EP1060127A1 - Pure titanium dioxide hydrate and a process for the production thereof - Google Patents

Pure titanium dioxide hydrate and a process for the production thereof

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EP1060127A1
EP1060127A1 EP99902739A EP99902739A EP1060127A1 EP 1060127 A1 EP1060127 A1 EP 1060127A1 EP 99902739 A EP99902739 A EP 99902739A EP 99902739 A EP99902739 A EP 99902739A EP 1060127 A1 EP1060127 A1 EP 1060127A1
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Jürgen KEMPKENS
Günter Lailach
Bernd KRÖCKERT
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  • the invention relates to a process for the production of titanium dioxide hydrate with low sulfate content from a hydrolysate which was obtained by hydrolysis of titanyl sulfate as well as particularly pure titanium dioxide hydrate.
  • titanium dioxide hydrate hydrolysate which still contains chemically bound sulfate ions after the removal of metal sulfate-containing diluted sulfuric acid, from titanyl sulfate solutions in metal sulfate-containing sulfuric acid, which solutions are obtained by digestion of titanium raw materials with concentrated sulfuric acid.
  • This hydrolysate still contains 5 to 10% by weight S0 4 2" ions with respect to Ti0 2 after intensive washing with water or diluted acid and an optional reducing (so-called bleaching) treatment (Ullmanns Encyclopaedia of Technical
  • a sulfate-poor hydrate is created by treating a bleached hydrolysate with ammonia, ammonium hydroxide or carbonate and washing out the ammonium sulfate.
  • the hydrate obtained in this manner still contains 0.5 to 2.0% sulfate.
  • the S-content of the washed hydrate is still at 0.3% by weight corresponding to 0.9% by weight S0 4 2" .
  • DE-A 43 21555 describes a process for the production of mixed oxide powders for denitrating catalysts in which the sulfur ion-containing titanium dioxide hydrate suspension is partially neutralized with lye to a pH value between 4.0 and 6.0, filtered and the filter cake is washed intensively.
  • the starting material is a preferably bleached titanium dioxide hydrate suspension with 20 to 40% by weight solids. In this manner, a hydrate can be produced with approximately 2.5% S0 4 2 ⁇ and 20 ppm Na 2 0 content.
  • the sulfate-containing hydrate suspension is mixed with 0.1 to 2 parts by weight alkali metal hydroxide or carbonate and stirred at 60 to 120°C for 30 to 60 minutes.
  • the pH value of the hydrate suspension must be lowered with organic acids to below 6, preferably below 4.5, in order to remove chemically bound alkali metal ions from the hydrate. Residual organic acids are decomposed by calcining.
  • the titanium dioxide hydrates created with this very extensive process contained between 110 and 480 ppm S corresponding to 330 and 1440 ppm S0 4 2" as well as up to 293 ppm Na + .
  • An object of the present invention is to provide a simple process for the production of titanium dioxide hydrate with low sulfate content from a optionally bleached hydrolysate which was produced by hydrolysis of titanyl sulfate solutions that contain other metal sulfates and optionally free sulfuric acid.
  • an object of the invention is to provide a pure titanium dioxide hydrate that contains less than 250 ppm S0 4 2 " ions and less than 50 ppm ammonium or alkali metal ions with respect to Ti0 2 .
  • the objects according to the invention could be surprisingly achieved by neutralization of a 2 to 18% by weight titanium dioxide hydrate suspension.
  • Subject matter of the invention is process for the production of pure titanium dioxide hydrate with less than 100 ppm S ⁇ 4 2" ions and less than 25 ppm ammonium or alkali metal ions from titanium dioxide hydrate produced by titanyl sulfate hydrolysis, characterized in that an aqueous suspension is produced with the sulfate-containing titanium dioxide hydrate with 2 to 18% by weight, preferably 5 to 15% by weight, solid calculated as Ti0 2 , the sulfate content of the suspension calculated as H 2 S0 4 is determined, 95 to 101.1 mol-% of the stoichiometric amount of ammonia or alkali metal hydroxide required for neutralization of the calculated H 2 S0 4 amount is added under stirring, the suspension is filtered after a stirring time of 5 to 60 minutes, preferably 10 to 30 minutes, and washed with water of low salt content, preferably deionized water, and a diffusion wash with deionized water at a pressure of 3 to 5 bar is then performed.
  • the sulfate-containing hydrate is conventionally obtained in that titanium crude materials such as ilmenite or titanium slag are decomposed with concentrated sulfuric acid.
