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Patent US4737352 - Use of surfactants in alumina precipitation in the bayer process - Google Patenten
A method and composition for producing a more coarse alumina trihydrate crystal in a Bayer process pregnant liquor, involving the addition of approximately 5-400 mg/l of surfactant-oil, the oil dissolving the surfactant which can be selected from a host of surfactants which are stable in (hot) caustic...http://www.google.nl/patents/US4737352?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US4737352 - Use of surfactants in alumina precipitation in the bayer process
Publicatienummer US4737352 A
Aanvraagnummer US 07/036,389
Publicatiedatum 12 april 1988
Aanvraagdatum 9 april 1987
Prioriteitsdatum 9 april 1987
Ook gepubliceerd als CA1266365A, CA1266365A1, CA1275889C, CA1275889C2, CN1016866B, CN88101926A, DE286034T1, DE3862052D1, EP0286034A1, EP0286034B1
Publicatienummer 036389, 07036389, US 4737352 A, US 4737352A, US-A-4737352, US4737352 A, US4737352A
Uitvinders David O. Owen, David C. Davis
Patentcitaties (2), Verwijzingen naar dit patent (46), Classificaties (13), Juridische gebeurtenissen (9)
US 4737352 A
A method and composition for producing a more coarse alumina trihydrate crystal in a Bayer process pregnant liquor, involving the addition of approximately 5-400 mg/l of surfactant-oil, the oil dissolving the surfactant which can be selected from a host of surfactants which are stable in (hot) caustic solutions and capable of dispersing hydrophobic liquids in the Bayer liquor. The preferred embodiment involves the use of tall-oil fatty acids; a number of equivalent surfactants are established. The oil or hydrocarbon (hydrophobic) liquid can be selected from paraffinic oils, naphthenic oils, mineral seal oils, fuel oils, and bottoms or residue from a C10 alcohol distillation.
1. In the method for producing alumina trihydrate crystals by crystallization of alumina trihydrate from a hot, caustic pregnant Bayer process liquor, to obtain a reduced percent of small size crystals of -325 mesh fraction thereby to increase the yield of crystals coarser than -325 mesh subsequently to be processed to yield aluminum, the improvement comprising the addition to the pregnant liquor, after red mud separation and immediately prior to crystallization of alumina trihydrate, of two mutually soluble components (A) and (B) in an amount effective to increase the yield of the coarser crystals, component (A) being a surfactant which will disperse component (B) in the pregnant liquor and component (B) being an oil in which the surfactant is dissolved and having a boiling point above the temperature prevailing alumina hydrate crystallization.
2. A method according to claim 1 in which component (B) is an oil selected from the group consisting of:
(1) paraffinic;
(2) naphthenic;
(3) mixed paraffinic and aromatic;
(4) the residue of C10 alcohol distillation.
3. A method according to claim 1 in which the surfactant is a tall oil fatty acid.
4. A method according to claim 3 in which the oil is the residue of C10 alcohol distillation.
This invention is concerned with treatment of a Bayer process green liquor from which aluminum values are precipitated.
In the Bayer process for Bauxite ore beneficiation, crystallization and precipitation of solubilized alumina trihydrate values from caustic liquors, referred to herein as Bayer process liquor, is a critical step towards the economic recovery of aluminum values. Bayer process operators optimize their precipitation methods so as to produce the greatest possible yield from the Bayer process liquors while trying to achieve a given crystal size distribution. It is desirable in most instances to obtain relatively large crystal size since this is beneficial in subsequent processing steps required to produce aluminum metal. Production is often limited by processing conditions under which the crystallization and precipitation is conducted. These processing conditions vary from one plant to the next and include, but are not limited to, temperature profiles, seed charge, seed crystal surface area, liquor loading, liquor purity, and the like.
It is an extremely well known fact that organic impurities in the Bayer process liquors, which are normally derived from organics present in the Bauxite ore, can have a devastating effect on Bayer process crystallization practice.
In addition to humate chemicals derived from the impure Bauxite ores, another primary organic contaminant is sodium oxalate, thought to be produced during the high temperature digestion of the raw material Bauxite ore in highly concentrated caustic solutions. Regardless of the source of sodium oxalate, its presence in Bayer process liquors is undesirable for a number of reasons, as explained in U.S. Pat. No. 4,608,237.
