PDF Methods for Alkaline Recovery of Aluminum from Bauxite Residue Springer
the Bayer process [4]. This process is based on the alkaline leaching of aluminumbearing ores (mostly bauxite) with sodium hydroxide solution. At this high pH value and elevated temperature and pressure, aluminum hydroxides from bauxite dissolve selectively as following Eq. 1 (in this case gibbsite), while most of the other compounds remain