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- This invention relates to the production of elemental material from the halides thereof and has particular applicability to those metals and non-metals for which the reduction of the halide to the element is exothermic.
- Particular interest exists for titanium and the present invention will be described with particular reference to titanium, but is applicable to other metals and non-metals such as Al, As, Sb, Sn, Be, B, Ta, Ge, V, Nb, Mo, Ga, Ir, Os, U and Re, all of which produce significant heat upon reduction from the halide to the metal.
- elemental materials include those metals and non-metals listed above or in Table 1.
- titanium production is by reduction of titanium tetrachloride, which is made by chlorinating relatively high-grade titanium dioxide ore. Ores containing rutile can be physically concentrated to produce a satisfactory chlorination feed material; other sources of titanium dioxide, such as ilmenite, titaniferous iron ores and most other titanium source materials, require chemical beneficiation.
- the Kroll process and the Hunter process are the two present day methods of producing titanium commercially.
- titanium tetrachloride is chemically reduced by magnesium at about 1000° C.
- the process is conducted in a batch fashion in a metal retort with an inert atmosphere, either helium or argon.
- Magnesium is charged into the vessel and heated to prepare a molten magnesium bath.
- Liquid titanium tetrachloride at room temperature is dispersed drop wise above the molten magnesium bath.
- the liquid titanium tetrachloride vaporizes in the gaseous zone above the molten magnesium bath.
- a reaction occurs on the molten magnesium surface to form titanium and magnesium chloride.
- the Hunter process is similar to the Kroll process, but uses sodium instead of magnesium to reduce the titanium tetrachloride to titanium metal and produces sodium chloride as a by product.
- the reaction is uncontrolled and sporadic and promotes the growth of dendritic titanium metal.
- the titanium fuses into a mass that encapsulates some of the molten magnesium (or sodium) chloride. This fused mass is called titanium sponge.
- the solidified titanium sponge metal is broken up, crushed, purified and then dried in a stream of hot nitrogen.
- Metal ingots are made by compacting the sponge, welding pieces into an electrode and then melting it into an ingot in a high vacuum arc furnace. High purity ingots require multiple arc melting operations.
- Powder titanium is usually produced from the sponge through grinding, shot casting or centrifugal processes. A common technique is to first react the titanium with hydrogen to make brittle titanium hydride to facilitate the grinding process. After formation of the powder titanium hydride, the particles are dehydrogenated to produce a usable metal powder product. The processing of the titanium sponge into a usable form is difficult, labor intensive, and increases the product cost by a factor of two to three.
- an object of the present invention is to provide a method and system for producing non-metals or metals or alloys thereof which is continuous having significant capital and operating costs advantages over existing batch technologies.
- Another object of the present invention is to provide an improved batch or semi-batch process for producing non-metals or metals or alloys thereof where continuous operations are not warranted by the scale of the production.
- Another object of the present invention is to provide a method and system for producing metals and non-metals from the exothermic reduction of the halide while preventing the metal or non-metal from sintering into large masses or onto the apparatus used to produce same.
- Still another object of the invention is to provide a method and system for producing non-metal or metal from the halides thereof wherein the process and system recycles the reducing agent and removes the heat of reaction for use as process heat or for power generation, thereby substantially reducing the environmental impact of the process.
- FIG. 1 is a process flow diagram showing the continuous process for producing as an example titanium metal from titanium tetrachloride
- FIG. 2 is an example of a burner reaction chamber for a continuous process
- FIG. 3 is a process diagram of a batch process reaction
- FIG. 4 is a diagram of the apparatus used to produce titanium.
- FIGS. 5-15 are SEM's of Ti powder inherently produced by the inventive method described in FIG. 2 .
- the process of the invention may be practiced with the use of any alkali or alkaline earth metal depending upon the metal or non-metal to be reduced. In some cases, combinations of an alkali or alkaline earth metals may be used. Moreover, any halide or combinations of halides may be used with the present invention although in most circumstances chlorine, being the cheapest and most readily available, is preferred. Of the alkali or alkaline earth metals, by way of example, sodium will be chosen not for purposes of limitation but merely purposes of illustration, because it is cheapest and preferred, as has chlorine been chosen for the same purpose.
- non-metals or metals to be reduced it is possible to reduce a single metal such as titanium or tantalum or zirconium, selected from the list set forth hereafter. It is also possible to make alloys of a predetermined composition by providing mixed metal halides at the beginning of the process in the required molecular ratio.
- Table 1 sets forth heats of reaction per gram of liquid sodium for the reduction of a stoichiometric amount of a vapor of a non-metal or metal halides applicable to the inventive process.
- FIG. 1 A summary process flow sheet is shown in FIG. 1 .
- Sodium and titanium tetrachloride are combined in a reaction chamber 14 where titanium tetrachloride vapor from a source thereof in the form of a boiler 22 is injected within a flowing sodium stream from a continuously cycling loop thereof including a sodium pump 11 .
- the sodium stream is replenished by sodium provided by an electrolytic cell 16 .
- the reduction reaction is highly exothermic, forming molten reaction products of titanium and sodium chloride. The molten reaction products are quenched in the bulk sodium stream.
