PRODUCTION OF METAL SUCH AS ALUMINIUM, MAGNESIUM, SILICON AND THE LIKE FROM METAL OXIDE COMPOUNDS

摘要

A thermo-mechanical process for producing aluminium or other metals from aluminium or metal compounds, is described, whereby aluminium oxide or similar aluminium compounds or similar other metal compounds, are heated by friction generated by mechanical forces from a rotating and/or agitating means within a process chamber together with either free water or waterforming constituents in the aluminium-or-metal compounds and a hydrogen- and carbon delivering material such as oil or natural gas, such as methane, and carbon in such a manner that material in the reactor chamber behaves like a hot mechanical fluidized bed whereby the water can be split into hydroxyl and hydrogen radicals making hydrogen radicals react, with the oxygen in the hot and now unstable aluminium or metal compound and thus releasing aluminium or metal atoms, and the hydroxyl radical reacting back to water and if carbon is used, the surplus of oxygen reacting with carbon to CO or CO2.