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.
WhatsApp: +86 18838072829The 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.
WhatsApp: +86 18838072829The Bayer process is a chemical process for refining aluminium hydroxide, Al(OH) 3 from bauxite; this aluminium hydroxide is subsequently calcined to produce alumina, Al 2 O 3 . The basis of the ...
WhatsApp: +86 18838072829Introduction. Bauxite residue, or red mud, is a solid waste produced from the alumina refining of bauxite ore. Red mud is mostly collected from the Bayer process which uses sodium hydroxide to dissolve the aluminium silicate. Typically, about 1 to tonnes of red mud remains from the production of 1 t of alumina (Zhang et al., 2011).
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WhatsApp: +86 18838072829Diasporic 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 ...
WhatsApp: +86 18838072829Bayer 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
WhatsApp: +86 18838072829Bayer process, bauxite is mixed with caustic soda, or sodium hydroxide, and heated under pressure. ... The lime slaker is used to prepare lime slurry which is pumped to the digestion unit Area 04 to improve boehmite extraction. Burnt (calcined) lime, which is produced externally, is stored on site in a large ...
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WhatsApp: +86 18838072829Sometimes [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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WhatsApp: +86 18838072829An 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 ...
WhatsApp: +86 18838072829A 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 ...
WhatsApp: +86 18838072829Following soda and carbon additions, the addition of lime into the sintering process of 20 g CaO to 100 g bauxite residue (80% excess to stoichiometric requirements to form Ca 2 SiO 4) is necessary to investigate the consumption of free and bound silica in desilication products, relying on higher thermodynamic affinity with calcium.
WhatsApp: +86 18838072829Based 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 ...
WhatsApp: +86 18838072829Overall typical composition of a bauxite residue is given in Table 2 and based on the process conditions and region, the bauxite residue composition is tabulated as Table 3 and 4, respectively. Next to the major elements like Fe, Al, Si, Ca, and Na, there are also valuable minor elements such as Ga, V, Zr, and rare earth elements (Evans, 2016).
WhatsApp: +86 18838072829Apart from recovering iron, Liu et al. (2012) employed a sodalime roasting process prior to leaching and magnetic separation of the fine red mud (<75 μm) aiming to develop an economicallyfeasible zero waste utilization process. The sodalime roasting facilitates the formation of sodium aluminosilicate which can then be recovered by leaching.
WhatsApp: +86 18838072829They found that the optimized process conditions were bauxite/anthracite/slaked lime weight ratio of 100::, reduction temperature at 1450°C and reduction time of 20 min. Under these conditions, highquality iron nuggets and calcium aluminate slag were obtained and shown in Figure 7. The largest size and the highest recovery rate of ...
WhatsApp: +86 18838072829The 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. ...
WhatsApp: +86 18838072829The 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 ...
WhatsApp: +86 18838072829The 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 ...
WhatsApp: +86 18838072829Lime can be used to overcome problems when using bauxites with specific and variable chemical and mineralogical characteristics. Although lime is extensively used when processing diasporic...
WhatsApp: +86 188380728291. 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.
WhatsApp: +86 18838072829The flotationBayer process has been widely applied in the alumina refineries, but it introduces large amounts of hazardous organic reagents and produces tailings totaling of about 25% of the initial bauxite ores in weight. 25,26 The lime Bayer process has been also employed to process a portion of highsilica bauxite, but it cannot ...
WhatsApp: +86 18838072829The 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...
WhatsApp: +86 18838072829During the digestion process of the Bayer method, lithium and gallium in bauxite will enter into the sodium aluminate solution (Tang et al. 2020; Xu et al. 2018 ), which will return to the digestion process for recycling after the precipitation of aluminum hydroxide from the decomposition of crystal species.
WhatsApp: +86 18838072829The 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 ...
WhatsApp: +86 18838072829Most 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 ...
WhatsApp: +86 18838072829Of all Bayer process impurities, few attract more attention than the simplest dicarboxylate. While some oxalate enters the Bayer process with bauxite as oxalic acid adsorbed on various minerals, the majority is created by the oxidation and pyrolysis of bauxite organics under Bayer digestion conditions. The rate of its formation in digestion is ...
WhatsApp: +86 18838072829The alkali methods for alumina extraction from byproducts of HAC can be classified into lime sintering process, limesoda sintering process, hydrochemical process, and hematite involved roastingalkali leachingBayer process. ... Teng W, Wang XG, Qin JG, Xu P, Li PC (2010) Alkali desilicated coal fly ash as substitute of bauxite in limesoda ...
WhatsApp: +86 18838072829Bauxite 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 ...
WhatsApp: +86 188380728291. Milling The bauxite is washed and crushed, reducing the particle size and increasing the available surface area for the digestion stage. Lime and "spent liquor" (caustic soda returned from the precipitation stage) are added at the mills to make a pumpable slurry. 2. Desilication
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