- Particle sizes and reaction rates are controlled by metering of the titanium tetrachloride vapor flow rate (by controlling the supply pressure), dilution of the titanium tetrachloride vapor with an inert gas, such as He or Ar, and the sodium flow characteristics and mixing parameters in the reaction chamber which includes a nozzle for the titanium tetrachloride and a surrounding conduit for the liquid sodium.
- the vapor is intimately mixed with the liquid in a zone enclosed by the liquid, i.e., a liquid continuum, and the resultant temperature, significantly affected by the heat of reaction, is controlled by the quantity of flowing sodium and maintained below the sintering temperature of the produced metal, such as for titanium at about 1000° C.
- the temperature of the sodium away from the location of halide introduction is maintained in the range of from about 200° C. to about 600° C.
- Products leaving the reaction zone are quenched in the surrounding liquid before contact with the walls of the reaction chamber and preferably before contact with other product particles. This precludes sintering and wall erosion.
- the surrounding sodium stream then carries the titanium and sodium chloride reaction products away from the reaction region.
- These reaction products are removed from the bulk sodium stream by conventional separators 15 such as cyclones, particulate filters, magnetic separators or vacuum stills.
- the first option removes the titanium and sodium chloride products in separate steps. This is accomplished by maintaining the bulk stream temperature such that the titanium is solid but the sodium chloride is molten through control of the ratio of titanium tetrachloride and sodium flowrates to the reaction chamber 14 .
- the titanium is removed first, the bulk stream cooled to solidify the sodium chloride, then the sodium chloride is removed from separator 12 .
- a lower ratio of titanium tetrachloride to sodium flow rate would be maintained in the reaction chamber 14 so that the bulk sodium temperature would remain below the sodium chloride solidification temperature.
- titanium and sodium chloride would be removed simultaneously using conventional separators. The sodium chloride and any residual sodium present on the particles would then be removed in a water-alcohol wash.
- the solid cake of salt, Ti and Na is vacuum distilled to remove the Na. Thereafter, the Ti particles are passivated by passing a gas containing some O 2 over the mixture of salt and Ti followed by a water wash to remove the salt leaving Ti particles with surfaces of TiO 2 , which can be removed by conventional methods.
- the sodium chloride is then recycled to the electrolytic cell 16 to be regenerated.
- the sodium is returned to the bulk process stream for introduction to reaction chamber 14 and the chlorine is used in the ore chlorinator 17 .
- electrolysis of sodium chloride and subsequent ore chlorination will be performed using technology well known in the art, such integration and recycle of the reaction by-product directly into the process is not possible with the Kroll or Hunter process because of the batch nature of those processes and the production of titanium sponge as an intermediate product.
- excess process heat is removed in heat exchanger 10 for co-generation of power.
- the integration of these separate processes enabled by the inventive chemical manufacturing process has significant benefits with respect to both improved economy of operation and substantially reduced environmental impact achieved by recycle of both energy and chemical waste streams.
- Chlorine from the electrolytic cell 16 is used to chlorinate titanium ore (rutile, anatase or ilmenite) in the chlorinator 17 .
- the titanium ore is blended with coke and chemically converted in the presence of chlorine in a fluidized-bed or other suitable kiln chlorinator.
- the titanium dioxide contained in the raw material reacts to form titanium tetrachloride, while the oxygen forms carbon dioxide with the coke. Iron and other impurity metals present in the ore are also converted during chlorination to their corresponding chlorides.
- the titanium chloride is then condensed and purified by means of distillation in column 18 . With current practice, the purified titanium chloride vapor would be condensed again and sold to titanium manufacturers; however, in this integrated process, the titanium tetrachloride vapor stream is used directly in the manufacturing process via a feed pump 21 and boiler 22 .
- the temperature of the bulk process stream is adjusted to the desired temperature for the reaction chamber 14 at heat exchanger 10 , and then combined with the regenerated sodium recycle stream, and injected into the reaction chamber.
- the recovered heat from heat exchangers 19 and 20 may be used to vaporize liquid halide from the source thereof to produce halide vapor to react with the metal or the non-metal. It should be understood that various pumps, filters, traps, monitors and the like will be added as needed by those skilled in the art.
- the titanium that is removed from the separator 15 be at or below the sintering temperature of titanium in order to preclude and prevent the solidification of the titanium on the surfaces of the equipment and the agglomeration of titanium particles into large masses, which is one of the fundamental difficulties with the commercial processes used presently.
- the titanium will not attach to the walls of the equipment or itself as it occurs with prior art and, therefore, the physical removal of the same will be obviated.
- This is an important aspect of this invention and is obtained by the use of sufficient sodium metal or diluent gas or both to control the temperature of the elemental (or alloy) product.
- FIG. 1 is illustrative of the types of design parameters which may be used to produce titanium metal in a continuous process which avoids the problems with the prior art.
- FIG. 2 there is disclosed a typical reaction chamber in which a choke flow or injection nozzle 23 , completely submerged in a flowing liquid metal stream, introduces the halide vapor from a boiler 22 in a controlled manner into the liquid metal reductant stream 13 .
