RU2575898C2 - Zirconium metal production from ore water suspension containing zirconium compounds and device to this end - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: mining.

SUBSTANCE: metal zirconium is produced from water suspension of ore particles containing the zirconium compounds. Claimed process comprises the generation in the stock bulk of the physical trapezoidal fields their intensity making 1.1·10⁵ - 1.5·10⁵ A/m. Zirconium recovery is performed at the fed of gas jets feed to the stock plies, said jets consisting of compressed air and carbon as the reducing agent contained in the composition of gases. Produced metal is shaped to a circular column-like monocrystal wholly made of zirconium. Invention proposes also the device to this end.

EFFECT: sufficient purity of product produced from ore stock directly.

2 cl, 5 dwg, 3 ex

Description

The invention relates to technologies used in the production of zirconium metal directly from ore rocks containing compounds of this element, as well as to devices used in the above processes for their processing into this above-mentioned necessary finished product. Synthesis of zirconium metal from the compounds containing it of this element of raw material, the so-called "nuclear purity", during the "classical", and quite established at the moment, of the well-known technology, it necessarily involves in the process of performing the recovery of such a “refined” metal free from the presence of any extraneous “unnecessary” contaminants-contaminants from this ore element containing at least 25 application in the process of its implementation intermediate technological stages.

The latter include:

1. Decomposition (opening) of zirconium ore.

2. Obtaining raw materials for subsequent purification from hafnium (before performing this operation, the feedstock usually contains about 1.5-2% of this, the above-mentioned pollutant element).

3. The separation of compounds of zirconium and hafnium, carried out by synthesis containing either chlorine or fluorine compounds of these previously listed elements (respectively ZrCl4; K ₂ ZrF ₂ + K ₂ HfF ₆ )

4. Reduction of zirconium compounds and obtaining this metal with a low content of hafnium element.

It should also be noted that the main processes for the decomposition of the initial zirconium ore, which are used in the production of this metal, should primarily include the so-called "fluoride chemistry", i.e. the conversion of compounds of this element containing in the raw material into fluorine is potassium zirconate.

The above operation is carried out at temperatures of 700-800 ° C, and is usually accompanied by “concomitant” additional contamination of the mass of synthesized metal zirconium “in addition” also by fluorine. Impurities-pollutants formed in the volume of the obtained metal during the implementation of the above technological transition are usually presented in the form of ZrF ₄ compounds.

In the subsequent stages of the implementation of this known process noted earlier, in the future, the so-called “fractional crystallization” of the fluorinated components formed at the previous stages of the processing of raw materials is also carried out. During the implementation of the above transition, the hafnium element is removed from the composition of the initial zirconium material (the residual content of the latter in the intermediate solution obtained previously drops to a value of 0.04-0.05%). The fluorine-containing zirconium compounds remaining in the volume of this water substance, at the very last, final stages of the treatment process, are reduced to “metal” already using the “electrolytic methods” of synthesizing this very material, which is necessary for its further use for its intended purpose, the finished product), (see the article on the Internet “Obtaining Zirconium of Nuclear Purity” http://www74zif.ru/cer-ua.html)

As a result of the implementation of this, noted earlier, a kind of "finish transition", i.e. the electrolysis operation, which is included as the “main and main” component in the necessary, used in it, set of physical methods used in its implementation, formed with its use metal zirconium powder, ultimately acquires another, extremely undesirable admixture . That is, in the volume of the components of the above powder of metal grains of zirconium, oxygen atoms also begin to be placed, the amount of which can be 0.04-0.05%.

The finally fixed content in the mass of metal zirconium synthesized in accordance with this known technology, ejected with such difficulty directly from its volume of the hafnium element, nevertheless, continues to be within the range of the range, with quite noticeable values of 0.03 ÷ 0.04% .

As clearly follows from all the above information, the classical method for the implementation of the reduction of zirconium metal from raw materials containing compounds of the above element is notable for a rather high degree of complexity of its execution, and is made only with the use of a large number of components necessary for carrying out its implementation “traditional method "Technological stages, while the final and already fully developed at the end of the well-known" traditional "process Started product as would almost inevitably "automatically" includes within its own structure and extremely undesirable "in passing spontaneously" impurities derived contaminants (i.e., the halides, fluoride, hafnium, oxygen, etc.).

At the moment, one more existing technical solution can be ranked among the fairly well-known ones, the process of which, with a high degree of probability, is guaranteed to ensure the formation of metallic zirconium obtained with its use, possessing indicators of the so-called "nuclear" purity, i.e. as if with a significantly reduced amount of additional contaminants included in its composition.

In accordance with this well-known technology, from the initially harvested raw material, at the very first stage of its implementation, first of all, the hafnium oxychloride present in it is extracted, and only then the main initial charge itself is finally formed, containing mainly only zirconium oxychloride.

Then, subsequently, the entire volume of this charge passes through the operation of the so-called “calcination”, at the end of which the “intermediate product” used in the future can be synthesized.

The latter has a kind of increased concentration relative to the content in it necessary for the further implementation of the synthesis of the finished metal, compounds of this element (zirconium oxychloride, zirconium oxide).

After all the technological transitions noted above are completed, the very stage of the reduction of the above metal is carried out, which proceeds directly in the melt of these salts, when the electrolysis process is carried out in it, and the necessary “pair” electrodes (cathode; anode) are used for its implementation .

The metal zirconium formed in accordance with this technological scheme, reduced on the surface of the “galvanic” cathode from the melt of the salt compound containing it, using a very small number of technological stages necessary for synthesizing this element, also has a fairly high degree of intrinsic purity with respect to the content in its mass, the main metal obtained is zirconium, and, in addition, it is produced from the initial raw material product with a smaller amount of the waste generated during its manufacture. (See patent RU No. 2468104 "Method for producing metallic zirconium" C2; C25C 3/26, date of publication - November 27, 2012, hereinafter the prototype.)

However, this well-known technical solution, the prototype, has all the same significant drawbacks that were noted here before, when considering the features of another, almost the same as this, well-known method-analogue.

As in the previous case, which was examined in detail earlier, the process of recovering zirconium from its ore compounds is again carried out using a sufficiently significant and necessary for the achievement of the above goal, the number of technological transitions constituting it.

So, for example, the synthesis of metal zirconium in this case is carried out in at least two stages, that is, first with the use of “calcination”, and then the very final process of its manufacture, electrolytic refining, is carried out, during which the melt is used, consisting of its own salt compounds.

The total total number of the above-mentioned “main stages” and the “main” technological transitions comprising them reaches a value of 33 units.

As obviously follows from the text of the description of this well-known technical solution, the prototype, the applied technological scheme for the extraction of metal - zirconium, does not guarantee the emergence of the possibility for the formation of its crystalline final structure, in the form practically free from the presence of any additional and unwanted contaminants, "accidentally" directly falling into this volume, and, ultimately, hindering the implementation of the "proper" operational use of this, is ready Wow product, for its intended purpose.

Among other things, we must also pay attention to the fact that the implementation of the aforementioned known method for producing metallic zirconium from its initial ore compounds is necessarily accompanied by “large-scale” and almost inevitable industrial pollution of the environment surrounding this production, that is, . "Release" of toxic volatile gas compounds (ie, consisting of chlorine used in the synthesis of zirconium zirconium ZrOCl ₂ ).

All of the above will inevitably increase the level necessary for the implementation of this well-known technology (prototype), and the financial, labor, energy costs used in the process of its implementation, and also adversely affect the quality characteristics obtained at the final stages of the processing of the finished product.

The aim of the invention is the formation, when carrying out the proposed method for producing metal zirconium, of a complex of necessary and most optimal technological conditions, the very fact of the action of which would allow the synthesis of this metal directly from the compounds of the above element, which are part of the initial ore raw materials with the simultaneous implementation of the manufacturing process proceeding at the final stages This technology of processing the starting material, the necessary finished product, directly in the form of a columnar monocrystalline ring formation, which, moreover, must also have high intrinsic physical and mechanical characteristics, as well as the corresponding degree of purity relative to the content in its body of the main its element of zirconium, and, in addition, reducing the level of structural complexity used in carrying out the proposed technology for producing metallic about zirconium, this device itself.

Achieving the above goals is achieved through the use of a "pronounced" influence on the progress of the proposed method for processing the original raw material, the following set of essential technical features.

The first thing that must be noted here is that the proposed method includes, in the course of its execution, the placement of the preformed and containing zirconium compounds of the original ore raw material mixture, in the internal volume of the device used for processing it.

In the above apparatus, after the operation of loading the feedstock is completed, physical fields are also generated, which are superimposed on all zones in its cavity containing the processed raw material placed in them. Using these physical fields, the process of restoring the metal constituting the annular columnar single crystal from the ore material containing the starting compounds of this element is carried out.

The use of the same processing physical fields, in the end, ensures the combination of the individual metal particles included in the composition of the raw material mixture used in the processing and obtained in it into a single monolithic metal structure.

Secondly, it should also be noted that in the process of implementing the proposed method, the mixing of the components of the initial volume of the raw material and its last layers during processing is also carried out. At the same time, the finished product is also accumulated in the device area located in the impact zone of the above-mentioned physical fields used in the processing of raw materials. Upon completion of the processing process, the finished monolithic formation is also unloaded from the cavity of the device used.

As the source of raw materials containing zirconium compounds in the implementation of the proposed technology, water suspension obtained by introducing into a predetermined volume of water with subsequent distribution of a mixture of zirconium ore particles in it is used. The dispersion of the solid components included in the latter is in the range of 0.001-0.008 mm, and their amount in the volume of this aqueous suspension corresponds to a value of 40-70%.

The metal obtained at the end of the processing process itself is formed in the form of an annular columnar single crystal, consisting mainly of the above element, i.e. zirconium, Zr.

As physical fields acting on raw materials, trapezoidal magnetic fields are used, the intensity of which is 1 × 10 ⁵ ÷ 1.5 × 10 ⁵ A / m, and the oscillation frequency corresponds to a value of 20-50 units. in one hour, and the “processing” clusters formed by these physical fields, consisting of lines of force belonging to them, repeat the configuration as close as possible to the outline of the spatial formation obtained by rotating a rectangle elongated in length, making turns about its own longitudinal axis of symmetry.

In this case, the process of forming the finished end product in the form of an annular columnar single crystal is carried out on a metal spacer rod, which acts as a “seed”, located directly to the center of the mobile working chamber used to place the feedstock. On its lateral outer surface at the very first stage of processing, an annular layer is first formed, which is represented by slag waste obtained during processing. Then on this kind of “substrate” the necessary finished finished product is synthesized.

As mentioned earlier, the crystallization of the latter is carried out in the form of an annular columnar formation, which mainly consists of metallic zirconium obtained from ore compounds.

When processing using the proposed method for its implementation, the raw materials used are preloaded into the working chamber, which is hermetically isolated from the rest of the device’s body volume.

The latter, when executed, also makes a reciprocating movement along the body cavity using the round-trip directions, and also makes angular rotations relative to its own longitudinal axis of symmetry.

The above-mentioned angular rotations that make up this camera elements are first performed in a circular path, the outline of which coincides with the clockwise movement on the dial - on the initial direct segment of the movement performed by it, and in the opposite direction, respectively, at the end of the processing cycle, the opposite.

The very arrangement of the areas of formation of the "trapezoidal" magnetic fields was made using three, or a multiple of this number, another number of spiral-shaped mounting cylindrical lines. The latter “encircle” the outer surface of the device’s body, in the cavity of which the reciprocating movement of the working chamber is loaded with the mass of processed raw material loaded into it.

