C - Chemistry – Metallurgy – 01 – F
Patent
C - Chemistry, Metallurgy
01
F
C01F 7/06 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2140773
A process for extracting alumina from bauxite comprising the steps of concentration a portion of spent caustic liquor (18), combining said concen- trated spent caustic liquor with a bauxite slurry (3) to provide a final aluminato caustic ratio (A/C) of greater than 0.7 in the slurry/liquor mixture, heatingthe mixture by means of a heat exchanger (5), subjecting the mixture to diges- tion in a tank (7) at a temperature below that at which reversion of dissolved gibbsite to boehmite may occur to thereby extract alumina from the gibbsite bauxite in the slurry, separating the high alumina pregnant liquor (9) from the boehmite containing residue in a pressure decanter (8), mixing the residue with the remaining portion of unconcentrated spent caustic liquor (18) and subject- ing the mixture to high temperature digestion in a tank (11) to extract the re- maining alumina from the residue, subjecting the digested mixture to flash cooling in flash tanks (13), and separating the alumina rich liquors from the high alumina pregnant liquor and from the digested mixture in an atmospheric separator (14) or a pressure decanter (17).
Comalco Aluminium Limited
Oyen Wiggs Green & Mutala
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