Red mud is piling up. Can scientists figure out …

Go to content. A worker inspects ponds holding 30 million tons of red mud at an aluminum plant in Hungary. A 2010 spill from the ponds killed 10 people. ... But in 2015, researchers in New Zealand …

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Red mud as a sustainable road construction material: An …

Red mud is a viable alternative to cement in rigid pavement construction, enhancing compressive, flexural, and split tensile strengths and promoting the formation of beneficial C-S-H gel. However, a 15% red mud replacement limit is advised to prevent …

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Simultaneously, the silica-alumina compounds in the CG in the alkaline environment also generated the zeolite-like structure with a stronger structure, which …

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Desilication and recycling of alkali-silicate solution seeded with red

In this study, the effectiveness of red mud and a mixture of red mud and CaO as desilication reagents of the alkali-silicate solution are compared and the desilication mechanisms were analyzed. Results show that when adding 30–50 g/L of red mud, the desilication rate is only 36–38% while adding 30 g/L of red mud and CaO mixture with a ...

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Improving ed mixture lightweight soil containing red mud …

Red mud (RM) is an aluminum industrial solid waste with a global inventory exceeding 4 billion tons. To utilize RM efficiently, this study used RM as the primary material, with cement, steel slag powder, and desulfurization gypsum as supplements, to prepare ed mixture lightweight soil containing RM (FMLSR) for subgrade filling. The …

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Evaluation of active silica-alumina content and reactivity in …

The Bayer process red mud used in this study was collected in a dry state at the Xiaoyi Aluminum Plant in Shanxi Province, China. The method of dry collection of …

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Selective silica gel free scandium extraction from Iron-depleted red

The mineralogical content of red mud and the two slags were analysed by QEMSCAN and XRD in order to elucidate the leaching mechanism. Using the findings of this study, an empirical dry digestion leaching model was proposed for each starting material in a comparative manner. ... While formation of gypsum, rhomboclase and …

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Firstly, red mud was dried under sunlight until obtained the reasonable humidity, after that it was hand milled and sieved to a specific particle size. Rice husk was heated in muffle furnace at 900 °C for 4 h to obtain a white-grey color ash with the content of silica higher 90%wt. The powder mixture of red mud and rice husk ash was ball ...

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Sustainable Utilization of Red Mud as Recycled Waste: A

The production of red mud as a by-product of hydrothermal alumina extraction results in the production of non-dissolved iron oxides, sodium …

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(PDF) Potential of red mud as raw material for

In addition, RM has high alumina and silica content [12]. When cement is hydrated, calcium hydroxide reacts with silica in the RM cement, thus increasing the strength of the concrete [13 ...

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Red mud is piling up. Can scientists figure out …

But in 2015, researchers in New Zealand reported that by adding a common cement additive called silica fume to red mud, together with a modest amount of iron, they could create a cement with roughly …

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Red mud: Characteristics, utilization, and environmental …

It is made of siliceous and calcareous materials. Red mud- aerated concrete has compressive strength and bulk density that are in line with the minimum intensity requirement (MU7.5) defined in Chinese specifications for concrete blocks [40]. It is made of cement (15 %), lime (12 %–15 %), red mud (35 %–40 %), and silica sand (33 …

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Simultaneous determination of silica and gallium in red …

red mud. A series of experiments were carried out in these Laboratories on the decomposition of a red mud sample obtained from an indigenous alumina plant with a view to determine the most suitable ratio of sample ~o ammonium chloride for a precise and simultaneous determination of silica and gallium.

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Study on long-term solidification of all-solid waste …

In the initial stage, Ca(OH) 2 primarily reacts with the active chemicals in red mud; in the later stage, it primarily reacts with the active silica and active alumina in CFBFA and FA to generate gel products, thereby improving the strength. The mechanical strength of the paste is mainly provided by ettringite, C-(A)-S-H, and N-A-S-H gels.

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Red Mud: From Industrial Waste to a Flux for Manufacturing …

Red mud is an industrial waste product generated during the processing of bauxite ore to extract alumina (Al 2 O 3) by Bayer process. [18,19,20] Red mud is rich in mixture of minerals like hematite (Fe 2 O 3 in the range 5 to 60 pct), alumina (Al 2 O 3 in the range 5 to 30 pct), titania (TiO 2 in the range 0.3 to 15 pct), silica (SiO 2 in the range 3 …

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Study on the utilization of red mud (bauxite waste) as a …

Red mud is an alkaline silico-aluminous solid waste with application potential in alkali-activated slag cement, determined by the leaching activity of Si, Al, and Ca ions in an alkaline solution. This study investigated the reactivity and leaching kinetics of silica and alumina in red mud in an NaOH solution.