Sodium oxalate often crystalizes and co-precipitates from solution over essentially the same temperature profiles as does the desired alumina trihydrate crystals. Fine oxalate particles act as secondary nucleation sites for alumina trihydrate, thereby increasing the total number of alumina crystals during the alumina trihydrate precipitation. This has an effect of causing a shift to smaller alumina trihydrate crystal size distribution and the production of very finely divided materials which for the most part are not wanted. However, some of the smaller size alumina trihydrate is needed, as will be explained. The general criterion is not to produce any more of the fine particle crystal than is needed for reseeding.
The oxalate crystals, which are extremely finely divided and have an extremely large surface area, adhere to the surfaces of growing alumina trihydrate agglomerates. This adhesion of the oxalate crystalites interferes with both alumina trihydrate unit crystal growth and the agglomeration of alumina hydrate crystals. Occlusion of sodium oxalate crystalites within the growing alumina trihydrate multicrystal also results in the weakening of the final crystal structure. As noted above, this is very undesirable since it leads to the development of excessive amounts of extremely finely divided alumina trihydrate both during the precipitation process as well as in the alumina trihydrate calcination processes which follow.
PRIOR ART: OBJECTIVES OF THE INVENTION
The disclosure in U.S. Pat. No. 4,608,237 is the prior art we address. According to the disclosure in that patent, the precipitation of alumina hydrate crystals of coarse or large size from a Bayer process green liquor is aided by employing certain latex polymers. Being in the latex form, these polymers are expensive to produce. Our object is to achieve yields of coarse alumina trihydrate particles at least quantitatively equal to the achievement under U.S. Pat. No. 4,608,237 but achieved merely by blending a fatty acid (or equivalent surfactant) and an oil, the two being soluble in one another, so that the treatment (a mere blend) can be a matter of having the two liquids available at the plant and introducing them into the precipitation tank in-line with introduction of the green liquor charged into the precipitating tank. Another object of the invention is to present an economic alternative to the polymeric treatment of U.S. Pat. No. 4,608,237 by which to meet the general criterion of fine particle crystal size mentioned above.
THE INVENTION IN PRACTICE: EXAMPLES
In the examples to follow, Bayer process pregnant or green liquors at different plants (Plant A, Plant B, and so on) were employed to determine if the invention was in any way limited by variations in precipitation parameters employed by different producers of aluminum, known only to them. These parameters include the nature of the ore, the amount of impurities whether organic or inorganic, caustic concentrations, and especially the conditions inside the precipitation tank which include the form and purity of the seed crystals (small particles of alumina trihydrate), the degree of agitation, time, temperature, and so on. While the details of the precipitation techniques at the various plants are not known, it is known that they do vary widely.
We found the invention in practice is unaffected by different proprietary precipitation techniques involving process parameters unknown to us. This fact is of great significance because it establishes that regardless of the proprietary (unpublished) processing parameters maintained inside the precipitating tank, the present invention for actual practice only requires blending and in-line injection of the two-constituent solution which composes the treatment. These constituents are (A) a surfactant which will not degrade to anything less than a tall oil equivalent in the presence of a hot (up to 180°-190° F.) strong caustic solution (e.g., 200 g/l alkalinity) together with (B) an oil carrier or solvent vehicle for the fatty acid. The oil need only be a solvent for the surfactant and have a boiling point safely above the temperature of the hot Bayer green liquor undergoing precipitation.
The preferred surfactant is tall oil fatty acid, but there are a host of equivalents. Thus, the fatty acid is one having at least a saturated or unsaturated four carbon alkyl backbone, with or without one or more carboxylic acid, ester, anhydride or sulfate surfactant functional groups attached directly or by a succinic alkyl linkage. Advantageously the fatty acid may contain at least an eight carbon backbone with at least one of the above functional groups attached.
