ILMENITE OXIDATION IN A CARBON-CONTAINING FLUIDIZED BED

摘要

Ilmenite, a titanium dioxide containing mineral, mixed with particulate carbon and the mixture subjected to air or oxygen in a gas-solids reactor at temperatures of 600 to 1080.degree.C. results in the oxidation of the ilmenite which is preferred starting material for beneficiation by the chloride process into synthetic rutile.