Almost all alumina plants in the world use the Bayer process, patented over 120 years ago [US Patent 515,895 Process of making alumina, Karl Bayer], to refine bauxite to this process, a large volume of caustic liquor circulates continuously around the plant (see Figure 2).Bauxite is fed into the caustic stream and, after a number of processes, alumina is taken out of the stream.
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Bayer Process 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
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To produce 1 kg of aluminium, it requires 2 kg of alumina, which consumes 6 kg of bauxite, leaving behind 4 kg of bauxite residue. Managing this voluminous byproduct sustainably has been a longstanding industry challenge. Vedanta Aluminium is actively engaged in minimising bauxite residue and exploring avenues to extract value from it.
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Bayer's method: In this method, bauxite powder is taken and concentrated (45%) and sodium hydroxide solution is added and then heated in a closed vessel at 433 K temperature and 5 to 6 bars of pressure, for 6 to 8 hours, so that aluminium oxide present in bauxite is converted into sodium aluminate which is soluble in water.
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Alumina Production (Bayer Process) The aluminium production starts with the production of alumina from bauxite according to the socalled Bayer process. In the Bayer process, caustic soda (NaOH) is used to extract alumina from bauxite in digesters. High temperatures and pressures are required for this process (Kuenen et al. 2016).
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Calcination is the final step in the Bayer process for production of metallurgical grade of alumina, which is done either in rotary kilns or fluid bed stationary calciners by heating A l ( O H) 3 above 1400 o C. A l ( O H) 3 → 1400 o C Δ A l 2 O 3 Factors affecting bayer process : Finer is the bauxite better will be the digestion of alumina.
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The Pedersen process is an alternative process for the production of alumina. Initially, bauxite ores, or other aluminous materials, are smelted with lime to produce pig iron and a slag of mainly calcium aluminate composition. The latter is subsequently leached in Na 2 CO 3 solutions to extract alumina hydrate.
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In Bayer's process, the bauxite ore is first crushed and then it is leached by heating with hot concentrated caustic soda (NaOH) solution under high pressure for 2 to 8 hrs at 140 to 150 °C in a tank called a digester. Aluminium oxide, being amphoteric in nature, dissolves in an aqueous NaOH solution, forming watersoluble sodium aluminate.
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The raw material for the Bayer process is most commonly mined bauxite, a rock containing aluminium, which as we already know also contains many other substances (admixtures) in addition to aluminium oxide hydrates, such as iron, titanium and silicon oxides in particular. The main task of the process is to remove these admixtures.
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The Bayer process comprises three principal stages ( Fig. 2): bauxite digestion, aluminium hydroxide precipitation and aluminium hydroxide calcination. Cumulatively, these stages allow crushed ...
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Or (E) cryolite reduces the working temperature of the electrolytic cell. The extraction of aluminum is a twostep process. First, alumina is extracted from bauxite ore in the Bayer process. Then, pure aluminum metal is extracted from alumina in the HallHéroult process. This is an electrolytic process.
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2) Electrolysis of alumina. 1) Purification of Bauxite. The purification of bauxite ore can be done by Baeyer's process. a) The powdered bauxite ore is treated with hot concentrated (45%) solution of sodium hydroxide at 473523 K and 35 36 bar pressure. b) In this process, alumina (Al 2 O 3) dissolves forming sodium aluminate. This process ...
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Aluminum production from bauxite is achieved with the Bayer process, which is a hydrometallurgical method. However, in the Bayer process, in time, it is possible to encounter problems such as the formation of excessive amounts of red mud in aluminum production, its environmental risks, its requirement of large storage sites, the excessive production of reactants by ores with low silica modulus ...
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The Bayer process is the principal industrial means of refining bauxite to produce alumina (aluminium oxide) and was developed by Carl Josef Bayer. Bauxite, 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 dioxide. [1]
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Process Overview. The recently patented bauxitebased defluoridation method proposes the use of mildly processed (powdered) bauxite ore as a singleuse dispersive batch media in a communityscale system [24]. Bauxite, a globally abundant ore of aluminum, is a viable, effective, and lowcost fluoride adsorbent alternative to AA.
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The high aluminum content of kaolin (2040%) makes it more attractive for alumina production and as a substitute for bauxite (Seyed et al., 2011;ElDeeb and Brichkin, 2018;Ali et al., 2019).
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During the Bayer process, most of the trace elements end up in the bauxite residue, distribution of which is mainly controlled by mass flows during the Bayer process [15]. The most abundant phase ...
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An investigation of the application of the CaCO3 and Na2CO3 sinter process to extract alumina from red mud has been carried out. In the sintering stage, the optimal operating conditions have been obtained for highest extraction of alumina. The chemical composition of red mud is % Al2O3, % Fe2O3, % SiO2, % Na2O, % TiO2, % CaO, % V2O5, % MnO, % MgO, % ...
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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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Bauxite is the principal ore of aluminium and gallium. Various processes like the Bayer Process and HallHeroult Process are carried out to extract aluminium from bauxite ore. After extraction and processing, aluminium and its alloys are extensively utilized in electronics, construction, manufacturing of vehicles and even utensils.
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Bauxite residue, the byproduct of alumina production, may potentially be a valuable source of strategically important metals, Gallium. Ga is considered critical element for the EU. To ensure adequate supply of Ga for the future, secondary sources such as bauxite residue should be exploited with efficient extraction methods. Therefore, in this study, mineral acids (H2SO4, HCl, and HNO3 ...
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