The oil carrier may vary widely; the surfactants are oil soluble and there are many oils with a boiling point above say 200° F. Thus the oil may be a fatty alcohol-ether-ester complex derived from C10 alcohol distillation; it may be one selected from the paraffinic series, it may be an aromatic oil (e.g. naphthenic oil) or it may be any mixture of these. The oil species that are possible, as equivalents, would represent an almost endless list and our broad-based examples, though few in number, are intended to emphasize this feature of the invention.
The most preferred embodiment is a solution of tall oil fatty acid in a C10 alcohol distillation residue as the oil carrier, in the weight proportion of about 15:85, the dosage being about 20 mg/l. The next preferred embodiment is tall oil fatty acid (surfactant) in naphthenic oil as the oil carrier, in the weight proportion of 15:85 and the dosage being about 20 mg/l. The preferred oil carrier (fatty acid solvent) is the C10 alcohol distillation residue having a boiling point of about 250° C. (482° F.). It is light yellow to yellowish brown in color and has a specific gravity of 0.862, OH- number 90, SAP No. 50, weight percent acetic 0.07 and carbonyl 0.5. Its main source (and commercial description) is the distillation bottoms or residue from distilling a C10 alcohol. Chemically, it is 57-73 weight percent of primary branched chain C10 -C22 alcohols (classed as fatty alcohols) and 29-41 weight percent of mixed long chain esters and ethers (C18 -C33 ester; C18 -C22 ether).
In all examples, the green or pregnant liquor (charge) employed for alumina trihydrate precipitation is the hot caustic solution obtained after elimination of the red mud in the Bayer process. it is not necessary to an understanding of this invention to outline the whole Bayer process to those having skill in that art. The green liquor, after red mud separation, is a hot, caustic filtrate, the commerical production green liquor containing the aluminum values as dissolved sodium aluminate. This liquor and recirculated fine particle alumina trihydrate seeds are charged into a suitable precipitating tank or a series of connecting tanks. Here, the charge is cooled under agitation to stress the contents, causing precipitation of alumina hydrate crystals on the seeds which constitute growth sites.
Complete elimination of the fine particle material (e.g. -325 mesh or smaller) is not wanted. There needs to be a remnant source of seeds, following precipitation, for recirculation to serve the next generation of repeated growth in a continuous process.
In brief, the precipitation process involves nucleation followed by (a) initial crystal growth and (b) agglomeration of those crystals into a coarse or sandlike alumina trihydrate particle which will later be dried, and often calcined to obtain Al2 O3 as the commerical product of value.
Also, in the examples to follow, the "oil carrier," unless otherwise noted, is the alcohol distillation residue identified above, and the "fatty acid" is tall oil. Percents are weight percent.
The object of Examples 1A, 1B and 1C was to determine the response using different dosages of fatty acid/oil blend with different seed charges imposed on the green liquor of Plant A. Response in all examples is the percent reduction to a -325 mesh fraction of the aluminum hydrate crystal, equivalent to 44 to 45 microns. The greater the reduction, up to a limit, the better the performance in producing the large size crystals for calcination. The "blank" in all examples is an undosed green liquor from the plant site.
Charge: Plant A green liquor; washed fine seed.
15% fatty acid (refined tall oil)
85% oil carrier
______________________________________Dose (mg/l)    % Reduction______________________________________Blank          0.0 10            +5.1 20            +17.2 50            +31.4100            +43.8200            +63.0400            +65.0______________________________________
Charge: Plant A green liquor; unwashed fine seed
______________________________________Dose (mg/l)    % Reduction______________________________________Blank          0.520             +15.750             +31.2100            +50.0______________________________________
Comparing 1A and 1B it is seen that there is little difference in the effect of the treatment whether or not the (recirculated) fine seed is washed for more purity.
Charge: Plant A; coarse seed (washed)
15% Fatty acid (tall oil, refined)
______________________________________Dose (mg/l)    % Reduction______________________________________Blank          0.0 50            +66.7100            +66.7______________________________________
Example 1C shows a coarser seed particle has no adverse effect on the present treatment; compare Example 1A, "fine seed."
