Abstract: According to the invention there is now provided a simple method of preparing a powder containing WC and cobalt and/or nickel. APT-powder and a powder of a basic salt of cobalt and/or cobalt are mixed in water or in mixed solvents. The suspension is stirred to react at temperatures ranging from room temperature to the boiling point of the solution whereby a precipitate is formed, which precipitate is filtered off, dried and finally reduced to a metallic powder.

Abstract: LiCoO.sub.2 and LiNiO.sub.2 are fully delithiated electrochemically using solid state electrolytic cells and oxidation resistant electrolytes to yield new phases of CoO.sub.2 and NiO.sub.2.

Abstract: For reprocessing of jarosite-containing residues to provide usable products, the jarosite-containing residues and concentrates which contain zinc sulfide are stirred in dilute sulfuric acid, which contains 40 to 100 g/l free sulfuric acid, in an autoclave under an oxygen partial pressure of at least 1,000 kPa and at a temperature from 130.degree. to 170.degree. C., the iron contents and the zinc contents of the residue and of the concentrate which contains zinc sulfide are substantially dissolved, flashing is effected and is succeeded by a separation of solution and solids, the solution is fed to the leaching circuit of a plant for the electrolytic production of zinc with precipitation of iron as hematite, the elemental sulfur is separated from the solids and the hematite residue is supplied to a further utilization.

Abstract: Metal complexes having high bulk density and a process for the production of the same without the generation of heavy metal-contaminated effluents are disclosed. Solid complexes of EDTANaFe and EDTAKFe having high bulk densities are formed by reaction with mixed metal solutions containing low chromium levels, followed by total drying of the resulting mixture in the same processing equipment without the prior separation of the sulfate salts formed. The amounts of the various metals in any given formulation can be preselected.

Abstract: A method for producing high-purity iron oxide which comprises pulverizing iron ore into powder having an average particle diameter of 20-150 .mu.m, removing fine particles from the powder, and subjecting the powder to wet magnetic separation in a magnetic field of 1000-15000 gauss for the removal of impurities. The iron oxide powder may undergo the secondary steps of pulverization and classification, which are performed by the combination of a wet grinding means and a wet cyclone, and drying and calcination.

Abstract: Processes are provided for substantially removing base metals and/or cyanide from gold-barren solutions resulting from gold ore processing.

Abstract: Heavy metal compounds, particularly vanadium pentoxide, are recovered from petroleum coke by combusting the coke under conditions constraining the temperatures to within the range 680.degree. C. to 1400.degree. C., collecting the ash which is then subjected to a known process for the extraction of the metallic compounds.Whilst the combustion process may be achieved in a fluidised bed furnace, higher recovery rates are likely to be achieved utilising a tubular furnace chamber inclined at 10.degree. to horizontal. dried petroleum coke, ground to fine powder (ASTM 75 micron, or less) is entrained into a primary air flow injected tangentially into the chamber through ports together with secondary air sufficient to maintain an oxidising atmosphere. Molten slag is deposted on the chamber wall by centrifugal action and drained from the chamber to fall on a rotating steel drum immersed in a water trough. A scraper removes the slag from the drug as flakes which are removed from the water trough using a screw conveyor.

Abstract: Fe(III) complexes having high bulk density and a process for the production of the same without the generation of heavy metal-contaminated effluents are disclosed. Solid complexes of EDTANaFe and EDTAKFe having high bulk densities are formed by reaction with ferric sulfate containing low chromium levels, followed by total drying of the resulting mixture in the same processing equipment without the prior separation of the sulfate salts formed.

Abstract: A process for the production of storable, free-flowing hydrated ferrous sulfate which comprises mixing moist ferrous sulfate heptahydrate and dried hydrated ferrous sulfate in such a ratio that a free-flowing and storable product is obtained.

Abstract: A powdered admixture of a boron, carbon, nitrogen or silicon derivative of a first metal is combined with a source of a second metal and, optionally, a source of a third metal or an iron-group metal, subjected to densification conditions (heat and pressure), partially reacted and converted to a hard, wear resistant material. The wear resistant material contains an amount of the first metal derivative as well as a material of varying stoichiometry which is the partial reaction product of components of the powdered admixture. The material may also contain residual, unreacted portions of components other than the first metal derivative. Articles formed from this material can be useful as, for example, nozzles in abrasive or nonabrasive waterjet cutting machines and various parts of wire drawing apparatus.