In addition to all of the above, when implementing the proposed technology, the zone of formation of technological "trapezoidal" magnetic fields, which its working chamber periodically moves in the cavity of the device’s body, periodically intersects, is removed from each other by the same mounting distance, and the number of areas in which the generation of the latter is carried out, ranges from nine to eighteen units per each spiral-shaped encircling body used for their placement device curvilinear trajectory.

The recovery process of the metal entering the single crystal is carried out by supplying the components of the processed volume of raw materials to its layers of atmospheric air.

As the element ensuring the fulfillment of this action, carbon is used, which is present in the composition of the gases containing this component, which, in turn, form the jets themselves blown through the working chamber of the above product.

The mixing of the volume of the raw material used to obtain the alloy is carried out in the process of moving it in the internal volume of the movable working chamber, which makes a reciprocating movement in the direction from the rear housing of the device to its front part, and then vice versa. The above operation is performed by crushing and transferring from one region of the volume of the cavity of the working chamber to another constituent of the processed mass of its individual microports, which proceeds under the influence of blows created by the intersecting jets of compressed air supplied to the latter. Receipt of the same product to the aforementioned zones is carried out under excess pressure, which corresponds to the value 0.4 ÷ 6.0 kgf / cm ^2.

Themselves of this kind, "piercing" the material layers of the raw material jet stream flows are formed using specially provided for this action blowing elements - nozzles. The latter are evenly fixed on three installation spiral lines, which are laid between the corresponding turns of the curves used to place the magnetic generators.

The blasting elements themselves, which ensure the supply of pressures consisting of the above product and directed directly to the volume of the feedstock of this kind of “crossing” flows, have both tangential and radial tilt angles of 30-45 ° with respect to the surface on which this processed material at a given time and is located.

The loading of the feedstock used for processing, as well as the unloading of the finished columnar ring single crystal at the end of the processing process, is carried out in a separate, removable cap compartment connected to the fixed main body of the device designed to perform the above technological transitions.

The device itself, designed to implement a method of producing metallic zirconium from an aqueous suspension containing compounds of this element of ore particles, includes a housing consisting of two parts. One of the "component" parts of this case is collapsible and is made in the form of a cap removable cap that fits into the fixed main cylindrical shell-body. Docking is carried out using annular flat connecting flanges, and the length of the fixed element indicated above the assembly, is 80-85% of the total corresponding dimension of the latter. The rest of its length falls on its removable part - a cap. In addition, a movable working chamber is installed in the cavity of the fixed part of the device casing, kinematically connected by means of a running roller attached to the components of the last parts, with an external drive for transmitting movement, the presence of which ultimately allows its reciprocating movement along the internal cavity of this assembly the device’s body, in a round-trip direction, while simultaneously rotating its structural elements relative to its own longitudinal axis of sym etria.

The direction of such rotation changes to the opposite at the time when the mobile working chamber is returned from the final position it occupied by this node to its original initial position.

This working chamber itself is formed by the left and right “piston-like” restrictive cheeks fixed on the roller. Between the above parts of the composite working chamber, a spacer rod-seed is used, which is used to deposit the finished product obtained in it on its lateral outer surface.

At the same time, the cheeks of the working chamber that are moved inside the cavity of the assembly case of the device perform the functions of a double piston in it, and have sealing seals on their outer side surface.

It should also be noted that focusing magnetic nozzles are passed through the walls of the fixed part of the housing, as well as blowing nozzles for forming compressed air jets entering the internal volume of this component of the assembly of the device assembly, as well as, respectively, clusters of magnetic field lines generated by the focusing nozzles having the configuration elongated along a straight line of radial cylindrical rays - "logs".

The arrangement of both those and other structural elements of this device is made on cylindrical spiral lines encircling its body.

The number of such kind of installation curves used to fix each such part is three, or any other number that is a multiple of this value, their units. The number of magnetic loops placed on each of these curved paths, which include focusing plates, is from nine to eighteen pieces.

Evenly spaced on similar in shape and using the same number of spirals located in turn between the turns used to arrange the magnetic contours of the curved installation lines, the blowing nozzles have both radial and tangential angles of 30-40 ° relative to the surface of the housing on which they are mounted.

The working elements of the processing magnetic generators themselves are made in the form of plates of magnetically conductive material joined together, with the formation of an F-shaped magnetic circuit during their installation.

In the volume of the individual components of this assembly, three electrical windings of the coil are placed, both in the left and right halves of the circuit.

The total number of such coil windings placed in each circuit is thus six. The electrical elements of the magnetic circuit noted above fulfill the function of solenoids in it.

Each such winding coil is connected to the corresponding "pseudophase" of an external source of electrical power supply. The input of sets of electric pulses generated by this external power source, each of which takes the form of an “isosceles trapezoid,” is produced on separate solenoids with an angular displacement of the signal components that make up these packets with respect to the same ones, but supplied to neighboring windings-coils, as well as to generators placed on adjacent mounting spirals.

The value of the above angular displacement is a value of 120 °. In the lower horizontal crossbar of each F-shaped magnetic generator, that is, the recess in it for this purpose, the shank of the cylindrical focusing nozzle is pressed in, the opposite end of which goes into the mounting hole made in the installation sleeve, passed through the walls of the fixed part of the housing. The aforementioned nozzle also has a cavity in the form of a cavity with the configuration of a spatial rotation hyperboloid formed on its lower end part and focusing magnetic field lines.

The “curvilinear recesses” on the inner side surface of its cavity, obtained in places of passage through the walls of the housing of the mounting sleeves with focusing magnetic nozzles, as well as blowing nozzles, are equipped with “smoothing” washers. The latter are made either of magnetic conductive powder pressed into the volume of these recesses - in the case of placement of magnetic focusing nozzles there, or in the form of split petal membranes of elastic rubber located near the outlet openings of the blowing nozzles.

In addition to all of the above, exhaust pipes are mounted in the left and right halves of the fixed casing for the discharge into the external atmosphere of the excess gas accumulated in the working chamber, equipped with pressure reducing valves. The triggering of these elements is carried out in the case when the pressure value of the volatile compounds formed in the volume of the mobile working chamber exceeds its value specified by the processing technology.

Again, it should be noted that at the intersection of the body of these pipes with the lateral inner surface of the fixed body, plastic perforated smoothing washers are mounted, which ensure the smooth flow of the sliding process in these areas of the right and left cheek pistons, as well as the output through the through holes in the aforementioned details for perforation of the excess gas volumes filling it.

It is also necessary to point out that in the upper part of the removable cap of the device, there is a loading hopper, the internal volume of which through the through hatch made in this part of the device’s installation, made in this part of the device’s casing, communicates with the cavity located underneath the movable working chamber, occupying at the time of its filling the initial position before the start of the processing cycle.

Based on all the above features of the proposed method, as well as taking into account the specifics of using the entire set of the previously mentioned significant design features in the device used to implement this technology, we can come to the final conclusion that their presence allows you to fundamentally change the nature of the formation process annular columnar single crystal, consisting mainly of metal zirconium obtained by processing the initial revogo material.

In connection with the fact that the above circumstances exist, the previously mentioned technology begins to acquire the following characteristic differences inherent only to it. First, the latter should definitely include the fact that the very initial stage of the implementation of the proposed method includes the stage of the so-called "ultrafine grinding" of pieces of initial ores containing zirconium compounds.

During its implementation, any known methods of crushing bulk material known in industrial production, for example, performed using conventional ball mills, are used. When applying the above device to achieve this goal, pieces of the initial raw material mass used in the proposed technology were ground using the latter to obtain ore particles from them having overall dimensions in the range from 0.001 to 0.008 mm.

The implementation of the above operation to "grind" large lumps of rock and further provides the possibility of forming from the thus obtained "powder", consisting of these small ore particles, containing, in turn, zirconium compounds, a kind of "dry residue", entirely composed of the above solid feed component.

The above ore components of such an initial mixture immediately before the crushing operation of the ore lumpy material used in its composition passes, respectively, through the preliminary dosage stage, at the end of which the further supply of the starting materials necessary for processing is guaranteed in a predetermined predetermined ratio that ensures preservation of their technological percentage in the amount of raw materials used in its implementation. This technological transition itself, that is, this preliminary dosage, is most often carried out by weighing the ore components included in the raw material mixture (i.e., correspondingly, the required volume of zirconium ore used in the future).

From this kind of “powder” obtained by carrying out “ultrafine grinding” consisting of small particles of zirconium rock, the formation of the raw material used to process the raw materials into a metal ring columnar single crystal is made, liquid, homogeneous, not stratified into separate components for a sufficiently long time a period of time, a mud-like mass - that is, the water suspension itself is made.

In order to synthesize the latter, it will only be necessary to add the required amount of water (30-60% of the total mass of this solid material) to the “powder” volume obtained in this way, consisting of small particles of the previously indicated ore rock. After performing such an action, the two-component substance thus obtained (a mixture of solid particles plus water) is thoroughly mixed.

To implement this technological transition, any industrial equipment designed for the implementation of the above goal can be used, for example, an ordinary paddle mechanical mixer. A homogeneous “mud-like” portion of the volume of the aqueous suspension formed at the end of its holding, consisting of these two components listed above, is then placed in the cavity of the loading hopper 2, which is part of the removable part of the housing used in the processing process of this device itself. From the cavity of the loading hopper 2, a water suspension through a through-hole “B” (see FIG. 1) through the through-hole in the removable cap 4 flows by gravity into the interior of the mobile working chamber, located directly below the loading hopper, and formed by restricting it to the right and on the left side by the cheeks-pistons 3, which are part of such a node, as indicated above. Upon completion of the operation of the complete withdrawal of all previously filled the volume of the feed hopper 2 of the raw material mass 1 into the above cavity of the mobile working chamber, the following actions are performed.

Immediately and simultaneously connected to external power sources, carrying out the formation and supply of "trapezoidal" electrical pulses all included in the composition of the F-shaped magnetic generators 11 of their winding-coil 13.

The roller 8 is set in motion, and makes the structural elements making up the working chamber move in the direction from the initial initial position, to the very front “right” part of the fixed half of the device body 6. Simultaneously with the execution of the above translational motion at a speed of 40-60 minutes, the details of the working chamber also carry out additional angular rotations relative to its own longitudinal axis of symmetry (2-4 rpm). Furthermore, the external air supply pressurized line (0.4-6 kgf / cm ^2); connected placed on the spirals "D" passing between the respective turns of the installation curves "G" lines with generators 11 fixed on them, blowing nozzles 10.

Thus, starting the treatment cycle, the working chamber with the processed raw material 1 caught between the cheeks 3 forming it, is extended from the cavity of the cap removable cap 4, and passes after this action, directly into the internal volume of the fixed body 6 (see Fig. 1) . As the value of the depth of penetration of the working chamber directly into the above-mentioned cavity of this collection unit increases, the material placed in the last raw material 1 is subjected to a constantly amplifying force effect, which is realized as “penetrating” the layers that make up its mass and “intersecting” the jets of compressed from the nozzles 10 air, and from the side generated by the focusing nozzles 14 of the magnetic "beam" cylindrical flows "K" (see figure 3). Due to the fact that all the above structural elements are placed on the spirals “G” and “D” encircling the outer side surface of the housing 6 (3 units + 3 units), the internal cavity with a “turtle” speed crawling along the body 6 devices of the working chamber with the raw material 1 which is processed into metal and placed therein, when carrying out its movement, inevitably falls into the zone of influence of all these power energy formations listed above.