- the reaction process is controlled through the use of a choke-flow (sonic or critical flow) nozzle.
- a choke-flow nozzle is a vapor injection nozzle that achieves sonic velocity of the vapor at the nozzle throat.
- the velocity of the vapor is equal to the speed of sound in the vapor medium at the prevailing temperature and pressure of the vapor at the nozzle throat.
- the downstream pressure may then be reduced indefinitely without increasing or decreasing the discharge.
- the minimum upstream pressure required for choke flow is proportioned to the downstream pressure and termed the critical pressure ratio. This ratio may be calculated by standard methods.
- the choke flow nozzle serves two purposes: (1) it isolates the vapor generator from the liquid metal system, precluding the possibility of liquid metal backing up in the halide feed system and causing potentially dangerous contact with the liquid halide feedstock, and (2) it delivers the vapor at a fixed rate, independent of temperature and pressure fluctuations in the reaction zone, allowing easy and absolute control of the reaction kinetics.
- the liquid metal stream also has multiple functional uses: (1) it rapidly chills the reaction products, forming product powder without sintering, (2) it transports the chilled reaction products to a separator, (3) it serves as a heat transfer medium allowing useful recovery of the considerable reaction heat, and (4) it feeds one of the reactants to the reaction zone.
- the sodium 13 entering the reaction chamber is at 200° C. having a flow rate of 38.4 kilograms per minute.
- the titanium tetrachloride from the boiler 22 is at 2 atmospheres and at a temperature of 164° C., the flow rate through the line was 1.1 kg/min.
- Higher pressures may be used, but it is important that back flow be prevented, so the minimum pressure should be above that determined by the critical pressure ratio for sonic conditions, or about two times the absolute pressure of the sodium stream (two atmospheres if the sodium is at atmospheric pressure) is preferred to ensure that flow through the reaction chamber nozzle is critical or choked.
- the batch process illustrated in FIG. 3 shows a subsurface introduction of titanium tetrachloride vapor through an injection or an injector or a choke flow nozzle 23 submerged in liquid sodium contained in a reaction vessel 24 .
- the halide vapor from the boiler 22 is injected in a controlled manner where it reacts producing titanium powder and sodium chloride.
- the reaction products fall to the bottom of the tank 25 where they are collected for removal.
- the tank walls are cooled via cooling colis 24 and a portion of the sodium in the tank is pumped out via pump 11 and recycled through a heat exchanger 10 and line 5 back to the tank to control the temperature of the sodium in the reaction vessel.
- Process temperatures and pressures are similar to the continuous flow case with bulk sodium temperature of 200° C., titanium tetrachloride vapor of 164° C., and the feed pressure of the titanium tetrachloride vapor about twice the pressure in the reaction vessel.
- FIG. 3 is illustrative of the types of design parameters which may be used to produce titanium metal in a batch process which avoids agglomeration problems inherent in the batch process presently in use commercially.
- FIG. 4 shows a schematic depiction of a loop used to produce titanium metal powder.
- the parts of the loop of most importance to the operation are a large (10 liter) reaction vessel 29 with a collection funnel 28 at the bottom feeding into a recycle stream.
- the recycle stream has a low volume, low head, electromagnetic pump 11 and a flow meter 25 .
- a titanium tetrachloride injection system consisted of a heated transfer line, leading from a heated tank 30 with a large heat capacity, to a submerged choke flow nozzle 23 .
- the system could be removed completely from the sodium loop for filling and cleaning. It should be understood that some commercial grades of Na have Ca or other alkaline earth metals therein. This has no substantial affect on the invention.
- the injection of titanium tetrachloride was monitored by measuring the pressure in the titanium tetrachloride system.
- a pressure transducer 31 was installed and a continuous measurement of pressure was recorded on a strip chart.
- a filtration scheme was used to remove products from the bulk sodium at the end of the test.
- the recycle stream system was removed from the sodium loop.
- a filter 26 consisting of two 5 cm diameter screens with 100 ⁇ m holes in a housing 20 cm long, was plumbed into a direct line connecting the outlet of the reaction vessel to the sodium receiver tank. All of the sodium was transferred to the transfer tank 27 .
- the reaction product was washed with ethyl alcohol to remove residual sodium and then passivated with an oxygen containing gas and washed with water to remove the sodium chloride by-product.
- Particle size of the substantially pure titanium ranged between about 0.1 and about 10 ⁇ m with a mean size of about 5.5 ⁇ m.
- the titanium powder produced in the apparatus was readily separable from the sodium and sodium chloride by-product.
- the invention has been illustrated by reference to titanium alone and titanium tetrachloride as a feedstock, in combination with sodium as the reducing metal.
- the foregoing was for illustrative purposes only and the invention clearly pertains to those metals and non-metals in Table 1, which of course include the fluorides of uranium and rhenium and well as other halides such as bromides.
- sodium while being the preferred reducing metal because of cost and availability, is clearly not the only available reductant.
- Lithium, potassium as well as magnesium, calcium and other alkaline earth metals are available and thermodynamically feasible.
- combinations of alkali metals and alkaline earth metals have been used, such as Na and Ca.
