In this process, bauxite is smelted and reduced, which yields pig iron and a calcium aluminate slag. Alumina is further produced from the slag through a hydrometallurgical process. In the present study, different bauxites with different chemical compositions are smelted with lime and reduced by coke.
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The impact of bauxite slurry pumping on the refining process such as bauxite dewatering, additional evaporation requirements etc. must be taken into account in the design of the alumina plant. ... (= bauxite residue [incl. sand] + lime products) maximum t/tA (dry basis): the bauxite residue ("red mud") leaving the refinery after ...
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The process is based on smelting reduction of basic (steelmaking slags), acidic industrial residues (fly ash, bottom ash, etc.) and additives like bauxite, lime, etc. based on requirement. The process uses electrically heated ladle furnace or smelting reduction . This process can be used to produce fluxes of the required composition by treating ...
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The Bayer process: How alumina is produced from bauxite. The Bayer process is carried out in four steps. First, after the bauxite is crushed, washed and dried, it is dissolved with caustic soda at high temperatures. Next, the mixture is filtered to remove the impurities, called "red mud," which is properly discarded. The remaining alumina ...
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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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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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A process flow diagram of the Bayer process is shown in Exhibit 3. The primary purpose of a Bayer plant is to process bauxite to provide pure alumina for the production of aluminum. All bauxite refineries share five common process steps: (1) ore preparation; (2) bauxite digestion; (3) clarification; (4) aluminum hydroxide precipi tation; and (5)
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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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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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An improved lime sinter process based on the drysintering is proposed by adding Na2Ocontaining compounds to decrease CaO addition and increase alumina leaching property. The molar ratios of CaO ...
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The hydrogen reduction of bauxite residue lime pellets at elevated temperatures was carried out to recover iron and alumina from the bauxite residue in a new process route. Prior to the H 2 reduction, oxide pellets were initially prepared via the mixing of an industrial bauxite residue with fine calcite powder followed by calcination and high ...
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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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Different ways for alkaline recovery of aluminum from bauxite residue are considered from the literature and examined in experiments. The advantages and disadvantages of a hightemperature digestion via 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 ...
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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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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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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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The metallurgical method is a significant technology to extract valuable metals from highsilicon bauxite in industry, which can destroy the complex symbiosis and improve the reactivity by appropriate treatment methods, such as the lime Bayer process (Liu et al., 2018, du Plessis et al., 2021), the sintering process (Yu et al., 2020, Pei et al ...
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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 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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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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The investigational trial explored the unconfined compression strength and stressstrain characteristics of the lime treated soil composites, treated using combinations of 7% lime and %, %, 1% and 2 % bauxite residue. The lime treated soil composites were moulded in to cylindrical specimens of 38 mm diameter and height of 76 mm, cured ...
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Additionally, it shows an increase in yields of two points when the lime dosage is low, and between and 3% of the bauxite weight. Based on the mineralogical and chemical composition findings ...
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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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Most authors' studies have focused on the pyrometallurgical process, especially in the smeltingreduction process for treating lowgrade bauxite. Sellaeg et al. [74] processed the gibbsitic bauxite mixed with lime and coke via the Pedersen process at 1600 ℃ for 60 min. The separation of pig iron and calciumaluminate slag could be achieved ...
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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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