The above-mentioned spatial technological systems, consisting of the individual “physical” elements forming the last, have the same, strictly preserved own configuration, oriented in a certain way relative to the trajectory line, which the working chamber lays when performing its translational movement along the inner surface of the device’s assembly case. That is, taking into account the fact of the presence of the action of the above circumstances, we can confidently assume the following: after a certain, rather insignificant period of time, in the space separating the left and right cheeks 3 of this assembly unit, a whole set of factors begins to act, formed using all of the above and used in the structure of the design of the device power spiral formations.

Firstly, a mass of processed raw materials 1 covering the bottom at the moment the working chamber performs such a translational movement from the initially occupied last position to the front “right” end of the housing 6, a series of “crossing air strikes” directed at different spatial angles falls.

This kind of flow of action from the side of the air flows formed by the jet nozzles 10 is explained, first of all, by the selected scheme for mounting them on the housing 6 (that is, by placing them along the spiral line “D” around the device’s body and at “oblique” angles to the surface of the housing, on which they are fixed).

Feeling the constant influence of the latter, the compact “heap” of raw materials resting in the very bottom of the working chamber, in the literal sense of the word, is “scattered” into separate, small, previously micro-volumes of it. These new “microscopic” raw material fragments obtained from the source material are picked up by a peculiar vortex “tornado” “E” formed between the corresponding surfaces of the right and left cheeks 3, and after that they begin to circulate forcibly given by its action in the circuits creating such a spiral flow and generated using nozzles 10, comprising this gas formation and its constituent jets.

It should also be remembered that due to the ongoing and continuously carried out application of the previously mentioned “series”, as if represented by such “air attacks” carried out in the above zones, torn from the place of their original “basing”, and distributed across all components of the working chamber to its individual regions, the smallest portions of the starting material 1 will inevitably be converted into aerosol bubbles formed from small air gas formations, as well as films of the liquid covering them, and also microscopic particles of ore rock adhering directly to its surface.

As already noted above, the entire mass of this kind of aerosol foam obtained in the aforementioned manner continues to flow continuously between the cheeks 3 bounding the cavity of the mobile working chamber, and directed along the orientation spiral defined by the vortex flow “E” - a kind of “forced” circulation .

The previously noted nature of the transfer of the constituents of this “aerosol” cloud of layers is protected throughout the entire period of time during which the working chamber is moved in the device casing 6 in a round-trip direction.

In the process of performing this forced circulation of the “foamed mass” obtained in the cavity of the mobile working chamber from “aerosol bubbles”, ore microparticles placed on them necessarily “run” against the body cavity 6 piercing “through and through”, and, consequently, constituting the separation space between the cheeks 3 of the working chamber of the region, rectilinear cylindrical and radially directed, rotating clusters "K" belonging to the trapezoidal ones created in the device m ”to magnetic fields.

The presence of a constant action of this circumstance during the processing of raw materials, again again leads to the inevitable emergence of a number of new physical factors that influence and transform the structure of the ore components of the initial product.

In fact, each separately taken kind of “technological” aerosol bubble, in the process of making its own complex spatial movement along a curved three-coordinate trajectory, as it were, “tears” through the “picket fence” facing it, which again consists of separate generatrices arranged in a spatial spiral its "logs" - that is, clusters located radially in the cavity of the device, and stretched directly in its constituent zones, moreover, having the configuration n rectilinear cylindrical structural formations rotating around their axis of symmetry, consisting of magnetic lines of force assembled into a "tight bunch".

Among other things, the “height” of these movements placed directly on the path of such an “aerosol foam” and, as it were, a kind of obstacle to it, are at once three “stockade” constructed along the trajectory of its movement (magnetic generators 11 are mounted on three encircling buildings 6 set spirals “G”), moreover, and continuously changes its own value.

That is, each “power” log included in this kind of “fence” alternately either increases its length, then again resets this parameter to almost zero, and with all this, it also rotates around its own longitudinal axis.

The aforementioned phenomenon occurs due to the fact that the sets of electric pulses sent to the generating magnetic fields solenoids 13 have a "trapezoidal" shape (see Fig. 5 - pseudophases a, b, c), and are fed with an angular offset relative to each other.

In addition, the individual logs erected on the path of moving individual aerosol bubbles of this kind of "fence" also have mounting displacements relative to the same exact "stockade" used in neighboring, located next to it (pulses applied to solenoids 13 also shifted into each pseudophase a, 6, c sent to the solenoids by an angle of 120 ° - see Fig. 5)

The straightness of the outlines formed by the focusing nozzles 14 clusters (cylindrical logs) generated by the contours of 11 magnetic lines is ensured by the use of the so-called last concentrating recesses "M" made in the form of a recess in the form of a spatial rotation hyperboloid (see figure 3).

Based on the foregoing, we can come to the final conclusion that a “three-way” technological complex consisting of the above-mentioned magnetic barriers, some elements of which also change their height periodically, erected through the erected directly on the trajectory of their movement and rotate around its axis, the microscopic particles of the processed raw materials inevitably pass through the “continuous downpour" applied with the use of the entire possible set of spatial directions of their impact Wii, and continuously modify their own value generated by these components "palisades" beams, large power strokes.

Under the influence of the latter, the molecules of compounds containing the metal forming the single crystal produced are broken up into separate “fragmentary” components, which are included in the composition of the aerosol bubbles “attached” to the film coating of microscopic solid particles of the initial ore rock. At the same time, all types of valence bonds forming them earlier, both ionic and covalent, are broken.

The individual atoms that were previously made up of their "raw" molecules, under the influence of the powerful external continuously performed external energy action indicated above, rearrange their original structure - the electrons they have move from lower orbits relative to their core to higher ones, their spin moments change. As a result of all this, in the final final version of the structural adjustment, the “fragments” of atoms located directly in the processing zone and obtained in the above manner are transformed into positively or negatively charged particles — that is, into ions. But this kind of technological complex, as if formed from a “vibrating peak” of a kind of jackhammers (this tool is the power flows generated by magnetic circuits 11 and sent through nozzles 14), “breaks”, and also turns into a set of “activated fragments” not only compounds contained in solid raw particles and processed into a finished metal end product, but also “breaks” the gas molecules in the same zone containing a reducing element, that is, carbon. The latter, as already noted earlier, is part of the gases necessarily present in atmospheric air and its constituent gases (СО ₂ ; СН ₄ ).

The appearance of a carbon ion synthesized in the above manner, that is, a substance having the pronounced properties of a reducing component, in the immediate vicinity of activated by using powerful magnetic fluxes and previously obtained “fragmentation” fragments containing charged metal particles, and provides a “strong” connection of the released during the “destruction” of the initial molecules-compounds of oxygen atoms, which instantly form strong valence bonds with the reducing element indicated above, and in f course eventually removed from the field of processing, becoming a new volatile gas connection. The volumes of gas thus formed leave the cavity of the working chamber at times when it moves through the installation zones of the exhaust pipes 18 (Fig. 1) equipped with pressure reducing valves 19. When the latter are actuated, they are configured for a specific and predetermined technological overpressure accumulated in the cavity portions of already unnecessary volatile compounds are sent through the upper end of the exhaust pipe 18 directly to the surrounding device, the external atmosphere.

These metal components that arose in this way themselves, are formed directly from the constituent ore and reduced from the compounds present there, the elements necessary for this, and create in the processing area at the very initial stage of its implementation, still microscopic crystallization centers, mainly consisting of the obtained thus the finished product.

Under the influence of a continuously working vortex circulating in the cavity of the working chamber, and a vortex artificially formed there, they at this “starting” stage of processing move in it so far only in the direction from its left cheek 3 to the right, and then vice versa, as if freely “floating” »In its rotating at high speed spiral jets.

It is imperative that additional attention also be paid to the fact that, when conducting a more detailed examination of the features of the technology, these metal grains-nuclei of the future single-crystal in the “tornado” and its constituent air layers, which seem to be without any noticeable difficulties ring formation, the presence of the fact of the action of one, but very significant circumstance, which facilitates, so to speak, the process of their unhindered appearance in the "white light" is inevitably revealed.

Separate aerosol foam bubbles carried there by a spiral-shaped “hurricane” containing microparticles used in ore processing, moving in the volume of a mobile working chamber using a complex set of curved spatial paths, repeatedly change their position relative to their own three-axis symmetry axes. Moreover, such “foamy” bubbles also constantly move “here and there”, “here and there”, in different directions from the direction of the metal that is specially carried out in the zone of metal recovery and is continuously created in the device itself, necessary to perform the above operation, technological force action, formed in the same processing area, where all these bubbles at a given time themselves are located.

Figuratively speaking, each separate raw material particle of this kind at the moment of applying a power processing blow exposes one “side” or the other under it, and continuously rotating at the same time, provides a reason for it to make up all its own volume and the microlayers of the source material .

Due to the action of the aforementioned factor, the processing magnetic fluxes generated in the device acquire the most optimal conditions for free access to all structural formations that make up these solid microparticles, and this ensures the highest possible speed of a kind of “transforming” and “changing” processing of incoming in the last of their starting compounds, in the necessary finished product.

The previously noted free air “planning” of newly emerged crystalline zirconium nuclei in vortex-like jet streams continues until the mass of the latter becomes so significant that the force of gravity acting on them does not start significantly exceed the aerodynamic lifting created by the vortex formation.

This kind of "growth" of small grains into larger granules becomes possible due to the influence of two immediately, ensuring the inevitable implementation in practice of this factor, simultaneously existing processes. In accordance with the first of the above, a grain of Zr “flying” in the thickness of an aerosol cloud inevitably imposes on the outer surface other, smaller solid particles surrounding it from all sides, appropriately placed at this point in time, on the smallest aerosol bubbles. The latter, encountering a solid “huge” crystalline grain flying directly on their forehead at high speed, simply collapse, throwing ore microparticles attached to the surface of this air bubble and transferred to it before that. As a result of the fulfillment of a number of such numerous collisions, the outer surface of the crystalline nucleus “hovering” in the air flow acquires a kind of “coat” consisting of microporosity scattered around it by other neighboring aerosol bubbles, and, as a result of the above action, “sticks” directly to it, ore rock. Due to the fact that the process of its movement continues to take place in swirling air streams covering the “embryo” from all sides, the latter crosses repeatedly and periodically with its whole body created by installation spirals radially located along the installation spirals used in the device and piercing by its clusters of magnetic lines of force of the physical fields generated there, a kind of processing and hanging in the volume of the working chamber itself, a “cylindrical vibrating fringe”.

The aforementioned processes of conversion contained in the layers of ore rock contained in the adhering to the crystalline nucleus body, consisting of compounds that are part of the final metal product, continue to be carried out there in accordance with the technological scheme already discussed above. As a result of this, the “enveloping” body of the “grain” transferred by the vortex currents of the “seed coat” element, ultimately turns into a full-fledged metal coating uniformly distributed over the entire outer surface of the latter. Located directly under the very base of this metal film formed from a raw "fur coat" and adjacent to it, the "outer" layers of the crystalline nucleus in this case serve as a seed substrate, on which the process of its growth is carried out. Ultimately, the Zr metal crystalline “flying” through the cavity of the mobile working chamber, as a result of all this, significantly increases its initial overall dimensions, and, consequently, its volume and its own mass.