Abstract: A method for preparing anhydrous ferric chloride from a hydrous solution containing ferric chloride that contains organic substances and/or ferrous chloride. In the method, water is removed from a ferric-chloride water solution or a solution, in which at least a portion of the ferrous chloride has been converted by oxidation into ferric chloride, by drying in an atmosphere containing hydrochloric acid. The anhydrous ferric chloride is refined by sublimating it into gas phase in a chlorine-containing atmosphere and by subliming it into a pure crystalline ferric chloride.

Abstract: This process in which the used bath is recycled after concentration at (1) by elimination of water at (2), followed by a treatment for recovering iron oxides at (10), is characterized in that it comprises carrying out a tangential microfiltration at (5) of the concentrated bath so as to separate therefrom the silicon compounds in the non-ionic form and thereby concentrate them, and recirculating the major part of the fraction of this bath (11-17) containing these concentrated silicon compounds so as to promote the precipitation of the non-ionic compounds of the silicon.

Abstract: A powdered admixture of a boron, carbon, nitrogen or silicon derivative of a first metal is combined with a source of a second metal and, optionally, a source of a third metal or an iron-group metal, subjected to densification conditions (heat and pressure), partially reacted and converted to a hard, wear resistant material. The wear resistant material contains an amount of the first metal derivative as well as a material of varying stoichiometry which is the partial reaction product of components of the powdered admixture. The material may also contain residual, unreacted portions of components other than the first metal derivative. Articles formed from this material can be useful as, for example, nozzles in abrasive or nonabrasive waterjet cutting machines and various parts of wire drawing apparatus.

Abstract: A powdered admixture of a boron, carbon, nitrogen or silicon derivative of a first metal is combined with a source of a second metal and, optionally, a source of a third metal or an iron-group metal, subjected to densification conditions (heat and pressure), partially reacted and converted to a hard, wear resistant material. The wear resistant material contains an amount of the first metal derivative as well as a material of varying stoichiometry which is the partial reaction product of components of the powdered admixture The material may also contain residual, unreacted portions of components other than the first metal derivative. Articles formed from this material can be useful as, for example, nozzles in abrasive or nonabrasive waterjet cutting machines and various parts of wire drawing apparatus.

Abstract: A process for making metal oxides including niobium or tantalum oxides from ferro and nickel alloys containing these metals involving the multiple steps of hydriding the ferro or nickel alloy selected, under conditions of suitable temperature and pressure to render the alloys friable, subdividing the hydrided product into selected particle sizes, then nitriding with a nitrogen-containing gas at elevated temperatures above 500.degree. C. to form the alloy constituent nitrides, thereafter leaching the nitrides formed with aqueous acid to separate the formed ferro or nickel nitride from the acid soluble nitrides from the acid insoluble nitrides, calcining the acid insoluble nitrides with oxygen-containing gas under conditions suitable for the formation of the metal oxide of the acid soluble nitride.

Abstract: A process for preparing metal oxides from ferrometal and nickel metal alloys is disclosed comprising first providing a ferrometal or nickel metal alloy containing an oxide forming metal, hydriding the alloy to an effective temperature and pressure with hydrogen containing gas, subdividing then carbiding the hydrided product at a temperature above about 500.degree. C. to form carbides, then employing an aqueous acid leach to dissolve the iron or nickel carbide and separating the acid soluble from the acid insoluble carbides. The acid insoluble carbides are reacted with oxygen at an elevated temperature for a time sufficient to form the metal oxides of said carbides.

Abstract: Disclosed are novel ion-exchange and chelate-exchange resins having improved exchange kinetics for separating chemical species from liquids. The resins are prepared from copolymer beads consisting of a monovinyl aromatic monomer and a cross-linking monomer. The copolymer beads are functionalized such that weak-base exchange moieties are substituted at haloalkylated sites which are most accessible to diffusion into the beads, while hydrophilic, strong-base exchange moieties are substituted at haloalkylated sites which are least accessible to diffusion. The resins have improved exchange kinetics due to shortened diffusion path lengths for the chemical species being separated and improved diffusion into the resin beads due to the hydrophilic, strong-base exchange moieties.

