The invention relates to a method for avoiding generation of
silica gel in
red mud leachate, which comprises the following steps:
drying red mud, crushing,
grinding and sieving, dissolving powdery
red mud in water to prepare
slurry, and standing and layering to obtain red mud concentrated
slurry with a dealkalized lower layer; the method comprises the following steps: reselecting red mud concentrated
slurry to obtain red mud concentrate and red mud
tailings, further treating the red mud concentrate by adopting biological
flocculation precipitation to obtain desiliconized red mud concentrate, carrying out chemical leaching or biological leaching on the desiliconized red mud concentrate, adding an H2O2 solution into a leaching
system, standing or filtering a leaching solution after leaching is completed, and recycling the red mud concentrate and the red mud
tailings. Valuable
metal elements in the filtrate are recovered; and dissolving trace
silicon remained in the desiliconized red mud concentrate, and performing secondary mineralization to form
crystalline quartz precipitate. According to the method,
silicon-containing minerals in the red mud are effectively removed before leaching of the red mud,
silicon is removed from the source, silicon elements remaining in the red mud in the leaching process are dissolved and then secondarily mineralized into
crystalline quartz to synchronously precipitate, and the negative influence of
silica gel on leaching of the red mud can be inhibited or eliminated to the maximum extent.