Simultaneously with the above-mentioned scheme for growing larger metal crystals from any “germ” fines formed earlier in the processing zone, there is another, second mechanism for synthesizing similar large-sized structural formations. The latter is carried out as follows. When performing complex spatial displacements in the space bounded by the cavity of the mobile working chamber with small, just newly crystallized metal grains of metal, situations inevitably arise when these microscopic metal “grains” directly collide with each other. Since in the zone of such “mutual collisions”, as a rule, clusters of magnetic lines of force are placed, collected in a “tight” cylindrical beam, that is, there is always a kind of “processing fringe” created by the magnetic circuits 11 and focusing nozzles 14, then the small metal nuclei that "came across" each other, as a result of this, are glued together under the influence of the above-mentioned power "tools", forming as a result a new composite structure. It is quite clear that it has large linear dimensions, relative to those that had the initial, individual formations.

In practice, the above-mentioned mechanisms for the formation of large-sized “scaly” structures from any metal fines that appeared in the processing area of the raw material flow together and at the same time, which ensures the transformation of small crystalline grains that appear in it into a kind of large-sized pieces obtained in the processing zone "Granular" finished product.

Since the above “combined” formations are no longer able, due to a serious increase in their own weight, to continue the process of their “swimming” in the jets of the whirling air flow created in the cavity of the mobile working chamber, the latter fall vertically downward under the influence of gravitational forces, and reach the most extreme lower horizontal level of their possible subsequent placement in the device casing. On the outer lateral surface of the seed rod 7, installed directly along the longitudinal axis of symmetry of the device, an annular layer "G" has formed by this point in time (see Fig. 2), consisting of those formed during the direct reduction of metal from its ore compounds “Sticky” slag waste. The latter, as a rule, consist of 80-85% of the volume of slag included in the above “tailings” obtained and accumulated in this zone, i.e. the so-called ferrozirconoaluminosilicates.

This intermediate layer “Zh” enveloping the outer surface of the seed rod 7 appears there primarily due to the fact that in the central zone of the working chamber, aerodynamic forces that are generated mainly by “peripheral” jets passing through it practically do not act on the particles placed in it swirl air flow "E". That is, this seed rod 7 is placed, as it were, in the very "eye of the storm", where the "calm" always reigns. Possessing good “adhesive” ability, small particles of slag waste synthesized in the working chamber under the influence of air flows created in its cavity and directed from its periphery to the center of the air (from the high pressure zone in the region of maximum vacuum) almost always carry out its own radially directional movement, which, ultimately, collects them together and causes the ring layer “G” to “stick together” into the encircling rod-seed 7 (see FIG. 2). The latter has a rather "loose" structure, and subsequently easily disconnects into its component parts when the finished product is removed from the device body, which has the shape of an annular columnar single crystal "And" (see figure 2).

Similar processes take place when receiving the metal-containing end product in the device. That is, a part of the strongly “sprawled” crystalline nuclei of the synthesized metal falls down, falling directly onto the outer surface of the annular layer of “Ж” slag located in the center of the chamber and formed there earlier and is stuck on its plane in contact with them, creating this, as it were, “secondary zones” of the course of further growth in the volume of the final finished formation formed there. Once again, the same grains from the synthesized element begin to use these pieces of metal that have previously fallen into the above region as a supporting base substrate, which allows their further growth to occur and, ultimately, to form due to the “merging” of all these individual “grains” »Into an integral monolith, of the finished end product - a columnar ring single crystal, consisting mainly of one zirconium.

A somewhat different picture is observed when metal grains that increase their own initial mass, due to the action of any complex of negative factors, fly “past the target” —that is, they fall down, bypassing the central core-seed 7, and eventually fail in the lowest region of the fixed body 6.

Once on its very “bottom”, they can either fall directly onto the petals of the split smoothing washer 17 (see FIG. 4), covering the nozzle outlet 10, or onto the surface of a kind of gap separating such distributed over the lateral outer surface of the assembly 6 included in its composition blowing elements 10.

In the first version, a “blasting” stream of compressed air under a sufficiently high pressure, bending the radial petals of the smoothing washer 17 to the side (see Fig. 4), immediately throws a “grain” of metal into this zone at an inclined angle towards that plane, on which it lay, as well as up.

As a result of performing the above own movement, the direction of which is determined by the existing tangential and radial angles of inclination of the blowing nozzles 10 installed on the sheathing spiral “D”, and a metal particle falling under the impact of an air stream will either be thrown into the central region of the working chamber and as a result of this again however, it will be glued to the growing single crystal “I”, or will come into direct contact with the surface of the cavity that limits the cavity of the moving working chamber with one of its sides n, piston cheeks 3. With such a collision, the “metal grain” makes a rebound, and again, either “bounces” off the plane of this element of the device and moves to the “core” of the working chamber filled with an expanding metal single crystal “I”, or again falls into the lower region of the housing 6. In this case, the cycle of movement of a metal particle is repeated in exactly the same way. The “metal grains” that fell on the “isthmus of the isthmus” between the nozzles 10 installed in the device’s case sooner or later are pushed out from their original location by the surface of the continuously and progressively moving cheek-piston 3 of the working chamber, which, moreover, also “scrolls” around its own longitudinal axis of symmetry.

Thus, this part of the metal particles accumulated on the "bottom" of the housing 6 is "retracted" to parts of its surface through which jets of compressed air entering the volume of the working chamber are passed.

Finding yourself in these areas of the surface of the housing 6, and this accumulation of “grains” of this finished final product obtained in the working chamber, will go through the entire previously disassembled cycle, consisting of “rebounds” and “rebounds”, which ultimately, due to the action of ordinary laws statistical probability, will force the latter to take the necessary final position, fixed right in the thickness of the grown single crystal “I”.

The above-mentioned processes of forming an annular columnar single crystal “And” on a seed rod 7 (see FIG. 1) continue throughout the entire period of time during which the working chamber is moved, back and forth corresponding dimension of which in connection with the above above and amounts to 15-20% of the value of this parameter determining the total length of the device used for its movement. Based on the need to create optimal conditions for completing the processing process, the choice of the value of the speed of its longitudinal feed (40-60 mm / min) was made. The working chamber makes angular rotations of the latter around its own longitudinal axis of symmetry at an insignificant speed - only 2-4 rpm.

When reversing in the opposite direction (the reverse segment of the path of movement carried out by the camera), the seed rod 7, as it were, “winds” the metal layers formed around it onto its outer surface, thereby increasing the uniformity of the distribution of their own thicknesses obtained in these zones over the entire the length of the body of the "I" single crystal itself forming in the working chamber.

So, having reached its extreme final front “right” position, and having received the appropriate commands from the external power supply and control unit used in the device, the working camera begins to move in the opposite direction, that is, it begins to move to the very back “left” part of the device’s body 6 until she again takes the same initial position in the cavity of the removable cap 4, in which she was at the very initial stage of the processing process. During the implementation of this part of the cycle of this kind of reverse movement of this working unit of the device, which is performed at the same speed as the direct one, processes of “final completion” of the formation of the resulting columnar ring single crystal consisting of a zirconium element continue to be carried out in it. That is, in fact, the refinement of its configuration and composition is carried out to the final standards required by the processing technology.

Having moved to the extreme left position, and having again taken its initial position, upon completion of the above steps, the working chamber of the device thereby completes the entire cycle of the process of processing the feedstock into the desired final product. Accordingly, at this stage they are switched off: a drive that ensures reciprocating and rotational movement of the working chamber, the solenoids 13 of the magnetic generators 11 are de-energized, and the nozzles 10 are disconnected from the external supply line of compressed air. In this case, from the back of the housing 6 due to the release of the pressed flanges 9, the detachable cap 4 is disconnected.

After that, the attracting piston-like cheek 3 is unscrewed to the supporting shoulders of the seed rod 7 of the nut 9, and the cheek 3 is removed from the corresponding end of the roller 8 (see Fig. 1). The single crystal Zr “I” obtained by processing the single crystal, due to the presence of an intermediate loose layer of slag waste “Ж”, easily collides with the outer surface of the seed rod 7 and is sent for its intended use. The processing cycle can be considered complete.

The processes of direct restoration of the constituting element of the obtained single-crystal single crystal element from its ore compounds at the time they are exposed to by artificially created powerful magnetic fluxes are carried out in accordance with the following schemes for the conversion of the initial components.

CO ₂ → C ⁺⁴ + 2O ^-2 ; H ₂ O → 2H ⁺ + O ^-2 ;

CH ₄ → C ⁺⁴ + 4H ⁺ + 8e;

ZrO ₂ + 2O ^-2 + C + ⁴ → ZrO ₃ + CO;

ΖrO ₃ → Zr ⁺⁶ + 3O ^-2 ;

СО + CO → 2С ⁺⁴ + 2O ^- 2 + 4е;

Zr ⁺⁶ + 6e → Zr ⁰ ;

C ⁺⁴ + 2O ^-2 → CO ₂ ;

H ⁺ + H ⁺ → H ₂ + 2e;

Fe ₂ O ₃ + ZrO ₂ + Al ₂ O ₃ + SiO ₂ → Fe ₂ O ₃ × ZrO ₂ × Al ₂ O ₃ × SiO ₂ ;

where e is an electron; or a single charge with a negative value of the intrinsic valency obtained in the process of ionizing the atoms that make up the raw materials and form them.

Thus, by considering the synthesis of components of an annular columnar single crystal of metal from its compounds, carried out in accordance with the above schemes, it can be concluded that directly and inverse molecular transformations continuously occur directly in the processing zone during the implementation of the proposed method of raw materials with a shift in the chemical equilibrium formed in it towards the formation of single-crystal columnar in this region structure - created from an element of zirconium, as well as the external atmosphere that escapes into the device used in the process, emitted during the complex of these reactions of microvolumes of the above volatile gaseous products (CO ₂ ; H ₂ O; H ₂ ).

Thus, their previous analysis allows us to state that the carbon element С ⁺⁴ в is obtained from carbon-containing molecules that are part of the atmosphere and include this component (CO ₂ ; CH ₄ ) of gases during magnetic strikes as a result, it takes away from the corresponding zirconium compounds the atomic oxygen released during the decomposition of these components, while being tightly attached to the latter. In addition to direct ones, as was previously reported, reverse reactions also occur in the processing zone, during which volatile gases are formed that have, under the conditions of this powerful and continuously performed energy exposure, a minimum of their internal energy (H ₂ O; CO ₂ ; Н ₂ , etc.).

Due to the influence of the whole complex of conditions indicated above, the new metal formation thus obtained is a stable, in relation to the influence of all these external, artificially created force factors, annular columnar single crystal having the same predefined spatial configuration, components which do not go into connection with other active components located next to it under the conditions of this intensively conducted energy exposure.

The characteristic features of crystallization of the individual metal components included in it should include, first of all, the fact that the very formation of the latter, the above-mentioned individual structural elements, is clearly defined by such a basic parameter of the technological process of processing as the magnitude of the tension generated in the implementation zone transforming the initial metal compounds into the necessary final product, generated there "trapezoidal" magnetic fields.

That is, this very possibility of obtaining it is determined, first of all, by the urgent need to strictly comply with the established technology for processing raw materials, the lower limit of the range of possible changes in the value of this parameter (the tension in the processing zone should always be ≥1 × 10 ⁵ A / m) and the oscillation frequency of the processing physical fields used in the synthesis of zirconium metal can only correspond to 30-50 vibrations per hour.

In general, it should be considered that the previously mentioned specific features inherent in the processing technology performed in the aforementioned manner as if allow simulating the conditions for the so-called "melting zone". That is, the implementation of the crystal growth process in the working chamber constantly moving in the cavity of the working chamber with its angular rotations around its own longitudinal axis of symmetry, the supply of "trapezoidal" pulses having angular displacements relative to each other and in adjacent pseudophase packets that supply them composed in ultimately, and ensures the formation of the crystalline structure obtained in the device in the form of a columnar annular monolithic formation consisting solely of th main cell - metal - namely zirconium.

