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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 2012
Filed:
Jul. 01, 2009
Dmitri L. Kouznetsov, Aurora, IL (US);
Jianjun Liu, Aurora, IL (US);
Kim Richard Coleman, Naperville, IL (US);
Ryan Travis Chester, Heathridge, AU;
John David Kildea, Baldivis, AU;
Dmitri L. Kouznetsov, Aurora, IL (US);
Jianjun Liu, Aurora, IL (US);
Kim Richard Coleman, Naperville, IL (US);
Ryan Travis Chester, Heathridge, AU;
John David Kildea, Baldivis, AU;
Nalco Company, Naperville, IL (US);
Abstract
The present invention relates ways to increase the output of a high quality product from the precipitation liquor crystallization process exemplified through the aluminum hydroxide recovery processes such as the Bayer process. The invention is a method of increasing the size of precipitated of a liquor. The invention in one embodiment relates to the use of a crystal growth modifier compositions added to the precipitation process to increase the particle size distribution of the precipitated alumina trihydrate.