US — METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR BAUXITE BENEFICIATION — Ecolab USA Inc. (USA) — Disclosed herein are methods and compositions for increasing the alumina content of a bauxite ore prior to alumina extraction by an extractive process, such as the Bayer process. By adding a beneficiation agent to an aqueous ore slurry, then applying ...
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Purified alumina usually contains to 1 percent water, to percent soda, and less than percent other oxides. The Bayer process, with various modifications, is the most widely used method for the production of alumina, and all aluminum is produced from alumina using the HallHéroult electrolytic process. Refining the ore
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Bayer's method for the extraction of Alumina: ∙ Conversion of impure bauxite to sodium aluminate; Bauxite in the powdered form is added to conc. sodium hydroxide and then heated in a closed vessel at 433 K and 5−6 bar pressure for 6 −8 hours. The aluminium oxide in bauxite is converted to sodium aluminate which is soluble in water.
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Alumina refineries employ the Bayer process (named for its inventor Karl Josef Bayer) to produce alumina from bauxite, a red, typically surfacemined ore. Around 135 MT of alumina is produced annually worldwide, with the majority produced in China and Australia [1]. Bayer Process Overview. The Bayer process is a typically divided into two areas ...
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The Pedersen process could, for example, be used to process bauxite residue from the Bayer process, since the raw material can be considered as a high iron containing ore (Lazou et al., 2021).
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The process immediately achieved industrial success, displacing the pyrometallurgical process that had been used until that time to produce alumina. The Bayer Process involved the pressure leaching of bauxite with NaOH solution to obtain sodium aluminate solution from which aluminum hydroxide was precipitated by seeding. Keywords. Aluminum ...
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The Bayer Process is the dominant industrial method to produce alumina from bauxite ore. Due to the generation of large amounts of Bauxite Residue (red mud), an alternative method, called the Pedersen Process, is of our interest. This process makes use of a combination of pyrometallurgical and hydrometallurgical techniques in order to prevent the Bauxite Residue generation. In the conventional ...
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Bayer's method dissolved aluminum oxide from the ore, leaving as byproducts the silica, iron oxide and titanium dioxide also found in bauxite. In 1888, Hall established the first factory producing aluminum using the HallHeroult process, and later the Bayer method was added to efficiently produce commercial quantities of aluminum oxide.
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The mining of layered soft bauxite under coal seams (BCS) will cause serious underground goaf disasters and surface Bayer process red mud (BRM) pollution. In order to realize the safe and efficient mining of BCS, the feasibility of recycling BRM as a backfilling aggregate was explored. A series of tests were conducted to prevent the pollution diversion of BRM from surface storage to ...
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Metallurgical grade alumina is produced worldwide through the wellknown Bayer process, which unavoidably generates bauxite residue (BR, also known as red mud) in almost equal amounts to alumina. This study aims the valorization of BR through a smeltingreduction process to obtain calcium aluminate slags that can be a proper feed for alumina recovery via the Pedersen process.
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Bayer method is currently used in 95% of alumina production in the world, which requires higher bauxite grade. [2,3,4,5,6] If the ore with Al/Si ratio less than 7 is treated simply by Bayer method, the lowgrade highsilica bauxite must be desilicated by roastingalkali leaching preprocessing method prior to be used in the Bayer system.
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Today, the Bayer process for alumina extraction is used by 95% of aluminum companies in the world. Bayer Process for Alumina Extraction. The Bayer method is used to treat lowsilica bauxite. The process is simple, the operation is convenient, and the product quality is high. Over 90% of the aluminum oxide and aluminum hydroxide produced in the ...
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Red mud, also referred to as bauxite residue, is the largest process waste produced during alumina production from bauxite ore by the Bayer method. Approximately 12 tons of red mud are produced ...
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In the industrial production of alumina, there are three main production methods: the Bayer process, sintering process, and combined process (Liu et al. 2014a).The Bayer process is the most commonly used in alumina production (Liu et al. 2007), and more than 90% of alumina is produced by the Bayer process worldwide (Wang et al. 2018).Bayer red mud is an insoluble alkaline solid waste residue ...
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Aluminum is primarily produced by refining the bauxite ore to alumina in the Bayer Process, followed by electrolytic reduction to metal in HallHéroult process [].More than 95% of the global alumina production (134 million tons) in 2021 was from bauxite processed through the Bayer process [].The global reserves of bauxite ore are estimated between 55 and 75 billion tons and are sufficient ...
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Aluminum production is accomplished in two processes: the Bayer process for refining bauxite ore to obtain aluminum oxide, or alumina, and the HallHéroult electrolytic process for smelting the alumina dissolved in cryolite to produce pure aluminum metal. The Bayer process marks the beginning of the modern field of hydrometallurgy.
