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Welcome to the Red Mud Project.

This site is dedicated to the support and promotion of all efforts being carried out worldwide for the utilisation of Bayer's process waste/by-product Red Mud.

The purpose of the site is to promote public awareness on the Red Mud problem by providing reliable information, and in addition: a) to be used as a reference point for discussions, presentation of scientific findings and ideas for technological solutions, b) to assist in ...(more)

"WA$TE is wasted if you waste it, otherwise it is a resource. Resource is wasted if you ignore it and do not conserve it with holistic best practices and reduce societal costs. Resource is for the transformation of people and society.

Recycle. Recycle as is. Recycle without additional processing (i. e., without adding any cost to it)."

(quote from www.cbu.uwm.edu)

We are a small group of researchers along with a number of partners and supporters. We hope that the number of people involved will increase soon. Please contact us in case you are interested.

Red Mud or Bauxite Residue is a waste/by-product produced from the alumina industry. The worldwide annual production is 70 million tones. Its disposal remains an issue of great importance with enviromental implications (more)

(pictures kindly granted for reproduction by Aluminium de Grèce)
21/9/2009 Platon Gamaletsos, is a PhD candidate at Faculty of Geology and Geoenvironment, University of Athens, Greece, working on Greek bauxites. Mr. Gamaletsos is using a combination of thermal, spectroscopic and electron microscopic techniques. He is the new member in the Team of the Red Mud Project. Welcome! (more)
5/9/2009 The International Committee for study of Bauxite, Alumina & Aluminium (ICSOBA), has been already for 45 years a reference organization in terms of promoting the exchange of ideas and results from different fields of research related to bauxite exploration and exploitation, and alumina and aluminium production.

ICSOBA and the Red Mud Project have decided to join forces in order to work in synergy for projects of mutual interest. (more)

22/7/2009 Dr. Upendra Singh, presently working as scientist (Analytical Research Division) in Jawaharlal Nehru Aluminium Research Development and Design Centre, Nagpur, India, is the new member in the Team of the Red Mud Project. Welcome! (more)
16/6/2009 Dr. Suvarapu Lakshmi Narayana, a Post Doctoral Fellow, at the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pusan National Univeristy, Korea, has joined the Red Mud Project. Welcome! (more)
23/2/2009 Two new papers on red mud utilisation in cement and ceramics' production have been published. Go to the download page (more)  
23/2/2009 Dr. Alok Satapathy, Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Mechanical Eng. at the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela in India, has joined the Red Mud Project. Welcome! (more)
2/2/2009
Dr. Jose L. Rico, a staff member at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Michoacan University, Morelia, México, has joined the people working on the Red Mud Project. Welcome! (more)
18/12/2008
Have a look on the Download section. A number of new files have been added. Go to the download page (more)
17/12/2008
A personal note by the administrator (more)
17/12/2008
Dr. Justin Hargreaves, a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Chemistry, University of Glasgow, has joined the people working on the Red Mud Project. Welcome! (more)
23/3/2008
We have developed a Forum with the hope to assist the exchange of views and ideas on the utilisation of red mud. To further promote it, we have re-designed the home page so as to enable fast access (more)
20/3/2008
Vedanta Resources plc a diversified and integrated FTSE 250 metals and mining group with annual sales of $1.9bn has joined the Red Mud Project as Partner (more)
4/11/2007
Mr. Suresh Chauhan is the new member participating the administrating Team of Red Mud Project. Welcome! (more)
18/7/2007
A new project on Red Mud has been added in the Web Site (http://www.redmud.org/All_Projects.html) The project is entitled: "System-analytical and live-cycle-analysis embedded development of geopolymeric binder", and Red Mud will be tested as a candidate material. To learn more about the project and the people working, please follow the link to visit their web-page! (more)
 
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