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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 1983
Filed:
Oct. 20, 1981
Applicant:
Inventor:
Marcel Armand, Meylan, FR;
Assignee:
Pechiney Ugine Kuhlmann, Paris, FR;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C25C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
204 / ;
Abstract
The process which is the subject of this invention concerns the preparation of titanium by electrolysis from a bath of molten halides. It comprises effecting partial reduction of the TiCl.sub.4 which is used as the starting material in a separate reaction vessel, and then directly feeding the electrolyzing apparatus by means of titanium halides with a valency of less than 3. The partial reduction of the TiCl.sub.4 is effected by means of divided titanium or another metal such as Na.