Titanium dioxide manufacture
The overall process of manufacture is to take an impure TiO2 feedstock and to convert this into the pure white TiO2 pigment. In essence the process sounds very simple but to achieve this it is necessary to chemically convert the impure TiO2 into another chemical, separate out the impurities then to convert back to pure TiO2 — in effect a chemical purification.
There are two commercial processes used to achieve this, the so called ‘chloride’ and ‘sulphate’ process routes.
• Chloride process route
The overall chemistry of this process can be represented as:-
TiO2 + C + 2Cl2 -- TiCl4 + CO +CO2
TiCl4 +O2 -- TiO2 + 2Cl2
Chlorination is carried out at a temperature of around 10000C in a fluidised bed reactor in the presence of coke. The resulting gas stream contains titanium tetrachloride, oxides of carbon and all the impurity metals from the feedstock in the form of metal chlorides.
• Sulphate process route
The overall chemistry of the process can be represented as:-
FeTiO3 + 2H2SO4 -- TiOSO4 + FeSO4 + H2O
TiOSO4 + H2O -- TiO2n.H2O + H2SO4
TiO2n.H2O -- TiO2 + n.H2O
The sulphate process is more complicated in terms of the number of unit operations involved. These are detailed in Figure 3
Applications
Titanium dioxide also known as titanium oxide or titania is used in several field. It is a naturally occurring oxide of titanium. The most common and important area of its application is in paints and varnishes. Other than this it is also highly used in paper and plastic industries. All this accounts for about 80% of the world consumption of titanium dioxide. The rest is used in other applications like printing inks, fibers, rubber, cosmetics, catalysts, foodstuff, titaniu...
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• Titanium dioxide in solution or suspension can be used to cleave protein that contains the amino acidproline at the site where proline is present
• Titanium dioxide is also used as a material in thememristor, a new electroniccircuit element. It can be employed for solar energy conversion based on dye,polymer, or quantum dot sensitized nanocrystalline TiO2 solar cellsusing conjugated polymers as solid electrolytes
• Synthetic single crystals and films of TiO2 are used as asemiconductor, and also in Bragg-stack style dielectric mirrorsdue to the high refractive index of TiO2 (2.5–2.9).
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Sulfur will burn, albeit very slowly. The addition of an oxidizer (such as KNO3) greatly
EDC and chlorine, in their vapour states, are fed into a chlorination reactor. This reactor operates at the conditions mentioned above (temperature: 400 – 450 degrees Celsius; pressure: 1 atmosphere). Chlorinated hydrocarbons that are by products from the reactor are recycled and fed back into the reactor. Chlorinated hydrocarbons and Hydrogen chloride exist in a mixture of the product stream from the chlorination reaction. Hydrogen chloride is then separated from the mixture. The chlorinated hydrocarbon stream is then neutralized and ...
For example, if it is found mixed in an ore of copper, manufacturers must use a technique called smelting to separate the mineral from the element. The smelting oxidizes all the elements present except for silver and gold. Then, the manufacturers use the processes of the Moebius and Thum Balbach electrorefining that result in refining 99.99% silver.6 If found mixed in an ore of lead, the Parkes process is used to separate the silver. People add zinc to the mixture, which reacts and combines with the silver. The silver is then refined through the processes of Moebius or Thum Balbach, as well as the Wohlwill process to refine it from gold.6 When the silver is found in a zinc ore, however, the zinc concentrates are roasted and then put through the process of slag fuming, which makes the silver dissolve. After, it goes through the same lead refining process
Barium titanate is chemical compound with formula (BaTiO3) ,has perovskite structure (a group of crystalline material take it name from natural mineral perovskite (CaTiO3) with typical formula ABO3.[35] In barium titanate, (Ba:A) ion has large size (r=1.35 A), it located at the corner of unit cell and it is encompassed by (12) oxygen ion, oxygen are bound to both cation and it located at the center cubic face. While (Ti:B) are small in size (r=0.68 A), occupy the center of unit cell and are surrounded by (6) oxygen ion forming a octahedral site( TiO6). Barium titanate is formed by linking the corners of (TiO6) formed large dodecahedron hole with Ba+2 are fit at the center of the hole.[36]
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The process varies when extracting copper from copper ore to obtain a preferred purity level of the final product. However the most common type of process in the United States is called Smelting. This is only achieved once the copper ore has been processed to a specified concentration level. This is done by grinding the ore into a concentration of slurry with chemical agents and water. The copper will float to the top of the slurry mixture when air is blown through the mixture and a frothed layer or a foaming layer allows the copper to attach and overflow the tank, this is called ore benefaction. This is when the concentrated copper gets refined.
Titanium carbide (TiC) is a titanium compound that is used for it hardness. TiC is used to produce cutting tools. The strength of titanium avails it to be used to cut and to engrave other metals which are not as hard as titanium.
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