  • the metal sulfates obtained thereby are dissolved in water or dilute sulfuric acid.
  • the titanyl sulfate is hydrolysed at 90 to 110°C in the presence of hydrolysis nuclei under formation of sulfate- containing titanium dioxide hydrate and sulfuric acid.
  • the filter cake can be freed from coloring heavy metal ions such as Fe 3+ , Cr 3+ - V 3+ if required by a reducing treatment in dilute acid (“bleaching") or by dissolving in sulfuric acid and renewed hydrolysis in the presence of Ti 3+ ions.
  • coloring heavy metal ions such as Fe 3+ , Cr 3+ - V 3+ if required by a reducing treatment in dilute acid (“bleaching") or by dissolving in sulfuric acid and renewed hydrolysis in the presence of Ti 3+ ions.
  • This titanium dioxide hydrate filter cake which contains 5 to 10% by weight S0 4 2* ions with respect to Ti0 2 that is obtained according to the art by hydrolysis of titanyl sulfate represents the starting material for the production of the pure titanium dioxide hydrate according to the invention and the products produced therefrom by drying or calcining.
  • an aqueous suspension with 2 to 18% by weight solids calculated as Ti0 2 , preferably with 5 to 15% by weight solids, is produced from the obtained titanium dioxide hydrate filter cake.
  • the S0 4 2" ion content, calculated as H 2 S0, of this suspension is determined and 95 to 100.1 mol-%, preferably 99.5 to 100.1 mol-%, most preferably 99.8 to 100.05 mol-% of the stoichiometric amount of ammonium or alkali metal hydroxide required for neutralization of the calculated H 2 S0 4 amount are added under stirring at 20 to 100°C, preferably 30 to 80°C.
  • the suspension mixed with hydroxide After the suspension mixed with hydroxide has been stirred for 5 to 60 minutes, preferably 10 to 30 minutes, it is filtered and washed with hot water at 30 to 100°C, preferably 50 to 95°C.
  • the wash occurs with low-salt, preferably deionized water.
  • filtration and washing with vacuum filters or preferably pressure filters is carried out at pressures up to a maximum of 3 bar. If the conductivity of the filtrate is clearly lowered, preferably to approximately 300 mS/cm, then the removal of the residual sulfates is carried out on a pressure filter by diffusion washing with salt-free water at 30 to 100°C and a pressure of 3 to 5 bar.
  • this is washed until the conductivity of the wash filtrate is below 100 ⁇ S/cm. If a membrane filter press is used as the preferred filter aggregate, then the mother liquor is pressed out with a pressure of 3 to 5 bar before the beginning of the diffusion wash.
  • a partial removal of water from the filter cake can occur with increased compacting pressure after the completed diffusion wash.
  • the filter cake obtained by applying the process according to the invention generally contains less than 1% by weight sulfate ions and less than 100 ppm ammonia and alkali metal ions, each with respect to Ti0 2 .
  • the preferred ammonium or alkali metal hydroxide amounts one obtains the pure titanium dioxide hydrate according to the invention which contains less than 250 ppm S0 4 2" ions and less than 50 ppm ammonium and alkali metal ions, especially less than 100 ppm S0 4 2" ions and less than 25 ppm ammonium or alkali metal ions, each with respect to Ti0 2 .
  • This titanium dioxide hydrate is distinguished by a particularly large reaction capability, a high absorption capacity for anions and cations and, depending on the degree of removal of water, a high catalytic activity.
  • Subject matter of the invention is also a method for the production of titanium dioxide and/or titanium dioxide hydrate of the composition Ti0 2 x nH 2 0 with 1 > n >. 0 which contains less than 250 ppm, preferably less than 100 ppm, sulfate ions and less than 50 ppm, preferably less than 25 ppm, ammonium and alkali metal ions, each with respect to Ti0 2 that is obtainable by drying and/or calcining the titanium dioxide hydrate according to claim 5 at temperatures in a range of 50 to 750°C.
  • sulfate-containing titanium dioxide hydrate was produced by hydrolysis of a sulfuric acid, metal sulfate- containing titanyl sulfate solution.
  • the washed filter cake was "bleached” by a reducing treatment.
  • the washed filter cake of the "bleached” titanium dioxide hydrate was mashed with water.
  • the suspension obtained in this manner contained 25.24% by weight titanium dioxide hydrate calculated as Ti0 2 and 2.14% by weight sulfate ions calculated as H 2 S0 4 .
  • the suspension served as the starting material for all examples.