Abstract: The invention provides an essentially layered lithium transition metal oxide compound and a method of making it. It comprises lithium cations, transition metal cations T and oxygen anions, the transition metal cations T having an average valency of from +3 to +4. It has its O anions arranged in layers in a substantially cubic-close-packed arrangement, with its Li cations being arranged in layers and its T cations occupying octahedral sites and being arranged in layers. Each layer of the Li cations is sandwiched between two layers of the O anions and each said layer of O anions is sandwiched between a said layer of Li cations and a layer of the T cations. 75%-99.8% of the T cations in the compound are located in the layers of T cations, and the remainder of the T cations are located in the layers of Li cations, the T cations being selected from Co cations and mixtures of Co and Ni cations.

Abstract: Fe(III) complexes having high bulk density and a process for the production of the same without the generation of heavy metal-contaminated effluents are disclosed. Solid complexes of EDTANaFe and EDTAKFe having high bulk densities are formed by reaction with ferric sulfate containing low chromium levels, followed by total drying of the resulting mixture in the same processing equipment without the prior separation of the sulfate salts formed.

Abstract: Disclosed are novel ion-exchange and chelate-exchange resins having improved exchange kinetics for separating chemical species from liquids. The resins are prepared from copolymer beads consisting of a monovinyl aromatic monomer and a cross-linking monomer. The copolymer beads are functionalized such that weak-base exchange moieties are substituted at haloalkylated sites which are most accessible to diffusion into the beads, while hydrophilic, strong-base exchange moieties are substituted at haloalkylated sites which are least accessible to diffusion. The resins have improved exchange kinetics due to shortened diffusion path lengths for the chemical species being separated and improved diffusion into the resin beads due to the hydrophilic, strong-base exchange moieties.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing wood anti-rot agent of the copper-arsenic precipitate created in the solution purification of copper electrolysis, or of some other corresponding precipitate.

Abstract: The chromic anhydride contained in soluble form (chromic acid) in exhausted, polluted chromium plating baths is recovered by alkalizing the exhausted chromium plating liquid to a pH comprised between 3 and 7 at a temperature of 70.degree. C. with a commercial sodium hydroxide solution, keeping the mass in reaction at this temperature for an hour and filtration separating the precipitate obtained. The filtered solution having a specific gravity of 1.25 kg/l, contains CrO.sub.3 (22% in weight) which is then reduced with sulphur dioxide to obtain a solution containing basic chromium sulphate and sodium sulphate, suitable for use as a tanning bath; in this manner pollution is avoided and the waste chromium is exploited. The solution containing CrO.sub.3 can also be introduced into a hexavalent chromium salt production cycle.

Abstract: Disclosed are novel ion-exchange and chelate-exchange resins having improved exchange kinetics for separating chemical species from liquids. The resins are prepared from copolymer beads consisting of a monovinyl aromatic monomer and a cross-linking monomer. The copolymer beads are functionalized such that weak-base exchange moieties are substituted at haloalkylated sites which are most accessible to diffusion into the beads, while hydrophilic, strong-base exchange moieties are substituted at haloalkylated sites which are least accessible to diffusion. The resins have improved exchange kinetics due to shortened diffusion path lengths for the chemical species being separated and improved diffusion into the resin beads due to the hydrophilic, strong-base exchange moieties.

Abstract: A method for reducing impurity levels of calcium, magnesium and/or silicon in hexammine cobalt halide compounds involves the addition of ferric ions and, optionally, soluble fluorides to an aqueous hexammine cobalt (III) chloride solution having a pH of at least 9. Insoluble compounds of magnesium fluoride, calcium fluoride, and/or ferric hydroxide and silicon coprecipitates are removed from the solution by filtration.

Abstract: A process is disclosed to extract cobalt and optionally, at least one metal value selected from the group consisting of molybdenum, nickel, tungsten, and vanadium from metal-containing particles, such as spent hydroprocessing catalysts particles containing carbon residue. In this process, the spent catalyst particles are roasted in an oxygen-containing gas at a temperature of from 400.degree. C. to 600.degree. C., and then the roasted catalyst particles are contacted with an aqueous solution of ammonia, ammonium salt, and hydrogen peroxide. The aqueous solution has an initial pH of at least 9.5 and an initial hydrogen peroxide concentration of from 0.02 to 0.2 M. That aqueous solution is maintained at a pH of greater than 9.5.

