Process for producing alumina from gibbsitic bauxites

Details Process for producing alumina from gibbsitic bauxites Process for producing alumina from gibbsitic bauxites

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C01F 7/06 (2006.01) C01F 7/02 (2006.01) C22B 3/00 (2006.01)

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CA 2000832

PROCESS FOR PRODUCING ALUMINA FROM GIBBSITIC BAUXITES ABSTRACT An improvement in the process for extracting alumina from gibositic bauxitesl wherein the basic, known process comprises mixing the bauxites with a sodium hydroxide-sodium aluminate digestion liquor, digesting the bauxites at a temperature in the range of 100-180 °C, diluting the resulting slurry, separating the red mud therefrom, precipitating alumina hydrate through cooling and agitation of the sodium aluminte liquor, and calcining the alumina hydrate precipitate to obtain alumina, wherein the improvement characterized by so controlling the process that, in the liquid phase of the slurry leaving the digestion reactor, the reactive hydroxide ion concentration is maintained below 6 g/l, and preferably between 0 and 2 g/l, where the reactive hydroxide ion concentration is defined by the following formula: Image where Image is the equilibrium solubility of Al2O3 for gibbsite, in g/l, cAl2O3 is the actual concentration of Al2O0, in g/l and CSiO2 is the actual concentration of SiO2, in g/l. Desirably, control of the process is maintained by regulating the ratio of bauxite to digestion liquor.

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