The Bayer Process. The Bayer Process, which is used by about 80 active plants worldwide, is the primary method of producing aluminum from bauxite. Bauxite ore is dissolved in sodium hydroxide, or lye, at a high temperature and pressure. Then, the alumina and bauxite ores are separated by washing out the waste (red muds or sands) from the alumina.
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ground ore forming a bauxite slurry, which is stored in holding tanks and then pumped to the further processing stage. Refined aluminum oxide (Al. 2. O. 3) is obtained from the the bauxite slurry by the Bayer process comprising four steps: Digestion Clarification Precipitation Calcination. Digestion . In this step the bauxite slurry is pumped ...
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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.
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Bayer process includes digestion of crushed bauxite in an alkali solution of sodium hydroxide, followed by solidliquid separation to generate sodium aluminate liquor for alumina recovery and subsequently produces a residual slurry (bauxite residue/red mud).
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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
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The Bayer process is a chemical process for refining aluminium hydroxide, Al(OH)3from bauxite; this aluminium hydroxide is subsequently calcined to produce alumina, Al2O3.
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Both forms can have deleterious effects on Bayer process operations used to produce smelter grade alumina from bauxite ore. Jamaican bauxite which is comprised mainly of gibbsite (Al 2 O 3 ·3H 2 ...
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From the broadest viewpoint, the Bayer process exists to separate the alumina content of aluminous minerals in bauxite such as gibbsite, boehmite and diaspore from anything which is not.
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Therefore, based on the above theoretical research, a process for digesting gibbsiteboehmite bauxite is proposed using high digestion temperature (250 °C), short digestion time (5 min) and large ...
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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...
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Very small differences in bauxite hardness or density, mainly through variability in the content of ironcontaining hardcap, can lead to an increased recirculating load. This also leads to a longer residence time, with the possibility of a buildup of a critical size inside the mill.
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If the bauxite mineralogy is known, it is an easy step to calculate Bayer process parameters to obtain a better understanding of bauxite's economic value, leading to more efficient production ...
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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 ...
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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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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).
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The most commonly used methods for aluminium production are the Bayer process and the HallHeroult process. The Bayer process is used to produce alumina (Al 2 O 3) from bauxite and the HallHeroult process is used to produce molten aluminium from the year 1887, Karl Josef Bayer invented a method of extracting aluminium hydroxide from bauxite through Bayer processing.
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1. 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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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.
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Aluminum Production. Alton T. Tabereaux, Ray D. Peterson, in Treatise on Process Metallurgy: Industrial Processes, 2014 Impact of Different Bauxites on the Bayer Process. The Bayer process is basically used for the extraction of aluminum hydrate from the bauxite ores with the mass ratio of alumina to silica (A/S) above 9. The sinter process is widely used to process the poorgrade ...
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As shown in Figure 1, the source of energy to the Bayer Process is the Powerhouse. Energy is distributed essentially as steam to Digestion and Evaporation and electrical power to the refinery. The amount of energy required is determined by four interrelated factors: 1. Type of Bauxite. Trihydrate bauxite (low temperature digest or
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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 ...
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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, 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 ...
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Beside the processing behaviour of the main constituents of bauxite such as hydrated alumina and silica minerals, the Chapter covers the impact of other constituents, such as titania, iron...
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The major portions of the impurity enter the Bayer process through bauxite. Beyond the critical levels the impurities alter the kinetics of the process. Among the various impurities, organic carbon is the most prominent one that affects the precipitation operation and the product quality, depending on the level of organic with respect to the ...
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Stage 2: Alumina production. In the 1890s, Austrian chemist Carl Josef Bayer invented a revolutionary process for extracting alumina from bauxite. Today—over 100 years later—some 90% of ...
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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 precipi ...
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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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to another one, sodalite to cancrinite. Solid particles (in this case bauxite and/or bauxite residue) can be entrapped in the scale and ... Bayer Digestion and Predigestion Desilication Reactor Design, Proceedings of TMS Conference, ... (To the Chemical Process of Bauxite Digestion. Studies in system of Na2OAl2O3TiO2H2O) Metall, 25 ...
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The Bayer process involves four steps: digestion, clarification, precipitation, and calcination. Read More Other articles where Bayer process is discussed: alumina: .extracted from bauxite through the Bayer process, which was developed for the aluminum industry in 1888.
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that suggests about 70% of bauxite Ga is digested in the Bayer process, and this part is subsequently precipitated into aluminium hydroxide. About 30% of Ga is separated from the process with bauxite
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A new step in the Bayer process has been used to recover NaOH and to reduce its content in red mud. After digestion, the residue is separated from the Bayer liquor and goes through press filters, which enables the recovery of NaOH and decreases the moisture content. It is well known that red mud is one of the most important sources of scandium. For this reason, the goal of this work was to ...
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