Short- and long-range order in smelter grade alumina - Development of nano- and microstructures during the calcination of bayer gibbsite

TMS Light Metals

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 29-35

  Perander, Linus M ^a   Zujovic, Zoran D ^a   Hyland, Margaret M ^a   Smith, Mark E ^b   O'Dell, Luke A ^b   Metson, James B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

27Al solid state MAS NMR; Gibbsite calcination; Smelter grade alumina; Transition alumina

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; ALUMINUM CLADDING; COORDINATION REACTIONS; FUNCTIONAL ELECTRIC STIMULATION; LIGHT METALS; LITHOGRAPHY; METAL ANALYSIS; METALS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ORE TREATMENT; RIETVELD ANALYSIS; RIETVELD METHOD; SMELTING; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; X RAY ANALYSIS; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

(8 HYDROXY QUINOLINE) ALUMINUM; ALPHA ALUMINA; AMORPHOUS COMPONENTS; ANNUAL MEETINGS; APPLIED (CO); COMPLEX PROCESSING; DEHYDROXYLATION REACTIONS; GIBBSITE; HIGH FIELDS; IN ORDER; LATTICE (CO); LONG RANGE ORDER (LRO); MAS NMR; NM R SPECTRUM; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE INFORMATION; RIETVELD; STRUCTURAL FEATURES; STRUCTURAL ORDERING; TECHNICAL SESSIONS; TRANSITION (JEL CLASSIFICATIONS:E52 ,E41 ,E31); TRANSITION ALUMINA; WIDER RANGE;

ALUMINA;

EID: 45749147379     PISSN: 01470809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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