WO2005019485A1 - Indexation d'un systeme de separation - Google Patents

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WO2005019485A1
WO2005019485A1 PCT/US2004/027277 US2004027277W WO2005019485A1 WO 2005019485 A1 WO2005019485 A1 WO 2005019485A1 US 2004027277 W US2004027277 W US 2004027277W WO 2005019485 A1 WO2005019485 A1 WO 2005019485A1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B22—CASTING; POWDER METALLURGY
    • B22F—WORKING METALLIC POWDER; MANUFACTURE OF ARTICLES FROM METALLIC POWDER; MAKING METALLIC POWDER; APPARATUS OR DEVICES SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR METALLIC POWDER
    • B22F3/00—Manufacture of workpieces or articles from metallic powder characterised by the manner of compacting or sintering; Apparatus specially adapted therefor ; Presses and furnaces
    • B22F3/22—Manufacture of workpieces or articles from metallic powder characterised by the manner of compacting or sintering; Apparatus specially adapted therefor ; Presses and furnaces for producing castings from a slip
    • B22F3/225—Manufacture of workpieces or articles from metallic powder characterised by the manner of compacting or sintering; Apparatus specially adapted therefor ; Presses and furnaces for producing castings from a slip by injection molding
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B22—CASTING; POWDER METALLURGY
    • B22F—WORKING METALLIC POWDER; MANUFACTURE OF ARTICLES FROM METALLIC POWDER; MAKING METALLIC POWDER; APPARATUS OR DEVICES SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR METALLIC POWDER
    • B22F9/00—Making metallic powder or suspensions thereof
    • B22F9/16—Making metallic powder or suspensions thereof using chemical processes
    • B22F9/18—Making metallic powder or suspensions thereof using chemical processes with reduction of metal compounds
    • B22F9/28—Making metallic powder or suspensions thereof using chemical processes with reduction of metal compounds starting from gaseous metal compounds
    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C22—METALLURGY; FERROUS OR NON-FERROUS ALLOYS; TREATMENT OF ALLOYS OR NON-FERROUS METALS
    • C22B—PRODUCTION AND REFINING OF METALS; PRETREATMENT OF RAW MATERIALS
    • C22B34/00—Obtaining refractory metals
    • C22B34/10—Obtaining titanium, zirconium or hafnium
    • C22B34/12—Obtaining titanium or titanium compounds from ores or scrap by metallurgical processing; preparation of titanium compounds from other titanium compounds see C01G23/00 - C01G23/08
    • C22B34/1263—Obtaining titanium or titanium compounds from ores or scrap by metallurgical processing; preparation of titanium compounds from other titanium compounds see C01G23/00 - C01G23/08 obtaining metallic titanium from titanium compounds, e.g. by reduction
    • C22B34/1268—Obtaining titanium or titanium compounds from ores or scrap by metallurgical processing; preparation of titanium compounds from other titanium compounds see C01G23/00 - C01G23/08 obtaining metallic titanium from titanium compounds, e.g. by reduction using alkali or alkaline-earth metals or amalgams
    • C22B34/1272—Obtaining titanium or titanium compounds from ores or scrap by metallurgical processing; preparation of titanium compounds from other titanium compounds see C01G23/00 - C01G23/08 obtaining metallic titanium from titanium compounds, e.g. by reduction using alkali or alkaline-earth metals or amalgams reduction of titanium halides, e.g. Kroll process
    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C22—METALLURGY; FERROUS OR NON-FERROUS ALLOYS; TREATMENT OF ALLOYS OR NON-FERROUS METALS
    • C22B—PRODUCTION AND REFINING OF METALS; PRETREATMENT OF RAW MATERIALS
    • C22B34/00—Obtaining refractory metals
    • C22B34/10—Obtaining titanium, zirconium or hafnium
    • C22B34/12—Obtaining titanium or titanium compounds from ores or scrap by metallurgical processing; preparation of titanium compounds from other titanium compounds see C01G23/00 - C01G23/08
    • C22B34/1295—Refining, melting, remelting, working up of titanium
    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C22—METALLURGY; FERROUS OR NON-FERROUS ALLOYS; TREATMENT OF ALLOYS OR NON-FERROUS METALS
    • C22B—PRODUCTION AND REFINING OF METALS; PRETREATMENT OF RAW MATERIALS
    • C22B9/00—General processes of refining or remelting of metals; Apparatus for electroslag or arc remelting of metals
    • C22B9/02—Refining by liquating, filtering, centrifuging, distilling, or supersonic wave action including acoustic waves
    • C22B9/023—By filtering