  • Comparative Example 1 6240 kg of this suspension were mixed with 213 kg 50% by weight NaOH under intensive stirring. The NaOH amount was sufficient for the neutralization of 97.7 mol % of the H 2 S0 4 contained in the suspension such that a residual content of 1950 ppm H 2 S0 4 is to be expected after washing out the Na 2 S0 4 . 30 minutes after the NaOH addition, the suspension was pumped into a membrane filter press. After completed filtration, the mother liquor was pressed off with 4 bar membrane pressure and washed for 180 minutes with deionized water. The conductivity of the filtrate fell off thereby to 122 ⁇ S. The filter cake was suspended in deionized water and a sample was analyzed. The sample contained 3184 ppm H 2 S0 4 and 266 ppm Na 2 0 with respect to Ti0 2 .
  • the homogenized titanium dioxide hydrate suspension contained 2030 ppm S0 4 2" and 5 ppm Na + each with respect to Ti0 2 .
  • the sulfate-containing suspension was mixed analogously to example 3 and mixed with 706 1 10 % by weight NaOH corresponding to 100.1 mol-% of the amount required for the neutralization of the contained H 2 S0 4 . Filtration and cake washing were carried out analogously to example 1 until the conductivity of the wash filtrate was 83 ⁇ S/cm. In the homogenized titanium dioxide hydrate suspension, no sulfate could be detected such that ⁇ 50 ppm S0 4 2" with respect to Ti0 2 were present. The Na + content was 86 ppm with respect to Ti0 2 .

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Abstract

Titanium dioxide hydrate which contains less than 250 ppm sulfate ions and less than 50 ppm ammonium or alkali metal ions with respect to Tio2 is obtained by producing an aqueous suspension with sulfate-containing titanium dioxide hydrate with 2 to 18 % by weight, preferably 5 to 15 % by weight solid calculated as Tio2, the sulfate content of the suspension calculated as H2SO4 is determined, 95 to 100.1 mol % of the stoichiometric amount of ammonia or alkali metal hydroxide necessary for the neutralization of the calculated H2SO4 amount is added under stirring, the suspension is filtered after stirring period of 5 to 60 minutes, preferably 10 to 30 minutes, and is washed with low-salt, preferably deionized, water and a diffusion wash with deionized water is carried out at a pressure of 3 to 5 bar is then performed.

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PURE TITANIUM DIOXIDE HYDRATE AND A PROCESS FOR THE PRODUCTION THEREOF
The invention relates to a process for the production of titanium dioxide hydrate with low sulfate content from a hydrolysate which was obtained by hydrolysis of titanyl sulfate as well as particularly pure titanium dioxide hydrate.
It is well known to produce a titanium dioxide hydrate hydrolysate, which still contains chemically bound sulfate ions after the removal of metal sulfate-containing diluted sulfuric acid, from titanyl sulfate solutions in metal sulfate-containing sulfuric acid, which solutions are obtained by digestion of titanium raw materials with concentrated sulfuric acid. This hydrolysate still contains 5 to 10% by weight S04 2" ions with respect to Ti02 after intensive washing with water or diluted acid and an optional reducing (so-called bleaching) treatment (Ullmanns Encyclopaedia of Technical
Chemistry, 4th Edition, Vol. 18 (1979), pages 574-576).
This sulfate ion content is a great disadvantage for most of the uses of the hydrolysate. In the production of Ti02 or Ti02-containing mixed oxides by calcination of the hydrolysate, the sulfate ions are split off as sulfuric acid or S03 which are partially decomposed to S02, 02 and H20 at high temperatures.
This requires large-scale gas purification measures. In the production of catalysts, their activity is frequently influenced in a negative manner by the sulfate ions.
Therefore, many attempts to produce sulfate-free titanium dioxide hydrate have been made.
According to US-A 3 518 053, a sulfate-poor hydrate is created by treating a bleached hydrolysate with ammonia, ammonium hydroxide or carbonate and washing out the ammonium sulfate. The hydrate obtained in this manner still contains 0.5 to 2.0% sulfate. Even when so much of the ammonium compounds are added according to US-A 3 658 539 such that the pH value of the suspension is increased to 8.0, the S-content of the washed hydrate is still at 0.3% by weight corresponding to 0.9% by weight S04 2".
