Aluminium Pechiney

Aluminum Pechiney

Robert Magrone

Jean Deabriges

Henri Mercier

Alain Lectard

A process for cleaning the walls of heat exchangers or reactors which are covered with essentially titaniferous incrustations but which can also contain silico-aluminous incrustations formed during the attack of ores and causing a considerable reduction in the heat exchange capacity, the said process being intended to restore the fundamental characteristics of the said walls, which is characterized in that the incrustations are removed by means of an aqueous treatment liquor containing from 3 to 30% by weight of hexafluosilicic acid and at most 10% by weight of hydrofluoric acid. The aqueous treatment liquor can contain a corrosion inhibitor and the treatment can be carried out at a temperature between 20.degree. C. and 80.degree. C.

Process for removing titaniferous and silico-aluminous incrustations

Process for treating solutions from the Bayer process, enabling amounts of sodium carbonate and sodium oxalate or sodium salts of organic acids corresponding to the amounts of these compounds dissolved during the attack on a bauxite to be removed by means of a barium compound, and without consumption of the latter.

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Gardanne, France

Robert Magrone