Patent ID: 7217402
Filing Date: 2007-05-15
Classification: C01B,C01F,C01G,C01P

Abstract:
1. A method of producing metal chlorides in a chlorinator vessel, comprising; establishing an upper layer which is initially of liquid CdCl adding chlorine gas to said lower liquid Cd layer to form new liquid CdCl submerging a porous basket agitator and a lower opening of a slug chute, which is positioned above said basket agitator, in said upper layer initially of CdCl selecting a metal to form said metal chloride such that a free energy of formation of the metal chloride is more negative than that for CdCl depositing said selected metal used to form said metal chloride through said slug chute into said basket agitator, contacting liquid CdCl coordinating a rate of chlorine addition with a rate of metal addition to control a combined exothermic reaction ensuing from the addition of Cl settling the formed Cd from the upper layer after the contacting step to recombine the formed Cd with the lower liquid Cd layer and removing the remaining upper layer from the chlorinator vessel, and employing a distillation process to separate the newly formed metal chloride from the removed upper layer.