Precipitating sandy aluminium hydroxide from sodium aluminate solution by the neutralization of sodium bicarbonate

Hydrometallurgy

Volumn 98, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 52-57

  Li, Yan ^a,b   Zhang, Yifei ^a   Yang, Chao ^a   Zhang, Yi ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PROCESS ENGINEERING   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Aluminium hydroxide; Precipitation; Sodium aluminate solution; Sodium bicarbonate solution

Indexed keywords

ADDITION RATE; ALUMINA PRODUCTION; ALUMINIUM HYDROXIDE; AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS; GIBBSITE; GLOBULAR MORPHOLOGY; INFLUENCING FACTOR; NAOH CONCENTRATION; NARROW SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS; PH VALUE; PRECIPITATION; SINTER PROCESS; SODIUM ALUMINATE SOLUTION; SODIUM BICARBONATE SOLUTION; SODIUM BICARBONATES; SODIUM CARBONATE;

ALUMINA; ALUMINUM; CARBONATES; CARBONATION;

SODIUM;

EID: 67349278800     PISSN: 0304386X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hydromet.2009.03.011     Document Type: Article

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