Mar 01, 2018· Hydro is South America''s biggest aluminium company after acquiring Brazilian mining company Vale''s aluminium assets in the state of Pará in 2011.
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Bauxite residue management. 24 September 2011 A waste product of the Bayer process used for alumina production, bauxite residue is one of industry''s largest waste streams. The International Aluminium Institute outlines key management, re-use and remediation schemes in place to tackle the issue Weighing the alternatives. 24 September 2011
Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA), the largest industrial company in the United Arab Emirates outside oil and gas, today announced the readiness of the waste management system for its Al Taweelah alumina refinery that is currently under construction. Responsible storage and eventual re-use of bauxite residue are important for the sustainability of the project.
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Aluminum is the most abundant metal in the earth''s crust and is a constituent of many minerals. However, the material which is highest in aluminum and most free from objectionable impurities is bauxite which, therefore, is practically the only source of the metal under present processes.
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Physical soda losses with bauxite residue (affected by % Available alumina and alumina recovery in the refining plant); 3. The technology chosen in the bauxite residue wash circuit; and 4. Other soda losses (e.g. with oxalate, organics, and in product alumina).
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bauxite and between 220 °C and 270 °C for boehmitic and diasporic bauxite, under high pressure. In such conditions, a solution of sodium aluminate (NaAl(OH)4) is formed. After this stage (extraction), the insoluble bauxite residue is separated from the aluminum-containing liquor (green liquor) by a process known as settling.
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Responsible storage and eventual re-use of bauxite residue important for sustainability of under-construction project . United Arab Emirates: Emirates Global Aluminium, the largest industrial company in the United Arab Emirates outside oil and gas, today announced the readiness of the waste management system for its under-construction Al Taweelah alumina refinery.
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A hot caustic soda (NaOH) solution is used to dissolve the aluminium-bearing minerals in the bauxite. Undissolved solids are removed from the "pregnant" liquor as "bauxite residue". NaOH is recycled to the digestion process.
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Bauxite is a mixture of aluminium hydroxide, iron oxide, titanium dioxide and kaolinite. Large deposits of bauxite occur in Australia, Brazil, Guinea and Jamaica and the primary mining areas for the ore are in Australia (top producer), China,Brazil, India, Guinea, Indonesia, Jamaica, Russia and Suriname.
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In 1971 Australia overtook Jamaica as the world''s leading producer of bauxite.. At the end of the 1970s, Guinea in West Africa, which had the world''s highest- grade bauxite, also drew ahead of Jamaica, and was then followed by Brazil in the early 1980''s and China and India in the first decade of this century.
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May 16, 2019· Most of the world''s refineries use the Bayer process to extract alumina from bauxite. The waste product is red mud, a mix of un-dissolved alumina, iron oxide, silicon oxide, titanium oxide and ...
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Bauxite residue management. 24 September 2011 A waste product of the Bayer process used for alumina production, bauxite residue is one of industry''s largest waste streams. The International Aluminium Institute outlines key management, re-use and remediation schemes in place to tackle the issue Weighing the alternatives. 24 September 2011
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Pinjarra Alumina Refinery Efficiency Upgrade Dust Management Plan for the Residue Storage Area Alcoa World Alumina Australia August 18 Ref: Dust Management Plan August 2018 - FINAL Page 5 of 21 3 RESIDUE OVERVIEW 3.1 RESIDUE MANAGEMENT The material remaining after the alumina has been extracted from the bauxite ore is commonly termed
Bauxite residue generation •Balance between aluminous content of the bauxite, type of aluminium containing compound, local energy cost, transport cost, silica content (reactive more important than crystalline) •When plants located very distant from the bauxite source, they tend to .
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The residue comprises a mud residue stream to which most of the bauxite radioactivity transfers and a lower-activity sand residue stream. The bauxite ore, Bayer process materials prior to precipitation, mud residue and sand residue are therefore of radiological interest, whereas the alumina product is not ( ARPANSA, 2008 – Annex 2.
