中国有色金属学报(英文版)
Transactions of Nonferrous Metals Society of China
| Vol. 34 No. 4 April 2024 |
（1. Key Laboratory for Ecological Metallurgy of Multimetallic Mineral (Ministry of Education), Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, China;
2. School of Metallurgy, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, China;
3. Key Laboratory for Recycling of Nonferrous Metal Resources (Shenyang), Shenyang 110819, China）
Abstract:The effect of inorganic anion impurities in sodium aluminate solution on the composition, structure and micro-morphology of desilication products (DSPs) based on the low-temperature Bayer process was systematically investigated via XRD, FT-IR, SEM and PSD methods. The sodalites with chloride-type, carbonate-type and nosean-type precipitate in the presence of chloride, sulfate and carbonate in solution, and the aluminate ions in DSPs are partly replaced by the incorporation of anion impurities. The binding capability of sulfate to the DSPs cage is stronger than aluminate, chloride and carbonate. The particle size, agglomeration degree and thickness of the circular lamellar structure of DSPs are increased by rising the concentration of anion impurities. The anions enhance the dissolution of the zeolite framework and the formation of tetradentate rings in sodalite, which promotes the transformation of zeolite to sodalite.
Key words: Bayer process; sodium aluminosilicate hydrate; inorganic anion; desilication; crystal structure
