PREPARATION METHOD FOR DIRECTLY SYNTHESIZING TITANIUM DIOXIDE FROM TITANIUM-RICH ORGANIC PHASE PREPARED FROM ILMENITE

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for directly synthesizing titanium dioxide from a titanium-rich organic phase prepared from ilmenite, and more particularly to a method in which a titanium-rich acidolysis solution is obtained by an efficient ore dissolving technology, titanium ions are transferred to the organic phase by means of an effective titanium extractant to obtain a high-purity and titanium-rich organic phase, and then the titanium dioxide is directly synthesized in the organic phase. With this method, the dissolution rate of ilmenite can be effectively improved, the process flow is shortened and production costs are reduced, and titanium dioxide with high yield and high quality is obtained.

Claims

1. A method for directly synthesizing titanium dioxide from a titanium-rich organic phase prepared from ilmenite, comprising the following steps: (1) adding hydrochloric acid and ilmenite to a reactor at a hydrochloric acid/ilmenite mass ratio of 1-15:1, introducing hydrogen chloride gas into the system, so that the pressure P in the system is higher than the atmospheric pressure, maintaining the system for reaction under stirring at a raised temperature T1 and the pressure P above the atmospheric pressure, after the reaction is completed, reducing the temperature of the reaction mixture, and adding an oxidizing agent thereto and stirring followed by filter-pressing to obtain a filtrate which is a hydrochloric acid solution A0 containing titanium and iron ions; (2) adding the solution A0 of step (1) into an iron extractor for multi-stage extraction with an iron extractant, and combining various stages of extracts as organic phases to obtain an iron-rich extraction liquid, which is an organic phase A1, wherein the aqueous phase obtained from the multi-stage extraction is an iron ion-free titanium-containing raffinate, which is an aqueous phase B1; (3) adding the iron-rich extraction liquid A1 into an iron backwash extractor, and back-extracting iron ions with an iron back extractant to obtain an organic phase A2 and a raffinate B2 as a ferric chloride-containing aqueous phase; and optionally, using the obtained organic phase A2 after acid washing as the iron back extractant or returning it to the iron extractant; (4) adding the iron ion-free titanium-containing raffinate B1 into a purification extractor, and then carrying out multi-step purification with a purification extractant to remove colored ions so as to obtain a aqueous titanium-enriched raffinate C1; and (5) adding the aqueous titanium-enriched raffinate C1 into a titanium extractor, extracting with a titanium extractant to obtain an organic phase C2 containing high-purity titanium ions; allowing it to enter a titanium dioxide synthesis reactor directly, adding a precipitant into the system to prepare a titanium precipitate, and finally, obtaining the titanium dioxide by means of aftertreatment.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the ilmenite in step (1) is ilmenite concentrate, ilmenite, high titanium slag or modified ilmenite concentrate with a titanium dioxide content of 30-80 wt %.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein pressure P in step (1) is in a range of from 0.2 MPa to 1.6.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the hydrochloric acid/ilmenite mass ratio in step (1) is 1.5 to 12:1; and/or the reaction temperature T1 in step (1) is from 30 C. to 95 C.; and/or the reaction time in step (1) is from 2 hours to 12 hours.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the concentration of hydrochloric acid in step (1) is from 25 wt % to 45 wt %; and/or wherein the oxidizing agent used in step (1) is selected from one or more of potassium chlorate, sodium chlorate, hydrogen peroxide, sodium peroxide, potassium peroxide, sodium percarbonate, potassium percarbonate, oxygen or air.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the content of contaminating or variegated metals in the obtained titanium-enriched extraction liquid C2 is less than 10 ppm; and/or the content of contaminating metals in the obtained raffinate B2 is less than 15 ppm.

7. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that the iron extractant in step (2) is selected from one or more of tributyl phosphate, di(1-methylheptyl) methylphosphonate, methyl isobutyl ketone, trioctylamine, secondary carbon primary amine, methylbenzene, isoamyl alcohol or sulfonated kerosene.

8. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that step (2) or step (3) or step (4) or step (5) is carried out at a temperature of from 20 C. to 60 C.; and/or the mass ratio between the extractant and the titanium-iron hydrochloric acid solution A0 in step (2) is 1-6:1.

9. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that the iron back extractant in step (3) is selected from one or two of deionized water or dilute acid; and/or the mass ratio between the iron back extractant and the iron-rich extraction liquid A1 in step (3) is 3-12:1.

10. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that the purification extractant in step (4) is selected from one or more of tributyl phosphate, trioctylamine, amyl acetate, bis(2-ethylhexyl) phosphate, methylbenzene, dimethylbenzene, isoamyl alcohol and sulfonated kerosene; and/or the mass ratio between the purification extractant and the iron ion-free titanium-containing raffinate B1 in step (4) is 1-6:1.

11. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that the titanium extractant in step (5) is selected from one or more of tributyl phosphate, trioctylamine, amyl acetate, bis(2-ethylhexyl) phosphate, methylbenzene, dimethylbenzene, isoamyl alcohol and sulfonated kerosene.

12. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that the mass ratio between the titanium extractant and the iron ion-free titanium-containing raffinate C1 in step (5) is 1-6:1.

13. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that the precipitant in step (5) is selected from one or more of sodium hydroxide, ammonia water and sodium carbonate.

14. The titanium dioxide obtained by the method of any one of claims 1-13, wherein the purity of the titanium dioxide is greater than 99.99 wt %, and the content of other metal impurities is less than 10 ppm.