Other pollutants, which are also present in the composition of the impurities present in the initial raw material mixture, will inevitably be converted to new crystalline formations, subsequently of which finely dispersed loose slag waste appears upon completion of the processing. The latter are miniature yellow grains with a greenish tint, with overall dimensions from 0.1 to 0.6 mm. The composition of these “tails” for the most part consists of “contaminant impurities” that were previously part of the ore rock used in the processing — zircon, which subsequently enters into a series of exactly the same proceeding directly in the structural zone transformations of the ore components used, chemical reactions, were turned into a set of the specific slag wastes indicated above (ie non-metallic “grains” consisting of Hf; SiO ₂ ; U ₃ O ₈ ; P ₂ O ₅ ; ZrO ₂ ; Al ₂ O ₃ ; Fe ₂ O ₃ ; TiO ₂ , etc.).

Some, relatively small part of them are represented, as was already noted earlier, by particles of ferrozirconoaluminosilicates, as well as their analogues very similar to the same substance - ferrotitanoaluminosilicates. The amount of both those and other slag components is on average 10-20% of the total, obtained at the end of the processing of raw materials, the volume of these "tails".

The above substance can be used after additional grinding and mixing with water, for the formation of products consisting of electrical insulating, refractory ceramics.

The role of the feedstock for the implementation of the proposed method can be various concentrates of ore rocks, which include any zirconium compounds as one of the constituents of the latter components. Their processing can be carried out without involving any additional operations for their preliminary post-treatment.

The processing of the raw feed slurry, carried out in accordance with the proposed technology, is carried out with the intensity of the "trapezoidal" magnetic fields, measured directly in the cavity of the working chamber used, amounting to 1 × 10 ⁵ ÷ 1.5 × 10 ⁵ A / m. The oscillation frequency of these force formations used for processing the initial ore materials is in the range from 30 to 50 units, passed through the solenoids of the processing magnetic circuits of the “trapezoidal" pulses for one hour.

When performing the proposed method for processing raw materials, i.e. upon receipt of metal zirconium from the initial ore material, a technological magnetic system mounted on three encircling the outer side surface of the housing was used, in turn, consisting of F-shaped magnetic circuits, in the lower part of which there were focusing tips “passed” through the walls of this assembly unit of the device, located in installation sleeves. The number of such magnetic generators fixed on each installation spiral passing through the device casing was from nine to eighteen units.

The F-shaped magnetic contours that process the raw materials are mounted on the surface of the device’s body in such a way that the focusing nozzle in them, located in the mounting cavity of the mounting sleeve, passes through the case walls in a radial direction relative to the longitudinal axis of symmetry of this assembly (i.e., at an angle 90 ° to the installation spiral line).

The angles at which the blasting nozzles 0 were fixed were equal to 30-45 ° (both tangential and radial) relative to the surface of the housing on which they were mounted. The installation of these nozzles 10 was carried out in exactly the same way as the processing magnetic circuits 11, that is, also using three mounting spirals. In the feed hopper 2, which is a part of the removable sleeve cap 4, which is directly included in the removable cap 4, 60 liters of the initial raw material mass were charged before starting the process of producing metal zirconium. The latter was obtained by mixing small, with the consistency of powder, particles of zirconium ore in a given volume of water, a two-component mud-like water suspension. The solid components used in the composition of this initial raw material product, forming the so-called “dry residue” in it, were obtained from the nearest processing plants where concentrates were made from quarry ore rocks being developed nearby, in order to further use the resulting product to satisfy the relevant the needs of existing metallurgical production.

Before starting the preparation of the raw aqueous suspension, an operation was carried out to break up the pieces of ore concentrates of the pieces that are described above into fine particles, carried out using a conventional ball mill. Before crushing pieces of rock, dosing of the ore concentrates used in the "dry residue" of the raw material mixture was carried out, ensuring the formation of the latter with the specified technology by the content of its starting components (zirconium compounds ΖrO ₂ ).

The particles of the feedstock taught during the "ultrafine grinding" had overall dimensions in the range from 0.001 to 0.008 mm. The processing time of the above volume of raw materials using this kind of “three-helix” magnetic system containing F-shaped processing magnetic circuits with radial focusing nozzles and using the previously indicated range of magnetic field strengths averaged 35–45 minutes. The yield of the finished metal single crystal, calculated on the use of 60 liters of raw aqueous suspension to obtain it, reached values from 17 kg to 19.2 kg (28% -32%) of the total volume used in processing it). These indicators come close enough to the theoretically possible limit that determines the total amount of zirconium metal produced from the initial mass of the raw material at the following percentage of zirconium compounds used in the processing process and including this component of the used ore rocks.

The concentration of the main component of the formed columnar ring single crystal of the element of zirconium, in the total mass of the latter, has a value equal to 99, 99999%. (That is, metal zirconium manufactured in accordance with the above technological scheme of the processing process should definitely be categorized as "nuclear" pure).

The proposed method for producing metal zirconium is performed at room temperature (17-27 ° C), and the processing of the feedstock is carried out under the action of jets of compressed air supplied to the zones of structural transformations under an overpressure of 0.4 ÷ 6.0 kgf / cm ² .

The technological modes assigned for the processing of initial raw materials are the intensity of the “trapezoidal” magnetic fields, the frequency of oscillations that create these fields of current pulses, the processing time, the amount of excess pressure in the volumes of compressed air supplied to the raw material (etc., etc. .d.), are assigned on the basis of considerations of the formation of the most optimal conditions for the accelerated flow of structural transformations of ore compounds specified in the ore production technology specified by the metal production technology of the above element into this necessary final product itself, i.e. a columnar ring single crystal consisting of it.

The percentage in the mixture of "dry residue formed from solid particles used to obtain the metal of the original ore rocks in the composition of the aqueous suspension used in the processing is determined based on the presence of the following factors.

When the concentration of this component component in the latter is less than 40%, the raw material used automatically turns into “poor”, which negatively affects the efficiency indicators of the process of processing raw materials, since the yield of the required final product is significantly reduced. With an increase in its content above a value of 70%, the processed raw material sharply reduces the indicators determining the degree of its plasticity. This, in the end, significantly complicates the process of moving it from the volume of the loading hopper into the cavity of the mobile working chamber, as well as the subsequent transfer of the microportions of this material that make up the mass of raw materials through the zones for generating processing magnetic fields located in it.

The sizes of particles used to obtain an aqueous suspension of ore rocks, the dimensions of which are determined by a value of 0.001 ÷ 0.008 mm, are assigned based on the need to form with their use a “stable” plastic mud-like raw material mass.

The latter should not be stratified into its individual components for the time period necessary for the complete completion of the processing process.

To perform the process of producing metallic zirconium, carried out using the proposed method, a mixture was used consisting of an ore concentrate containing zirconium compounds and impurity elements (respectively, the so-called "zirconite").

The ore rock used as the main source component to obtain the necessary raw material contained in its composition:

Zirconium concentrate:

1. ZrO ₂ - 66%;

2. Hf - 1.8%;

3. SiO ₂ - 30, l%;

4. Al ₂ O ₃ - 0.52%;

5. Fe ₂ O ₃ - 0.44%;

6. TiO ₂ - 0.62%;

7. U ₃ O ₈ - 0.022%;

8. P ₂ O ₅ - 0.091%;

9. Other elements - impurities present in the earth's crust, the rest - up to 100%.

Before grinding the above breed, it was pre-dosed to ensure that the content of the latter in the so-called “dry residue” used in the preparation of a viscous aqueous suspension was adjusted in the following amounts:

zirconium concentrate - 40-70%;

water H ₂ O - the rest is up to 100%.

When carrying out all of the experiments below to obtain metallic zirconium using the proposed method to achieve this goal, we used the same type of raw material containing the components listed above, including zirconium compounds having the same composition noted above.

Before starting the preparation of an aqueous suspension loaded into the processing device, pieces of the initial ore component used in it were crushed using a ball mill to obtain from these bulk materials included in these large-sized particle formations, the dispersion of which corresponded to a value of 0.001-0.008 mm.

The final product formed at the end of the processing process was a columnar ring single crystal consisting of zirconium metal, and tails, fine-grained slag waste, were formed from the impurities that make up the ore used. Milled into small particles, that is, to the state of “powder”, containing zirconium compounds and other components - impurities, the initial ore rocks were then poured with a predetermined treatment technology by the volume of water and mixed in it until all of the above raw materials were homogeneous, viscous plastic mud-like suspension.

After the manufacture of the latter, the mass of dirt-like substance formed during this operation was loaded directly into the loading hopper of the device used to obtain the metal alloy.

Further, the process of implementing the proposed method is illustrated using a number of examples below.

Example 1. In a feed hopper 2, having a volume of 60 l, was placed an aqueous suspension containing a raw material mixture, which included solid particles obtained from zirconium concentrate. The content of this “dry residue” in the volume of the aqueous suspension used during the treatment was 40% (24 kg). The remaining mass of the load was represented by water - 60% (36 liters).

After completion of the loading operation of the source material being processed 1 and the completion of the operation for releasing the inner cavity of the hopper 2 from it, from where the mud-like water suspension through gravity hatch “B” by gravity entered directly directly into the space of the mobile working chamber, the following were simultaneously turned on:

- an external drive of the device, providing reciprocating movement of the roller 8, as well as kinematically connected with it by the working chamber itself, while simultaneously performing angular rotations around its own longitudinal axis of symmetry;

- all winding coils 13 included in the magnetic circuits 11 were connected to an electronic unit present in the circuit of an external source of electrical supply, the presence of which provided a supply of pulse packets to each of the above elements, each of which had the shape of a “trapezoid”;

- through all the blowing nozzles 10 located on the housing 6 of the device began to be supplied with streams of compressed air.

Its receipt to the above-mentioned blowing elements 10 from an external supply line in this example was carried out under an overpressure of 0.4 kgf / cm ² . The tension generated in the cavity of the working chamber and having the form of a kind of spiral-shaped “cylindrical” “fringe” of “trapezoidal” magnetic fields corresponded to a value of 1.0 × 10 ⁵ A / m.

The frequency of arrival of pulses having the "trapezoid" configuration on the winding coils 13 of the generators 11 was 50 units in one hour.

The mobile working chamber moved from the loading zone to the front “right” end of the device body 6, and then back to its original “left” position at a speed of 40 mm / min. Moreover, she made revolutions around her own longitudinal axis of symmetry. The number of the latter was 4 rpm. When making the transition from “direct displacement” of the working chamber to “reverse”, the direction of rotation of the structural components making it was reversed, which changed to the opposite.

The time of the entire processing cycle of the starting raw material 1 in the total result was 40 minutes (0.67 hours).

The raw material mass 1 moved “back and forth” together with the movable working chamber under the influence of magnetic irradiation carried out in the device generated by generators 11 and focusing nozzles 14 was transformed into a columnar ring single crystal “I” upon completion of the processing process. The latter was deposited directly on the slag waste layer “Ж”, covering the lateral surface of the spacer rod-seed 7, and consisted entirely of metallic zirconium Zr. The content of this, the above, element of the thus formed final product was 99.99999%.

The color tone of the obtained single crystal was silver-gray. The mass of the finished product thus obtained was consistent with a value of 10.2 kg. The weight formed by the processing of fine-grained slag waste was 8.4 kg. The rest of the mass of the original raw material was spent on the formation of volatile gas compounds that were ejected from the cavity of the device into the outside atmosphere.