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B22—CASTING; POWDER METALLURGY
    • B22F—WORKING METALLIC POWDER; MANUFACTURE OF ARTICLES FROM METALLIC POWDER; MAKING METALLIC POWDER; APPARATUS OR DEVICES SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR METALLIC POWDER
    • B22F2998/00—Supplementary information concerning processes or compositions relating to powder metallurgy
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
    • Y02P—CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES IN THE PRODUCTION OR PROCESSING OF GOODS
    • Y02P10/00—Technologies related to metal processing
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  • This invention relates to a separation process useful in treating slurries, particularly slurries comprised of metal and non metal particulates such as Ti or Ti alloy powder or particulates, salt, and liquid metal. More particularly, the invention relates to a separation process for a slurry which is produced according to the Armstrong Process as disclosed in each of the three U.S. patents issued thereon, more specifically U.S. patent no. 5,779,761 , U.S. patent no. 5,958,106, and U.S. patent no. 6,409,797, the entire disclosures of all three patents being herein incorporated by reference.
  • the description will be in terms of the exothermic reduction of titanium tetrachloride with sodium to produce titanium particles, sodium chloride particles and excess sodium.
  • the present invention provides a system and method for handling the product produced by the Armstrong Process such that the Armstrong reactor may be operated continuously to produce 2,000,000,000 pounds per year of elemental metal or alloy while utilizing a single separation vessel and system for the reactor.
  • an object of the present invention is to provide a continuous method for treating a slurry of liquid metal and particulates.
  • Another object of the present invention is to provide a continuous method, system and apparatus for separating particulates from a liquid metal slurry containing same.
  • Yet another object of the present invention is to provide a method of continuously separating a metal powder from a slurry of liquid metal and salt and metal powder, comprising incrementally expressing liquid metal from the slurry to form a cake of metal particulates and salt and some metal, distilling the incrementally formed cakes to vaporize metal leaving metal powder and salt particulates substantially free of liquid metal, washing the salt from the metal powder, and drying the metal powder.
  • Still another object of the invention is to provide a method of the type set forth comprising introducing a metal halide gas into the liquid phase of a reductant metal to produce a slurry of metal powder and excess reductant metal and a halide salt of the reductant metal, incrementally expressing liquid reductant metal to form a cake, distilling the incrementally formed cakes to vaporize reductant metal leaving metal powder and salt substantially free of reductant metal, passivating the metal powder, washing the salt from the passivated metal powder, and drying the metal powder.
  • a further object of the present invention is to provide a system of continuously producing metal powder, comprising a reaction chamber for introducing a metal halide gas into the liquid phase of a reductant metal to produce a slurry of metal powder and excess reductant metal and reductant metal halide salt, compression apparatus for incrementally expressing liquid reductant metal to form a cake with some reductant metal, distillation apparatus for heating incrementally formed cakes to separate reductant metal leaving metal powder and salt substantially free of reductant metal, apparatus contacting the metal powder with oxygen or water to passivate same, apparatus washing the salt from the passivated metal, and apparatus for drying the metal powder.
  • Yet another object of the present invention is to provide a system of continuously producing metal powder, comprising a vessel containing a slurry of metal powder and liquid metal and a metal halide salt, and having an opening through which slurry flows, compression apparatus for incrementally expressing liquid metal from the slurry to form a cake with some liquid metal, a distillation apparatus for heating incrementally formed cakes to vaporize liquid metal leaving metal powder and salt substantially free of liquid metal, apparatus washing the salt from the metal powder, and apparatus for drying the metal powder.
