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Recovery of silicon carbide whiskers from coked, converted rice hulls by selective flocculation-liquid extraction
Assignee: Advanced Composite Materials Corp
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Filing: 1979-10-09
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Granted: 1981-03-17
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Expires: 1999-10-09
Abstract
Abstract The present invention is directed to silicon carbide whisker recovery from a mixture of silicon carbide whiskers and carbonaceous silicon carbide particles. The invention involves shredding the mixture down to a specified size, dispersing the mixture in water to form an aqueous mixture, mixing in an effective amount of flocculating agent, agitating the aqueous mixture, mixing the aqueous mixture with an immiscible organic liquid, agitating the resulting water-organic liquid mixture, allowing settling of the aqueous mixture and organic liquid so as to establish two liquid phases, separating the two liquid phases into an organic liquid phase and an aqueous phase and, lastly, performing a solid-liquid separation on the aqueous phase, thereby obtaining from the aqueous phase the desired silicon carbide whiskers.
Inventors
- 👤 Ponisseril Somasundaran
- 👤 Kavssery P. Ananthapadmanabhan
Bibliographic Details
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CPC Classifications
C; C30; C30B; C30B29/00; C30B29/60; C30B29/62; B; B01; B01D; B01D12/00; B03; B03B; B03B9/00; B03D; B03D3/00; B03D3/06; C01; C01B; C01B32/00; C01B32/90; C01B32/914; C01B32/956; C01B32/963; C01B32/97; C30B33/00; C01P; C01P2004/00; C01P2004/10
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 12
Claim 1
Independent Claim
146 words
A method for separating silicon carbide whiskers from a mixture of silicon carbide whiskers with carbonaceous silicon carbide particles comprising: (i) shredding the mixture to a specified size; (ii) dispersing the shredded mixture in water to form an aqueous mixture; (iii) mixing in an effective amount of flocculating agent; (iv) agitating the aqueous mixture; (v) mixing the aqueous mixture with an immiscible organic liquid; (vi) agitating the aqueous mixture and organic liquid; (vii) allowing settling of the aqueous mixture and organic liquid so as to establish two liquid phases comprising a first phase including said organic liquid and a second phase, including said water, said second phase having an upper zone of substantially water and a lower zone of flocculated SiC whiskers; (viii) separating the two liquid phases; and (ix) separating the solids from the aqueous mixture, thereby obtaining silicon carbide whiskers from the aqueous mixture.
Claim 2
Independent Claim
146 words
A method for separating silicon carbide whiskers from a mixture of silicon carbide whiskers with carbonaceous silicon carbide particles comprising: (i) shredding the mixture to a specified size; (ii) dispersing the shredded mixture in water to form an aqueous mixture; (iii) mixing in an effective amount of flocculating agent; (iv) agitating the aqueous mixture; (v) mixing the aqueous mixture with an immiscible organic liquid; (vi) agitating the aqueous mixture and organic liquid; (vii) allowing settling of the aqueous mixture and organic liquid so as to establish two liquid phases comprising a first phase including said organic liquid and a second phase, including said water, said second phase having an upper zone of substantially water and a lower zone of flocculated SiC whiskers; (viii) separating the two liquid phases; and (ix) separating the solids from the aqueous mixture, thereby obtaining silicon carbide whiskers from the aqueous mixture.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
26 words
The method of claim 1 wherein said shredded mixture is dispersed in water so as to contain about 1 to about 15% by weight of solids.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
30 words
The method of claim 1 wherein said organic liquid is mixed with said aqueous mixture in a volume ratio of about 1 to 5 up to about 1 to 30.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
23 words
The method of claim 1 wherein said organic liquid is selected from the group consisting of kerosene, mineral spirits and light fuel oils.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
26 words
The method of claim 2 wherein said shredded mixture is dispersed in water so as to contain about 5 to about 10% by weight of solids.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
30 words
The method of claim 1 wherein said organic liquid is mixed with said aqueous mixture in a volume ratio of about 1 to 5 up to about 1 to 20.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
17 words
The method of claim 1, 2, 4, 5, or 6 wherein said flocculating agent is aluminum sulfate.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
32 words
The method of claim 1, 2, 4, 5, or 6 wherein said liquid phase separation also includes separating the upper zone water from the lower zone water containing said flocculated SiC whiskers.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
26 words
The method of claim 1, 2, 4, 5, or 6 wherein said shredding is performed so as to render a particle size of minus ten mesh.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
27 words
The method of claim 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6 wherein said shredding is performed so as to render a particular size of minus five mesh.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
20 words
The method of claim 1, wherein said carbonaceous silicon carbide particles are obtained from said organic liquid by solid-liquid separation.
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