Example 2. The processing of feedstock was carried out in accordance with the same scheme as was indicated in example 1.

The initial ore mixture contained a “dry residue”, the amount of which relative to the total volume of water suspension used was 70% (42 kg). The remaining volume of the initial product was water - 30% or 18 liters. The air supply to the processed raw materials was carried out under excess pressure equal to 6.0 kgf / cm ² . The working chamber was moved with the source material loaded into it at a speed of 60 mm / min, and the angular rotation of the structural elements included in it was carried out at a value of this parameter corresponding to 2 rpm.

The tension generated in the volume of the working chamber and forming there a spiral-shaped cylindrical magnetic fringe - the “stockade” of physical fields corresponded to 1.28 × 10 ⁵ A / m. The number of trapezoidal electric pulses 11 transmitted through the windings of the coil 13 of the magnetic generators was equal to 40 units for one hour.

The processing time under these conditions corresponded to a period of 39 minutes (0.65 hours). The weight of the columnar ring single crystal obtained at the end of this process deposited on a seed rod and formed from metallic zirconium Zr was 19.9 kg. The amount included in the formed during the processing of the crystalline structure of the above element was a value equal to 99.99999%.

The remaining amount of unused raw material was used up to obtain fine-grained slag waste - 16.2 kg and volumes of volatile gas compounds sent to the outside atmosphere.

Example 3. The processing obtained from the particles of the source ores of the rocks of the raw material suspension was carried out in accordance with the same scheme as was already indicated in examples 1, 2.

The content of the so-called “dry residue” in the composition used in the processing of the aqueous suspension formed from particles of ore rocks included in its mass amounted to 60% of its total amount or 36 kg. The remaining volume of the raw suspension was water - 40% (24 liters).

The supply of compressed air through the blowing nozzle 10 was carried out under an overpressure of 4 kgf / cm ² .

The longitudinal movement of the working chamber along the housing of the device was carried out at a feed rate of 50 mm / min. The angular rotation speed of its constituent elements was equal to a value of 2.8 rpm.

The intensity of the processing magnetic fields generated in the volume of the working chamber was 1.5 × 10 ⁵ A / m. The number of 13 trapezoidal pulses suppressed to the coil windings supplied from an external power source was equal to 50 units in one hour. The processing time corresponded to a value of 35 minutes (0.583 hours).

As a result of the process of processing the feedstock on the seed rod 7, a columnar annular single crystal was formed entirely consisting of a zirconium element Zr. The weight of the obtained crystal was 18.8 kg. The degree of purity of the content in its composition of the main metal Zr forming it corresponded to a value of 99.99999%. The rest of the material used to obtain the material was spent on the formation of fine slag waste of 13.6 kg, as well as volatile gas compounds sent to the outside atmosphere.

As can be clearly seen from the above examples of the production of Zirconium metal Zr, subject to the processing conditions specified by the processing technology, the final product formed in the working chamber of the device used in the form of a circular columnar single crystal has, first of all, a high degree of purity in terms of the content in this formation, the main its constituent element Zr is “seven nines”. That is, metal zirconium manufactured in the above manner is included in the category of “nuclear pure”.

This ring-shaped single crystal formed in the device used itself has an uneven “tuberous”, “lumpy” outer surface, and the uneven thickness of the walls forming this product reaches a value of 15–20%. Under all modes of processing the feedstock, the finished single crystal made with its use has a silver-gray hue.

Obtained in accordance with the previously indicated technological scheme (examples 1, 2, 3) of processing the initial ore ore metal zirconium, has the following set of its own technical characteristics:

1. The specific volumetric weight is 6.1 g / cm3;

2. The melting temperature T _PL - 2742 ° C;

3. Specific volume electric resistance, ρ - 39.1 Η · Οµ · Μ;

4. The coefficient of thermal conductivity (100 ° C) - 22.4 W / M · K;

5. It retains ductility when heated ≤157 ° C;

6. Preserves the properties of paramagnet when heated ≤360 ° С;

7. The modulus of elasticity (20 ° C) - 106 Mn / mm ² ;

9. Tensile strength σpr - 0.29 GPa;

9. External surface hardness HRC - 58-60 units .;

10. Does not react with aqueous solutions of 30% strong inorganic acids (H ₂ SO ₄ ; HCl; HNO ₃ ) and alkalis - KOH; 300 g / liter NaOH; at room temperature, with exposure for 5 days.

Reacts with the above solutions when exceeding their temperature limit of ≥110 ° C.

The metal zirconium made in this way has a non-standard, specific-shaped crystal lattice, most similar to a set of hexagonal prisms joined by their end planes, twisted into a cylindrical spiral.

Based on everything noted here earlier, attention should also be paid to the fact that the process of forming metal zirconium of the so-called "nuclear purity", i.e. consisting of a new crystalline formation from this element, which practically does not contain any extraneous impurities-pollutants, and, in addition, which also has high intrinsic physical and mechanical properties, as well as “refractoriness”, it can be quite successfully implemented using widespread and have long been used to meet the relevant needs of the current metallurgical production of ore concentrates, without any additional operations for their cleaning or appropriate revision.

Further, in the materials presented below, structural principles are set forth in accordance with which the device itself used to implement this method is implemented. The presence of the latter, in turn, ensures that the necessary positive effect is obtained during the application of this unit.

The drawings show a device for implementing the proposed method for producing metallic zirconium.

Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional diagram of the device with the main ones installed on its body, which ensure the processing of raw materials by the functional units serving the above process.

Figure 2 is a transverse section of the housing of the device along AA, passing directly through its working chamber with a columnar ring single crystal of metal zirconium formed in it.

Figure 3 - image of the node 1 (see figure 2), which on an enlarged scale shows the installation of the F-shaped power magnetic circuit 11 on the housing 6 used in the processing of the device.

Figure 4 - node II (see figure 2), with the image fixed on the housing 6 of the device blowing nozzle 10, which feeds into the cavity of the last jets of compressed air.

Figure 5 - shows a diagram of the supply of "trapezoidal" current pulses sent to each of the windings — coils 13 — which are part of the magnetic circuit 11 and that perform the functions of solenoids in these magnetic generators.

On all these figures, in turn, are indicated:

Pos.1 - the initial raw material substance, with the use of which the necessary final product is obtained - metal zirconium.

Pos.2 - loading hopper, into the cavity of which the processed initial mass containing ore particles is placed before the start of the processing process.

Pos.3 - the right and left “cheeks” of the movable piston, forming the cavity of the working chamber, in the volume of which the metal constituting the single crystal is restored from its initial ore compounds.

Pos.4 - removable cap, in the cavity of which the working chamber is loaded with processed raw material, as well as after its dismantling, and unloading of finished products after the processing process is completed.

Pos.5 - a set of flat annular connecting flanges with quick-detachable threaded fasteners, with the help of which the removable cap 4 is docked with the device body 6, as well as its dismantling after the end of the processing of the original raw material.

Pos.6 - the device case is its fixed part, on the outer surface of which all power units serving the processing process are fixed, and screw reciprocating movement of the movable working chamber is carried out in its cavity. The volume of the inner cavity of the latter is formed between the right and left piston-shaped cheeks 3.

Pos.7 - an expansion rod-seed, on which the products of processing the feedstock obtained in the volume of the movable working chamber are deposited, and also with it, rigid fixing of the left and right cheeks 3, which are part of the moving assembly in the cavity of the housing 6, is performed .

Pos.8 - a running roller attached to the left cheek of the working chamber, with the help of which the latter can make a reciprocating movement in the cavity of the housing 6, and also perform angular rotations around its own longitudinal axis of symmetry.

Pos. 9 - a fastening nut, mounted on a threaded shank - a bolt located at the very end of the seed rod 7, when unscrewed which creates the conditions for free removal of the right piston-shaped cheek 3 of the working chamber, and thereby provides free access to those received in it end products of the processing.

Pos.10 - blowing nozzle mounted on the outer surface of the housing 6, and passing through its walls, and installed there in compliance with the specified technological parameters of the angles of inclination of the tangential β ° and radial α °, the value of which corresponds to a value of 30-45 °.

Pos.11 - F-shaped power magnetic circuits that, when connected to an external source of trapezoidal pulses, ensure the formation of magnetic fluxes in their working elements 12, which, in turn, enter the body of the focusing nozzle 14.

Pos.12 - working elements made in the form of plates, with the mutual docking of which the body of the F-shaped magnetic generator 11 is formed.

Pos.13 - winding coils mounted directly in the body volume of the working elements 12, and performing the functions there creating individual magnetic fields of solenoids.

Pos.14 - pressed directly into the mounting technological hole in the body of the magnetic circuit 11, the focusing nozzle, with the help of which cylindrical clusters of magnetic lines of force - "K" rays "elongated" in length directed directly into the internal volume of the housing 6 are formed.

Pos.15 - installation of a hollow sleeve, rigidly fixed directly to the outer surface of the housing 6, the inner cavity of which is in communication with the volume of the latter, and in its upper part there is a threaded thread. With the help of its manufacturer, the connection of the inner surface of the installation sleeve with the external end threaded part of the focusing nozzle 14 intended for installation in the same area.

Pos.16 - curved liner washer that provides filling of the volume obtained when installing the F-shaped magnetic contour 11 of the recess, directly adjacent to the inner side surface of the cavity of the housing 6, and eliminating the appearance of protruding sharp edges on the edges of this cavity (that is, “smooths” when fixing the washer “flush” with the plane of the internal cavity of this housing 6). Curved washer 16 is made of pressed into the last small crumbs of a magnetically conductive metal (for example, consisting of cobalt sawdust).

Pos.17 - the same as in the previous case, the “smoothing” washer, the installation of which is also carried out in a curvilinear recess formed during installation of the body of the blowing nozzle 10 passing through the walls of the housing 6. The material for the manufacture of this kind of “leveling” washer can serve any sufficiently “slippery” plastic - for example, elastic sheet rubber. This washer also has split “petals” diverging from its center to the periphery, which bend downward from its own central core — the base, at the moment of passage of compressed air sent there through the cavity of the blowing nozzle 10.

Pos.18 - a pipe for the withdrawal from the internal cavity of the working chamber of the device of the portions of volatile gas compounds newly arising there during the metal reduction process, as well as the excess volumes of compressed air received therein accumulated therein.

Pos.19 - pressure reducing valves, the opening of which is carried out at times when the overpressure in the working chamber begins to exceed the limits specified by the processing technology.

Pos.20 - the front end wall overlapping the cavity of the fixed part of the precast housing 6, with a hole made in the center for the passage of the moving roller body 8 moving in it.

In turn, in the images shown in FIGS. 1 to 5, the letters indicate:

"A", "b", "c" - figure 5, individual pseudophases involved in the process of electrical power supply and addressed to the windings - coils 13 of the magnetic circuits 11, and, in turn, consisting of arranged in a certain order and sets of trapezoidal current pulses forming them.

In - hole-hatch connecting the cavity of the loading hopper 2 with the internal volume of the working chamber formed by the left and right "cheeks" 3.

G - installation cylindrical spiral lines laid on the outer side surface of the housing 6, on which are located processing magnetic circuits 11.

D - the same kind of spiral curves used to fix the blowing nozzles 11, supplying raw jets of compressed air.

Ε - formed in the inner surface of the housing 6, as well as in the volume of the mobile working chamber, a vortex-shaped jet air gas stable formation - "tornado".

And - obtained on the outer surface of the rod 7, a columnar ring single crystal, consisting of zirconium metal.

G - a loose layer formed on the plane of the same rod 7, obtained from slag waste formed during the processing of ore raw materials.

