Patents Assigned to Peruke Investment Holdings (Proprietary) Limited
  • Method of Producing Titanium
    Publication number: 20100173170
    Abstract: A method of producing titanium metal from a titanium-containing material includes the steps of producing a solution of M?TiF6 from the titanium-containing material, selectively precipitating M?2TiF6 from the solution by the addition of (M?)aXb and using the selectively precipitated M?2TiF6 to produce titanium. M? is a cation of the type which forms a hexafluorotitanate, M? is selected from ammonium and the alkali metal cations, X is an anion selected from halide, sulphate, nitrite, acetate and nitrate and a and b are 1 or 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2009
    Publication date: July 8, 2010
    Applicant: Peruke Investment Holdings (Proprietary) Limited
    Inventor: Gerard Pretorius