Solvay (Societe Anonyme)

Solvay & Cie (Societe Anonyme)

Jacques Van Diest

Jacques Brahm

Jean Verlaeten

Pierre Cornu

Pierre Garnier

A process for the manufacture of an aqueous solution of ferric chloride including the steps of introducing an aqueous solution of hydrochloric acid into a reactor containing a bed of fragments of an oxide-containing iron ore so that the aqueous solution of hydrochloric acid travels upwardly through the bed, collecting a suspension of ore particles in an aqueous solution of ferric chloride from the bed mechanically separating the ore particles from the aqueous solution of ferric chloride of the suspension, and recycling the ore particles by adding the ore particles to the aqueous solution of hydrochloric acid upstream of the bed.

Process for the manufacture of aqueous solutions of ferric chloride

An aqueous sodium hypochlorite solution (3) is added, in a quantity which is deficient relative to that required to decompose the entire amount of calcium chloride, to an aqueous calcium chloride solution (2), the sodium chloride which precipitates (6) is separated and the remaining amount (9) of the sodium hypochlorite solution is then added to the resulting mother-liquor (7). Single FIGURE.

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Rhode-Saint-Genese, Belgium

Jacques Van Diest