2015 RedMud Conference Bauxite Residue Valorization – Leuven 2015
The symposium structure consists of keynote presentations (40 minutes), oral presentations (20 minutes) and oral presentations of posters (3 minutes). The tentative program structure follows.
You can also download the full programme here: BR2015 Programme
| Monday 5 October 2015 | ||
| 13:00 | Registration + Opening Reception | |
| 15:00 | A Welcome Opening by the hosts | |
| Theme | From bauxite to a bauxite residue for neutrilisation, revegetation and beyond | |
| 15:20 | Keynote Lecture Jeremy Howells “Bauxite Residue: Harnessing Open Innovation and Effective Communities of Innovation and Practice” University of Southampton (UK) |
Presentation |
| 16.00 | Ronan COURTNEY* “Neutralisation, revegetation and beyond: An overview of a decade of bauxite residue research” University of Limerick (Republic of Ireland) |
Presentation |
| 16:20 | William MAYES1* , Ian BURKE2 “Risks, remediation and recovery: lessons for bauxite residue management from Ajka” 1University of Hull (UK), 2University of Leeds (UK) |
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| 16:40 | Coffee Break – Poster Session | |
| 17:10 | Derek HIGGINS , Ronan COURTNEY*, TERESA CURTIN “Use of Constructed Wetlands for treating BRDA leachate and run-off” University of Limerick (Republic of Ireland) |
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| 17:30 | Gheorghe DOBRA1,Laurentiu FILIPESCU2, Nicolae ANGHELOVICI1, Vicol ALISTARH1, Sorin ILIEV1, “Bauxite residue safety disposal and friendly environmental processing permanent care at Vimetco Alum SA Tulcea” 1Vimetco Alum Tulcea (Romania), 2University Politehnica (Romania) |
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| 17:50 | Reinhard BOTT, Thomas LANGELOH “Process options for the filtration and washing of bauxite residue” BOKELA GmbH (Germany) |
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| 18:10 | End of Monday sessions | |
| Tuesday 6 October 2015 | ||
| Theme | Recovery of Fe, Al, Ti | |
| 09:00 | Keynote Lecture Ken EVANS “Success and challenges in the management and use of bauxite residue” IAI Consultant |
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| 09:40 | Efthymios BALOMENOS1,2* , Dimitrios PANIAS2, Yiannis PONTIKES3 “Mud2Metal: A holistic flow sheet for the bauxite residue valorisation” 1Auminium of Greece (Greece), 2NTUA (Greece), 3KU Leuven (Belgium) |
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| 10:00 | Brajendra MISHRA1* , Sumedh GOSTU2 “Opportunities for high volume commercial products conversion from bauxite residue” 1Worcester Polytechnic Institute (USA), 2Colorado School of Mines (USA) |
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| 10:20 | Gennadiy PODGORODETSKIY1, Vladislav GORBUNOV1, Andrey PANOV2, Sergey GORBACHEV2* “Complex additives on the basis of bauxite residue for intensification of iron-ore sintering and pelletising” 1MISIS ( Russia), 2UC RUSAL(Russia) |
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| 10:40 | Coffee Break – Poster Session | |
| 11:10 | Frank M. KAUSSEN, Bernd FRIEDRICH “Soda sintering process for the mobilisation of aluminum and gallium in red mud” RWTH Aachen University (Germany) |
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| 11:30 | Teemu KINNARINEN1* , Lloyd HOLLIDAY2, Antti HAKKINEN1 “On the recovery of caustic and alumina from bauxite residues by leaching” 1Lappeenranta University of Technology (Finland), 2Outotec (Filters) Oy (Finland) |
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| 11:50 | Rinat ABDULVALIYEV, Erbulat TASTANOV, Sergey GLADYSHEV, Kulzhaiyk BEISEMBEKOVA, Nazym AKHMADIYEVA* “Wasteless processing of red mud by hydrogarnet technology” JSC “Center of Earth Sciences, Metallurgy and Ore Beneficiation”, Kazakhstan |
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| 12:10 | Peter James JOYCE1* , Andrei GORONOVSKI2, Anna BJÖRKLUND1, Alan TKACZYK2 “Incorporating the radiological effects and environmental impact assessment of Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials (NORM) into the life cycle environmental optimisation of Bauxite Residue (BR) valorisation” 1KTH (Sweden), 2University of Tartu (Estonia) |
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| 12:30 | Lunch | |
| Theme | Cement, concrete, ceramics and novel applications | |
| 13:30 | Marcel SCHLAF* , Elham KARIMI, Véronique JOLLET, Christopher GISSANE “Synergistic co-processing of red mud with Pyrolysis Bio-Oil: from neutralisation to catalysis” University of Guelph (Canada) |