- the two most common reducing agents for the production of Ti are Na and Mg, so mixtures of these two metals may be used, along with Ca, which is present in some Na as a by product of the method of producing Na. It is well within the skill of the art to determine from the thermodynamic Tables which metals are capable of acting as a reducing agent in the foregoing reactions, the principal applications of the process being to those illustrated in Table 1 when the chloride or halide is reduced to the metal. Moreover, it is well within the skill of the art and it is contemplated in this invention that alloys can be made by the process of the subject invention by providing a suitable halide feed in the molecular ratio of the desired alloy.
- the Ti powder produced according to the above referenced portion of the patents after washing and separation has a packing fraction of between about 4% to about 11% as determined by a tap density measurements in which the Ti powder is introduced into a graduated test tube and tapped until the powder is fully settled. Thereafter, the weight of the powder is measured and the packing fraction or percent of theoretical density is calculated.
- a sample of particles produced by the inventive method which do not readily settle in minutes are classified as fines.
- both agglomerated particles and unagglomerated particles are inherently produced. For instance, when the Na temperature after the reaction downstream of the tip of nozzle 23 is near 350° C., the agglomerates are small on average about 0.2 mm in any one direction, whereas when the Na temperature after the reaction downstream of the top of nozzle 23 is higher, for instance about 450° C., the agglomerates are larger, on average of about 1.6 mm in any one direction.
- Prior art Ti powder has been made by one of two processes, either a hydride/dehydride process which produced flake shaped powder or a process in which Ti is melted followed by atomization which results in spherical shaped powders.
- Low quality (high impurity) fines are produced in the Hunter process.
- the Ti and Ti alloy powder inherently made by the process disclosed herein is neither flake-shaped nor spherical shaped, but rather is sponge or porous shaped, as defined in Powder Metallurgy Science, by Randall M. German, second edition, ⁇ Metal Powder Industries Federation 1984, 1994 page 63, a standard reference book. It is understood by those of ordinary skill in the art that the use of the term “sponge” in describing the particle morphology does not relate to the use of the term “sponge” in describing the product of the Kroll or Hunter process.
- FIGS. 5-15 there is shown a series of SEM's of powder produced according to the portions of the '761 and '106 patents referenced above.
- the SEM's of FIGS. 5-9 , 12 , 13 and 15 are at 3000 magnification.
- the SEM's of FIGS. 10 and 14 are at 9000 magnification and FIG. 11 is at 27 magnification.
- the powders are agglomerated and are neither flake shaped nor spherical, but rather are sponge or porous shaped as defined in the above identified reference by Randall M. German.
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- This application is a continuation of Ser. No. 08/691,423 filed Aug. 2, 1996, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,797,761, which was a file wrapper continuation of Ser. No. 08/283,358 filed Aug. 1, 1994, now abandoned; and is a continuation application of our previously filed application Ser. No. 09/264,577 filed Mar. 8, 1999, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,409,797 issued Jun. 25, 2002, which was a continuation-in-part of Ser. No. 08/782,816, filed Jan. 13, 1997, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,958,106 issued Sep. 28, 1999, which was a continuation-in-part of Ser. No. 08/691,423, filed Aug. 2, 1996, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,779,761 issued Jul. 14, 1998, which was a file wrapper continuation of Ser. No. 08/283,358, filed Aug. 1, 1994, now abandoned. The disclosures of each of U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,779,769 and 5,958,106 and 6,409,797 are incorporated by reference.
- This invention relates to the production of elemental material from the halides thereof and has particular applicability to those metals and non-metals for which the reduction of the halide to the element is exothermic. Particular interest exists for titanium and the present invention will be described with particular reference to titanium, but is applicable to other metals and non-metals such as Al, As, Sb, Sn, Be, B, Ta, Ge, V, Nb, Mo, Ga, Ir, Os, U and Re, all of which produce significant heat upon reduction from the halide to the metal. For the purposes of this application, elemental materials include those metals and non-metals listed above or in Table 1.
- At present titanium production is by reduction of titanium tetrachloride, which is made by chlorinating relatively high-grade titanium dioxide ore. Ores containing rutile can be physically concentrated to produce a satisfactory chlorination feed material; other sources of titanium dioxide, such as ilmenite, titaniferous iron ores and most other titanium source materials, require chemical beneficiation.
- The reduction of titanium tetrachloride to metal has been attempted using a number of reducing agents including hydrogen, carbon, sodium, calcium, aluminum and magnesium. Both the magnesium and sodium reduction of titanium tetrachloride have proved to be commercial methods for producing titanium metal. However, current commercial methods use batch processing which requires significant material handling with resulting opportunities for contamination and gives quality variation from batch to batch. The greatest potential for decreasing production cost is the development of a continuous reduction process with attendant reduction in material handling. There is a strong demand for both the development of a process that enables continuous economical production of titanium metal and for the production of metal powder suitable for use without additional processing for application to powder metallurgy or for vacuum-arc melting to ingot form.