Charge: Plant B; fine seed (washed)
15% Fatty acid (unrefined tall oil)
______________________________________Dose (mg/l)    % Reduction______________________________________Blank          0.010             +29.025             +24.050             +26.0______________________________________
Charge: Plant C; fine seed (unwashed)
85% Mineral seal oil (carrier)
______________________________________Dose (mg/l)    % Reduction______________________________________Blank          0.050             +30.0______________________________________
Examples 1D and 1E verify that beneficial results in percent reduction are achieved with different plant processes for precipitation, different seed charges and different tall oil purity.
In Example 1E, the oil carrier is paraffinic, (b.p 150° C. or higher), performing every bit as well as the C10 alcohol distillation residue.
The object of the following example (2A) was to determine the benefit, if any, using different ratios of fatty acid and oil carrier, compared to the fatty acid employed by itself as a treatment. The fatty acid in this example was unrefined tall oil.
______________________________________Treatment     Dose (mg/l)                    % Reduction______________________________________Blank          0         0Fatty acid in oilcarrier15%           50         +2330%           50         +3745%           50         +3560%           50         +2175%           50         +18Fatty acid alone100%          50         -25______________________________________
From this example, a 30-45 weight percent ratio of fatty acid in oil is optimum. Negative results are achieved without the oil carrier for the fatty acid.
The object of the following example is to determine if beneficial results are obtained regardless of the order in which the components are added. The fatty acid was refined tall oil.
Charge: Plant A; fine seed (washed)
______________________________________Treatment       Dose (mg/l)                      % Reduction______________________________________Blank            0         0Fatty acid (15%) in           100        +33.6oil carrierFatty acid followed           15 + 85    +43.4by oil carrierOil carrier followed           85 + 15    +38.9by fatty acid______________________________________
Desirable results were obtained regardless of the order of addition.
The following two examples were undertaken to determine whether a fatty acid (refined tall oil) dissolved in an oil carrier performs better than an oil carrier alone. Also, whether there would be an appreciable difference between a petroleum-derived (paraffin series) oil carrier and an aromatic oil employed as the carrier. In these two examples (4A, 4B) the fatty acid was refined tall oil.
______________________________________Treatment        Dose (mg/l)                       % Reduction______________________________________Blank             0         015% fatty acid in oil            100        +30.0carrierOil carrier only 85         +14.115% fatty acid in high            100        +24.3aromatic oil.sup.(1)High aromatic oil.sup.(1)            85         015% fatty acid in oil            100        +22.4(˜15% aromatic oil).sup.(2)Oil (˜15% aromatic oil)            85         +4.4alone.sup.(2)15% fatty acid in low            100        +34.6aromatic oil.sup.(3)Low aromatic oil alone            85         +15.1______________________________________ .sup.(1) Exxon Aromatic 150 (98%) .sup.(2) VM&P Naptha .sup.(3) Exxon low odor paraffinic oil (4% aromatic)
______________________________________Treatment       Does (mg/l)                      % Reduction______________________________________Blank            0         015% fatty acid in           50         +36naphthenic oil15% fatty acid in           50         +27paraffinic oil15% fatty acid in oil           50         +28carrier15% fatty acid in           50         +25mineral oil______________________________________
The data of these two examples show inferior performance when an oil (whether alcoholic, aliphatic or aromatic) is used alone, without any fatty acid, but the rank of the oil carrier (aliphatic, alcoholic, aromatic or mixed) is immaterial.
Example 5A, which follows, was to determine any synergistic effect of the fatty acid/oil blend compared to each separate component by itself.
______________________________________                      % ReductionTreatment       Dose (mg/l)                      in -325 Mesh______________________________________Blank            0         015% fatty acid in           50         +30mineral seal oil100% mineral seal oil           50         0100% fatty acid 50         -41______________________________________
The tall oil fatty acid by itself gives inferior performance compared to the paraffinic oil by itself (which gives nothing more than a nul result, the same as the Blank) but as will be shown by Examples 6A and 6B many different species of fatty acids are effective when combined with an oil carrier.
