Dissolution Kinetic and Solvent Extraction of Aluminium From Kaolin

TABLE OF CONTENT

Title page                                                                                                        i

Certification                                                                                                    ii

Dedication                                                                                                      iii       

Acknowledgement                                                                                          iv

Table of content                                                                                              v

CHAPTER ONE

1.0            Introduction

1.1            Kaolinite

1.1.1       Source of Kaolinite

1.1.2       Uses of Kaolinite

1.1.3       Chemistry of Kaolinite

1.2            Occurrence of Kaolinite

1.3            Aluminum

1.3.1       Physical and chemical characteristic of aluminum

1.3.2       Recycle  of aluminum

1.4            Occurrence of aluminum

1.4.1       Production and refinement of aluminum

1.4.2       Compounds and halides of aluminums

1.5            Application of aluminum

1.5.1       History of aluminum

1.5.2       Etymology of aluminum

1.5.3       Aluminum alloys in structural application

1.6            Alumina

1.6.1       Effect of aluminum on plant

1.6.2       Importance of aluminium to health

1.7            Solvent extraction

1.7.1       Solvent extraction of metal

CHAPTER TWO

2.0            Experimental methods

2.1            Materials

2.1.1       Sample collection

2.1.2       Reagents

2.1.3       Apparatus

2.2            Material and methods

2.2.1       Sample preparation

2.2.1.1            Grinding

2.2.1.2            Pulverilization/particle sizing

2.3            Characteristics of the samples

2.3.1       Aqueous metal analysis

2.4            Physio-analysis

2.4.1       Moisture content

2.4.2       Ash content

2.5            Dissolution and solvent extraction studies

2.5.1       Leaching procedure

2.5.2       Solvent extraction procedure

2.6            Total aluminium analysis

2.6.1       Total iron precipitation

2.6.2       Extraction of aluminum

2.6.3       Stripping process

2.6.4       Aluminum salt production

CHAPTER THREE

3.0            Result and discussion

3.1            Characterization studies

3.1.1       Chemical composition of ore

3.1.2       Photo-micrographic studies

3.1.3        Aqueous metal analysis

3.2            Leaching studies

3.2.1       Effect of HCl concentration

3.2.2       Effect of temperature

3.2.3       Effect of particle sizes

3.2.4       Dissolution kinetic analysis

3.3            Solvent extraction studies

3.3.1       Total iron removal

3.3.2       Solvent extraction of copper

3.3.3       Stripping of aluminum form Dithizone

3.4       Proposal hydrometallurgical scheme

3.5       Conclusions

3.6       Recommendation

3.7       References

CHAPTER ONE