Millennium Inorganic Chemicals, Inc.

Millenium Inorganic Chemicals, Inc.

Cristal USA, Inc.

Thomas Messer

Robert J Daniels

Ling Zhou

Fu-Chu Wen

Peter Carter

Dale H Perkins-Banks

Frederick E L Schneider, Jr

Mark Banash

Jon Philip R Peeling

Jason X Nie

Peter Badger's Wood Main Road Carter

The present invention is directed to the suppression of the formation noxious compounds such as furans. According to the present invention, a venturi device is used to rapidly quench a chlorinator reaction gas. The rapid quench minimizes the resonance time that furan precursors are at conditions conducive to furan formation.

Suppression of the formation of noxious substances during chloride processes

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 method of producing an elemental material or an alloy thereof from a halide or mixtures of halides is provided. The halide or mixtures thereof are contacted with a reducing gas in the presence of reductant material, preferably in sufficient quantity to convert the halide to the elemental material or alloy and to maintain the temperature of the reactants at a temperature lower than the boiling point of the reductant material at atmospheric pressure or the sintering temperature of the produced elemental material or alloy.

Method of making elemental materials 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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