The leaching process with dilute HNO 3 was performed at pilot scale and optimized for the extraction of scandium from bauxite residue ( OchsenkühnPetropoulou et al., 2002 ). Xue et al. (2010) found that at a reaction temperature of 90 °C and an L/S ratio of 3:1, over 80% of the scandium in bauxite residue could be leached by H 2 SO 4.
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WhatsApp: +86 18203695377The lateritic bauxite hydrochloric acid leaching process showed that when the ore granularity was less than 55 μm, the liquid/solid ratio (L/S ratio) was 100:7, the leaching temperature was 373383 K, the leaching time was 120 min and the HCl concentration was 10%, both the leaching rates of Al and Fe were over 95% . But the hydrochloric ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Acid leaching followed by thermal activation and water or alkaline solution leaching followed by lime or sodalime mixture sintering are the main developed processes to produce alumina from nonbauxite ores [].However, removing silica due to its solubility before carbonation of aluminate solutions by alkaline leaching and removing iron solubilized before alumina precipitation by acid leaching ...
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WhatsApp: +86 18203695377The Bayer process is the main method of alumina production worldwide. The use of lowquality bauxites for alumina production results in the formation of a significant amount of technogenic waste—bauxite residue (BR). The Bayer reductive method is one possible way to eliminate BR stockpiling, but it requires highpressure leaching at temperatures higher than 220 °C.
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WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Bauxite is widely used to produce alumina. There are many bauxite resources with high iron content. These resources could not be processed and utilized efficiently due to the high concentration of iron (Fe). The alkaline leaching process has been proposed to remove iron from these bauxite resources. Therefore, in this study, the alkaline leaching process was employed, and the effects of sodium ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377To uncover the mechanism of REEs leaching process from bauxite residue in the H 2 SO 4 system (without microwave pretreatment), liquid samples were taken over time up to 60 min at all four ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377In order to explore the commercialized applications of the lowgrade bauxite in the refractory industry, a calcination integrated with acid leaching method was adopted to remove the potassium (K) and iron (Fe) from the diasporeillite (DI) type lowgrade bauxite. Following calcining the bauxite at different temperatures, the leaching parameters, including the sulfuric acid concentration ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377The HCl leaching studies of bauxite indicated that as the concentration of HCl acid increases, the iron content reduces substantially, but at the same time, loss of alumina takes place. The change in bauxite colour from reddish brown to light colour indicated leaching of ore. ... In order to minimize the input material for the leaching process ...
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WhatsApp: +86 18203695377A closedloop valorization process, combining carbothermic smelting and acid baking water leaching was developed to recover scandium, aluminum, and iron from bauxite residue, a major side product of aluminum production. This process employs carbothermic smelting to recover 99% of the iron in the starting residue as crude metallic iron, which can be separated from slag that contains ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377In this study, bauxite residue was directly leached using the Brønsted acidic ionic liquid 1ethyl3methylimidazolium hydrogensulfate. Stirring rate, retention time, temperature, and pulp density have been studied in detail as the parameters that affect the leaching process. Their optimized combination has shown high recovery yields of Sc, nearly 80%, and Ti (90%), almost total dissolution ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377The acid leaching reactions of the bauxite would be thermodynamically easy and completed. Under the conditions that ore granularity is less than −55 μm, the L/S ratio is 100:7, and the leaching temperature is 373383 K, the leaching time is 120 min and the concentration of HCl is 10%, both the leaching rates of Al and Fe are over 95%.
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WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Bauxite residue, the high alkaline and finegrained byproduct of Bayer process for alumina's production, is a material rich in numerous minerals and elements of high value and technoeconomical interest in high tech applications such as rare earths, including scandium. Lately, the European Committee has characterized scandium as a critical element because of its risk supply chain.
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Red mud (RM), also known as bauxite residue, is an alkaline solid waste byproduct derived in the extraction process of alumina from bauxite ore. With increasing demands for alumina, the global reserves of RM have reached billion tons in 2018, and it is estimated that an annual increase was approximately 200 million tons [1].
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Bauxite residue (BR) is a hazardous industrial waste and also becomes an important reserve of rare earth elements (REE). An elegant process for achieving separation of REEs against silica from an ironremoved BR was established in this paper through selective leaching of silica with simultaneous enrichment of REEs.
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377During acid leaching of bauxite residue (red mud), the increase in dissolution of rareearth elements (REEs) is associated with an increase in iron dissolution, which poses problems in the downstream processing. Therefore, it would be beneficial to remove iron from bauxite residue by smelting reduction. The slag generated in the smelting reduction process could then be further processed for ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377In the process of recovering valuable elements from bauxite residue, the acid leaching process method is mainly used at present, which includes hydrochloric acid leaching, sulfuric acid leaching, nitric acid leaching, etc. Nitric acid is highly corrosive and cannot be connected with the medium of the subsequent extraction process, so most of them use hydrochloric acid or sulfuric acid leaching.
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Principle processflow diagram of bauxite leaching with HCl based on reference [112]. Many metallic elements in bauxite can be leached in an acid solution. Thus, iron, aluminum or other metallic elements are leached and recovered together during the acidleaching process. However, some problems with acid treatment remain, including severe ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377In this process, bauxite residue is smelted at 1500 °C or higher in presence of a flux and a reductant to produce pig iron and slag. Alumina in the produced slag is mainly in the form of calcium aluminate that can be treated with Na 2 CO 3 solution. The leach residue generated from this process is known as gray mud.
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