DE-A 43 21555 describes a process for the production of mixed oxide powders for denitrating catalysts in which the sulfur ion-containing titanium dioxide hydrate suspension is partially neutralized with lye to a pH value between 4.0 and 6.0, filtered and the filter cake is washed intensively. The starting material is a preferably bleached titanium dioxide hydrate suspension with 20 to 40% by weight solids. In this manner, a hydrate can be produced with approximately 2.5% S04 2~ and 20 ppm Na20 content.
A further reduction of the sulfate content with simultaneously low Na20 content is possible according to US-A 5,527,469. Accordingly, the sulfate-containing hydrate suspension is mixed with 0.1 to 2 parts by weight alkali metal hydroxide or carbonate and stirred at 60 to 120°C for 30 to 60 minutes. After washing out the alkali metal compounds, the pH value of the hydrate suspension must be lowered with organic acids to below 6, preferably below 4.5, in order to remove chemically bound alkali metal ions from the hydrate. Residual organic acids are decomposed by calcining. The titanium dioxide hydrates created with this very extensive process contained between 110 and 480 ppm S corresponding to 330 and 1440 ppm S04 2" as well as up to 293 ppm Na+.
Consequently, according to the art, it has not been previously possible to produce titanium dioxide hydrate with very low sulfate and alkali and/or ammonium content despite numerous attempts.
An object of the present invention is to provide a simple process for the production of titanium dioxide hydrate with low sulfate content from a optionally bleached hydrolysate which was produced by hydrolysis of titanyl sulfate solutions that contain other metal sulfates and optionally free sulfuric acid.
Additionally, an object of the invention is to provide a pure titanium dioxide hydrate that contains less than 250 ppm S04 2" ions and less than 50 ppm ammonium or alkali metal ions with respect to Ti02.
The objects according to the invention could be surprisingly achieved by neutralization of a 2 to 18% by weight titanium dioxide hydrate suspension.
Subject matter of the invention is process for the production of pure titanium dioxide hydrate with less than 100 ppm Sθ4 2" ions and less than 25 ppm ammonium or alkali metal ions from titanium dioxide hydrate produced by titanyl sulfate hydrolysis, characterized in that an aqueous suspension is produced with the sulfate-containing titanium dioxide hydrate with 2 to 18% by weight, preferably 5 to 15% by weight, solid calculated as Ti02, the sulfate content of the suspension calculated as H2S04 is determined, 95 to 101.1 mol-% of the stoichiometric amount of ammonia or alkali metal hydroxide required for neutralization of the calculated H2S04 amount is added under stirring, the suspension is filtered after a stirring time of 5 to 60 minutes, preferably 10 to 30 minutes, and washed with water of low salt content, preferably deionized water, and a diffusion wash with deionized water at a pressure of 3 to 5 bar is then performed.
The sulfate-containing hydrate is conventionally obtained in that titanium crude materials such as ilmenite or titanium slag are decomposed with concentrated sulfuric acid. The metal sulfates obtained thereby are dissolved in water or dilute sulfuric acid. After the separation of undissolved solids and the adjustment of a suitable Ti3+ concentration, the titanyl sulfate is hydrolysed at 90 to 110°C in the presence of hydrolysis nuclei under formation of sulfate- containing titanium dioxide hydrate and sulfuric acid. After separation of the metal sulfate-containing sulfuric acid by filtration and washing of the filter cake, the filter cake can be freed from coloring heavy metal ions such as Fe3+, Cr3+- V3+ if required by a reducing treatment in dilute acid ("bleaching") or by dissolving in sulfuric acid and renewed hydrolysis in the presence of Ti3+ ions.
This titanium dioxide hydrate filter cake which contains 5 to 10% by weight S04 2* ions with respect to Ti02 that is obtained according to the art by hydrolysis of titanyl sulfate represents the starting material for the production of the pure titanium dioxide hydrate according to the invention and the products produced therefrom by drying or calcining.
According to the invention, an aqueous suspension with 2 to 18% by weight solids calculated as Ti02, preferably with 5 to 15% by weight solids, is produced from the obtained titanium dioxide hydrate filter cake. The S04 2" ion content, calculated as H2S0, of this suspension is determined and 95 to 100.1 mol-%, preferably 99.5 to 100.1 mol-%, most preferably 99.8 to 100.05 mol-% of the stoichiometric amount of ammonium or alkali metal hydroxide required for neutralization of the calculated H2S04 amount are added under stirring at 20 to 100°C, preferably 30 to 80°C. After the suspension mixed with hydroxide has been stirred for 5 to 60 minutes, preferably 10 to 30 minutes, it is filtered and washed with hot water at 30 to 100°C, preferably 50 to 95°C. The wash occurs with low-salt, preferably deionized water. According to the invention, filtration and washing with vacuum filters or preferably pressure filters is carried out at pressures up to a maximum of 3 bar. If the conductivity of the filtrate is clearly lowered, preferably to approximately 300 mS/cm, then the removal of the residual sulfates is carried out on a pressure filter by diffusion washing with salt-free water at 30 to 100°C and a pressure of 3 to 5 bar. Preferably, this is washed until the conductivity of the wash filtrate is below 100 μS/cm. If a membrane filter press is used as the preferred filter aggregate, then the mother liquor is pressed out with a pressure of 3 to 5 bar before the beginning of the diffusion wash. Advantageously, a partial removal of water from the filter cake can occur with increased compacting pressure after the completed diffusion wash.
