BACKGROUND: Despite the large reserves of titanium ores, their treatment by basic approaches to obtain titanium products is not always economically feasible due to various factors. One of these problems is the high content of silicon in the ores.
RESULTS:The paper considers the desiliconization of a leucoxene concentrate with an aqueous solution of ammonium bifluoride. It was found that at 80 °C the main impurities, such as silicon and iron, pass into solution in the form of corresponding ammonium-fluorine complex compounds.CONCLUSIONS: The degree of desiliconization was up to 99%. Aluminium reacts with ammonium bifluoride, but is almost not leached into solution due to its low solubility. Titanium does not react due to its relatively higher reaction Gibbs energy among other metals in reaction with ammonium bifluoride. The content of titanium oxide in the calcined leaching residue was 85.52 wt%. The resulting residue corresponds to the raw material used in industry for the production of titanium dioxide pigment or titanium metal by the chlorine method. Iron and silicon can be precipitated from the leaching solution. Furthermore, the resulting filtrate can be evaporated in order to regenerate and reuse ammonium bifluoride.
This work aims to obtain the dispersions based on polyethylene glycols (PEGs) of various molecular masses (MM) and perfluorodecalin (PFD) for subsequent direct fluorination. The solubility of the components was estimated using laser interferometry and differential scanning calorimetry, and it was shown that PEGs with different MM are not highly compatible with PFD. The dispersions were prepared during sonication. Gel permeation chromatography (GPC) analysis indicated that MMs almost did not change in this process. While the sonication of PEG-PFD, there is a formation of dispersion with the particle sizes distribution in a range of 0.4‒2 μm depending on the MM of PEG. The dispersion is metastable for several hours, even though its stability was significantly affected by additional bubbling with the gas flow. Moreover, the dispersions with a solid PEG phase (MM > 600 Da) were subjected to a smaller change compared to a liquid one (MM < 600 Da). The results of this research shed light on the applicability of the ultrasonic preparation of PEGs in PFD for liquid-phase fluorination with obtaining perfluorinated polyether of target MM.
An integrated method is proposed for examining the compositions of fluorine-bearing gaseous mixtures, which allows for determining the concentration of HF, F2, N2, O2, CO2, CF4, and C2F6 in these mixtures. The concentration of hydrogen fluoride is determined by its sorption on sodium fluoride followed by the determination of the fluoride ion by the potentiometric method. The lower threshold of determination of hydrogen fluoride is found to be 0.09 vol.%. The concentrations of N2, O2, CO2, CF4, and C2F6 are determined by the gas chromatographic method using a thermal conductivity detector. The proposed gas-chromatography method offers a quantitative measurement of the concentration of N2, O2, CO2, CF4, and C2F6 at the lower limits of detection of 0.008, 0.012, 0.011, 0.009, and 0.019 vol.%, respectively. Based on the developed method, the compositions of a standard fluorine-nitrogen (10 vol.%) and anodic gas samples, synthesized in a laboratory electrolyzer at the National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University and in an industrial electrochemical reactor at JSC Siberian Chemical Plant (Russia), are studied.
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