Abstract: Beta cobaltous hydroxide is synthesized by decomposing the complex formed between cobaltous ions and a suitable complexing agent under hydrothermal conditions. Cobaltous ion and complexing agent are combined in an aqueous medium, wherein the molar ratio of the cobaltous ion to the complexing agent is about one or more. Hydroxide ion is added, wherein the molar ratio of hydroxide ion to cobaltous ion is more than about 2. The resulting admixture is heated under hydrothermal conditions for precipitating beta cobaltous hydroxide. The method provides improved control over the size and shape of the beta cobaltous hydroxide reaction product. The beta cobaltous hydroxide can be reduced to form magnetic particles of cobalt metal.

Abstract: A method is disclosed for removing iron from iron-contaminated sulfuric acid to render the sulfuric acid suitable for ion membrane processing which comprises contacting the iron-contaminated sulfuric acid with an oxidizing agent to oxidize essentially all of the iron to the +3 oxidation state, contacting the resulting iron-contaminated sulfuric acid containing oxidized iron with a complexing agent which can be citric acid, oxalic acid, and tartaric acid, with the amount of the complexing agent being sufficient to complex essentially all of the oxidized iron, and contacting the resulting iron-contaminated sulfuric acid containing the complexed iron with activated carbon to remove essentially all of the iron and produce a purified sulfuric acid solution.

Abstract: A process for recovering purified cesium chloride from a cesium aluminum silicate ore in which the ore is digested with aqueous hydrochloric acid and the silica solids removed to obtain an aqueous acidic digest solution of metal chlorides consisting of cesium chloride together with other metal chlorides, by(a) evaporating water from the digest solution to obtain a solid mixture of metal chlorides, including cesium chloride and hydrated aluminum chloride;(b) heating solid phase mixture at a temperature effective for converting the hydrated aluminum chloride to aluminum oxide without decomposing the cesium chloride;(c) extracting the resulting solids with water to obtain an aqueous extract of cesium chloride; and(d) separating the residual solids containing the aluminum oxide to produce a purified extract of cesium chloride.

Abstract: Disclosed is a process for removing accumulated metals, particularly vanadium and nickel, from particulate aluminosilicate materials and aluminosilicate materials that are obtained by the process. The process may advantageously be used to remove accumulated metals from spent aluminosilicate contact materials used in selective vaporization processes of the type described in U.S. Pat. No. 4,263,128. The process of this invention yields materials suitable for effective recycling to a selective vaporization unit or for ecologically-acceptable disposal, as well as, optionally, recovery of metals in saleable form.

Abstract: A method of processing manganese ore by adding the ore to an aqueous solution of acid and H.sub.2 O.sub.2 to form a leach pulp. The leach pulp is agitated for a predetermined time period at predetermined temperatures. The leach pulp is then separated into a solid fraction and a liquid fraction containing solubilized metals. The solubilized metals are then recovered from the liquid fraction.

Abstract: A magnetic recording powder comprising a hexagonal barium ferrite substituted with a coercive force control element. This magnetic powder is preliminarily treated with sulfate ion-containing water so as to convert any free barium ions in the magnetic powder to a water insoluble compound such as BaSO.sub.4 or BaS.sub.2 O.sub.7. There is also proposed a magnetic recording medium having a magnetic layer containing such a magnetic powder as mentioned above.

Abstract: A process for the common or simultaneous separation of arsenic, antimony, bismuth and iron from electrolyte solutions of valuable metals by solvent extraction and subsequent recovery of the contaminating elements, which process is characterized in that aqueous mineral-acidic electrolyte solutions of valuable metals are admixed with a sparingly water soluble organic solvent containing at least one hydroxamic acid, the aqueous and organic phases are thoroughly mixed, the contaminating elements arsenic, antimony and bismuth are precipitated from the organic phase by direct sulfide precipitation, the sulfides are separated, and the extracted iron is subsequently reextracted with a water soluble iron-complexing agent into an aqueous phase and recovered.