- The Kroll process and the Hunter process are the two present day methods of producing titanium commercially. In the Kroll process, titanium tetrachloride is chemically reduced by magnesium at about 1000° C. The process is conducted in a batch fashion in a metal retort with an inert atmosphere, either helium or argon. Magnesium is charged into the vessel and heated to prepare a molten magnesium bath. Liquid titanium tetrachloride at room temperature is dispersed drop wise above the molten magnesium bath. The liquid titanium tetrachloride vaporizes in the gaseous zone above the molten magnesium bath. A reaction occurs on the molten magnesium surface to form titanium and magnesium chloride. The Hunter process is similar to the Kroll process, but uses sodium instead of magnesium to reduce the titanium tetrachloride to titanium metal and produces sodium chloride as a by product.
- For both processes, the reaction is uncontrolled and sporadic and promotes the growth of dendritic titanium metal. The titanium fuses into a mass that encapsulates some of the molten magnesium (or sodium) chloride. This fused mass is called titanium sponge. After cooling of the metal retort, the solidified titanium sponge metal is broken up, crushed, purified and then dried in a stream of hot nitrogen. Metal ingots are made by compacting the sponge, welding pieces into an electrode and then melting it into an ingot in a high vacuum arc furnace. High purity ingots require multiple arc melting operations. Powder titanium is usually produced from the sponge through grinding, shot casting or centrifugal processes. A common technique is to first react the titanium with hydrogen to make brittle titanium hydride to facilitate the grinding process. After formation of the powder titanium hydride, the particles are dehydrogenated to produce a usable metal powder product. The processing of the titanium sponge into a usable form is difficult, labor intensive, and increases the product cost by a factor of two to three.
- The processes discussed above have several intrinsic problems that contribute heavily to the high cost of titanium production. Batch process production is inherently capital and labor intensive. Titanium sponge requires substantial additional processing to produce titanium in a usable form; thereby increasing cost, increasing hazard to workers and exacerbating batch quality control difficulties. Neither process utilizes the large exothermic energy reaction, requiring substantial energy input for titanium production (approximately 6 kW-hr/kg product metal). In addition, the processes generate significant production wastes that are of environmental concern.
- Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a method and system for producing non-metals or metals or alloys thereof which is continuous having significant capital and operating costs advantages over existing batch technologies.
- Another object of the present invention is to provide an improved batch or semi-batch process for producing non-metals or metals or alloys thereof where continuous operations are not warranted by the scale of the production.
- Another object of the present invention is to provide a method and system for producing metals and non-metals from the exothermic reduction of the halide while preventing the metal or non-metal from sintering into large masses or onto the apparatus used to produce same.
- Still another object of the invention is to provide a method and system for producing non-metal or metal from the halides thereof wherein the process and system recycles the reducing agent and removes the heat of reaction for use as process heat or for power generation, thereby substantially reducing the environmental impact of the process.
- The invention consists of certain novel features and a combination of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and particularly pointed out in the appended claims, it being understood that various changes in the details may be made without departing from the spirit, or sacrificing any of the advantages of the present invention.
- For the purpose of facilitating an understanding of the invention, there is illustrated in the accompanying drawings a preferred embodiment thereof, from an inspection of which, when considered in connection with the following description, the invention, its construction and operation, and many of its advantages should be readily understood and appreciated.
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FIG. 1 is a process flow diagram showing the continuous process for producing as an example titanium metal from titanium tetrachloride; -
FIG. 2 is an example of a burner reaction chamber for a continuous process; -
FIG. 3 is a process diagram of a batch process reaction; -
FIG. 4 is a diagram of the apparatus used to produce titanium; and -
FIGS. 5-15 are SEM's of Ti powder inherently produced by the inventive method described inFIG. 2 . - The process of the invention may be practiced with the use of any alkali or alkaline earth metal depending upon the metal or non-metal to be reduced. In some cases, combinations of an alkali or alkaline earth metals may be used. Moreover, any halide or combinations of halides may be used with the present invention although in most circumstances chlorine, being the cheapest and most readily available, is preferred. Of the alkali or alkaline earth metals, by way of example, sodium will be chosen not for purposes of limitation but merely purposes of illustration, because it is cheapest and preferred, as has chlorine been chosen for the same purpose.
- Regarding the non-metals or metals to be reduced, it is possible to reduce a single metal such as titanium or tantalum or zirconium, selected from the list set forth hereafter. It is also possible to make alloys of a predetermined composition by providing mixed metal halides at the beginning of the process in the required molecular ratio. By way of example, Table 1 sets forth heats of reaction per gram of liquid sodium for the reduction of a stoichiometric amount of a vapor of a non-metal or metal halides applicable to the inventive process.
