Bauxite residues (also known as 'red mud', 'Bayer process tailings' or 'bauxite process tailings') are generated from alumina production where bauxite is digested in hot NaOH solution via the Bayer process. 22 The production of 1 tonne of alumina generates between 1 and tonnes of bauxite residue. 23 Currently, the yearly global ...
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Therefore, lime (CaO) and limestone (CaCO 3) are used, as a source of calcium, to harvest cementing calcining RM alone, reactive aluminium phases begin to form at °C. However, at °C, they turn into crystalline corundum (Al 2 O 3 ), a more stable and less reactive phase.
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Lime addition in the Bayer process enhances the phase transformation rate of goethite and the digestion performance of alumina in highiron bauxite (Chen and Peng, 1998; Peter, 2017). However, there is no report on the promotion scale, especially for the highcalcium medium system.
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The Bayer process is the principal method for production of alumina from bauxite worldwide. The modern version of the process (developed in the 1880's) still maintains
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Diasporic bauxite is the major kind in China, characterized by highaluminum, highsilicon, low ratio of Al2O3 to SiO2 [1], complicated mineral compositions [2] and finely disseminated associations of aluminous minerals and silicate minerals [34]. Presently, to produce aluminum oxide in China is usually not Bayer process but sintering process ...
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The basis of the Bayer process is an understanding of the characteristics of the sodiumhydroxide—sodiumaluminate solution relationship, namely its ability to keep sodiumaluminate in a dissolved state over a wide range of conditions, especially on the temperature and caustic soda concentrations.
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The Bayer process simulation is based on the modelling of selected and defined unit processes and inputoutput parameters from the published literatures, described in the following section. In the Bayer process simulation, the bauxite ore, extraction liquor and lime addition are mixed and heated in digesters in the pressure leaching step.
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The effect of lime on gibbsite bauxite digestion is different from its effect on diaspore bauxite due to its different composition and digestion properties [15, 16]. In one report, gibbsite bauxite was digested by adding 1% lime at 145 °C, achieving a better digestion efficiency of %. However, excessive lime addition will lead to excess ...
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The production of alumina (Al2O3) from bauxite via the Bayer process is underpinned by the use of lime in a variety of process reactions. One of the most important is the causticisation of...
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The lime used was industrialgrade lime, and the digestion liquid was prepared by industrial sodium aluminate solution and analyticalgrade sodium ... The review can advance the current technology on the comprehensive utilization of gibbsitic bauxite, especially process discharge reduction approaches and largescale abatement ways for red mud. ...
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Soda sintering or limesoda sintering process, began from L ouis Le Chatelier's work in 1855 in obtaining aluminum hydroxide (Al(OH) 3 ) from sintering bauxite with soda at around 1000 °C which
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Bauxite residue is the industrial solid waste discharged from the production of alumina by bauxite, which contains a certain amount of ferric oxide in a reddishbrown color, so it is also called "red mud", and is a typical nonferrous metallurgical solid waste (Wang et al. 2018; Xue et al. 2022).The varieties of bauxite residue depend on the grade of the bauxite and alumina production process.
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process route, such as: • Acidbased processes (hydrochloric and sulfuric or sulfurous based routes) • Limebased sintering and complex aluminosilicate processing • Alunite roast reduction using a modified Bayer process Our offering for lowgrade bauxite and nonbauxitic ores covers the following:
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The 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 ...
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Lime is used extensively within the Bayer process, where it performs many useful functions. In particular, it can enhance the extraction of alumina (improving the dissolution of boehmite and diaspore or the conversion of aluminogoethite), control liquor impurities (desilication, causticisation or phosphorous control), assist with the removal of impurities from the pregnant liquor (liquor ...
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The mechanochemical processing of bauxite with lime has been investigated. The milling of bauxite and lime mixtures in an attritor mill resulted in the formation of an iron rich hydrogarnet phase in bauxite/lime slurries containing greater than 9% CaO. ... The role of lime in the Bayer process with less lime is to eliminate the harmful effect ...
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A process that involves treatment of ore with lime and soda is used in China and Russia. The Bayer process involves four steps: digestion, clarification, precipitation, and calcination. In the first step, bauxite is ground, slurried with a solution of caustic soda ( sodium hydroxide ), and pumped into large pressure tanks called digesters ...