Abstract: This invention relates to a method of recovering non-ferrous metal sulfides from a metal ore which comprises subjecting the metal ore, in the form of an aqueous pulp, to a froth flotation process in the presence of a flotating amount of a flotation collector wherein the collector comprises a compound which corresponds to one of the formulas ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is alkyl, aryl or aralkyl group wherein the aryl and aralkyl can be substituted with a halo or alkyl moiety;R.sup.2 is alkyl, aryl or aralkyl group wherein the aryl or aralkyl can be substituted with a halo or alkyl moiety;R.sup.3 is aryl or aralkyl unsubstituted or substituted with a halo or alkyl moiety;R.sup.4 is alkyl, aryl or aralkyl group wherein the aryl or aralkyl can be substituted with a halo or alkyl moiety; with the proviso that at least one of R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 must be aryl or aralkyl unsubstituted or substituted;under conditions such that the metal sulfide values are recovered in the froth.

Abstract: In a method for preparing lithiated, particulate FeS.sub.2 useful as a catholyte material in a lithium thermal battery, whereby the latter's voltage regulation properties are improved, comprising admixing FeS.sub.2 and an amount of a lithium-containing compound whereby the resultant total composition falls in an invariant region of the metallurgical phase diagram of its constituent components, an improvement comprises admixing said lithium-containing compound and FeS.sub.2 together with a solid electrolyte compatible with said catholyte, and heating the mixture at a temperature above the melting point of said electrolyte and at which said mixture reaches its thermodynamic equilibrium number of phases.

Abstract: Waste containing sulfur and nickel sulfide is heated to volatilize sulfur and reacted with hydrogen chloride to form nickel chloride.

Abstract: A material is, herein disclosed for collecting radionuclides and heavy metals that comprises an acrylic fiber element having MnO.sub.2 and/or ferrocyanide compound of the formula K.sub.2 M.sup.II [Fe(CN).sub.6 ] (wherein M.sup.II is a divalent metal such as cobalt, zirconium, zinc or nickel) supported thereon. The material of the present invention is used in collecting and concentrating radionuclides present in liquid radioactive wastes discharged from nuclear power plants and other facilities using radioisotopes such as hospitals and non-destructive testing laboratories. The material is also used in collecting and concentrating radionuclides and heavy metals present in the seawater, rivers and industrial waste-water.

Abstract: A matnetic recording powder comprising a hexagonal barium ferrite substituted with a coercive force control element. This magnetic powder is preliminarily treated with sulfate ion-containing water so as to convert any free barium ions in the magnetic powder to a water insoluble compound such as BaSO.sub.4 or BaS.sub.2 O.sub.7. There is also proposed a magnetic recording medium having a magnetic layer containing such a magnetic powder as mentioned above.

Abstract: Metal ions are reduced from a higher to a lower oxidation stage using ferrophosphorus as the reductant.

Abstract: A ferric hydrous oxide of a character that retards the deposition of iron based compounds on the walls of a conduit is prepared by flowing an aqueous solution containing iron-based compounds including magnetite into a vented chamber, and boiling the solution at atmospheric pressure.

Abstract: A process for removing metal species from solution comprising passing the liquid over a composition comprising a support such as a porous silicate glass or silica gel or charcoal having interconnected pores and containing water soluble amine complexing agents absorbed on the support capable of forming a stable complex with the metal species. The preferred amine complexing agent is triethylenetetramine. The process is especially useful for removing radioactive cobalt from liquid waste streams.

Abstract: A solid, water impervious landfillable composition of a process for treating iron chloride wastes such as those obtained when chlorinating titanium ore is disclosed. The process involves reacting the iron chlorides with limestone in molten CaCl.sub.2.xH.sub.2 O, where x equals 3-6. The composition comprises CaCl.sub.2.xH.sub.2 O where x is from 3-6 and FeO.sub.Y where Y is from 1.0-1.5 and the weight ratio of CaCl.sub.2.xH.sub.2 O (calculated as CaCl.sub.2.2H.sub.2 O)/FeO.sub.Y is from 1/9-4/1.

