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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 18, 1979
Filed:
May. 19, 1978
Applicant:
Inventor:
John Lumsden, Bristol, GB;
Assignee:
Mineral Process Licensing Corporation B.V., The Hague, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C01G / ; C01G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
423 79 ; 423 76 ; 423 75 ; 423 74 ; 423138 ; 423148 ; 423539 ;
Abstract
A process for the chlorination of a material containing iron and titanium chemically combined with oxygen, comprising feeding the material to be chlorinated, in particulate solid form, into a reaction bed of solids containing ferrous chloride, and reacting it within that bed, at a temperature below the melting point of ferrous chloride, with a controlled amount of chlorine in the presence of sulphur in free or combined form, to produce solid ferrous chloride, titanium chloride, which is volatile at a temperature of operation, and sulphur dioxide, as the principal products of the process.