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Thursday, July 21, 2011

Aluminium

Raw materials

1. Bauxite

Process

Aluminum manufacture is accomplished in two phases:

1. Bayer process of refining the bauxite ore to obtain aluminum oxide

2. Hall-Heroult process of smelting the aluminum oxide to release pure aluminum

Product

Aluminium

Production facility

Pinjarra, WA

Export

Manama, Bahrain

1 comment:

Robin LeowJuly 22, 2011 at 12:38 PM
In my research institution, we also use Bayer process of refining the bauxite ore to obtain aluminum oxide. It is perhaps the only and the most efficient method of producing aluminum oxide from bauxite.
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