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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 18, 2008
James C. Withers, Tucson, AZ (US);
Raouf O. Loutfy, Tucson, AZ (US);
James C. Withers, Tucson, AZ (US);
Raouf O. Loutfy, Tucson, AZ (US);
MATERIALS & ELECTROCHEMICAL RESEARCH CORP., Tucson, AZ (US);
Abstract
A method for producing a pure metal M or metal alloy MN, of interest, which comprises electrolyzing a molten salt electrolyte of an alkali-metal or alkaline-earth metal halide AX or AX, with an anode formed of graphite or made of a composite of a metal oxide of the metal of interest and carbon, to discharge the alkali or alkaline-earth metal A, at the cathode, and to discharge nascent chlorine gas at the anode, whereby to produce a halide of the metal of interest MXand/or NX, and metallothermically reducing the metal halide MXand/or NXeither separately or combined, with the alkali or alkaline-earth metal A, obtained cathodically to produce the metal M or the metal alloy MNof interest in particulate form.