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| 13:50 | Justin HARGREAVES1* , Ian PULFORD1, Abdulrahman ALHARTHI1, Vidya BATRA2, Malini BALAKRISHNAN2, Nidhi GUPTA2 “The application of red mud as a pre-catalyst for the formation of functionalised carbons” 1University of Glasgow, 2TERI(India) |
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| 14:10 | Gábor MUCSI1, Roland SZABÓ1, Ádám RÁCZ1, Zoltán MOLNÁR1, Ferenc KRISTÁLY1, Sanjay KUMAR2 “Influence of red mud on the properties of geopolymer derived from mechanically activated lignite fly ash” 1University of Miskolc (Hungary), 2CSIR NML (India) |
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| 14:30 | Rodica ZAVOIANU1, Anca CRUCEANU1, Octavian Dumitru PAVEL1, Luminita Eleonora MARA2, Teodor VELEA2, Ruxandra BIRJEGA3 “Alternative valorisation of red mud as catalyst for sulphide oxidation in wastewater” 1University of Bucharest (Romania), 2IMNR (Romania), 3National Institute of Plasma (Romania) |
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| 14:50 | Intensified poster presentation session | |
| 15:20 | Coffee Break – Poster Session | |
| 15:50 | Tobias HERTEL, Lukas ARNOUT, Arne PEYS, Lieven PANDELAERS, Bart BLANPAIN, Yiannis PONTIKES, “A proposal for a 100% use of bauxite residue: the process, results on the novel Fe-rich binder and how this can take place within the alumina refinery” KU Leuven (Belgium) |
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| 16:10 | Sanjay KUMAR* , Rakesh KUMAR “Synergising red (mud) and grey (ash) for greener geopolymers” CSIR – National Metallurgical Laboratory (India) |
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| 16:30 | Tibor KOVÁCS1,2 , Miklós HEGEDÜS1, Zoltán SAS1*, Gergö BÁTOR2, Edit TÓTH-BODROGI1, János SOMLAI1 “Study of reusability of red mud in clay based building materials, on radiological point of view (gamma dose, exhalation, leachability)” 1University of Pannonia (Hungary), 2Social Organisation for Radioecological Cleanliness (Hungary) |
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| 16:50 | Wanchao Liu* “The developing of red mud utilisation in China” CHALCO (China) |
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| 17:10 | End of Tuesday sessions | |
| 18:30 | Visit to Beguinage | |
| 19:30 | Symposium Dinner, IAI and CR3 addressing the participants | |
| Wednesday 7 October 2015 | ||
| Theme | Recovery of minor elements and REE | |
| 09:00 | Keynote Lecture Koen BINNEMANS “Rare earths: essential elements for the transition to a low-carbon economy” KU Leuven (Belgium) |
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| 09:40 | Lamprini-Areti TSAKANIKA, Maria OCHSENKUEHN-PETROPOULOU, “Separation and recovery of rare earths after red mud leaching by cation – Exchange Chromatography” NTUA (Greece) |
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| 10:00 | Chenna Rao BORRA, Jasper MERMANS, Bart BLANPAIN, Yiannis PONTIKES, Koen BINNEMANS, Tom VAN GERVEN “Selective leaching of rare earths from bauxite residue after sulphation roasting” KU Leuven (Belgium) |
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| 10:20 | Coffee Break – Poster Session | |
| 10:50 | Platon GAMALETSOS1* , Athanasios GODELITSAS2, Takeshi KASAMA3, Theodore MERTZIMEKIS2, Alexei KUZMIN4, Joerg GOETTLICHER5, Ralph STEININGER5, Yiannis PONTIKES6 “The nature of Th in bauxite and bauxite residue from Greece” 1NTUA (Greece), 2University of Athens (Greece), 3Technical University of Denmark, 4University of Latvia (Latvia), 5Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany), 6KU Leuven (Belgium) |
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| 11:10 | Joris ROOSEN1, 2, Stijn VAN ROOSENDAEL1, Chenna Rao BORRA1, Tom VAN GERVEN1, Steven MULLENS2, Koen BINNEMANS1 “Separation of Scandium from leachates of Greek bauxite residue by adsorption with functionalised chitosan-silica hybrid materials” 1KU Leuven (Belgium), 2VITO (Belgium) |
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| 11:30 | Panagiotis DAVRIS1* , Efthymios BALOMENOS1,2, Dimitrios PANIAS1, Ioannis PASPALIARIS1 “The use of ionic liquids for rare earth element extraction from bauxite residue” NTUA (Greece), Aluminium of Greece (Greece) |
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| 11:50 | Bieke ONGHENA, Chenna Rao BORRA, Tom VAN GERVEN, Koen BINNEMANS “Selective recovery of Scandium(III) from bauxite residue leachates by solvent extraction with a carboxyl-functionalised ionic liquid” KU Leuven (Belgium) |
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| 12:10 | Lunch | |
| Theme | Recovery of minor elements and REE | |
