Electrolysis: processes – compositions used therein – and methods – Electrolytic synthesis – Utilizing fused bath
Patent
1994-12-15
1996-03-12
Valentine, Donald R.
Electrolysis: processes, compositions used therein, and methods
Electrolytic synthesis
Utilizing fused bath
204245, 204284, C25C 306, C25C 314, C25C 308
Patent
active
054983207
ABSTRACT:
In aluminum smelting by electrolysis, a double salt of KAlSO.sub.4, as a feedstock, is heated with a eutectic electrolyte, such as K.sub.2 SO.sub.4, at 800.degree. C. for twenty minutes to produce an out-gas of SO.sub.3 and a liquid electrolyte of K.sub.2 SO.sub.4 with fine-particles of Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 in suspension having a mean size of six to eight microns. This is pumped into a cell with an electrolyte comprised of K.sub.2 SO.sub.4 with fine-particles of Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 in suspension, an anode and a porous cathode of open-cell ceramic foam material. The cell is maintained at 750.degree. C. and four volts of electricity applied between the anode and the cathode causes oxygen to bubble at the anode and liquid aluminum to form in the porous cathode. A channel within the porous cathode, and the porous cathode itself, are deep enough within the cell electrolyte that the pressure head of electrolyte is enough to overcome the difference in density between the molten aluminum and the electrolyte to pump molten aluminum from the channel out of the side of the cell. The electrolyte K.sub.2 SO.sub.4 is periodically bled-off to control a build-up of the material as aluminum is produced from the double salt of KAlSO.sub.4.
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Schatzel Thomas E.
Solv-Ex Corporation
Valentine Donald R.
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