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    Recycling of Aluminium

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    The Hall-Heroult electrolytic process converts alumina to aluminum metal by dissolving alumina in a molten cryolite electrolyte over 900°C. A graphite anode is immersed and electrolysis is conducted with a current of hundreds of thousands of amperes, causing the resulting aluminum metal to fall to the bottom of the bathtub in liquid form for successive removal. Aluminum is mainly obtained from bauxite through mining, grinding, the Bayer process to extract alumina, and heating in pressurized tanks to form sodium aluminate, from which aluminum hydroxide precipitates and is converted to aluminum.

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    Recycling of Aluminium

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    The Hall-Heroult electrolytic process converts alumina to aluminum metal by dissolving alumina in a molten cryolite electrolyte over 900°C. A graphite anode is immersed and electrolysis is conducted with a current of hundreds of thousands of amperes, causing the resulting aluminum metal to fall to the bottom of the bathtub in liquid form for successive removal. Aluminum is mainly obtained from bauxite through mining, grinding, the Bayer process to extract alumina, and heating in pressurized tanks to form sodium aluminate, from which aluminum hydroxide precipitates and is converted to aluminum.

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    The Hall-Heroult electrolytic process converts alumina to aluminum metal by dissolving alumina in a molten cryolite electrolyte over 900°C. A graphite anode is immersed and electrolysis is conducted with a current of hundreds of thousands of amperes, causing the resulting aluminum metal to fall to the bottom of the bathtub in liquid form for successive removal. Aluminum is mainly obtained from bauxite through mining, grinding, the Bayer process to extract alumina, and heating in pressurized tanks to form sodium aluminate, from which aluminum hydroxide precipitates and is converted to aluminum.

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    Recycling of Aluminium

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    Olga Migdał
    The Hall-Heroult electrolytic process converts alumina to aluminum metal by dissolving alumina in a molten cryolite electrolyte over 900°C. A graphite anode is immersed and electrolysis is conducted with a current of hundreds of thousands of amperes, causing the resulting aluminum metal to fall to the bottom of the bathtub in liquid form for successive removal. Aluminum is mainly obtained from bauxite through mining, grinding, the Bayer process to extract alumina, and heating in pressurized tanks to form sodium aluminate, from which aluminum hydroxide precipitates and is converted to aluminum.

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    In the Hall-Heroult electrolytic process,

    Recycling of alumina is converted to free metal by:


    aluminium dissolving alumina in the electrolyte, which is a
    molten cryolite with a temperature of over
    900 ° C, immersing the graphite anode into
    Along with the development of
    the bathtub and conducting electrolysis with
    the world economy, not only has
    a current of hundreds of thousands of
    the number of aluminum
    amperes. The resulting metal falls to the
    packaging increased, which is for
    bottom of the bathtub in liquid form and is
    many a measure of the progress
    successively removed.
    of civilization, but also the amount
    of waste in the natural Aluminium-
    environment has increased. advantages and
    Among the waste, there are also disadvantages
    useful ones that make it possible Alumium is widely used in industry, for example in
    to recycle, e.g. aluminum scrap. shipbuilding, in the production of windows, garage
    Aluminum scrap is one of those doors, because it is a light, durable and non-corrosive
    metal. By extracting this raw material (aluminum)
    waste that can be recycled and
    which is found in sedimentary scales. Another
    reused! And what is important, its advantage is that it can be recycled multiple times.
    recycling can be repeated Due to the fact that it is very common, it is in 3rd
    indefinitely! place in terms of the presence of oxygen and silicon in
    the natural environment, its extraction may change the
    Aluminum landscape in the place where it occurs. However,
    manufacturing aluminum builds up in the human body with age. After
    technology passing through the mucosa, aluminum becomes part
    of the transferrin protein, which is absorbed by every
    Aluminum is mainly obtained from bauxite. cell of the body. Inside the cells, transferrin releases
    The mine output is sent to an enrichment the bound ion and returns to circulation. This is how
    plant, where bauxite is transformed into aluminum finds its way to the brain, lungs, bones and
    alumina. The first operations are: other tissues.
    grinding the ore to the consistency of sand in Aluminum is an element that is toxic to the human
    a ball mill, alumina extraction during the Bayer body. This relationship is particularly visible among
    process in which ground bauxite is mixed with dialysis patients, because the equipment used for
    quicklime and sodium hydroxide dialysis does not remove aluminum ions from plasma
    as efficiently as the kidneys.
    In my opinion, it is worth
    The product is placed in pressurized tanks and heated extracting metals in this way,
    especially aluminum. It is an
    to 240 ° C, resulting in the formation of sodium extremely versatile material,
    widely used in many industries.
    aluminate. After the insoluble impurities have been Due to its numerous
    advantages, the possibilities of
    separated from the sodium aluminate, the hydrolysis is its processing that have been
    discovered so far are not the
    carried out in gravity tanks. In the presence of end of the discoveries of the
    possibilities of its use and in the
    nucleating agents, aluminum hydroxide precipitates near future it will continue to
    gain popularity. It can be said
    and is converted int that this is the material of the
    future.

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