| 13:10 | Éva UJACZKI1,2, Yannick S ZIMMERMANN1,3, Viktória FEIGL2, Markus LENZ1,4 “Recovery of rare earth elements from Hungarian red mud with combined acid leaching and liquid-liquid extraction” 1Institute for Ecopreneurship (Switzerland), 2Budapest University of Technology and Economics (Hungary), 3RWTH Aachen University (Germany), 4Wageningen University (The Netherlands) |
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| 13:30 | Şerif KAYA1* , Yavuz Ali TOPKAYA1, Carsten DIETRICH2 “Hydrometallurgical extraction of Scandium from Lateritic Nickel Ores” 1Middle East Technical University (Turkey),2MEAB GmbH (Germany) |
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| 13:50 | Olga PETRAKOVA, Andrey PANOV, Sergey GORBACHEV, Oleg MILSHIN “Improved efficiency of red mud processing through scandium oxide recovery” UC RUSAL (Russia) |
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| 14:10 | Intensified poster presentation session | |
| 14:40 | Coffee Break – Poster Session | |
| 15:10 | Panel discussion | |
| 15:40 | Award | |
| 16:00 | Closing session | |
| 16:15 | Finale coffee session | |
| Intensified Poster presentation Session on 6th October | |
| Sedat ARSLAN1,Havvanur UÇBEYİAY2, Bekİr ÇELİKEL1, Meral BAYGÜL,Seyİt AVCU1, Gökhan Kürsat DEMİR1 “ETI Aluminium red mud characteristics and evaluation of dewatering performance” 1ETI Aluminium (Turkey), 2Necmettin Erbakan University (Turkey) |
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| György BÁNVÖLGYI* “Opportunities within the alumina refineries to make bauxite residue easy to downstream use” Senior Process Consultant (Hungary) |
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| Brenda OMAÑA SANZ, Arnaud GAUTHIER “Re-use options of Venezuelan bauxite residue: potential applications in acid mine drainage remediation” University Lille (France) |
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| Panagiotis ANGELOPOULOS , Maria TAXIARCHOU* “Thin-layer modeling of red mud drying” NTUA (Greece) |
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| Ivana SMIČIKLAS1* ,Mihajlo JOVIĆ1, Marija ŠLJIVIĆ-IVANOVIĆ1, Aleksandra MILENKOVIĆ1, SlavkoSMILJANIĆ2 “Metal speciation in bauxite residue with implications to its use as an immobilisation agent” 1Vinča Institute of Nuclear Sciences (Serbia), 2University of East Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina) |
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| Valérie CAPPUYNS* “Use of red mud in soil remediation: review of applications and challenges” KU Leuven (Belgium) |
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| Juraj LADOMERSKY* ,Emília HRONCOVÁ “Two stage bauxite residue utilisation method” MatejBel University (Slovakia) |
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| Zoltán SAS, Miklós HEGEDÜS, János SZÁNTÓ, János SOMLAI, Tibor KOVÁCS “Radon/thoron exhalation characteristic of heat treated red mud, relationship between internal structure features, possibilities of reduction” University of Pannonia (Hungary) |
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| Intensified Poster presentation Session on 7th October | |
| Frank KAUSSEN, Ioannis SOFRAS, Bernd FRIEDRICH “Carbothermic reduction of red mud in an EAF and subsequent recovery of aluminum from the slag by pressure leaching in caustic solution” RWTH Aachen University (Germany) |
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| Jon GREEN* , Terry GREEN “Bauxite residue and other waste materials in light weight aggregate production using a trefoil kiln” IMTEK, University of Freiburg (Germany) |
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| Amy VAN DEN BULCK, Yiannis PONTIKES “New hydrothermal methods for the transformation of iron oxides in bauxite residue into magnetite” KU Leuven (Belgium) |
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| Maximilian HERBECK* , Christian ADAM “Substance separation by reductive fusion of red mud” Thermochemical Residues Treatment and Resource Recovery, BAM (Germany) |
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| Jianmin ZENG* , Aoping HE, Xiaole ZENG, Haihong ZHAN, Deguang Cao “Experimental Investigation on recovery of Fe-Ni alloy from Bayer red mud and laterite Nickel” Guangxi University (China) |
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| Vladimir RYCHKOV, Evgeny KIRILLOV, Sergey KIRILLOV, Gregory BUNKOV, Maxim MASHKOVCEV, Maxim BOTALOV, Vladimir SEMENISHCHEV “Carbonate treatment and sorption of scandium from red mud” Ural Federal University (Russia) |
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| Wenzhong ZHANG, Risto HARJULA, Risto KOIVULA “Preliminary investigation of rare earth separation by titanium phosphate materials” University of Helsinki (Finland) |
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* Presenters