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US 4,098,868 AGranted
Production of titanium trichloride from ilmenite
AssigneeUop LLC
InventorWilliam K. Tolley
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Abstract
Titanium metal values may be recovered from a titanium bearing source by roasting said source in a reducing atmosphere, leaching the source with aqueous hydrogen chloride at an elevated temperature, cooling and saturating the leached solution with gaseous hydrogen chloride to precipitate hydrated ferrous chloride, separating the precipitated ferrous chloride from the soluble titanium chloride, raising the temperature of the solution to precipitate the titanium, separating and recovering the crystallized titanium compound.
Claims4
A process for obtaining titanium metal values from ilmenite ore which comprises the steps of:
- (a) subjecting said ore to a reductive roast at a temperature of from about 600.degree. to about 900.degree. C.;
- (b) leaching the resultant roasted ore with aqueous hydrogen chloride at an elevated temperature to form a solution of titanium trichloride and ferrous chloride;
- (c) cooling and saturating the leach solution with gaseous hydrogen chloride to precipitate ferrous chloride;
- (d) separating the precipitated ferrous chloride from titanium trichloride solution;
- (e) raising the temperature of the last-named solution to about 20.degree. to about 30.degree. C. to precipitate hydrated titanium trichloride;
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- (f) separating and recovering the crystallized titanium trichloride from the leach liquor.
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