Smelting Studies for Recovery of Iron from Red Mud Ender Keskinkilic, Saeid Pournaderi, Ahmet Geveci and Yavuz A. Topkaya Abstract Red mud can be regarded as a by-product of aluminium extraction process since it contains a significant amount of iron and some valuable elements. Therefore, the treatment of red mud has been a hot topic for some decades. The authors have recently started a laboratory-scale project dealing with stepwise re- covery of valuable elements from red mud of Seydisehir Aluminum Plant, Turkey. The first step is related to recovery of iron and pyrometallurgical methods (smelting and solid-state reduction) will be performed. Nonferrous metals will then be selectively leached in the second step. In the extent of the present work, a literature review relevant to the smelting studies for recovery of iron from red mud was presented. Keywords Red mud Á Pyrometallurgy Á Smelting Á Iron Introduction Red mud is also called as bauxite residue, which is the waste material and more correctly by-product obtained from Bayer process for alumina production. The amount of red mud is at least equal to the amount of alumina produced, and most of the time, it is significantly more [1]. World bauxite residue production is more than 70 Mt annually [2]. Therefore, a huge amount of material is being accumulated continuously near the aluminium production plants, causing allocation of E. Keskinkilic (&) Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Atilim University, 06830 Ankara, Turkey e-mail: ender.keskinkilic@atilim.edu.tr S. Pournaderi Agri Ibrahim Cecen University, Ataturk Mah, 04500 Patnos, Agri, Turkey A. Geveci Á Y. A. Topkaya Department of Metallurgical and Materials Eng, Middle East Technical University, 06531 Ankara, Turkey © The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society 2019 T. Jiang et al. (eds.), 10th International Symposium on High-Temperature Metallurgical Processing, The Minerals, Metals & Materials Series, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05955-2_46 489