Integrated carbothermic smelting Acid baking Water leaching process ...
A closedloop valorization process, combining carbothermic smelting and acid baking water leaching was developed to recover scandium, aluminum, and iron from bauxite residue, a major side product of aluminum production. This process employs carbothermic smelting to recover 99% of the iron in the starting residue as crude metallic iron, which can be separated from slag that contains ...