Chemistry of inorganic compounds – Carbon or compound thereof – Oxygen containing
Patent
1997-05-21
2000-12-05
Griffin, Steven P.
Chemistry of inorganic compounds
Carbon or compound thereof
Oxygen containing
C01B 3124
Patent
active
061562866
ABSTRACT:
Fine-grained aragonite precipitated calcium carbonate is produced on a commercial scale by seeding with a coarse-grained aragonite precipitated calcium carbonate. The coarse-grained seeding material is produced by interrupting, after the production of 0.1 to 0.6 g/L min. of calcium carbonate, the supply of carbon dioxide to the quicklime slurry early in the reaction to allow subsequent nucleation of the crystals and then continuing the supply of carbon dioxide at reaction rates of 0.1 g/L min. to 0.6 g/L min. This coarse-grained seeding material has a Blaine surface area which may be less than 30,000 cm.sup.2 /g, the solids of which are 35 to 70 weight percent aragonite, and is added to subsequent batches as a slurry at about 1 weight percent, based on the total weight of the slurry of the material to be seeded. For the seeded batches, carbonation is carried out at reaction rates of up to 1.8 g/L min. at the commercial scale resulting in fine-grained aragonite product. This final seeded product need not be ground, has solids in which the weight percent of aragonite is greater than 90, has a median particle size between 0.30 to about 0.5 microns, a particle size distribution where about 60 to 70 weight percent are less than 0.5 micron equivalent spherical diameter, and a Blaine surface area which may be greater than 35,000 cm.sup.2 /g.
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Fortier Steven M.
Jackson Bruce
Griffin Steven P.
Hendrickson Stuart L.
Imerys Pigments, Inc.
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