Selective Removal of Iron from Low-Grade Ti Ore by Reacting with Calcium Chloride
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- 作者：Jungshin Kang ; Toru H. Okabe
- 刊名：Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：February 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：48
- 期：1
- 页码：294-301
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- 刊物类别：Chemistry and Materials Science
- 刊物主题：Metallic Materials; Characterization and Evaluation of Materials; Structural Materials; Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films; Nanotechnology;
- 出版者：Springer US
- ISSN：1543-1916
- 卷排序：48
文摘
Recently, titanium metal production by molten salt electrolysis using CaCl2 as molten salt and TiO2 or rutile (94 to 96 pct TiO2) as feedstock has been drawing attention. However, when a low-grade Ti ore (mainly FeTiO3) is used as feedstock, removal of iron (Fe) from the ore is indispensable. In this study, the influence of reaction temperature, reaction time, particle size of the ore, and source country for the ore on the removal of iron by selective chlorination using CaCl2 was assessed. Experimental results showed that the mass percent of iron in the ore decreased from 49.7 to 1.79 pct under certain conditions by selective removal of iron as FeCl2. As a result, high-grade CaTiO3 was produced when the ore particles smaller than 74 µm reacted with CaCl2 at 1240 K (967 °C) for 8 to 10 hours. Therefore, this study demonstrates that the removal of iron from the ore is feasible through the selective chlorination process using CaCl2 by optimizing the variables.