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The International Seminar on Bauxite Residue (red mud) recently finished in Goa, India and was a success. The seminar was held from 17 to 19 of October and was structured around 3 areas: characterization (co-ordination by Frank Feret, Rio Tinto Alcan, and Peter Smith, CSIRO), processing, storage and storage area rehabilitation (co-ordination by Vinod Sood, Hindalco, and Leslie Leibenguth, LW Leibenguth Technical Services) and bauxite residue as feedstock (co-ordination by Yiannis Pontikes, KULeuven, and Andrey Panov, RUSAL). The proceedings, including the 35 papers submitted, are published by ICSOBA, in the Travaux, Vol. 36, 2011, No. 40. You can find some of the presentations given in the Seminar below:

 

Session 3: Bauxite Residue As Feedstock

The 18th International Symposium of ICSOBA was held in Zhengzhou, from 25 to 27 November 2010. More information can be retrieved in the official ICSOBA web site (i.e. http://icsoba.org/).

 

The key-note lecture by György (George) Bánvölgyi, on the 18th ICOBA symposium, titled: Red mud storage dam failure in Hungary: the most serious accident of the Bayer process, is available here.

 

Y. Pontikes had two presentations. You can find them online here:

Case studies in Greece for the valorization of Bayer’s process bauxite residue: aggregates, ceramics, glass-ceramics, cement and catalysis. Link: http://redmud.org/Files/ICSOBA_2/index.html

An overview on heavy clay ceramics with Bayer’s process bauxite residue: from laboratory to industrial scale. Link: http://redmud.org/Files/ICSOBA_1/index.html
On the accident at the Ajka bauxite refinery...See the dedicated web page here.
CSIRO's Bauxite, Residue and Disposal Database (BRaDD) is a web-based data platform that enables users to identify current practices worldwide in bauxite residue processing and storage, and evaluate options for sustainable utilisation of residue.

The database enables new insights into the best options for bauxite residue management and future large-scale residue use.

It covers data from alumina refineries across the world, including their history of operation, and because it includes information on bauxite composition, allows users to link feed bauxite and processing to final residue disposal.

CSIRO researchers have developed the Bauxite, Residue and Disposal Database (BRaDD) as a comprehensive information bank that will allow identification of trends and patterns in production, management and storage of bauxite residues.

BRaDD has been developed through the Light Metals Flagship and CSIRO Process Science and Engineering via the Parker Cooperative Research Centre for Integrated Hydrometallurgy Solutions
 

From the research group of Univ. of Patras

 

Effect of firing atmosphere and soaking time on heavy clay ceramics with addition of Bayer's process bauxite residue. Pontikes Y, Angelopoulos GN, Advances in Applied Ceramics, Vol. 108, Issue: 1, Pg.: 50-56, Jan. 2009, doi: 10.1179/174367509X344999

Utilization of ferroalumina as raw material in the production of Ordinary Portland Cement. I. Vangelatos, G.N. Angelopoulos and D. Boufounos, Journal of Hazardous Materials, Article in Press, Corrected Proof, doi:10.1016/j.jhazmat.2009.02.049

To download the oral presentation given in the 10th European Ceramic Conference and Exhibition, held in Berlin, June 2007, in a pdf file, click Effect of Firing Temperature and Atmosphere on Firing Temperature and Atmosphere on Sintering of Ceramics Made From Sintering of Ceramics Made From Bayer Process Bauxite Residue.

To download the oral presentation, given in the 11th International Ceramic Congress and 4th Forum on New Materials, CIMTEC, held in Sicely, June 2006, in a pdf file click Environmental Aspects on the Use of Bayer's Process Bauxite Residue in the Production of Ceramics.

To download the pdf file of the poster presented in the 11th International Ceramic Congress and 4th Forum on New Materials, CIMTEC, held in Sicely, June 2006, click On the Plasticity of Clay Mixtures with Bayer's Process Bauxite Residue.

To download the pdf file of an abstract published in the Journal of the European Ceramic Society, click Thermal behaviour of clay mixtures with bauxite residue for the production of heavy-clay ceramics.

To download the pdf file of a poster presented in the 10th International Ceramic Congress and 3rd Forum on New Materials, CIMTEC, held in Florence, June 2002, click On the Utilization of the Red Mud in the Heavy Clay Industry in Greece.

Aluminium de Grece (AdG) has installed a High Pressure Filter Press early this year, in order to progressively cease sea disposal for Red Mud. The overall cost exceeded 2 million euros. In the near future a second Filter Press is expected to be installed and then the whole quantity of produced Red Mud will be processed in this manner. The resulting semi-dry product, is named "Ferro-alumina" and there are concrete hopes for its marketing. So far, an agreement has been signed between AdG and two industrial partners for delivering "Ferro-alumina". The material will be used for cement and bricks production. We have uploaded pictures taken during a visit in AdG and have also produced a small Flash video to celebrate the realization of a long project.

To see the Flash video, click A Success Story.

From the web...
To download the PhD thesis, "Use of bauxite refining residue to reduce the mobility of heavy metals in municipal waste compost", go http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20060815.143422
To download "AN INVESTIGATION OF THE POTENTIAL APPLICATION OF BAUXITE RESIDUE FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS IN A MARSH ENVIRONMENT", click here.
To download "AN INVESTIGATION OF THE POTENTIAL APPLICATION OF BAUXITE RESIDUE IN SOIL / SEDIMENT REMEDIATION" click here.
To download the "Alumina Technology Roadmap", click here. This is a must-have document.
To download the "Reference Document on Best Available Techniques for Management of Tailings and Waste-Rock in Mining Activities", follow the link, or visit the official page at the European IPPC Bureau.
To download the European Waste Catalog, follow the link. Red Mud is considered as a non-hazardous waste.
REFILL Newsletter & Magazines.

The first issue of the REFILL newsletter was already distributed to different stakeholders (in Greek).

Presentation of the project REFILL in “the Parliament Magazine”, Issue 196, 31 January 2005 – Focus on the Environment, page 81.

The Building Materials & Technology Promotion Council, BMTPC, in India, has been working for years in the utilisation of wastes, including red mud (bauxite residue). Here you can find some of the brochures it has published. For more information please visit the official site, at http://www.bmtpc.org/

To download the pdf file, click BMTPC environment.

To download the pdf file, click BMTPC composites.

To download the pdf file, click BMTPC commercialization.

This is a report for a project conducted by the Building Research Institute in Jamaica, in 1986. The goal was to produce red mud bricks stabilized with cement. For more information you can try locate the official site (I couldn't). Alternatively, visit http://idrinfo.idrc.ca/archive/Corpdocs/099941/index_e.html#INTRODUCTION

To download the pdf file, click Production of Cement Stabilized Red Mud Bricks.

This is a file by GESAMTVERBAND DER ALUMINIUMINDUSTRIE e.V. on red mud and red mud disposal sites in Germany. For more information please contact Stefan Glimm, Tel.: +49 (211) 4796 - 150, Fax: +49 (211) 4796 - 408, E-mail: stefan.glimm@aluinfo.de, or visit the official site: www.aluinfo.de. Alternativel, go http://www.aluinfo.de/en/umwelt/443_363.htm

To download the pdf file, click Red Mud and Red Mud Disposal Sites.

This is a poster by Maneesh Singh P. M. Prasad S. N. Upadhayay, on the production of cements using red mud.

To download the pdf file, click Utilization of Red Mud for Preparation of Special Cements.