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Bauxite residue is a hazardous solid waste generated during the Bayer process of extracting alumina from bauxite ore, the high alkalinity of which limits its largescale industrial applications. In order to reduce the alkalinity of bauxite residue, rich lime additions from 0 to 30 wt.% and high digestion temperatures from 250 °C to 300 °C were performed on a highferrite diasporic bauxite ...
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Bauxite residue (BR) is generated as a byproduct of the Bayer process. Approximately tons of BR is generated per ton of alumina production but the quantity of bauxite residue depends upon on the quality of the processed bauxite ore and the processing parameter (Primary Aluminium Production).The annual generation of BR in 2019 alone was estimated as 175 million tons (Archambo and Kawatra ...
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Bauxite residue is a highly salinesodic tailings material formed as a byproduct of the Bayer process for alumina production. In situ remediation of bauxite residue has the potential to provide an effective means for accelerated rehabilitation of residue storage areas. However, previous work has predominantly only used chemical and physical amendments to date, limiting rates of pH ...
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1. Introduction The Bayer process accounts for over 90% of the world's commercial production of alumina. The process involves digestion of bauxite in a caustic soda solution at temperatures ranging from 100 to 250 °C, depending on the form of alumina in the bauxite, gibbsitic, boehmitic or diasporic.
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Bayer process and sodalime sintering process are elaborated and compared. 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 high
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Clays are types of the lowgrade aluminum ores, they're also well abundant which make them a potential substitutes for Bauxite. In this work, lime soda sinter process was adopted for extracting ...
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Perovskite 1. Introduction Lime is often considered as a panacea in the Bayer process. Its uses are so widespread that there is virtually no unit operation where it does not find an application. Table 1 gives an overview of the main uses of lime in the Bayer process, including low temperature applications (not all applications are given).
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An Improved Lime Sinter Process to Produce Al2O3 from LowGrade AlContaining Resources. Yongpan Tian, Xiaolin Pan, Haiyan Yu, Yuejiao Han, Ganfeng Tu, Shiwen Bi; ... and Bauxite Alloys, Processing, and Characterization Reduction Technology Shop Technology Technology Casting
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Based 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 ...
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The effect of lime on the predesilication and digestion of gibbsitic bauxite in synthetic sodium aluminate liquor at different temperatures was investigated. The bauxite is comprised of gibbsite, aluminogoethite, hematite, kaolin, quartz, and minor boehmite. Lime increases the desilication efficiency of the bauxite during the predesilication process by promoting the conversion of sodalite ...
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The Bayer process is the principal method for the production of alumina from bauxite worldwide. The modern version of the process (developed in the 1880's) still maintains the key steps of dissolution of aluminarich minerals into hot caustic solution, separation of the insoluble phases, followed by gibbsite precipitation and calcination of the gibbsite to alumina (Al 2 O 3).
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Sometimes [when?] lime is added at this stage to precipitate the silica as calcium silicate. The solution is clarified by filtering off the solid impurities, commonly with a rotary sand trap and with the aid of a flocculant such as starch, to remove the fine particles.
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A process according to claim 1 further characterized in that the lime is added after the initial slurry of bauxite and Bayer process liquor has been heated to at least 60°C. 3. A process according to claim 1 or 2 further characterized in that lime is added in an amount of to 3 gms/litre (calculated as equivalent Na2CO3).
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Ferric bauxite, a type of bauxite with high hematite content, has yet to be commercialized. Direct reduction [1−2] can realize ferric bauxite comprehensive utilization; however, the sodium carbonate consumption in direct reduction is considerably higher than that in the ordinary bauxite processing technology [3]. Previous research
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In Bayer process, low temperature treatment of bauxite generally applicable to gibbsite in the presence of a significant amount of boehmite (>3%), requires a temperature increase and the addition of an additive to improve the leaching conditions. This research is based on improvement of low temperature leaching conditions 108 °C and the addition of lime during the attack of some types of ...
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Bauxite is generally extracted by open cast mining, being almost always found near the surface, with processes that vary slightly depending on the location. Before mining can commence the land needs to be cleared of timber and vegetation. Alongside this process may be the collection of seeds and/or saplings, for inclusion in a seedbank, which ...
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