  • a final object of the present invention is to provide a method and system of the type set forth in which the dried metal powder is formed into a product which may be one or more of a solid, a powder injection molded part, a powder metal molded part, a powder metallurgy molded part, a part formed by cold isostatic pressing, a part formed by hot isostatic processing, a densified metal powder product, a product formed from melting the metal powder and forming a solid product therefrom, a product formed by cold spraying the metal powder in a gas jet, a product formed by subjecting the metal powder to a laser, a product formed by spheridizing the metal powder in a plasma, a product formed by foaming and sintering the metal powder, a product formed by rolling the metal powder into a plate and sintering, a product formed by preforming the metal powder onto a mandrel and rolling to form tubes, a product formed by drawing the metal powder, a product formed by extruding the metal powder, and
  • FIGURE 1 is a schematic view of a system for practicing the method of the present invention
  • FIG. 2 is an enlarged schematic representation of the product filtering disc portion of the system illustrated in Fig. 1 shown in longitudinal sectional view;
  • FIG. 2A is a schematic representation of the product filtering disc of the system illustrated in Fig. 2 with an additional converging or equivalent screw conveyor mechanism;
  • FIG. 3 is a horizontal cross-sectional view of the vessel illustrated in Fig. 2;
  • FIG. 4 is an alternate embodiment of the system illustrated in Fig. 1 ;
  • FIG. 5 is a schematic representation of a variety of processes and products made by or from powder separated from slurries according to the present invention.
  • DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT Referring to Figures 1-3, there is disclosed a system 10 for continuously processing a liquid metal slurry containing particulates.
  • the system 10 includes a reactor 11 such as, but not limited to the type shown in the Armstrong Process, including a nozzle12 through which liquid metal flows and having a housing 14 surrounding the nozzle.
  • a gas inlet 15 serves to introduce gas from a source 16 thereof into the liquid metal thereby producing an exothermic reaction as described in the referenced Armstrong patents.
  • the product from the exothermic reaction may be a slurry of a liquid reducing metal, such as sodium, having dispersed therein particles of the element or alloy produced, such as titanium or an alloy thereof, and the reaction product from the gas, which may be sodium chloride or combination of chloride salts, as in the case of sodium and titanium tetrachloride.
  • the slurry leaves the reactor housing 14 through an outlet 18 and is introduced into a receiving vessel 20 having near the top thereof a dome portion 21 and a cylindrical portion 22 terminating in a frustoconical portion 23 having a discharge outlet 25 at the bottom thereof terminating in a circular flange 26.
  • a motor 30 may be mounted at the top of the vessel 20 connected to an output shaft 31 having an agitator 32 at the bottom of the cylindrical portion 22 or the frustoconical portion 23 as illustrated, for a purpose hereinafter set forth.
  • Indexing filter system 35 is in communication with the vessel 20 and more particularly includes a housing 36, having a top 37, a cylindrical side wall 38 provided with opposed upper apertures 39 and opposed lower apertures 41.
  • the housing 36 is also provided with an outlet 43 having a conduit 44 extending therefrom, for a purpose hereinafter set forth.
  • An index drive 45 includes a motor 46 having an output shaft 47 in communication with a clutch mechanism 48 connected to an axle 49, the end of which rests in a bearing 51.
  • An aperture 49A is provided in the cylindrical wall 38 to accommodate the axle 49.
  • An indexing disc 55 is rotatably mounted on the axle 49, the disc having a plurality of longitudinally spaced apart chambers 56 therein, six such chambers being shown for purposes of illustration.
  • a filter 60 preferably but not necessary a metal wedge wire, is positioned in exit conduit 65 and has a collar 61 maintained in sealing contact with the disc 55 through a spring and pin arrangement 62.
  • the chambers 56 in the disc 55 are also in contact with a collar and spring and pin arrangement in communication with an inlet conduit 63 so as to provide a sealing arrangement for each chamber 56 as it rotates about the axle 49.
  • a T-shaped conduit 66 having flanges and seals 67 connecting the outlet 25 of the vessel 20 to the indexing disc 55, there being provided a sealing flange 26A (Fig. 1 ) with the usual seals (not shown) to provide a suitable connection between the vessel 20 and the indexing filter system 35.
  • Compaction ram assembly 70 is mounted to the housing 36 of the indexing filter system 35 and includes a piston rod 71 having mounted thereon a piston 72.
  • the piston rod 71 is surrounded by a bellows seal 73 and is connected at one end to a suitable drive or motor assembly 74 for longitudinal movement toward and away from the chamber 56, as will hereinafter be described.