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TABLE 1 FEEDSTOCK HEAT kJ/ g TiCl 4 10 AlCL3 9 SnCl2 4 SbCl 314 BeCl 210 BCl 312 TaCl 511 ZrCl4 9 VCl 412 NbCl 512 MoCl 414 GaCl 311 UF 610 ReF 617
The process will be illustrated, again for purposes of illustration and not for limitation, with a single metal titanium being produced from the tetrachloride. - A summary process flow sheet is shown in
FIG. 1 . Sodium and titanium tetrachloride are combined in areaction chamber 14 where titanium tetrachloride vapor from a source thereof in the form of aboiler 22 is injected within a flowing sodium stream from a continuously cycling loop thereof including asodium pump 11. The sodium stream is replenished by sodium provided by anelectrolytic cell 16. The reduction reaction is highly exothermic, forming molten reaction products of titanium and sodium chloride. The molten reaction products are quenched in the bulk sodium stream. Particle sizes and reaction rates are controlled by metering of the titanium tetrachloride vapor flow rate (by controlling the supply pressure), dilution of the titanium tetrachloride vapor with an inert gas, such as He or Ar, and the sodium flow characteristics and mixing parameters in the reaction chamber which includes a nozzle for the titanium tetrachloride and a surrounding conduit for the liquid sodium. The vapor is intimately mixed with the liquid in a zone enclosed by the liquid, i.e., a liquid continuum, and the resultant temperature, significantly affected by the heat of reaction, is controlled by the quantity of flowing sodium and maintained below the sintering temperature of the produced metal, such as for titanium at about 1000° C. Preferably, the temperature of the sodium away from the location of halide introduction is maintained in the range of from about 200° C. to about 600° C. Products leaving the reaction zone are quenched in the surrounding liquid before contact with the walls of the reaction chamber and preferably before contact with other product particles. This precludes sintering and wall erosion. - The surrounding sodium stream then carries the titanium and sodium chloride reaction products away from the reaction region. These reaction products are removed from the bulk sodium stream by
conventional separators 15 such as cyclones, particulate filters, magnetic separators or vacuum stills. - Three separate options for separation of the titanium and the sodium chloride exist. The first option removes the titanium and sodium chloride products in separate steps. This is accomplished by maintaining the bulk stream temperature such that the titanium is solid but the sodium chloride is molten through control of the ratio of titanium tetrachloride and sodium flowrates to the
reaction chamber 14. For this option, the titanium is removed first, the bulk stream cooled to solidify the sodium chloride, then the sodium chloride is removed fromseparator 12. - In the second option for reaction product removal, a lower ratio of titanium tetrachloride to sodium flow rate would be maintained in the
reaction chamber 14 so that the bulk sodium temperature would remain below the sodium chloride solidification temperature. For this option, titanium and sodium chloride would be removed simultaneously using conventional separators. The sodium chloride and any residual sodium present on the particles would then be removed in a water-alcohol wash. - In the third, and preferred option for product removal, the solid cake of salt, Ti and Na is vacuum distilled to remove the Na. Thereafter, the Ti particles are passivated by passing a gas containing some O2 over the mixture of salt and Ti followed by a water wash to remove the salt leaving Ti particles with surfaces of TiO2, which can be removed by conventional methods.
- Following separation, the sodium chloride is then recycled to the
electrolytic cell 16 to be regenerated. The sodium is returned to the bulk process stream for introduction toreaction chamber 14 and the chlorine is used in theore chlorinator 17. It is important to note that while both electrolysis of sodium chloride and subsequent ore chlorination will be performed using technology well known in the art, such integration and recycle of the reaction by-product directly into the process is not possible with the Kroll or Hunter process because of the batch nature of those processes and the production of titanium sponge as an intermediate product. In addition, excess process heat is removed inheat exchanger 10 for co-generation of power. The integration of these separate processes enabled by the inventive chemical manufacturing process has significant benefits with respect to both improved economy of operation and substantially reduced environmental impact achieved by recycle of both energy and chemical waste streams. - Chlorine from the
electrolytic cell 16 is used to chlorinate titanium ore (rutile, anatase or ilmenite) in thechlorinator 17. In the chlorination stage, the titanium ore is blended with coke and chemically converted in the presence of chlorine in a fluidized-bed or other suitable kiln chlorinator. The titanium dioxide contained in the raw material reacts to form titanium tetrachloride, while the oxygen forms carbon dioxide with the coke. Iron and other impurity metals present in the ore are also converted during chlorination to their corresponding chlorides. The titanium chloride is then condensed and purified by means of distillation incolumn 18. With current practice, the purified titanium chloride vapor would be condensed again and sold to titanium manufacturers; however, in this integrated process, the titanium tetrachloride vapor stream is used directly in the manufacturing process via afeed pump 21 andboiler 22. - After providing process heat for the distillation step in
heat exchangers reaction chamber 14 atheat exchanger 10, and then combined with the regenerated sodium recycle stream, and injected into the reaction chamber. The recovered heat fromheat exchangers - In all aspects, for the process of
FIG. 1 , it is important that the titanium that is removed from theseparator 15 be at or below the sintering temperature of titanium in order to preclude and prevent the solidification of the titanium on the surfaces of the equipment and the agglomeration of titanium particles into large masses, which is one of the fundamental difficulties with the commercial processes used presently. By maintaining the temperature of the titanium metal below the sintering temperature of titanium metal, the titanium will not attach to the walls of the equipment or itself as it occurs with prior art and, therefore, the physical removal of the same will be obviated. This is an important aspect of this invention and is obtained by the use of sufficient sodium metal or diluent gas or both to control the temperature of the elemental (or alloy) product. In other aspects,FIG. 1 , is illustrative of the types of design parameters which may be used to produce titanium metal in a continuous process which avoids the problems with the prior art. Referring now toFIG. 2 , there is disclosed a typical reaction chamber in which a choke flow orinjection nozzle 23, completely submerged in a flowing liquid metal stream, introduces the halide vapor from aboiler 22 in a controlled manner into the liquidmetal reductant stream 13. The reaction process is controlled through the use of a choke-flow (sonic or critical flow) nozzle. A choke-flow nozzle is a vapor injection nozzle that achieves sonic velocity of the vapor at the nozzle throat. That is the velocity of the vapor is equal to the speed of sound in the vapor medium at the prevailing temperature and pressure of the vapor at the nozzle throat. When sonic conditions are achieved, any change in downstream conditions that causes a pressure change cannot propagate upstream to affect the discharge. The downstream pressure may then be reduced indefinitely without increasing or decreasing the discharge. Under choke flow conditions only the upstream conditions need to be controlled to control the flow rate. The minimum upstream pressure required for choke flow is proportioned to the downstream pressure and termed the critical pressure ratio. This ratio may be calculated by standard methods. - The choke flow nozzle serves two purposes: (1) it isolates the vapor generator from the liquid metal system, precluding the possibility of liquid metal backing up in the halide feed system and causing potentially dangerous contact with the liquid halide feedstock, and (2) it delivers the vapor at a fixed rate, independent of temperature and pressure fluctuations in the reaction zone, allowing easy and absolute control of the reaction kinetics.
