• The HallHéroult process is the major industrial process for smelting aluminium. It involves dissolving aluminium oxide (alumina) (obtained most often...
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    public with the HallHéroult process developed independently by French engineer Paul Héroult and American engineer Charles Martin Hall in 1886, and the...
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    (Louis-Toussaint) Héroult (10 April 1863 – 9 May 1914) was a French scientist. He was one of the inventors of the Hall-Héroult process for smelting aluminium...
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  • Over 90% (95-96%) of the aluminium oxide produced is used in the HallHéroult process to produce aluminium. Red mud is the waste product that is produced...
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  • electrolytic process is the use of electrolysis industrially to refine metals or compounds at a high purity and low cost. Some examples are the Hall-Héroult process...
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  • e.g., HallHéroult process, the Wöhler process and related chemical-based routes became obsolete. In 1827, Friedrich Wöhler refined a process discovered...
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    result, was more expensive than silver or gold. In 1886, Hall discovered the HallHéroult process, the first inexpensive technique for refining aluminum...
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    Electrolysis (category Chemical processes)
    Charles Martin Hall from America and Paul Héroult from France both filed for American patents for the electrolysis of aluminum, with Héroult submitting his...
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    Aluminium smelting (category Metallurgical processes)
    Aluminium smelting is the process of extracting aluminium from its oxide, alumina, generally by the Hall-Héroult process. Alumina is extracted from the...
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    Aluminium – ( Hall-Héroult process, Deville process, Bayer process, Wöhler process) Ammonia, used in fertilizer – (Haber process) Bromine – (Dow process) Chlorine...
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