  • a discharge ram assembly 80 is mounted to the housing 36 including a similar piston rod 82, bellows seal 83 and drive motor 84 which is similar to the compaction ram assembly 70.
  • the discharge ram assembly 80 is rotated for clarity but may be positioned anywhere around the housing 36 in which a chamber 56 is positioned during the indexing of the disc 55, as is well understood by any competent engineer.
  • the system 10 of the present invention may also include two or more compaction ram assemblies and two or more discharge ram assemblies, each version being a matter of choice of design, well within the skill of the art.
  • the discharge ram assembly 80 further includes, as did the compaction ram assembly 70, collars 86 and springs and retaining pins 87 to ensure a seal between the discharge ram assembly 80, the indexing disc 55 and the outlet conduit 90 which is surrounded by an outer containment tube or conduit 91 , for a purpose hereinafter described.
  • a cake breaker 93 which may be in the form of a stationary grid or flexible members is positioned at the end of the distillation system 95, as will be explained and for a purpose hereinafter described.
  • a distillation system 95 is in communication with the outlet conduit 90 of the indexing filter system 35 and includes a longitudinally extending conveyor 96 in a container 98 having a heat exchanger 97 in heat exchange relationship therewith.
  • the distillation system 95 is in communication with a condenser assembly 100 by means of one more tubes 101 extending from the container 98 to a condenser container103, it being understood that the condenser container 103 is shown for purposes of illustration as an elongated container but may be of any size or shape as determined.
  • the condenser container 103 is also connected by the conduit 44 to the outlet 43 of the housing 36.
  • a conduit 102 provides communication between the condenser assembly 100 and a liquid metal supply 105 in the form of vessel having connected thereto a distillation vacuum pump 106 and an outlet pipe 107.
  • a pump108 pumps liquid metal from the supply vessel 105 through a conduit 109 to a liquid metal accumulation tank 115.
  • the tank 115 also receives liquid metal from a head tank 110 in communication with the outlet conduit 65 from the indexing filter system 35, the head tank 110 being in communication with the accumulation tank 115 by means of a conduit 113.
  • a heat exchanger 112 may be in heat exchange relationship with the outlet conduit 65 if heat is needed to be added or removed from the liquid metal exiting the indexing filter system 35, as will be explained.
  • a vessel 120 is positioned in communication with the distillation system 95 and includes a valve 121 , the vessel 120 being in communication with a pump 122 which in turn is in communication with a vessel 125 or lock hopper which is also provided with a valve 126 at the bottom thereof.
  • the vessel or lock hopper 125 through valve 126 is in communication with a passivation system 130 which includes a containment vessel 131 , a conveyor 132 in communication with a gas inlet conduit 133 and a gas outlet conduit 134 in communication with a pump 135.
  • the passivation system 130 has an outlet 136, all for a purpose hereinafter set forth. Operation of the system 10 is as follows.
  • a supply of gas 16 is brought to temperature in a boiler which is meant to be included in the vessel 16 and is transmitted through a conduit or gas inlet pipe 15 into a nozzle 12 through which flows the reductant metal, such as sodium.
  • Sodium is provided from the head tank 110 or supply vessel 105.
  • these vessels may be combined into one or may be several, it being within the skill of the art to design the exact combination of parts in the system.
  • Liquid metal pump 105 provides a continuous flow of liquid metal to the nozzle 12 and the amount of liquid metal and gas is adjusted to maintain the temperature in the reactor 11 at a predetermined but generally low temperature of about 400 °C. It is understood that various temperatures may be selected as the operating temperature but about 400°C is preferred at the present time.
  • the reaction products in the reactor 11 comprise a slurry of excess sodium, sodium chloride particles and titanium particles.
  • This slurry flows through outlet conduit 18 into the receiving vessel 20.
  • the temperature of the material at this time is still approximately the outlet temperature from the reactor 11 which may be for instance, about 400 °C.
  • the slurry is stirred in the vessel when the agitator 32 is operated by virtue of the motor 30.
  • the slurry exits the vessel 20 through the discharge outlet 25 thereof into the indexing filter system 35.
  • the slurry entering the indexing filter system 35 flows into the T-connector 66 and then into inlet conduit 63 through the filter 60 and into the outlet conduit 65.