15. The use of the titanium dioxide of claim 14 in preparing paint, printing inks, plastics, ceramic materials, wallpaper, glass, spray paint, powder coatings or cosmetics.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0036] FIG. 1 is a flow chart of the method of the present invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0037] For a further understanding of the present invention, the invention is further illustrated in detail in conjunction with the following examples, which are not to be construed as limiting the invention, but are to be construed as merely illustrative of the features and advantages of the invention and are not intended to limit the scope of the invention. Any equivalents of this invention in accordance with the present invention are intended to be within the scope of the present invention.

EXAMPLE 1

[0038] (1) 1500 g of 37% concentrated hydrochloric acid was added to 500 g of high titanium slags and stirred, and the resulting mixture was heated to 60 C. The hydrogen chloride gas was introduced into the system to maintain the acid value of the system unchanged and the pressure of the system at 1.0 MPa, and the reaction was stopped after 9 hours. 40 g of NaClO.sub.3 was added when the system was cooled to the room temperature, the reaction was continued under stirring for 1 h, filter-pressing was then carried out, and the filtering residues were washed to neutral. (2) At a temperature of 30 C., using TBP/MIBK (wt)=1:1 as an extractant and the ratio (O/A) of the oil phase to aqueous phase of 2:1, a three-stage extraction was carried out, wherein the oil phase is an iron extraction phase and the aqueous phase is a titanium containing residual phase. (3) The iron extraction phase was subjected to back extraction with the deionized water at O/A=1:10, and the oil phase extractant returned to the Fe extractor, the iron-containing aqueous phase was then purified similar to extraction-back extraction of steps (2) and (3), and part of the water was steamed out for concentration, so as to make the iron content reach 160 g/L. A multi-stage countercurrent extraction (V) was carried out with the extractant TBP/xylene=4:25 and O/A=2:1, the raffinate entered the purification extractor, TOA/toluene=1:9 and O/A=2:1 was adopted for the extraction of Mn, and the extraction liquid was subjected to back extraction to obtain a raffinate, namely titanium-rich TiOCl.sub.2, Ti content of which can be up to 100000 ppm. The aqueous titanium-rich raffinate was added to the titanium extractor, extraction was carried out with TOA/toluene=1:9 and O/A=2:1 to obtain an organic phase containing high purity titanium ions (the content of the colored contaminating metals was below the detection limit). The latter directly was introduced into the titanium synthesis reactor, to which were added 20% sodium hydroxide solution to prepare the precipitates of titanium. Finally, titanium dioxide was obtained through post-treatment (see Table 2 for content of the contaminating metals).

TABLE-US-00001 TABLE 1 high titanium slags and acidolysis solution composition TiO.sub.2 Fe FeO MgO MnO SiO.sub.2 Al.sub.2O.sub.3 CaO before 49.6 15.2 10.88 1.05 2.07 1.11 2.24 1.34 acidolysis (%) after 192 24.96 68 0.103 0.11 0.038 0.174 0.091 acidolysis (g/L)

TABLE-US-00002 TABLE 2 Determination of titanium dioxide product by ICP-MS (g/g) Ti Na Pb Cr Mn Cu Fe V As Hg Cd Ni Sb Co Zn Al Ba Example 1 598620 10 / / / / / / / / / / / / / / 2.0 RSD 576430 / 5.1 8.0 2.0 / / 9.9 12.0 18.2 11.1 5.5 6 15.8 / / 6.2 (contrast)

EXAMPLE 2

[0039] The process conditions are the same as those in Example 1, but titanium concentrate was used in stead of high titanium slags.

EXAMPLE 3

[0040] The process conditions were the same as those in Example 1, but the modified titanium concentrate was used in stead of high titanium slags.

APPLICATION EXAMPLES

[0041] The pearlescent pigments prepared from the above examples 1-3 were used for the application fields of paints, coatings, printing inks, plastics, ceramic materials, leather coloring, wallpaper, powder coatings, cosmetics and the like. For example, a coating having excellent color and luster can be prepared by adding the pearlescent pigment of the present invention to the paints or coatings.

Application Example 1

Paint Spraying Application

[0042] 4.00 grams of titanium dioxide were accurately weighed and added to an agitator along with 4.0 grams of butyl acetate and 8.0 grams of polyester automotive coating resin for agitation dispersion for 10 minutes, and 84.0 grams of automotive coating resin system was then added and stirred for 5 minutes. The viscosity of the coating was adjusted to No. Ford 4 cup 14-15 seconds before spraying. The temperature of the spraying chamber during spraying was controlled to be 25 C., while the relative humidity was controlled to be 60%. Varnish was overprinted after spraying twice and flash drying for 10 minutes, flash drying was carried out again followed by baking for 30 minutes at 140 C.

Application Example 2

Injection Molding Application

[0043] 200 grams of polypropylene (PP) material dried under 105 C. was accurately weighed and placed in a sealed plastic bag, 1 ml of varnish (also known as dispersed oil) was added and then shaken, so that the varnish and the polypropylene material were fully mixed.

[0044] 4.000 grams of titanium dioxide were weighted out by an analytical balance and added into the sealed plastic bag; the resulting mixture was then shaken and kneaded to allow the titanium dioxide to be substantially uniformly dispersed in PP particles.

[0045] After the temperature of a charging barrel of an extruder reached a set value (normally from 180 C. to 200 C.), well-batched polypropylene materials were added into the hopper; then, the original residual materials in the charging barrel were extruded out by using injecting and melting until new materials were extruded out, and the new materials that were extruded out should be free of impurities, black spots, scorches and bubbles; meanwhile, no plugging occurred in the nozzle during injecting. After two plastic sheets extruded successively were identical, plastic sheets manufactured subsequently were considered to be stable and qualified products, and continuous automatic production may be intiated.