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Preparation of Anhydrous Magnesium Chloride for a Fused Salt Electrolysis of Magnesium  

Eom, Hyoung-Choon (University of Science and Technology)
Park, Hyung-Kyu (Korea Institute of Geoscience & Mineral Resources)
Yoon, Ho-Sung (Korea Institute of Geoscience & Mineral Resources)
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Resources Recycling / v.16, no.1, 2007 , pp. 37-43 More about this Journal
Abstract
It was studied to prepare anhydrous magnesium chloride which could used as the raw material of a fused salt electrolysis of magnesium by dehydration of magnesium chloride hydrate. The dehydration was carried out in a tube furnace at $350{\sim}580^{\circ}C$. It was confirmed that magnesium chloride hydrate was oxdized to magnesia through the dehydration in ambient atmosphere, but anhydrous magnesium chloride could be obtained in hydrogen chloride gas atmosphere. And the crystallity of the product increased with increasing temperature and time of dehydration. All of the un-reacted hydrogen chloride gases which were generated during the dehydration in hydrogen chloride gas atmosphere could be recovered as hydrochloric solution, and it could be reused for chlorination of magnesia to prepare magnesium chloride hydrate.
Keywords
magnesium chloride hydrate; dehydration; anhydrous magnesium chloride; hydrogen chloride; fused salt electrolysis;
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