Chemistry of inorganic compounds – Treating mixture to obtain metal containing compound – Group iiia metal or beryllium
Patent
1986-05-19
1987-03-03
Carter, H. T.
Chemistry of inorganic compounds
Treating mixture to obtain metal containing compound
Group iiia metal or beryllium
423123, 423131, C01F 706
Patent
active
046474390
ABSTRACT:
A process for the continuous production of alumina by means of the Bayer process by alkaline attack in reactors on bauxites which primarily consist of aluminum monohydrates and contain silica in a free state or combined in the form of aluminum silicate, the essential aim of which is to delay scaling of the reactors by deposits of sodium silico-aluminate on the reactor walls. The process comprises the following steps: (1) the bauxite is put into suspension by crushing in a sodic liquor (aqueous solution of caustic soda); (2) the suspension is raised to a temperature of from 90.degree. to 108.degree. C. and held at that temperature for a period of time sufficient to convert at least 75% of the aluminum silicate contained in the bauxite into insoluble sodium silico-aluminate; (3) The suspension is then subjected to steam heating by passing through a tube-type heat exchanger under pressure at a temperature which is at least equal to 160.degree. C. and preferably is from 160.degree. to 230.degree. C., with a speed of rise in temperature of from 2.degree. to 12.degree. C./minute and with a speed of flow in the tubular reactor of from 0.4 to 7 meters per second; (4) by heat exchange with a heat exchange fluid in a tubular reactor, the suspension is raised to a temperature of from 200.degree. to 300.degree. C. and preferably from 230.degree. to 290.degree. C. and maintained at that temperature so as to solubilize at least 90% of the extractible alumina; and (5) the suspension is returned to atmospheric pressure by successive expansion operations, with recovery of the steam.
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