- The liquid metal stream also has multiple functional uses: (1) it rapidly chills the reaction products, forming product powder without sintering, (2) it transports the chilled reaction products to a separator, (3) it serves as a heat transfer medium allowing useful recovery of the considerable reaction heat, and (4) it feeds one of the reactants to the reaction zone.
- For instance in
FIG. 2 , thesodium 13 entering the reaction chamber is at 200° C. having a flow rate of 38.4 kilograms per minute. The titanium tetrachloride from theboiler 22 is at 2 atmospheres and at a temperature of 164° C., the flow rate through the line was 1.1 kg/min. Higher pressures may be used, but it is important that back flow be prevented, so the minimum pressure should be above that determined by the critical pressure ratio for sonic conditions, or about two times the absolute pressure of the sodium stream (two atmospheres if the sodium is at atmospheric pressure) is preferred to ensure that flow through the reaction chamber nozzle is critical or choked. - The batch process illustrated in
FIG. 3 shows a subsurface introduction of titanium tetrachloride vapor through an injection or an injector or achoke flow nozzle 23 submerged in liquid sodium contained in areaction vessel 24. The halide vapor from theboiler 22 is injected in a controlled manner where it reacts producing titanium powder and sodium chloride. The reaction products fall to the bottom of thetank 25 where they are collected for removal. The tank walls are cooled via coolingcolis 24 and a portion of the sodium in the tank is pumped out viapump 11 and recycled through aheat exchanger 10 andline 5 back to the tank to control the temperature of the sodium in the reaction vessel. Process temperatures and pressures are similar to the continuous flow case with bulk sodium temperature of 200° C., titanium tetrachloride vapor of 164° C., and the feed pressure of the titanium tetrachloride vapor about twice the pressure in the reaction vessel. - In the flow diagrams of
FIGS. 1 and 3 , sodium make-up is indicated by theline 13 and this may come from anelectrolytic cell 16 or some other entirely different source of sodium. In other aspects,FIG. 3 is illustrative of the types of design parameters which may be used to produce titanium metal in a batch process which avoids agglomeration problems inherent in the batch process presently in use commercially. -
FIG. 4 shows a schematic depiction of a loop used to produce titanium metal powder. The parts of the loop of most importance to the operation are a large (10 liter) reaction vessel 29 with acollection funnel 28 at the bottom feeding into a recycle stream. The recycle stream has a low volume, low head,electromagnetic pump 11 and aflow meter 25. - A titanium tetrachloride injection system consisted of a heated transfer line, leading from a
heated tank 30 with a large heat capacity, to a submergedchoke flow nozzle 23. The system could be removed completely from the sodium loop for filling and cleaning. It should be understood that some commercial grades of Na have Ca or other alkaline earth metals therein. This has no substantial affect on the invention. - A typical operating procedure follows:
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- 1. Raise temperature of sodium loop to desired point (200° C.).
- 2. Open titanium tetrachloride tank and fill with titanium tetrachloride.
- 3. Insert the nozzle into the airlock above the
ball valve 33. - 4. Heat titanium tetrachloride tank to desired temperature (168° C.) as determined by vapor pressure curve (2 atm.) and the required critical flow pressure.
- 5. Start an argon purge through the nozzle.
- 6.
Open ball valve 33 and lower the nozzle into sodium. - 7. Stop the purge and
open valve 32 allowing titanium tetrachloride to flow through the nozzle into the sodium. - 8. When titanium tetrachloride pressure drops close to the critical pressure ratio, close the
valve 32 and withdraw the nozzle abovevalve 33. - 9.