The filter cake obtained by applying the process according to the invention generally contains less than 1% by weight sulfate ions and less than 100 ppm ammonia and alkali metal ions, each with respect to Ti02. When using the preferred ammonium or alkali metal hydroxide amounts, one obtains the pure titanium dioxide hydrate according to the invention which contains less than 250 ppm S04 2" ions and less than 50 ppm ammonium and alkali metal ions, especially less than 100 ppm S04 2" ions and less than 25 ppm ammonium or alkali metal ions, each with respect to Ti02. This titanium dioxide hydrate is distinguished by a particularly large reaction capability, a high absorption capacity for anions and cations and, depending on the degree of removal of water, a high catalytic activity.
Subject matter of the invention is also a method for the production of titanium dioxide and/or titanium dioxide hydrate of the composition Ti02 x nH20 with 1 > n >. 0 which contains less than 250 ppm, preferably less than 100 ppm, sulfate ions and less than 50 ppm, preferably less than 25 ppm, ammonium and alkali metal ions, each with respect to Ti02 that is obtainable by drying and/or calcining the titanium dioxide hydrate according to claim 5 at temperatures in a range of 50 to 750°C.
These products are not producible from convention sulfate-containing titanium dioxide hydrate because the thermal cleavage of the sulfate ions first occurs at higher temperatures.
The invention is illustrated by the examples without limiting the scope of the invention to them.
Examples
Technical, sulfate-containing titanium dioxide hydrate was produced by hydrolysis of a sulfuric acid, metal sulfate- containing titanyl sulfate solution. The washed filter cake was "bleached" by a reducing treatment. The washed filter cake of the "bleached" titanium dioxide hydrate was mashed with water. The suspension obtained in this manner contained 25.24% by weight titanium dioxide hydrate calculated as Ti02 and 2.14% by weight sulfate ions calculated as H2S04.
The suspension served as the starting material for all examples.
Comparative Example 1 6240 kg of this suspension were mixed with 213 kg 50% by weight NaOH under intensive stirring. The NaOH amount was sufficient for the neutralization of 97.7 mol % of the H2S04 contained in the suspension such that a residual content of 1950 ppm H2S04 is to be expected after washing out the Na2S04. 30 minutes after the NaOH addition, the suspension was pumped into a membrane filter press. After completed filtration, the mother liquor was pressed off with 4 bar membrane pressure and washed for 180 minutes with deionized water. The conductivity of the filtrate fell off thereby to 122 μS. The filter cake was suspended in deionized water and a sample was analyzed. The sample contained 3184 ppm H2S04 and 266 ppm Na20 with respect to Ti02.
Comparative Example 2
This was carried out analogously to comparative example 1 except the mother liquor was not pressed off after completed filtration but was washed for 30 minutes with deionized water through the slurry channel. Pressing and washing for 75 minutes through the wash canals of the filter press was only carried out after this, whereby the conductivity of the filtrate fell off to 97 μS . The filter cake suspended and homogenized after this contained 2730 ppm H2S04 and 28 ppm Na20.
Example 1
4340 kg of the sulfate-containing suspension was mixed with 6653 1 deionized water of a temperature of 80°C. The suspension which contained 9.96% by weight titanium dioxide hydrate calculated as Ti02 was mixed under intensive stirring with 213 kg 50% NaOH that is sufficient for neutralization of
97.7 mol-% of the contained H2S04. After 30 minutes, the suspension was pumped into a membrane filter press and filtered during approximately 20 minutes, whereby the pressure increased to 2.5 bar. Subsequently, this was washed for 15 minutes with deionized water through the slurry canal at a water pressure of 2.5 bar. Thereby, the conductivity of the wash filtrate fell to 290 mS/cm. After the filter cake had been pressed off with 5 bar membrane pressure, this was washed with deionized water through the wash canals of the membrane filter press at a water pressure of 5 bar until the conductivity of the wash filtrate was 81 μS/cm. The filter cake was removed and suspended in deionized water. The homogenized titanium dioxide hydrate suspension contained 2030 ppm S04 2" and 5 ppm Na+ each with respect to Ti02.
