Patents Assigned to Extramet S.A. Zone Industrielle
  • Patent number: 4738759
    Abstract: The method causes the deposition of calcium or calcium alloy to a cathode by electrolysis of a calcium derivative in a bath of molten salts based on calcium halides. The calcium derivative is in solution into the molten salt bath in ionic form. For producing calcium alloy, calcium is caused to deposit on a liquid metal cathode and the calcium is alloyed in situ with the metal of the cathode to form the alloy. The method enables the production at the anode of high purity metals such as graphite carbon or silicon from calcium carbide, respectively calcium silide or calcium silicon. It is also possible to obtain high purity calcium by decomposition of the alloy obtained by vacuum distillation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 1986
    Date of Patent: April 19, 1988
    Assignee: Extramet S.A. Zone Industrielle
    Inventors: Gerard Bienvenu, Dominique Dubruque