calcination of bauxite, leaching of calcined bauxite in hydrochloric acid, filtration of residue, crystallization of A1C1 H 2 O, decomposition of AlCl H 2 O crystals to produce A1 2 O 3, regeneration of hydrochloric acid for recycle into the leaching step.