Report of Investigations 8772: Factors Affecting the Preparation of Misted Clay Feed and Solids-Liquid Separation After HCl Leaching

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• Personal Author:
  Bullard, Sophie J. ; Gruzensky W. G. ; Henry, Jack L. ; Olsen, Richard S.
• Corporate Authors:
  United States. Bureau of Mines
• Description:
  Although aluminum is easily leached from calcined clay with boiling mineral acids, the presence of fines and slimes in the leached residue has hindered the application of acid leaching processes. A feed preparation method was, therefore, devised that provided a dense, smooth-surfaced, fine-grained clay. The important factors affecting feed quality were determined to be (1) crushing the raw clay to the size desired for the leaching process, (2) moistening the crushed clay with a fine mist of water while tumbling on a rotating disk, (3) drying the misted clay, and (4) calcining the dried clay at 750 deg. C in a fluidized bed. Clay treated by this method was leached with hcl, and its residue was washed by water displacement in 4-ft-deep beds. Bed permeabilities on the order of 47 darcys or 4.6 X 10-7 cm2 were obtained with the leached residues. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Chemistry Hydrochloric Acid Mining Occupational Health Safety
• Series:
  Mining Publications
• Subseries:
  Report of Investigations
• ISSN:
  1066-5552 (print)
• Publisher:
  United States. Bureau of Mines
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Case Report
• Rights:
  Public Domain
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  ALRC - Albany Research Center
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  34 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:10002962
• Citation:
  NTIS: PB83/250894; :1-25
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1983
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  NTIS: PB83/250894
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:e0e9191b1d91fa5f4c1112c8808fa08c8b27ff4ffe89b1137b459f4854a5ced3292e42daa29a90e4991ae8ea71c3c45584f898ef06de1d479130ef5384631df5
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/201762/cdc_201762_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.39 MB ]