Report of Investigations 8379: Solubility and Activity of Aluminum Chloride in Aqueous Hydrochloric Acid Solutions

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• Personal Author:
  Brown, Robert R. ; Daut, G. E. ; Gokcen, N. A. ; Mrazek, Robert V.
• Corporate Authors:
  United States. Bureau of Mines
• Description:
  The solubility and the activity of aluminum chloride hexahydrate, alcl3.6H2o, in aqueous solutions were determined as a part of the Bureau of Mines, U.S. Department of the Interior, research to improve mineral processing technology for recovering alumina from low-grade domestic resources. The solubility of alcl3 in pure water was found to be 31.09 and 31.77 wt-pct at 25 deg and 85 deg c, respectively, and decreased drastically to 10 and 0.1 wt-pct when the respective amounts of 20.3 and 37 wt-pct hydrochloric acid (hcl) were added in solution. The equilibrium constant for the solubility of hexahydrate, activities, and activity coefficients of alcl3 and h2o were calculated and compared with the results from the available methods of estimation. The results were shown to be useful in leaching nonbauxitic ores for extraction of alumina by changing the solubilities of component salts upon addition of hcl. Simultaneous solubilities of alcl3, fecl3 kcl, and nacl in solutions of hcl-h2o were also determined and their effects on the purity of alcl3.6H2o crystallized from mixed salt solutions are briefly discussed. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Aluminum Compounds Hydrochloric Acid 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:
  26 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:10007966
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB80123128
• Citation:
  NTIS: PB 80 123128 :17 pages
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1979
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  NTIS: PB 80 123128
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:25b3a436cebe476d3984659106c7670c33ce673e0db3a7b025d3a2fd29f8cc7a295ab754c8d7bcb2f43de0eb40cbfe9f690caf693b2c76a43811effd94b90bb0
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/201896/cdc_201896_DS1.pdf
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