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Wagerup Alumina Refinery Air Emissions From Wagerup Refinery and Community Symptoms Environmental Case Study (2007) Wagerup Alumina Refinery Health Risk Assessment (2005) Wagerup Alumina Refinery Unit Three Environment Review and Management Plan (2005) Portland Aluminium .
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J. (1%) (2011) Chemical and mineralogical indicators of pedogenesis within bauxite residue storage areas. International Committee for the Study of Bauxite, Alumina and Aluminium Seminar on Bauxite Residue, 17-18 October 2011, Goa, India.
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In the Bayer process of extraction of alumina from bauxite, the insoluble product generated after bauxite digestion with sodium hydroxide at elevated temperature and pressure is known as ''red mud'' or ''bauxite residue''. This alumina refinery waste is highly alkaline in nature with a pH of 10.5–12.5 and is conventionally disposed of in mostly clay-lined land-based impoundments.
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committee dealing with bauxite, alumina, aluminium and bauxite residue issues •Represents 60% of the bauxite and alumina producers •Have been involved in bauxite residue issues for many years, however, heighten interest after Ajka incident in October 2010 •IAI/European Aluminium "Bauxite Residue Management:
Get PriceDisposal of the bauxite residue is a challenging aspect of alumina production. Aluminium smelters also generate significant quantities of solid waste. One of the main sources of waste production during the smelting process is ''spent pot lining'' (SPL) from the relining of .
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Worldwide, 1 tonne of alumina is produced from around 2.9 tonnes of bauxite 2 The resulting bauxite residue (''red mud'') is of insoluble particles. Bauxite residue, Western Australia. Bauxite residue from the Bayer process has long posed a problem for storage and management.
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Bauxite residue is an industrial waste generated from the alumina refining industry, raising great concerns about environmental pollution. The primary problem for bauxite residue is its high alkalinity and salinity. This beneficial reuse of bauxite residue is desirable for the sustainable management of this waste stream. Bauxite residues can be used as an option of flue gas desulfurization to ...
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Bauxite residue (or filtered red mud) is a by-product of alumina refining from bauxite ore. It poses problems for the alumina industry due to the huge volume of the residue accumulated (2.7 billion tonnes) [ 7 ] and volume produced (150 million tonnes) each year worldwide [ 8 ].
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Bauxite residue is a by-product of alumina refining, and EGA''s goal is to responsibly manage its storage and develop potential re-uses. EGA has completed construction of a dedicated storage area for bauxite residue about 30 kilometres from Al Taweelah alumina refinery in Khalifa Industrial Zone Abu Dhabi.
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Jan 01, 2019· Bauxite residue contains up to 50 per cent iron oxide, and more than ten per cent of components such as aluminium oxide, silica, titanium oxide and other substances. Instead of being used as a raw material in the production of iron, silicon, aluminium, cement, building insulation or other products, it is regarded simply as waste.
Get PriceAluminium production consists of two key stages: The first is alumina refining (Bayer process), which involves the generation of alumina from bauxite ore; the second stage is aluminium smelting (Hall–Héroult), the process of transforming alumina into aluminium. 67 Most of the world''s alumina is produced using the Bayer process, although minor volumes are obtained from nonbauxite sources .
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Keywords—sustainability, bauxite, alumina refinery residue, beneficial reuse I. INTRODUCTION Alumina (Al 2 O 3) is produced by refining bauxite ore, which is stripped from large opencut mines; - aluminium, one of the world''s most important lightweight metals for packaging, transportation and construction, is in turn produced by smelting alumina.
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In earlier posts, we have already discussed the details about Hazid and Hazop studies in Alumina refineries. Today we will discuss about the risk management system in Alumina refinery. In other chemical and petrochemical industries, this is popularly known as Risk-based inspection (RBI).
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The Mt Rosser pond, which extends over 37 ha, was constructed in 1959 to act as a tailings pond to take the red mud (bauxite residue) from the Ewarton plant. The red mud was pumped to the pond over a period of about 32 years up until 1991 in the form of slurry comprising about 20% solids.
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