TREATMENT OF CHEMICAL FEEDSTOCKS

A process for treating a zirconium containing feedstock includes fluorinating a feedstock comprising dissociated zircon ('DZ') to obtain a zirconium fluorine compound and a silicon fluorine compound. The zirconium fluorine compound is separated from the silicon fluorine compound is provide...

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Main Authors HAVENGA JOHAN LOUIS, LE ROUX JOHANNES PETRUS, NEL JOHANNES THEODORUS, RETIEF WILLEM LIEBENBERG, DU PLESSIS WILHELMINA
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 28.08.2014
Subjects
CASTING
CHEMISTRY
FERROUS OR NON-FERROUS ALLOYS
MAKING METALLIC POWDER
MANUFACTURE OF ARTICLES FROM METALLIC POWDER
METALLURGY
PERFORMING OPERATIONS
POWDER METALLURGY
PRETREATMENT OF RAW MATERIALS
PRODUCTION AND REFINING OF METALS
TRANSPORTING
TREATMENT OF ALLOYS OR NON-FERROUS METALS
WORKING METALLIC POWDER
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Summary:A process for treating a zirconium containing feedstock includes fluorinating a feedstock comprising dissociated zircon ('DZ') to obtain a zirconium fluorine compound and a silicon fluorine compound. The zirconium fluorine compound is separated from the silicon fluorine compound is provided. Optionally, the zirconium fluorine compound is reacted with a non-fluorine halogen, an alkali metal non-fluorine halide or an alkaline-earth metal non-fluorine halide, thereby to obtain a zirconium non-fluorine halide. The zirconium fluorine compound or, when present, the zirconium non-fluorine halide is subjected to plasma reduction, in a plasma reduction stage, in the presence of a reductant, to obtain metallic zirconium.
Bibliography:Application Number: US201214350608