Close valve 33 and let the nozzle cool to room temperature. - 10. Remove the titanium tetrachloride delivery system and clean.
- The injection of titanium tetrachloride was monitored by measuring the pressure in the titanium tetrachloride system. A
pressure transducer 31 was installed and a continuous measurement of pressure was recorded on a strip chart. - A filtration scheme was used to remove products from the bulk sodium at the end of the test. The recycle stream system was removed from the sodium loop. In its place, a
filter 26 consisting of two 5 cm diameter screens with 100 μm holes in ahousing 20 cm long, was plumbed into a direct line connecting the outlet of the reaction vessel to the sodium receiver tank. All of the sodium was transferred to thetransfer tank 27. - The reaction product was washed with ethyl alcohol to remove residual sodium and then passivated with an oxygen containing gas and washed with water to remove the sodium chloride by-product. Particle size of the substantially pure titanium ranged between about 0.1 and about 10 μm with a mean size of about 5.5 μm. The titanium powder produced in the apparatus was readily separable from the sodium and sodium chloride by-product.
- The invention has been illustrated by reference to titanium alone and titanium tetrachloride as a feedstock, in combination with sodium as the reducing metal. However, it should be understood that the foregoing was for illustrative purposes only and the invention clearly pertains to those metals and non-metals in Table 1, which of course include the fluorides of uranium and rhenium and well as other halides such as bromides. Moreover, sodium while being the preferred reducing metal because of cost and availability, is clearly not the only available reductant. Lithium, potassium as well as magnesium, calcium and other alkaline earth metals are available and thermodynamically feasible. Moreover, combinations of alkali metals and alkaline earth metals have been used, such as Na and Ca. The two most common reducing agents for the production of Ti are Na and Mg, so mixtures of these two metals may be used, along with Ca, which is present in some Na as a by product of the method of producing Na. It is well within the skill of the art to determine from the thermodynamic Tables which metals are capable of acting as a reducing agent in the foregoing reactions, the principal applications of the process being to those illustrated in Table 1 when the chloride or halide is reduced to the metal. Moreover, it is well within the skill of the art and it is contemplated in this invention that alloys can be made by the process of the subject invention by providing a suitable halide feed in the molecular ratio of the desired alloy.
- In the process described in the '761 patent,
FIG. 2 and the description thereof as well as in the '106 patent,FIG. 2 and the description thereof as well as inFIG. 2 and the description thereof in the parent application Ser. No. 09/264,877, there is inherently produced Ti powder and Ti alloy powder having unique properties. - Moreover, the Ti powder produced according to the above referenced portion of the patents, after washing and separation has a packing fraction of between about 4% to about 11% as determined by a tap density measurements in which the Ti powder is introduced into a graduated test tube and tapped until the powder is fully settled. Thereafter, the weight of the powder is measured and the packing fraction or percent of theoretical density is calculated.
- By separation of fines, we mean that a sample of particles produced by the inventive method which do not readily settle in minutes are classified as fines. During the production of the Ti powder by the inventive method both agglomerated particles and unagglomerated particles are inherently produced. For instance, when the Na temperature after the reaction downstream of the tip of
nozzle 23 is near 350° C., the agglomerates are small on average about 0.2 mm in any one direction, whereas when the Na temperature after the reaction downstream of the top ofnozzle 23 is higher, for instance about 450° C., the agglomerates are larger, on average of about 1.6 mm in any one direction. - Prior art Ti powder has been made by one of two processes, either a hydride/dehydride process which produced flake shaped powder or a process in which Ti is melted followed by atomization which results in spherical shaped powders. Low quality (high impurity) fines are produced in the Hunter process. The Ti and Ti alloy powder inherently made by the process disclosed herein is neither flake-shaped nor spherical shaped, but rather is sponge or porous shaped, as defined in Powder Metallurgy Science, by Randall M. German, second edition, © Metal Powder Industries Federation 1984, 1994 page 63, a standard reference book. It is understood by those of ordinary skill in the art that the use of the term “sponge” in describing the particle morphology does not relate to the use of the term “sponge” in describing the product of the Kroll or Hunter process.
- Referring to
FIGS. 5-15 , there is shown a series of SEM's of powder produced according to the portions of the '761 and '106 patents referenced above. The SEM's ofFIGS. 5-9 , 12, 13 and 15 are at 3000 magnification. The SEM's ofFIGS. 10 and 14 are at 9000 magnification andFIG. 11 is at 27 magnification. As seen fromFIGS. 5-15 , the powders are agglomerated and are neither flake shaped nor spherical, but rather are sponge or porous shaped as defined in the above identified reference by Randall M. German. - It has been well known in the powder metallurgy art prior to Aug. 1, 1994, how to convert metal powder to solid shapes by a variety of processes, such as powder injection molding, metal injection molding, powder to plate, continuous casting techniques by way of example, only. These well known methods, prior to Aug. 1, 1994, had been used to convert titanium powder to solid product as well as a wide variety of other metals and metal alloy powders.
- While there has been disclosed what is considered to be the preferred embodiment of the present invention, it is understood that various changes in the details may be made without departing from the spirit, or sacrificing any of the advantages of the present invention.
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