K — clusters of force lines generated by magnetic circuits 11 formed in the form of straight cylindrical cylindrical formations, which, in turn, belong to force-processing physical fields created using focusing nozzles 14.

M is a cavity-cavity made at the lower end of the nozzle 14 with a configuration that maximally matches the outlines of the rotation hyperboloid, and is designed to generate clusters of magnetic lines of force, the shape of which almost completely duplicates the corresponding rectangle elongated in the rotation around its own longitudinal axis, spatial formation (i.e. imitates the shape of a figure made in the form of a segment of a round cylinder).

α - radial tilt angles (30-45 °), with the use of which the blasting nozzles 10 are fixed on the surface of the housing 6.

β - respectively, the tangential angles (30-45 °) of the same elements, determined relative to the lateral outer surface of the same assembly unit 6 of the device on which they are placed.

t ₁ t ₂ - segments along the abscissa axis (see figure 5), specifying the relative angular displacement of the components of the "pseudophase"a;b; in their individual impulses.

Based on the foregoing, it is imperative to dwell on the necessary clarifications regarding the design features of the performance of the apparatus proposed for processing the feedstock itself.

As can be clearly seen from the drawings presented in the application, the production of annular columnar monocrystals “I” consisting exclusively of metal zirconium flows directly into the cavity of the mobile working chamber formed by the right and left cheeks 3 belonging to it.

Its total length is 1/5 relative to the size of the same dimension, which determines the corresponding size of the entire proposed structure. The piston-shaped cheeks 3 are fixed in this node indicated above by “stringing” them onto the roller. During installation in the “standard” position, the above structural elements are passed along the lateral outer surface of this part, and reach the persistent end shoulders of the seed rod 7. Upon reaching the end position indicated here, they are finally fixed in it with threaded nuts 9 (see Fig. 1). The winding of these fasteners 9 is carried out according to the thread made on the corresponding parts of the surface of the roller 8 (not shown). In addition, on the outer side surface of the piston-shaped cheeks 3, forming a working chamber with a single crystal grown in its volume, plastic sealing elements are installed to insulate its volume from its external environment (not shown in the seal drawing). Upon completion of the processing process, the working chamber enters, finally, again in the cavity of the removable cap 4, occupying a fixed extreme position there.

The removable cap 4 after the end of the placement of this working chamber in it, and the movement drives used in the device, as well as all systems serving its operation are completely stopped, is disconnected from the fixed part of the housing 6. This kind of assembly is disassembled by releasing the coupling ring flat flanges 5, carried out by loosening and moving to the starting position used as part of the site quick-release fasteners (not shown). After removing the cap 4, the nut 9 was released, with the help of which the right cheek was fixed 3. The latter, in turn, without any special difficulties, upon completion of all the transitions listed above, is removed from the corresponding end of the roller 8, thereby opening up free access to the annular columnar single crystal “I” located on the seed-rod 7. This metal formation, without particularly noticeable efforts, can be moved to the right, and then completely removed from the volume of this apparatus used to obtain it.

The roller 8, providing a “helical” movement of the working chamber during processing of the initial raw material mixture, is connected to the corresponding external drive, the presence of which allows the necessary changes in its angular positioning, as well as the translational movement of the constituent components of the latter along the cavity of the housing 6, to round-trip direction. That is, first to the front "right" end of the housing 6, and then from it to the very rear "left" part of this device.

For the installation of the processing magnetic circuits 11, a set of curved lines is used, consisting of three installation spirals “G”. Blowing nozzles 10, in a similar manner, are also fixed on the corresponding three curved paths "D", laid between the turns that make up the installation lines "G".

To prevent premature failure of the plastic sealing seals mounted on the outer side surface of the left and right cheeks 3, at the joints of the power units 10 and 11 used in the device, with the walls of the housing 6, the following technique is additionally applied.

In the zone of formation of the curvilinear cavity, resulting from the intersection of the above-mentioned elements 10 and 11 of this design, with the lateral inner surface of the cavity of the fixed part of the housing 6, additional “smoothing” washers 16 and 17 are placed.

Their facing the volume of the cavity of the housing 6, the surface has a shape that completely copies the configuration of the curved cylindrical inner side surface of this assembly. That is, in the places of their own installation, they, as it were, with their mass “overlap” the mounting holes obtained during their passage, located on the corresponding surface of the body cavity, and some kind of cutting “edges” formed there, and at the same time form “ patch ”, which ensures full coincidence and“ alignment ”between adjacent planes (as if connecting them“ flush ”).

In this case, the washer 16 is made of a finely dispersed metal powder pressed into the aforementioned curvilinear recess, which has a low value of its specific magnetic resistance (for example, of small cobalt particles).

The “smoothing” washer 17, in order to ensure the passage of 10 jets of compressed air formed in the nozzles, is made in the form of elastic rubber petals extending from the center, which open at the moment of supply of the above product and close back under the influence of the “pushing” side an elastic surface running along the body cavity and having cheek seals 3. Elastic rubber will be the most successful material for manufacturing the above structural element.

In the same way, the docking areas are formed, the exhaust gases of the nozzles 18 with the internal cavity of the housing 6. In the area of the appearance of exactly the same curved recesses during installation of the latter, smoothing plastic washers are again placed, but in this particular embodiment they will be provided with through holes perforations large enough to allow the passage of microvolumes of volatile gas compounds, but at the same time too “small” to allow passage of solid particles through them ore rocks being abatable in the working chamber (the above unit is not shown in the drawing).

The installation of the blowing nozzles 10 is carried out on three spiral cylindrical lines "D" with the formation of tangential β and radial α ° angles of inclination to the outer surface of the housing 6 at the points of their fastening. The value of the above angles is 30-45 °.

The installation of magnetic F-shaped circuits 11 is carried out in exactly the same way using three cylindrical spiral lines “G” laid on the outer surface of the housing 6. The number of power nodes located on each of these three curved trajectories “G” is from nine to eighteen units.

Fastening of the F-shaped generators is carried out using the installation sleeves 15, the mounting internal cavity of which in the upper part is threaded (not shown in the drawing). The bushings 15 pass through the walls of the housing 6, forming an angle equal to 90 ° relative to its outer surface.

The assembly 11 itself, consisting of an F-shaped magnetic circuit and a focusing nozzle 14 pressed into its lower part, also has a fixing fixing thread made on the outer side surface of the nozzle 14. At the time of the final fixing of the latter on the body of the body 6, it screwed into the sleeve 15, occupying the desired design of the device, the final position is necessary (the threads are not shown in the drawing).

The recess “M”, located in the very lower part of the focusing nozzle 14, at its end, provides the formation of a physical field with its magnetic, “radial beam” lines “K”, which are very elongated in length, creating a kind of “processing spiral cylindrical in the body cavity” fringe. "

Each of the windings — coils 13 that are part of the F-shaped circuit — is connected to its “pseudophase” (or “a”; or “b”; or “c” - see FIG. 5) of an external source of electrical power, which supplies it through the corresponding electronic circuit contained in it, sets of trapezoidal pulses of electric current. Each component constituting the last individual impulse has corresponding displacements - segments t ₁ ; t ₂ marked in Figure 5, relative to the same generated in neighboring "pseudophases" (in the drawing external power source not shown). Installation of the device case with all the assembly units located on it on the technological basis itself was carried out using a system consisting of ordinary mounting racks (these elements are not shown in the drawing).

To fix in the position specified by the processing technology, as well as to perform subsequent disconnection of the cap 4, a quick-release fastener system is used (not shown in the drawing).

The central hole in the front end cover of the plug 20, through which the drive roller 8 passes, has sealing seals installed on its inner side surface (not shown in the drawing). Their presence provides isolation of the internal cavity of the fixed part of the prefabricated housing 6 from the external atmosphere, and at the same time, does not prevent the implementation of the corresponding movements of both translational and rotational, used as part of the device a kind of "traction" element, that is, the above-mentioned roller 8.

The work of the proposed device when performing the processing of the original ore raw materials, proceeds as follows:

After completion of the operation to fill with the raw material 1 the cavity of the loading hopper 2, mounted in the upper part of the removable cap cap 4, and also at the end of the process of emptying through the through hatch "B" (see figure 1), which is provided by spontaneous by flowing out a viscous aqueous suspension filling it, the latter subsequently goes therefrom directly into the volume of the mobile working chamber formed between the components of its right and left cheeks 3. After doing all this in It supposes:

- an external drive to move the roller 8 (in the drawing, an external drive is not shown). Simultaneously with the beginning of the implementation of the structural elements that make up the mobile working chamber, translational and rotational movements, all electrical windings-coils 13, which are the main component of the F-shaped magnetic circuits 11, located in turn on three encircling belts, are connected to an external power source the outer surface of the body 6 cylindrical spirals "G". Blowing nozzles 10 in the same way mounted on the surface of the fixed part of the assembly 6, similar to the above, and also using the same number of units used, curved lines "D", at the same moment in time are connected to the external supplying compressed air under excess pressure, the supply line (not shown in the drawing).

Thus, having a rigid kinematic connection with the roller 8, the working chamber with the processed raw material 1 placed in its cavity is pushed out of the internal volume of the removable cap cap 4, leaving the loading area, and begins to perform the process of translational and rotational movement in the inner cavity of the fixed part of the housing 6, in which it is, in the end, and "pushed". The outline of the path of movement of the processed raw material 1, which is picked up by the piston-shaped cheeks 3, located in the cavity of the aforementioned structural unit, moving from the feed loading zone to the front end of the housing 6, completely duplicates this configuration, which is formed during this kind of movement along the inner the surface of the housing 6, a spatial curved path.

The latter, due to the presence of the elements that make up the working chamber, the fact that they immediately act on two types of motion, both translational and rotational, ultimately, is a segment of a multi-turn helical spiral that is very elongated in length. Since the working chamber moved in such a way to a new position inevitably opens access to its internal volume by jets of compressed air formed by blowing nozzles 10 mounted on the outer surface of the housing 6, which have both radial α ° and tangential angles of inclination β °, then located at the very bottom of the working chamber, the bulk mass of raw material 1, a whole hail of a kind of “air strikes”, generated in the area of the latter’s “jets” crossing at spatial angles, collapses and this product.

The presence of this kind of “behavior” features in the processing zone of the above-mentioned gas flows created in the cavity of the working chamber is ensured by the mandatory influence of the specific design factors previously mentioned on the power elements used in the device (that is, the installation of blowing nozzles 10 along the stationary surface surrounding the outer surface parts of the housing 6 of the spiral lines "D", the presence of radial α ° and tangential β ° inclination angles - see figure 1, figure 2, figure 4).

Under the influence of continuously carried out and the above-mentioned intense force, the volume of this "bulk mass" of processed raw materials 1 is divided into small, previously constituting it "microportions", which are "pulled" in all directions by a vortex stream formed by the same air jets " E ”(tornado). When exposed to the raging currents in the body of the “E” vortex, these individual microvolumes, firstly, are transformed into small bubbles of gas-liquid aerosols, and secondly, they are spread throughout the cavity of the mobile working chamber, uniformly filling almost all of its parts, for with the exception of the central zone, where a kind of small discharge is created (“tornado eye”).

The whole mass of the raw material 1, completely transformed into the aerosol cloud in the aforementioned manner in the above manner, subsequently continues to perform complex curvilinear helical movement along the inner zones of the device body 6, carrying it out together and simultaneously with the space used as a part of the device and sealed from other volumes of the surrounding space , cavity mobile working chamber of this unit. Synchronously with all this, it is revealed that there is one more effect on the used processed raw material, which is necessary to obtain the final product specified by the processing technology, and also artificially created in this device, which specifically affects the applied raw material, an external force factor.