Example 2
4340 kg of the sulfate-containing suspension was mixed with 4550 1 deionized water (Ti02 content of the suspension: 12.3 % by weight) . 335 1 of an aqueous ammonia solution with 10% by weight NH3 sufficient for neutralization of 99.5 mol-% of the contained H2S04 was added to the intensively stirred suspension. After a 20 minute stirring time, the suspension was filtered analogously to example 1 and washed. The diffusion wash was completed as the conductivity of the wash filtrate was 72 μS/cm. The suspended and homogenized titanium dioxide hydrate filter cake contained 217 ppm S04 2" with respect to Ti02. Ammonium ions could not be detected.
Example 3
4340 kg of the sulfate-containing suspension were mixed with 65001 deionized water and mixed under intensive stirring at 80°C with 705110% by weight NaOH sufficient for neutralization of 99.95 mol-% of the contained H2S04. The filtration and filter cake wash were carried out analogously to example 1. The diffusion wash was completed when the wash filtrate conductivity was 64 μS/cm. The homogenized titanium dioxide hydrate suspension contained less than 50 ppm S04 2" and 16 ppm Na+ each with respect to Ti02.
Example 4
The sulfate-containing suspension was mixed analogously to example 3 and mixed with 706 1 10 % by weight NaOH corresponding to 100.1 mol-% of the amount required for the neutralization of the contained H2S04. Filtration and cake washing were carried out analogously to example 1 until the conductivity of the wash filtrate was 83 μS/cm. In the homogenized titanium dioxide hydrate suspension, no sulfate could be detected such that < 50 ppm S04 2" with respect to Ti02 were present. The Na+ content was 86 ppm with respect to Ti02.

Claims

What is claimed is:
1. Process for the production of pure titanium dioxide hydrate with less than 100 ppm S04 2" ions and less than 25 ppm ammonium or alkali metal ions from titanium dioxide hydrate produced by titanyl sulfate hydrolysis, characterized in that an aqueous suspension is produced with the sulfate-containing titanium dioxide hydrate with 2 to 18% by weight, preferably 5 to 15% by weight, solid calculated as Ti02, the sulfate content of the suspension calculated as H2S04 is determined, 95 to 101.1 mol-% of the stoichiometric amount of ammonia or alkali metal hydroxide required for neutralization of the calculated H2S04 amount is added under stirring, the suspension is filtered after a stirring time of 5 to 60 minutes, preferably 10 to 30 minutes, and washed with water of low salt content, preferably deionized water, and a diffusion wash with deionized water at a pressure of 3 to 5 bar is then performed.
2. Process according to claim 1, characterized in that 99.5 to 100.1 mol-%, preferably 99.8 to 100.05 mol-% of the stoichiometric amount of ammonium or alkali metal hydroxide required for the neutralization of the calculated H2S04 amount is added to the suspension of the sulfate-containing titanium dioxide hydrate in water.
3. Process according to claim 1 and 2, characterized in that the filter cake is washed with water at a maximum pressure of 3 bar for so long until the conductivity of the filtrate is lowered to below 300 mS/cm.
4. Process according to one or more of the claims 1 to 3, characterized in that the diffusion wash is carried out at 3 to 5 bar for so long until the conductivity of the filtrate is lowered to below 100 ╬╝S/cm.
5. Titanium dioxide hydrate obtainable according to claim 10
1 that contains less than 250 ppm sulfate ions and less than 50 ppm ammonium or alkali metal ions each with respect to Ti02.
6. Titanium dioxide hydrate according to claim 5, characterized in that it contains less than 100 ppm sulfate ions and less than 25 ppm ammonium or alkali metal ions each with respect to Ti02.
7. Titanium dioxide and/or titanium dioxide hydrate of the composition Ti02 x nH20 with 1 > n >, 0 which contains less than 250 ppm, preferably less than 100 ppm, sulfate ions and less than 50 ppm, preferably less than 25 ppm, ammonium and alkali metal ions each with respect to Ti02 obtainable by drying and/or calcining the titanium dioxide hydrate according to claim 5 at temperatures in the range of 50 to 750┬░C.
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