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The potential application of red mud in the production of …

A typical morphology of the aluminium castings in the as-cast condition using silica sand and red mud mixture of 25% and 75%, respectively, is shown in Fig. 2.The microstructure shown in Fig. 3 was obtained using a mould consisting of sand while Fig. 4 was obtained from a mould comprising 25% sand and 75% red mud. In …

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Sustainable nano composite of mesoporous silica supported red mud …

The BET surface area, pore size and pore volume of the acid treated RM and the RMCM composites are studied by N 2 adsorption-desorption method and the data is given in Table 1.Activated red mud possess a low surface area of 61 m 2 /g whereas RMCM (1:1) composite shows an enhanced value of 465 m 2 /g. The parent MCM-41 …

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Performance evaluation-PET resin composite composed of red mud…

So, the composite should have the low content of fly ash and high content of red mud and silica fume. CR35 has shown the highest resistance against the acid, because, it contains lowest content of fly ash (6%) and the higher contents of red mud (25%) and silica fume (16%). Download : Download high-res image (200KB) Download …

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Review A review on the utilization of red mud for the …

This article highlights RM's utilization of materials such as fly ash, ground granulated blast furnace slag, silica fume, metakaolin, refuse mudstone, and rice husk …

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Construction ceramsite from low-silicon red mud: Design, …

Commonly used red mud (CURM) has a high silica content and is similar to clay in its chemical composition (Shao et al., 2023, Zhang et al., 2021, Yang et al., 2022, Wang et al., 2023a). This is the reason for its feasibility as an alternative to clay for the preparation of ceramsite. ... Low-silicon red mud (LSRM) is a type of red mud with an ...

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Recovery of gallium from Bayer red mud through acidic …

The researchers treated red mud by using Bayer-hydrogarnet process. In this process, the red mud sample contained 0.0025 wt% Ga was leached using a 240 g/L Na 2 O solution in the presence of lime for 1.5 h at 240 °C under 20 atm with a liquid-to-solid ratio of 6 (abbreviated as L/S ratio hereafter). The leaching efficiency of Ga by this method ...

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A preliminary investigation of strength development in Jamaican red mud

Compressive strengths of composites made from mixtures of red mud, hydrated lime and condensed silica fume %Red mud % Hydrated lime % Silica fume Compressive strength^ (MPa) 100 4.2 85 10 5 2.9 82 12 6 4.9 70 20 10 2.4 55 30 15 3.2 "Mean of three (-5 MPa). kept in a moist state for 14 days before it was allowed to dry …

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Comprehensive utilization status of red mud in China: A …

Table 2, shows that the iron oxide content in red mud from outside China is higher than that of Chinese red mud, while the silica content is higher in Chinese red mud. These differences may be attributed to bauxite compositional differences or smelting process differences between China and other countries. In addition, the alumina …

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Status review on experimental investigation on replacement of red-mud …

To make concrete with red mud and silica seethe, concrete is supplanted by 6%, 12%, 18%, 24% and 30% of red mud by its weight and silica smolder is fluctuated from 2%, 4%, 6%, 8% and 10% by the heaviness of concrete. Usefulness of cement gets influenced with expansion of red mud and silica smoke to the solid. ... For all open …

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Effect of Red Mud and Silica Fume on Cement Concrete in …

To make concrete with red mud andsilica fume, cement is replaced by 6%, 12%, 18%, 24% and 30% of red mud by its weight and silica fume is varied from 2%, 4%, 6%, 8% and 10% by the weight of cement ...

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Efficient utilization of red mud waste via stepwise leaching …

Red mud accumulation has surpassed 4.6 billion tons, and the world's red mud stockpile is steadily expanding 2,3. Red mud is considered a significant environmental threat due to its high ...

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Surface properties of red mud particles from

Therefore, red mud generated from Weipa bauxite, rich in silica, should have a lower PZC than Jamaican red mud with a low silica content, which is consistent with the data (6.5 vs. 7.8, Table 4). Table 4. PZC of red mud slurries. Source of red mud slurry PZC of unflocculated slurry

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Properties of fly ash geopolymer modified with red mud and silica …

Alkaline nature of red mud and high amorphous silica content of silica fume have transformed these industrial wastes into the ideal additives for geopolymer. A comprehensive experimental study is presented to compare the effects of red mud and silica fume, where fly ash is replaced at 5%, 10%, 15%, 20%, and 25% level. ...

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