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In order to provide references for selecting highly efficient red mud flocculants,the behaviour of polyacrylamidomethyltrimethyl ammonium chloride (PATAC) in red mud separation process was investigated.PATAC was employed as a flocculant for red mud separation from the caustic aluminate liquor at 95 ℃.The used red mud was generated from Chinese diaspore bauxite in Bayer process of alumina production.And the changes of PATAC before or after being treated in caustic solution at 95 ℃ were studied by thermogravimetry (TG) and Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectral analysis.The results show that PATAC fails in effectively flocculating red mud and PATAC is readily converted to a quatary ammonium hydroxide (PATAH) in caustic solution.PATAH can be decomposed to a new polymer (HPATAH) even at 95 ℃.Furthermore,there is an intramolecular hydrogen bond formed in the HPATAH polymer chain with two functional groups of -CH2-OH and -CONH2.Therefore,the poor flocculation property of PATAC for red mud separation can be attributed to the thermal decomposition of PATAC in the caustic red mud slurry at 95 ℃ and the formation of intramolecular hydrogen bond in the polymer chain of HPATAH during the thermal decomposition,which causes the absorbable functional groups of PATAC to decrease greatly.