Abstract:
1. A method for the preparation of magnesium aluminum hydride which comprises reacting sodium aluminum hydride with an anhydrous magnesium halide in an ether as reaction solvent said ether being selected from the group consisting of unsubstituted alkyl ethers, diethylene glycol dialkyl ethers, and tetrahydrofuran mechanically separating the impure solid reaction products, separating magnesium aluminum hydride etherate from said reaction product by treatment with an ether as extractant for said etherate said ether being selected from the group consisting of unsubstituted alkyl ethers, diethylene glycol dialkyl ethers and tetrahydrofuran removing said extractant from the extract by evaporation thereof to dryness, removing the complexed ether by heating said etherate under reduced pressure to a temperature not in excess of 100* C. and recovering essentially ether-free magnesium aluminum hydride.
Abstract:
THE SEPARATION OF OLEFIN MATERIALS FROM TRIALKYL ALUMINUM MATERIALS IS ENHANCED BY REACTING SUCH MIXTURES WITH DRY AIR TO CONVERT A PORTION, AT LEAST ABOUT ONE-THIRD, OF ALL TRIALKYL ALUMINUM MOLECULES TO AT LEAST A MONO ALKOXY ALUMINUM SPECIES AND VAPORIZING AT LEAST A PORTION OF THE OLEFINS AT ELEVATED TEMPERATURE. ENHANCED SEPARATION IS OBTAINED AND ISOMERIZATION, DIMERIZATION AND OTHER REACTIONS ARE OTHERWISE CATALYZED BY TRIALKY ALUMINUM MATERIALS AT THE SEPARATION TEMPERATURES ARE MINIMIZED. THE OLEFIN MATERIALS AND TRIALKYL ALUMINUM MATERIALS CAN BE IN LIQUID OR VAPOR PHASES OR COMBINATIONS. GENERALLY SPEAKING, THE OLEFINS ARE THEN RECOVERED AS A VAPOR AND THE ALUMINUM MATERIALS AS LIQUID.
Abstract:
A process for producing aluminum from raw alumina ore, especially diaspore clay, including crushing and grinding a natural or raw mined diaspore clay to a desired particle size, beneficiating the clay to obtain a beneficiated diaspore product or mineral, compacting the beneficiated diaspore product along with a carbon reductant into agglomerates such as briquettes, pellets or other suitable form and to a desired size, carbothermically reducing the mineral compacts in an electric arc furnace into an aluminum-silicon alloy, comminuting the aluminumsilicon alloy into a desired particle size, hydroaluminating the aluminum-silicon alloy particles with hydrogen and propylene to form tripropylaluminum and dipropylaluminum hydride, pyrolyzing or decomposing the tripropylaluminum and dipropylaluminum hydride to form an aluminum powder, filtering, washing and drying the aluminum powder, and fluxing and casting the aluminum powder into pigs or other suitable form, thereby forming a substantially pure aluminum product. In a preferred process, slag from the aluminum purification process and fume produced from the carbothermic reduction of the beneficiated diaspore product in the electric arc furnace are transferred to the compaction operation, hydrogen and propylene produced in the decomposition phase are routed to the hydroalumination reaction, and oil from the washing and drying of the aluminum powder is circulated to the decomposition step. In a most preferred process, the silicon rich residue from the hydroalumination reaction is conducted to a furnace wherein lime, silicon-dioxide and iron, if necessary, are added to produce ferro-silicon alloy.