Bureau of Mines Development of Titanium Production Technology

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• Personal Author:
  Blue DD ; Henry, Jack L. ; Maysilles, James H. ; Stephens WW
• Description:
  The development and status of technology for producing titanium from U.S. resource materials are summarized in this Bureau of Mines report. Commercially feasible processes and investigations of alternative procedures are reviewed in order to identify techniques that could make existing operations more effective or areas in which future research may lead to the development of new production methods. Procedures are described for producing concentrated titanium dioxide from starting materials such as sands, massive deposits, and mineral processing residues containing rutile, ilmenite, and perovskite; producing and purifying titanium tetrachloride from concentrated rutile, ilmenite, and titaniferous slags; reduction of titanium tetrachloride to titanium sponge metal using metallic magnesium or sodium; purifying and consolidating titanium sponge and scrap by arc melting or induction melting techniques; purifying sponge, scrap, and alloys by molten salt electrorefining; and electrowinning titanium from chloride salts. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Chemistry Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Chemical-analysis Electrorefining Electrowinning Materials-sciences Nonferrous-metals-and-alloys Reduction-Chemistry Titanium-chlorides Titanium-ores
• Series:
  Mining Publications
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Conference Publications
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 8 ; Utah
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  SLRC - Salt Lake City Research Center
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-120
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:10005844
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB90-266669
• Citation:
  BoM, 1987 :120 pages
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1987
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Bureau of Mines
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:593399131bf71148e2dccd10416026b8cefd0fa59a959272b3197f30f8c3b5076ed1c8f984d5248ca1dd3334800bd920051bb3b30c4e809c35bafa7a43fff57a
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/219725/cdc_219725_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 8.44 MB ]