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DOI:10.12691/materials-1-3-6
Department of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh
*Corresponding author: aswkurny@mme.buet.ac.bd
Received August 11, 2013; Revised November 03, 2013; Accepted November 18, 2013
Abstract Coal fly ash containing 35.9 % Al2O3 and 53.0%SiO2 was fused with NaOH for a period of up to 60
minutes in the temperaure range of 300°C-800°C in a stainless steel crucible. The fused mass was dissolved in water.
Amount of alumina in the solution was determined by by EDTA compleximetric (masking and demasking) chemical
method. The optimum condition for alumina extraction was determined as NaOH to CFA weight ratio = 3.5,
temperature = 700°C and time = 30 minutes. Avrami-Erofeev equation i.e. –ln(1-α) = (k3t) m (when m=1) seemed to
be the most appropriate one to fit the kinetic data of fusion of coal fly ash with NaOH. The activation energy was
found to be 13.94 kJ/mol.
Keywords: coal fly ash, alumina, fusion, dissolution, kinetics, activation energy
Cite This Article: M A Rahaman, M A Gafur, and A S W Kurny, “Kinetics of Recovery of Alumina from
Coal Fly Ash through Fusion with Sodium Hydroxide.” American Journal of Materials Engineering and
Technology 1, no. 3 (2013): 54-58. doi: 10.12691/materials-1-3-6.
Table 1. Chemical composition of coal fly ash raw material used in this study (mass fraction, %)
Oxide Al2O3 SiO2 K2O CaO TiO2 Cr2O3 MnO Fe2O3
Oxide wt% 35.9 53.0 0.936 0.576 2.39 0.513 0.0441 5.19
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Figure 6. Reduced time plot for comonly used solid state reactions Figure 8. Arrhenius type plots of Figure 9
model
Figure 7. Kinetic plots for Avrami-Erofeev equation (-LN (1-α) = Figure 9. Plots of ln(tα) versus 1/T to determine activation energy
(k3t)m ) model equations for m=1 (differential approach)
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