  • the filter 60 which may be for instance, a 125 micron wedge wire filter
  • the solids concentration increases as liquid sodium drains.
  • the compaction ram assembly 70 is actuated and the piston 72 drives forwardly into the chamber 56 compressing the material in the conduit 66 thereby expressing liquid metal through the filter 60 until a cake is formed in which most of the liquid metal has been expressed and there remains what could be categorized as wet cake particulate salt and particulate titanium. This cake has sufficient integrity to hold its shape but at the same time still contains some liquid metal.
  • liquid metal which exits the indexing filter system 35 through the outlet conduit 65 is then recycled to the head tank 110 and moved via the pump 108 back to the nozzle 12 in the reactor 11.
  • the motor therefor 74 withdraws the piston 72 and the indexing disc 55 is rotated by the index drive mechanism 45 so as to advance the next chamber 56 into position for another actuation.
  • the inlet conduit 66 is connected via gravity to the vessel 20, as soon as the compaction ram 70 withdraws more slurry enters the system.
  • the disc 55 is rotated as soon as the ram is withdrawn, no slurry material enters the chamber 56 after compaction until the next chamber is in alignment with the compaction ram 70, at which time the aligned chamber 56 fills with the slurry and is thereafter compacted or compressed.
  • the discharge ram assembly 80 is in alignment or in registry with another chamber 56 of the indexing disc 55 and when the chamber 56 which has the compressed or compacted material therein is in alignment with the discharge ram 80 the piston 82 moves the cake in the chamber 56 into the distillation system 95.
  • seals 61 and 86 which contain the liquid metal in the appropriate conduit and in its restricted path.
  • seals are not necessarily perfect in the real world and although the sealing mechanism in the conduits are intended to provide a seal for the liquid metal, some inevitably may escape and is collected within the housing 36 and flows out of the outlet 43 and conduit 44 into the condenser assembly 100 for further recycle, as will be explained.
  • the particulates from the cake are heated by virtue of the heat exchanger 97, which may be via conduction, convection, induction heating or any other suitable commercial method of heating the powder or particulates moved by the conveyor 96 through the cake breaker 93 to the vessel 120.
  • the cake breaker 93 is shown schematically and may be a fixed series of wires or a variety of other mechanical mechanisms which breaks a compacted particulate matter into a loose friable material.
  • Liquid metal which is vaporized in the distillation system 95 is collection and transmitted via conduits 101 into the condenser assembly 100 and container 103 which is maintained at a sufficiently low temperature to condense the liquid metal vapor into a liquid which is transmitted to storage, such as in head tank 110.
  • a valve 121 exists between the vessel 120 and the vessel or lock hopper 125.
  • pump 122 is in communication with the vessel or lock hopper 125 to ensure no vapors back-up into the system 10 and to evacuate the system if it is necessary to isolate the lock hopper 125 by actuation of the valves 121 and 126.
  • the passivation system 130 From the lock hopper 125 granular material is transmitted to the passivation system 130 and more particularly to a conveyor 132 which moves within a containment vessel 131 while a passivating gas or liquid is provided through the gas or water inlet or conduit 133.
  • the passivation fluid is a gas containing a small percentage such as 0.2% by volume oxygen and an inert gas such as argon.
  • the passivated material then moves through outlet 136 to a wash and dry system 140.
  • a pump 135 and conduit 134 exhaust the passivating fluid and recycle same, if desired.
  • FIG. 4 there is shown an alternate embodiment of the present invention in which like numbers have been applied to like parts.
  • the principal difference in the embodiment of Fig. 4 is that the indexing disc 55 as well as the indexing filter system 35 is arranged horizontally instead of vertically so that as slurry drains from the bottom of the vessel 20, liquid reducing metal drains through the filter 60 and a compaction occurs after rotation of the indexing disc 55. Thereafter upon further rotation, the discharge ram assembly 80 is actuated to move the cake into the distillation system 95.
  • the operation of the two systems is identical.
  • an advantage of the indexing disc 55 and associated mechanism is that the vessel 20 as well as the conditions therein is isolated from the downstream operations such as the distillation chamber 95 and the passivation station 130.
