Millennium Inorganic Chemicals, Inc.

Millenium Inorganic Chemicals, Inc.

Ling Zhou

Thomas Messer

Fu-Chu Wen

Robert J Daniels

Jon Philip R Peeling

Frederick E L Schneider, Jr

Mark Banash

The present invention relates to a process for the production of an elemental material, comprising the step of reacting a halide of the elemental material with a reducing agent in solid form in a fluidized bed reactor at a reaction temperature which is below the melting temperature of the reducing agent. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the elemental material is titanium and the titanium is produced in powder form. The invention also relates to the production of alloys or intermetallics of the elemental materials.

Process for the production of elemental material and alloys

A titanium dioxide compound was isolated from a rare type of naturally occurring ore. Processes for efficiently isolating and obtaining these TiO compounds, as well as methods for using them have been developed. These TiO compounds may be used directly in applications such as paper, plastics and paints without being subjected to the chloride or sulfate processes. Also they made be used as a feedstock for the chloride or sulfate processes. In order to obtain these TiO compounds, one may grind or pulverize the naturally occurring ore, disperse it in a solution or suspension, and process it by selective flocculation or aqueous biphasic extraction.

TiO2 compounds obtained from a high silica content ore

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