Aluminum Wash

Sodium Metasilicate (Anhydrous) Tetrasodium Pyrophosphate (Powder) Butyl Carbitol Mona NF-10 

Combine first five ingredients with intensive agitation until thoroughly dispersed. When (6) is added, the fluid system will change in a few minutes to a soft paste. 

Follow recommended handling practices of the suppliers of each product used. 

Good industrial practices should be used when handling flammable ingredients. 

After rubbing to sufficient luster, flush off with water, or wipe with a damp cloth. Product may be used with fine steel wool if the aluminum is heavily weathered. 

Dissolve sodium metasilicate and tetra sodium pyrophosphate in water, then add Butyl Carbitol and Mona NF-10. 

Recommended Use Dilution 1 10 with water SOURCE Mona Industries. Inc. Suggested Formulations 

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From EKA Nobel Al-modihed silicas with 1-16% surface silicon atoms substituted by aluminum. Washed by ultrafiltration using salt solutions. 

SYNTHESIS A solution of 0.12 g mercuric chloride in 180 mL H20 was added to 5 g aluminum foil that had been cut into 1 inch squares, and amalgamation allowed to proceed for 0.5 h. The gray cloudy aqueous phase was decanted, and the resulting aluminum washed with 2x200 mL H20. After shaking as dry as possible, there was added, in sequence, a solution of 7.6 g methylamine hydrochloride in an equal weight H20,... 

Hydrolysis. Aluminum alkoxides are hydrolysed using either water or sulfuric acid, usually at around 100°C. In addition to the alcohol product, neutral hydrolysis gives high quaUty alumina (see Aluminum compounds) the sulfuric acid hydrolysis yields alum. The cmde alcohols are washed and then fractionated. 

The magnesia and alumina suspension is prepared by treatment of an aqueous solution, containing aluminum and magnesium salt in the desired proportion, with sodium hydroxide. The coprecipitated aluminum and magnesium hydroxides are collected by filtration, washed free of soluble salts, and stabilized by the addition of a suitable hexatol. 

To prepare a USP-grade Epsom salt, higher purity MgO or Mg(OH)2 is used. USP and food grades require low chloride levels, limiting allowable chloride content of the MgO to 0.08 wt %. Trace impurities including iron and aluminum are precipitated using excess MgO. EoUowing crystallization, the Epsom salt is washed free of mother Hquor. 

The solvent is 28 CC-olefins recycled from the fractionation section. Effluent from the reactors includes product a-olefins, unreacted ethylene, aluminum alkyls of the same carbon number distribution as the product olefins, and polymer. The effluent is flashed to remove ethylene, filtered to remove polyethylene, and treated to reduce the aluminum alkyls in the stream. In the original plant operation, these aluminum alkyls were not removed, resulting in the formation of paraffins (- 1.4%) when the reactor effluent was treated with caustic to kill the catalyst. In the new plant, however, it is likely that these aluminum alkyls are transalkylated with ethylene by adding a catalyst such as 60 ppm of a nickel compound, eg, nickel octanoate (6). The new plant contains a caustic wash section and the product olefins still contain some paraffins ( 0.5%). After treatment with caustic, cmde olefins are sent to a water wash to remove sodium and aluminum salts. 

Idemitsu Process. Idemitsu built a 50 t x 10 per year plant at Chiba, Japan, which was commissioned in Febmary of 1989. In the Idemitsu process, ethylene is oligomerised at 120°C and 3.3 MPa (33 atm) for about one hour in the presence of a large amount of cyclohexane and a three-component catalyst. The cyclohexane comprises about 120% of the product olefin. The catalyst includes sirconium tetrachloride, an aluminum alkyl such as a mixture of ethylalurninumsesquichloride and triethyl aluminum, and a Lewis base such as thiophene or an alcohol such as methanol (qv). This catalyst combination appears to produce more polymer (- 2%) than catalysts used in other a-olefin processes. The catalyst content of the cmde product is about 0.1 wt %. The catalyst is killed by using weak ammonium hydroxide followed by a water wash. Ethylene and cyclohexane are recycled. Idemitsu s basic a-olefin process patent (9) indicates that linear a-olefin levels are as high as 96% at C g and close to 100% at and Cg. This is somewhat higher than those produced by other processes. 

Transparent cobalt aluminum blue is prepared by the precipitation of diluted solutions of cobalt and aluminum with alkaHes. The formed precipitate of hydroxides is washed, filtered off, dried, and calcined at about 1000°C. 

The hexahydrate of aluminum chloride is a deUquescent, crystalline soHd soluble in water and alcohol and usually made by dissolving aluminum hydroxide [21645-51 -2] A1(0H)2, ia concentrated hydrochloric acid. When the acid is depleted, the solution is cooled to 0 °C and gaseous hydrogen chloride is introduced. Crystalline aluminum chloride hexahydrate, AIQ 6H20, is precipitated, filtered from the Hquor, washed with ethyl ether, and dried. 

Hydrolysis of aluminum alkoxides is also used commercially to produce precursor gels. This approach avoids the introduction of undesirable anions or cations so that the need for extensive washing is reduced. Although gels having surface area over 800 m /g can be produced by this approach, the commercial products are mosdy pseudoboehmite powders in the 200 —300 m /g range (28). The forming processes already described are used to convert these powders into activated alumina shapes. 

P. D. Hess and M. J. Caprio, "Refractories for Aluminum Melting Operations," 22nd Pacific Coast Regional Meeting Seatde, Wash., American Ceramic Society, Columbus, Ohio, 1969. 

Aluminum sulfate is a starting material in the manufacture of many other aluminum compounds. Aluminum sulfate from clay could potentially provide local sourcing of raw materials for aluminum production. Processes have been studied (24) and the relative economics of using clay versus bauxite have been reviewed (25). It is, however, difficult to remove impurities economically by precipitation, and purification of aluminum sulfate by crystallization is not practiced commercially because the resulting crystals are soft, microscopic, and difficult to wash effectively on a production scale (26—28). 

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