  • the significance of this is that the conditions in the vessel 20 may be inert or under vacuum or at a specific temperature while the conditions in the distillation station or chamber 95 and/or the passivation station or chamber 130 may be completely different without affecting the upstream conditions in the vessel 20.
  • This isolation of vessel 20 from all downstream conditions provides a significant advantage for the Armstrong process. Referring now to Fig.
  • variable pitch converging screw conveyor 230 is positioned intermediate the indexing disc 55 and the distillation system 95 to convey solids or semi-solids between the indexing disc 55 and the distillation system 95.
  • the variable pitch converging screw conveyor 230 shown in Fig. 2A includes a housing 90 (the same as previously described) through which passes a shaft 231 having screw flights 232 positioned thereon, in a well known manner.
  • the screw flights 232 may be electrically heated or may be configured to accept a heat exchange fluid flowing therethrough, such as liquid alkali metal or more specifically sodium when used in The Armstrong Process as previously described.
  • variable pitch converging screw conveyor 230 An advantage of using a variable pitch converging screw conveyor 230 is that another seal is then maintained between the vessel 20 and the downstream treatment apparatus by the compaction of solids into continuously diminishing volume between adjacent screw flights 32.
  • a variety of mechanical equivalents of the variable pitch converging screw conveyor 230 may be substituted herein and are within the skill of the art and are incorporated in this invention.
  • the chambers 56 On the assumption that a single Armstrong reactor can produce 2,000,000 pounds per year of product, such as titanium or a titanium alloy such as titanium, 6% aluminum and 4% vanadium, the chambers 56 would be 10 inches in diameter and 6 inches in length. Preferably there are 6 such chambers in each disc 55 based calculations that the slurry and/or gel produced in the Armstrong Process which is approximately 22-23% solids by weight.
  • the indexing disc 55 will be indexed approximately every 11 seconds based on the above-described chambers. Different volume chambers or number of chambers will require different indexing times, but this is well within the skill of the art. Under the present example, the material in the chamber 56 will be compressed by a factor of 4 so that the cake ejected by the compaction ram assembly 80 will be about 1.5 inches thick and have a solids composition between about 64 and 65 percent by weight.
  • Fig. 5 there is disclosed a schematic representation of the various processes and products made in accordance with the present invention.
  • the reduction box is the Armstrong Process in which a exothermic reduction occurs controlled by the use of constituents taught in the above-mentioned and incorporated Armstrong et al patents.
  • the separation is as previously described herein along with the passivation.
  • the passivated material then is transmitted to a wash and dry assembly 140 in which the salt product, in this specific example, sodium chloride, is removed from the product particulates, in the example titanium or titanium alloy powder.
  • the schematic shows that the powder may be melted to form an ingot or other solid product by a variety of methods such as casting or transmitted to a powder metallurgy process which includes, but is not limited to, for instance isostatic cold processing, hot isostatic processing using pressure to densify the metal powder into a predetermined shape and density.
  • the product may also be produced by cold spraying the metal powder in a gas jet or subjecting the metal powder to a laser or spheridizing the metal powder by plasma.
  • the metal powder may be formed into a foam and thereafter pressed and sintered to form a stable metal foam as is well known in the art.
  • the powder may be pressed onto a mandrel and thereafter rolled into a thin wall tube.
  • powder product may be formed by drawing or extruding the metal powder.
  • attriting mechanism may be used to change the morphology of the powder, including the packing fraction or reducing the overall size distribution of the powder. All these methods of producing product as well as the products formed thereby when combined with the present separation process are included in the present invention. While there has been disclosed what is considered to be the preferred embodiment of the present invention, it is understood that various changes in the details may be made without departing from the spirit, or sacrificing any of the advantages of the present invention.

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L'invention porte sur un procédé et un appareil de séparation continue d'une poudre métallique d'une boue de métal liquide et de sel et de poudre métallique. Le métal liquide est progressivement exprimé de manière à former un gâteau de filtration de poudre métallique, et de sel et d'un peu de métal. Puis, les gâteaux progressivement formés sont distillés afin de vaporiser du métal en laissant de la poudre de métal et du sel ne contenant pratiquement pas de métal liquide, puis le sel est ôté de la poudre métallique par lavage et la poudre métallique est séchée. L'invention concerne aussi une variété de produits faits à partir de la poudre métallique.
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