Bauxite processing residue: A critical review of its formation, properties, storage, and revegetation

Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 271-315

  Jones, B E H ^a   Haynes, R J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

alumina refining; gypsum; organic wastes; red mud; revegetation; salinity; sodicity

Indexed keywords

AL TOXICITY; ALUMINA REFINERIES; BAUXITE PROCESSING; BAYER PROCESS; CRITICAL REVIEW; DISPOSAL TECHNIQUES; ESSENTIAL NUTRIENTS; INORGANIC FERTILIZERS; INTEGRATED APPROACH; INTRODUCED SPECIES; LOW WATER; MACRO-AND MICRONUTRIENTS; MICROBIAL ACTIVITIES; MUD DEPOSIT; ORGANIC AMENDMENTS; ORGANIC RESIDUES; ORGANIC WASTES; PHYSICAL CONDITIONS; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT SPECIES; RED MUD; SALINITY; SAND FRACTION; SELFPROPAGATION; SODICITY; SOLID MASS; SUPPLY NUTRIENTS;

ALKALINITY; ALUMINUM; DEPOSITS; ECOLOGY; GYPSUM; LEACHING; NUTRIENTS; PH; REFINING; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SAND; SEAWATER; SEWAGE; SODIUM; SOIL CONSERVATION; TRACE ELEMENTS;

REVEGETATION;

ALUMINUM; BAUXITE; CALCIUM; CALCIUM SULFATE; CARBON DIOXIDE; FERTILIZER; ORGANIC COMPOUND; SEA WATER; SODIUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TRACE ELEMENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACIDITY; ALKALINITY; ALUMINUM OXIDE; BAUXITE; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; GYPSUM; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; LEACHING; LEGUME; MINERAL PROCESSING; MUD; MYCORRHIZA; PH; REVEGETATION; RHIZOBACTERIUM; SAND; SODICITY; SUBSTRATE; SUSTAINABILITY; TOXICITY; WEATHERING;

ALKALINITY; ALUMINUM OVERLOAD; BIOREMEDIATION; BIOSOLID; CALCINATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL PHENOMENA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVENTIONAL WET METHOD; CULTURE MEDIUM; DRY METHOD; ECOSYSTEM; GRINDING; HETEROTROPHY; INOCULATION; LEACHING; LEGUME; MACRONUTRIENT; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROORGANISM; MYCORRHIZA; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; PH MEASUREMENT; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PLANT GROWTH; POROSITY; PRECIPITATION; REVEGETATION; REVIEW; RHIZOBIUM; SALINITY; SAND; SODICITY; TOXICITY TESTING; WATER TREATMENT; WEATHERING;

RHIZOBIUM;

EID: 79551633212     PISSN: 10643389     EISSN: 15476537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10643380902800000     Document Type: Review

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