The principal components of bauxite ores are aluminum, iron, and siliconbearing minerals. In the Bayer process for recovery of alumina from bauxite,1 aluminum is dissolved into hot alkaline solution whilst iron is relatively insoluble. "Reactive silica" in the form of silicate minerals, such as kaolinite, typically dissolves and reprecipitates as sodium aluminum hydrosilicate, known as ...
the dissolved metal as the "back" end. This is the essence of the continuous Bayer Process used by the industry today. Caustic liquor (a strong caustic soda solution) is the medium moving around the circuit. When bauxite is added, the aluminium dissolves and a "green" (or pregnant) liquor richer in aluminium is formed.
One large alumina plant employing this modified Bayer Process has two parallel grinding and digestion circuits similar to that shown in this flowsheet. The feed rate to each 7 ft. diameter by 12 ft. long rod mill is approximately 95 tons per hour of bauxite ore.
To test this hypothesis, a set of digestion experiments were conducted using gibbsite, one of the major minerals in bauxite. Gibbsite was digested at various temperatures (50, 75, and 95 °C) in ...
Lime is an essential reagent required in various process steps of the Bayer process, in which bauxite ore is converted into alumina (Whittington et al. 1997), as illustrated in Fig. is used for improving conversion of goethite to hematite and dissolution of boehmite and diaspore during digestion; control of liquor impurities such as silica, oxalate, titanium and phosphorous; minimising ...
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Abstract. Bayer digestion performance of gibbsiteboehmite bauxite is studied in this paper. The chemical and mineral compositions of a gibbsiteboehmite bauxite from Australia are analyzed and tested by XRF, XRD, and SEM. Test results show that the bauxite contains ≥ 50% of alumina (gibbsite and boehmite) and 9% of silica (kaolinite and quartz).
At the start of the process, the bauxite is finely ground and, with the addition of caustic soda, converted into a viscous suspension (chemists say: digested). The suspension is pumped through the pipes of a reactor and heated up in stages to approx. 270 °C.
• Digestion; • Clarification; • Precipitation; and • Calcination. A simplified process flow diagram of the Bayer process used at the Wagerup refinery is presented in Figure 6. Bauxite Grinding and Slurry Storage Bauxite is ground to less than mm particle size at the refinery, using semiautogenous
A large amount of alumina has to be produced in order to produce aluminum in the HallHéroult process; it requires about 4 t of bauxite to produce 2 t of alumina and it takes almost 2 t of alumina to produce 1 t of aluminum metal. The two largest operating costs per ton of alumina in Bayer plants are bauxite and fuel. Bayer Process
1. Introduction. The Bayer process is an industrial method of bauxite pressure digestion in strong sodium hydroxide caustic solutions. As a result, aluminium hydroxide is selectively extracted, crystallized from the process liquor and then calcined to metallurgical grade alumina (Chin, 1988).The current study is performed in association with Aluminium of Greece plant (AoG), which utilizes both ...
The Bayer process, as it has become known, is used for refining bauxite to smelting grade alumina (aluminum oxide), the precursor to aluminium. Typically, depending upon the quality of the ore, between and tonnes of bauxite is required to produce 1 tonne of alumina. The Bayer process is a cyclic one and is often called Bayer cycle.
Lithium is one of the secondary mineral elements occurring in bauxite, where lithium content can reach up to % (as Li 2 O) [1,2,3].During the digestion process, lithium in bauxite is extracted into Bayer liquor, and in the following seed precipitation process, it coprecipitates with alumina hydroxide (ATH), resulting in high lithium content in alumina and, consequently, raising lithium ...
The aim of this work was to achieve an understanding of the distribution of selected bauxite trace elements (gallium (Ga), vanadium (V), arsenic (As), chromium (Cr), rare earth elements (REEs), scandium (Sc)) in the Bayer process. The assessment was designed as a case study in an alumina plant in operation to provide an overview of the trace elements behaviour in an actual industrial setup.
One of the alumina industry's main problems is the organic matter in the Bayer liquor during the Bayer Process released in the bauxite digestion process and accumulating in the process.
impurities have upon the characteristics of bauxite residue is also described. Keywords: Organics, oxalate, sulfate, causticisation, bauxite residue 1. Introduction In the Bayer process, bauxite ore is digested in a highly concentrated caustic soda solution, usually at elevated temperatures and pressures. The process relies upon the lower ...
The Bayer process is a continuous process which may be separated into four simple steps: hydrothermal digestion, where the bauxite is heated in hot caustic soda solutions to dissolve the aluminium bearing minerals; clarification, where separation of the aluminiumrich solutions and undissolved components of bauxite (bauxite residue) occurs; crys...
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 aluminium oxide must be further purified before it can be refined into ...
Bayer process liquors are supersaturated not only with alumina but also with contaminants such as silica and oxalate which are derived from digestion of the bauxite ore with caustic liquor; such ...
Precipitation 2. Desilication In the Bayer process the desilication of bauxite is an important step to maintain the alumina quality. It requires conversion of reactive silica of the bauxite into a nonsoluble sodalite complex (Sodium aluminium silicate or sodalite). The desilication can be carried out before digestion or after the digestion ...
Almost the entire metallurgical grade alumina is produced from bauxite using the Bayer process. The leaching conditions in Bayer process depend on various Aloxyhydroxide minerals/phases present in the bauxite. Among the various bauxite types, gibbsitic (trihydrate) bauxite is easiest to digest. Monohydrate (boehmitic and diasporic) bauxites need more stringent digestion conditions in terms of ...
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