FIELD: chemistry.
SUBSTANCE: disclosed is a method of producing titanium via reduction thereof from a tetrachloride using a liquid tetrachloride and dispersed aluminium as a reducing agent. The process is carried out in the temperature range of -23°C to +137°C and weight ratio of the initial titanium tetrachloride to aluminium of not less than 5.27 to 1.00 with intense mixing. The system is kept in a pseudo-Newtonian liquid state by using highly dispersed initial aluminium and dispersed products - titanium and aluminium tetrachloride with relative excess of the liquid phase. An apparatus for implementing the method is a flat-bottom conical reactor mounted on a magnetic mixer and fitted with batchers for feeding tetrachloride and dispersed aluminium, as well as a device for separating suspensions of titanium, aluminium trichloride and titanium tetrachloride. The latter is returned to the reactor and solid phases are separated by sublimation and subsequent condensation of aluminium trichloride. Powdered titanium is fed for further processing.
EFFECT: simple technique owing to lowering of temperature.
2 cl, 1 dwg