Abstract: A process and apparatus is disclosed for the chlorinating volatilization of impurity metals detrimental to the production of iron from a raw material which contains the oxides of the impurity metals and iron or which forms them in an oxidizing atmosphere, in which the pulverous raw material is at a high temperature of 900.degree. C. or more and in an oxidizing atmosphere contacted with a magnesium chloride in order to chlorinate and volatilize the impurity metals. The preheated raw material and anhydrous magnesium chloride are fed into a fluidized bed on an inclined grate, hot air being fed into the bed through the grate in order to volatilize the chlorides of the impurity metals, and purified raw material is discharged from the lower section of the fluidized bed into a separate chamber, in which it is rinsed with an air flow the flow rate of which is substantially higher than that of the air flow fed into the fluidized bed.

Abstract: Highly pure and highly color intensive black anisometric magnetite iron oxide pigment having an FeO content of from 26 to 29% by weight and manganese content of less than 0.1% by weight, said pigment further having a specific BET surface area of from 5 to 15 square meters per gram and being needle shaped particles with an average needle diameter of 0.1 to 0.2 .mu.m and an average needle length of from 0.6 to 0.8 .mu.m are produced by producing .alpha.-FeOOH particles by alkali precipitation of an iron salt solution with a nuclear formation stage oxidation and a pigment growth stage oxidation followed by reduction and passivation.

Abstract: Ferrimagnetic particles which are useful as magnetic material for magnetic recording media and consist of a core of a magnetic material exhibiting multiaxial anisotropy and a coating which surrounds the core and is composed of a magnetic material possessing uniaxial anisotropy, and a process for their preparation.

Abstract: A metal is electrodeposited in a continuous cyclic electrolytic/carbon oxidation process wherein ferrous ion is oxidized at the anode and a metal is deposited at the cathode of an electrolytic cell. The ferric ions produced at the anode are thereafter reduced to ferrous ions by contact with a solid carbonaceous material and the ferrous ions are recycled for electrochemical reoxidation.

Abstract: A process for removing SO.sub.x pollutants from a stack gas by (1) absorbing the SO.sub.x pollutants into an aqueous absorbent containing a formate compound and (2) regenerating the spent absorbent containing dissolved SO.sub.x compounds by contact, in the presence of added formate anion, with a water-insoluble, solid substance containing one or more tertiary amine functional groups. Nitrogen monoxide is removed by providing in the aqueous absorbent an iron(II) chelate, such as a chelate of ferrous ion with ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid. Regeneration of the spent absorbent containing absorbed NO is accomplished under the same conditions as for spent absorbents containing absorbed SO.sub.x compounds. SO.sub.x and NO pollutants dissolved in the absorbent are, during regeneration, converted to hydrogen sulfide and nitrogen, respectively.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of porous products containing cobalt fluoride CoF.sub.2 or lead fluoride PbF.sub.2, wherein it comprises thermally decomposing lead fluosilicate or cobalt fluosilicate.

Abstract: A process for treating iron chloride wastes such as those obtained when chlorinating titanium ore is disclosed. The process involves reacting the iron chlorides with limestone in molten CaCl.sub.2.xH.sub.2 O, where x equals 3-6 and separating the resulting iron oxide from the molten CaCl.sub.2.xH.sub.2 O.

Abstract: A process is provided for recovering metal values from spent hydrodesulfurization catalyst, the process comprising forming in a pressure reactor an aqueous slurry of finely divided spent catalyst and sodium carbonate, the spent catalyst containing by weight about 2 to 10% Mo, up to about 12% V (e.g., about 2 to 10%), about 0.5 to 4% Co, up to about 10% Ni (e.g., about 0.5 to 5%), occluded oil, coke, sulfide sulfur and the balance essentially alumina. The amount of sodium carbonate employed is at least sufficient under oxidizing conditions to convert molybdenum and any vanadium present to soluble Na.sub.2 MoO.sub.4 and NaVO.sub.3 and to neutralize SO.sub.3 produced during oxidation, the amount of sodium carbonate being at least that required stoichiometrically. The slurry is heated to a temperature of about 200.degree. C. to 350.degree. C. (e.g., 275.degree. C. to 325.degree. C.) and a pressure of about 800 psig to 2500 psig (e.g.

Abstract: A process for recovering non-ferrous metal values from their ores, minerals, concentrates, oxidic roasting products, or slags by sulphating said starting material using a mixture comprising iron (III) sulphate and alkali metal- or ammonium sulphate as a reagent.