The New Concept for Electrowinning Process of Liquid Titanium Metal in Molten Salt

Toshihide TAKENAKA, Takayuki SUZUKI, Masahiro ISHIKAWA, Eiichi FUKASAWA, Masahiro KAWAKAMI
1999 Electrochemistry (Tokyo. 1999)  
Direct electrowiming of liquid titanium metal has been investigated by using a DC−ESR(Direct Current Electro Slag Remelting)apparatus.A small scale DGESR mit was operated in a DC reverse polarity mode,where a graphite md was used as anode and a steel or a copper base−plate was used as cathode.The used salt was CaO−CaF2−TiO2mixture.The distance between the cathode and the anode was essential to the electrolysis.A metal pool was formed on the base−plate and the current efficlency・for the reduction was up to18%with the
doi:10.5796/electrochemistry.67.661 fatcat:arvq66vvxbagbpp6yhsd6tjah4