可溶性有机物对拜耳法赤泥中针铁矿沉降性能的负作用.pdf

Trans. Nonferrous Met. Soc. China 27(2017) 429−439 Negative effects of dissolved organic compounds on settling performance of goethite in Bayer red mud Meng WANG, Hui-ping HU, Jin-wei LIU School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China Received 22 July 2015; accepted 8 January 2016 Abstract: Goethite, a typical iron-containing monomineral in red mud, was synthesized under the simulated Bayer digestion condition during the alumina production. The effects of dissolved organic compounds including sodium formate, sodium acetate, sodium oxalate, sodium salicylate and disodium phthalate on the settling performance of goethite slurries were studied. The settling performance of the slurries was also investigated with the addition of self-made hydroxamated polyacrylamide flocculant (HCPAM). The adsorption mechanism of dissolved organic compounds on the goethite surfaces was studied by FT-IR and XPS, respectively. The results show that the addition of organic compounds lowers the settling performance of the slurries and a deterioration in settling performance is observed in the order of sodium oxalate sodium salicylate (~ disodium phthalate) sodium formate sodium acetate. Moreover, HCPAM can efficiently eliminate the negative effects of sodium formate, sodium acetate and sodium oxalate on the settling performance of the goethite slurries, but it can only partially improve the settling performance of the goethite slurries containing sodium salicylate or disodium phthalate. FT-IR and XPS results show that these organic compounds are chemically adsorbed on the goethite surface. Key words: goethite; dissolv