______________________________________                     % ReductionTreatment      Dose (mg/l)                     in -325 Mesh______________________________________Blank           0         015% refined tall          100        +24.2oil in oil carrier15% unrefined tall          100        +7.0oil in oil carrier______________________________________
______________________________________                      % ReductionTreatment       Dose (mg/l)                      in -325 Mesh______________________________________15% fatty acid  50         +29(low rosin) in anoil carrier15% fatty acid  50         +25(high rosin) in anoil carrier15% fatty acid  50         +24(high pitch) in anoil carrier15% mixture of oleic           50         +31and stearic acids inan oil carrier15% stearic acid in           50         +34an oil carrier15% oleic acid in an           50         +20oil carrier15% n-octenylsuccinic           50         +12anhydride in an oilcarrier15%             50         +16n-dodecenylsuccinicanhydride in anoil carrier15% isomerized  50         +19dodecenylsuccinicanhydride in an oilcarrier______________________________________
In Example 6B, the fatty acids of the first three compositions tested were respectively a tall oil with low rosin content, one with high rosin content and one with a high content of pitch, none of which made any appreciable or noteworthy difference. In this example (6B) all the acids are equated to the fatty acid class because the alkenyl succinic anhydrides hydrolyze in the Bayer pregnant liquor to alkenyl (dicarboxylic) fatty acid.
The following three examples demonstrate that surfactants other than a fatty acid may be successfully employed as an equivalent.
______________________________________Treatment      Dose (mg/l)                     % Reduction______________________________________Blank           0         015% sodium lauryl          100        +26.5sulfate in oilcarrier15% complex.sup.(1)          100        +31.4phosphate esterin oil carrierC.sub.12 linear alkyl          100        +29.4amino butyric acidin oil carrier.sup.(2)______________________________________ .sup.(1) GAFAC BH650 (GAF Company) .sup.(2) this carboxy acid is also known as betaine
______________________________________Treatment       Dose (mg/l)                      % Reduction______________________________________Blank            0         0Sulfonated tall 50         +17oil in oil carrier15% methacrylic acid           50         +18stearylmethacrylatecopolymer in oilcarrier15% fatty       50         +14amide.sup.(1) inmineral seal oil______________________________________ .sup.(1) amide of refined tall oil, which degrades to tall oil in the green oil Bayer liquor.
Charge: Plant C; fine seed (washed)
______________________________________           Dose    % ReductionProduct         (mg/l)  in -325 Mesh______________________________________Blank            0      015% fatty amide.sup.(1)           50      +22in mineral seal oil______________________________________ .sup.(1) amide of refined tall oil which degrades to tall oil in the gree Bayer liquor
This example was to determine whether the fatty acid/oil treatment of the present invention would be effective when coupled with a Bayer process liquor at Plant X having no appreciable, if any, oxalate in the green liquor. The treatment remained effective, that is, the absence of the oxalate made no difference:
______________________________________Wt. %                 Dose (mg/l)                            % Reduction______________________________________15    Tall Oil Amide  50         2285    Mineral Seal Oil15    Refined Tall Oil                 50         3085    Mineral Seal Oil15    Crude Tall Oil Amide                 50         3085    Oil Carrier100   Refined Tall Oil                 50          0100   Mineral Seal Oil                 50          0 Blank           --          0______________________________________
The examples are intended to demonstrate that the useful surfactants cover a wide range of chemical variants with or without attached functional groups which may contribute more surface activity to the surfactant compound. Therefore, many equivalents may be employed to supplant tall oil as long as the surfactant will disperse the oil in the hot caustic Bayer green liquor. The oil, as noted, is a high boiling point solvent for the surfactant and again there is a wide range of equivalents for the preferred species which is the distillation bottoms from distilling a C10 alcohol by oxy processing. Hence while we have set forth a preferred embodiment of the invention it is to be understood this is capable of variation and modification.
It will be seen from the foregoing that under the present invention practiced with a hot caustic Bayer process green liquor, the treatment to shift or bias precipitation of alumina trihydrate crystals toward the coarser size is a surfactant combined with an oil. The oil itself is a solvent for the surfactant, with a boiling point well above the temperature prevailing during precipitation, while the surfactant in turn is a dispersant or emulsifier for the oil.
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Classificatie in de VS 423/122, 423/130, 423/625
Internationale classificatie C01F7/47, B01D9/02, C01F7/14
Coöperatieve classificatie C01F7/144, C01P2004/61, C01F7/473, C01F7/145
Europese classificatie C01F7/47B, C01F7/14C4, C01F7/14C
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