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The Bayer Process Process Flowsheet and Raw Materials including Liquor Properties Ore Preparation and Grinding Desilication Digestion SolidLiquid Separation Filtration Heat Interchange Precipitation and Equilibrium Considerations Calcination Alumina Product Quality Scale Mud Washing Residue Disposal and Reuse
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Aluminum from Bauxite Ore . One other inventor needs to be noted, Karl Joseph Bayer, an Austrian chemist, developed a new process in 1888 that could cheaply obtain aluminum oxide from bauxite. Bauxite is an ore that contains a large amount of aluminum hydroxide (Al2O3·3H2O), along with other compounds. The HallHéroult and Bayer methods are ...
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two main methods to produce alumina from the highiron bauxite (ironaluminum symbiotic ore) resources. One is to produce alumina directly by using the Bayer process, and the other is to extract aluminum and iron from minerals step by step [14, 15]. In the process of using Bayer method to produce alumina, the iron element in highiron bauxite ...
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Since each refinery, depending on the type of bauxite, operates on unique Bayer process technology [6, 15, 16] to obtain alumina, it has become necessary to review the chemical...
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Gravity separation removes silica from crushed ore and magnetic separation separates ferric oxide impurities from the ore. The ore is then concentrated by a chemical process. Bauxite is the name given to aluminium ore. To generate aluminium oxide, bauxite is purified, a white powder from which aluminium can be extracted. Aluminium oxide has a ...
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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 [].
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The Bayer Process is the most economic means of obtaining alumina from bauxite. Other processes for obtaining alumina from metal ores are also in use in some refineries, particularly in China and Russia, although these make up a relatively small percentage of global production. The process stages are: 1. Milling
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1. The Bayer Process Aluminium manufacture is accomplished in two phases: the Bayer process of refining bauxite ore to obtain aluminium oxide (which is carried out at AAL), and the HallHeroult process of smelting the aluminium oxide to release pure aluminium (the smelting process is not carried out at AAL). The first
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There are two main methods to produce alumina from the highiron bauxite (ironaluminum symbiotic ore) resources. ... [14, 15]. In the process of using Bayer method to produce alumina, the iron element in ... deionized water was the suitable stripping reagent because it was cheap and easy to obtain. When the initial organic phase volume was 20 ...
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The aluminum industry is quite resource intensive. Bauxite is the only ore commercially used for extracting aluminum metal. The complete value chain for aluminum production is depicted in Figure, Figure, which shows the raw materials needed for the metal ore is processed to produce alumina by the Bayer process.
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Red mud, also referred to as bauxite residue, is the largest process waste produced during alumina production from bauxite ore by the Bayer method. Approximately 12 tons of red mud are produced for every ton of alumina produced 1. Global red mud manufacturing is anticipated to be 200 million tons annually.
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For the same grade of bauxite ore, using the traditional Bayer process, the theoretical maximum alumina dissolution rate is % and the Na 2 O mass fraction in the slag is about % (A/S = 1 and N/S = in the red mud), while the actual dissolution rate of the Bayer process bauxite ore in this alumina plant is about 70%, which shows ...
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2 Al (OH) 3 → Al 2 O 3 + 3 H 2 O The leftover, 'spent' sodium aluminate solution is then recycled. Apart from improving the economy of the process, recycling accumulates gallium and vanadium impurities in the liquors, so that they can be extracted profitably.
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This is the process of re4ining alumina from bauxite (aluminum ore containing 3050% of hydrated aluminum oxide) by selective extraction of pure aluminum oxide dissolved in sodium...
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S. Bhargava M. Hollitt S. Grocott A. Hartshorn D. Akolekar M. Allen. Chemistry, Materials Science. 2004. The Bayer process has been used to refine bauxite ore to alumina for over a century. While implementation of new technologies and an enhanced understanding of process chemistry has yielded..
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Materials Science. The Bayer Process (for alumina) as we know it today involves two steps: • The pressure leaching of bauxite with NaOH solution to obtain sodium aluminate solution. • The precipitation of pure aluminum hydroxide from this solution by seeding with fine crystals of Al (OH)3 . The leaching step was invented five years after ...
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Aluminum Production. Alton T. Tabereaux, Ray D. Peterson, in Treatise on Process Metallurgy: Industrial Processes, 2014 Impact of Different Bauxites on the Bayer Process. The Bayer process is basically used for the extraction of aluminum hydrate from the bauxite ores with the mass ratio of alumina to silica (A/S) above 9. The sinter process is widely used to process the poorgrade ...
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The Bayer process is the main method of alumina production worldwide. ... a concentrate of A/S ratio is achieved for a raw bauxite ore with a A/S ratio. ... ; 1; 3 and 6% of the ...
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