The thing is that when you turn on all the windings-coils 13 that are part of the magnetic generators 11, which are available in the device, into the external electric network, since they perform the functions of solenoids directly in the volume of the working elements 12 themselves, in which, in fact, the assembly of these structural elements of the machining F-shaped contours was carried out, individual magnetic fields are created almost instantly.

Due to the fact that the body of each generator 11 has the configuration of the letters F, folded one from the other, the eyelets, these newly arising fields merge in a closed loop used for the processing process into a single total. Thus, the total flow circulating in a closed F-shaped loop of the body of the processing circuit is generated immediately by six windings. Each winding coil 13 is connected to its own, supplying trapezoidal pulse packets only for it, by a circuit-circuit of an external power source (not shown in the drawing).

Due to all this, the total field obtained in each magnetic generator 11 will have all the same characteristic features that are inherent to the same individual physical fields that form the latter (the main parameters of such a “force structure” are changed in accordance with a graph recording the behavior of the “trapezoidal »Functions, and also the fact that this total formation necessarily possesses an angular displacement of the clusters of magnetic field lines belonging to it relative to neighboring and .d.).

Due to the fact that the upper tail of the focusing nozzle 14 is pressed into the lower crossbar of each F-shaped contour 11 (see Fig. 3), at the lower end of which a collecting cluster of magnetic field lines is made into a single cylindrical segment “K” focusing cavity, having the form of a hyperboloid of rotation, the total magnetic flux sent to it and received from six windings-coils 13 generates a technological processing physical field in the nozzle body 14, the outlines of which are the lines of field lines Noah in figure 2; figure 3 "special" configuration.

Since the uniform arrangement of all magnetic generators 11 was made immediately on three spirals “G” encircling the body of the body 6, and the number of such processing loops on each curve of the installation line “G” is a number equal to nine to eighteen units, the presence of all of these above factors, ultimately, inevitably leads to the fact that in the cavity of the housing 6 of the device as if formed consisting of radially directed from the surface of the installation zone-base, directly directly to the center of the housing Cylindrical rotating magnetic clusters "K", a kind of technological processing system (see FIG. 2). The latter is a kind of spatial power cylindrical "fringe" consisting of individual logs collected in a "stockade". The number of such processing placed in the internal volume of the housing 6 and consisting of cylindrical magnetic structures assembled into a spiral - spatial structures, respectively, in the embodiment of the device shown in FIG. 1, FIG. 2, FIG. 3 is three units in total .

It should also be noted that the technological processing systems included in the above, used to perform metal recovery from ore compounds, “K” magnetic clusters, consisting of a kind of cylindrical force formations - “logs”, periodically change their own geometric parameters (supplied for the power of the winding coils 13 are in the form of a "trapezoid", and are shifted relative to each other by a predetermined, predetermined angle of displacement - see figure 5).

That is, their individual elements, such as “logs” that make up such “barriers to fringe,” either stretch in height or, on the contrary, sharply “shorten”. Moreover, each “forming” the above “barriers”, a separate picket fence, in the process of changing the height of its constituent elements, performs this periodically renewed kind of oscillatory cycle with a shift in time of its conduct relative to the neighboring ones carried out in the adjacent located similar to this, installation spirals "G" (see the procedure for feeding "trapezoidal" pulses - figure 5). The action of the above circumstance is ensured by the fact that the pulses used in the feeding pseudophases "a", "b", "c" are offset relative to the same adjacent ones by angles of about 120 ° —the segments t ₁ ; t ₂ in figure 5.

As a result of the joint action of all the specific features listed above, the formation of structural structural units carrying out the processing of raw materials carried away by vortex flows belonging to the jet air stream "E" (see figure 1), small air-liquid aerosol bubbles formed in the cavity of the working chamber raw cloud ", move along with it along the fixed part of the housing 6. Moreover, the above components of such a" foam formation "as if forcibly" dragging are "through quite often placed on the path of their movement obstruction log" ranks "- magnetic fences (manufacturing cylindrical" fringe ").

On small particles of the processed ore compounds, fastened onto a “film liquid base” of such bubbles formed in the cavity of the working chamber and moving in it, when the latter carry out this kind of “punching” through the spiral-shaped “magnetic fence” mentioned above, the whole series of multidirectional and intensively performed power energy strikes.

Since the movement of these microscopic ore components proceeds along rather complex spatial curved "twisted" trajectories, the rock layers that make up their body are always in the most optimal position for their further structural transformation, when access to the last microvolumes of raw materials for penetrating these particles " of magnetic rays - logs, ”turns out to be unshielded. That is, the microvolumes of raw materials that make up small particles of the rock are “pierced” by the processing rotating cylindrical magnetic flux “K” using the entire range of directions of their possible spatial impact.

All of the above, facilitates the process of restoring the components of an annular columnar single crystal of metal from small particles of ore compounds “glued” to the above-mentioned bubble film base, and also provides fairly high indicators of the degree of completeness of the execution of the latter. That is, ultimately, the application of the above methods and guarantees the high performance of the content formed in accordance with such a technology of the main constituent single crystal element Zr, already in the finished, synthesized in this device, the final product.

So, when carrying out the transfer of small particles of initial ore rocks carried away by “flying through” aerosol foam bubbles through the artificially created and having the specified technology configuration magnetic spatial structure, small crystalline “nuclei” inevitably form in the jets of the “E” tornado, consisting of the previously indicated metal Zr.

The appearance of the "microscopic" grains "entirely consisting of this element into the" white light "is ensured, first of all, by the obligatory presence in the surrounding of small ore particles" passing "in the cavity of the working chamber of the volumes of ions of the reducing element filling it with air, that is a kind of "champion" in this specialization: carbon C ⁺⁴ . The latter is generated from molecules containing the aforementioned component of gases, always present in the composition of ordinary atmospheric air, which is supplied to the treatment zone under excess pressure.

The presence of the very fact of this occurrence, necessary for the bonding of the “liberated” atomic oxygen-reducing compound during the decomposition, of the reducing ion, is again ensured by the “crushing” impact action exerted by those “entering” directly on the “span” path) entering the vortex the formation of "E" gas flows, concentrated power clusters, consisting of logs collected in separate barriers - bundles of magnetic lines belonging to the processing physical fields.

Like ore microscopic particles, upon encountering this spiral-shaped power palisade, carbon-containing gas molecules are separated into separate fragments, while ensuring delivery of the reducing ion necessary for conducting the release of metal from its ore compounds (the latter is generated by decomposition into individual gas components) CO ₂ ; CH ₄ ). The very subsequent movement of such layers that again appeared in the bulk of the “aerosol cloud” in the spiral vortex flow “E”, crystalline nuclei, due to the continuous “proliferation” of these metal “grains” occurring in the same processing zone, continues until until their mass becomes so large that these jet streams will no longer have great potential to continue supporting such "grains" that are constantly increasing their overall dimensions, by weight. Because of this, the latter stop their free floating in the layers making up the vortex flow “E”, and then they move already under the influence of gravitational forces from the highest level belonging to the aerosol cloud located in the working chamber, as close as possible to its lower part. The process of increasing the initial dimensions obtained during the formation of metal crystals, proceeds under the influence of two immediately accompanying this technology synthesis of the above finished finished product from the original ore compounds, actively affecting the progress of its implementation, significant factors.

First, during the movement of aerosol bubbles in the jets of a “tornado” formed in the cavity of the working chamber, these components of the “aerosol foam” inevitably collide with “flying” through these same regions of the above “vortex”, which reappeared in them and are still very small crystalline "nuclei".

In the process of conducting such a mutual “collision”, aerosol bubbles “flying” onto such solid “grains” of metal inevitably collapse, and the microscopic ore particles placed on their liquid film sheath are “thrown” directly onto the outer surface of the “crashed” into this "bubble" of a metal crystalline.

As a result of all this, the latter is covered, as it were, with a “raw fur coat” consisting of such small ore components “thrown” directly onto his body. Since the process of magnetic irradiation of all “suspended” microscopic particles moving in the jet vortex formation “E” and the “suspended” microscopic particles present in it does not stop there, this kind of specifically obtained “raw shell” will inevitably transform into a full metal coating. The latter grows on the outer layers of a metal zirconium crystal, using it as a kind of substrate-base for conducting its subsequent formation. That is, in this case, the “embryo", acquiring this kind of additional metal layer that is built up directly on its body, will inevitably increase its original overall dimensions.

Secondly, during the “flight” between the restrictive cheeks 3 of the working chamber, its small crystalline “grains”, consisting of metal zirconium, also have a fairly high degree of probability of a “point” occurrence in a situation, in which case they inevitably come into close mutual contact (ie, their “head-on” collision occurs, as it were).

At the moment of the implementation of the above mutual close contact, their subsequent “bonding” is inevitable, and, as an indispensable consequence, arising from the fact that this circumstance exists, is the formation of a larger, composite structure from these tiny metal fragments.

It is understandable that both of the above factors for the enlargement of the "alloy nuclei" work in parallel and simultaneously. That is, as the length of the path along which the working chamber moves from its original initial position toward the front end of the housing 6 increases, sooner or later, all small “fragments” consisting of new crystalline “nuclei” synthesized directly in the cavity of the latter, thus transformed into large monolithic granules.

The latter, as already noted, upon completion of the process of their own enlargement, strive to move from the upper level of their initial location, to the lowest zone of the device used for processing.

Performing the aforementioned vertical movement, some part of the thus formed sufficiently massive metal “flakes” can “accidentally” meet the surface of the loose seed layer “Zh” previously deposited on the seed outer rod 7 of the core formed from finely dispersed slag obtained in the processing area waste. As a result of the fact of the action of such a “random hit”, these “overgrown” granules, with a rather high degree of probability, may simply be “tightly” “glued” into the enveloping seed-seed 7 loose non-metallic formation “G” (see Fig. 2), which has quite pronounced indicators of its own adhesion.

On these so-called “adhering” particles of metal zirconium, due to the incessant action of the above technological factors, the process of formation of more and more new metal constituents of the obtained single crystal body will continue continuously, based on the use of surrounding the latter on all sides of the volume of aerosol foam.

The very process of deposition on the outer side surface of the seed rod 7 of the aforementioned intermediate slag layer "Ж", which is formed at the "start" stage of the implementation of the proposed processing technology, proceeds as follows.

Due to the fact that various kinds of impurity compounds from other contaminant elements present in the same place, and crystals obtained in exactly the same way, which were simultaneously liberated during the reduction of metals from ore particles and also directly directly in their composition are also transformed, ultimately, into grains of non-metallic slag waste, then due to the presence of this circumstance, the following picture will be observed in the cavity of the mobile working chamber.

Consisting of particles of non-metallic waste sticking together, aggregated lumps of slag associates, making a “flight” in the thickness of the same “tornado” streams, and moving into them under the influence of the same force factors noted earlier, from the peripheral regions of the vortex “E”, to its core-center, that is, such “tail” structural formations without fail, will be displaced directly into the zone of “constantly maintained calm calm”.

Due to the fact that the above-mentioned small slag associates adhere well to any surface that comes into close contact with them, they will thus form a loose intermediate non-metallic “sticky” layer “G” on the peripheral lateral parts of the body of the seed rod 7 on which, subsequently, “capture” and “fixation” of the “sprouted” granules of zirconium metal obtained in the vortex flows moving downward are carried out. In addition, the enlarged “flakes” of the same Zr element flying past the outer surface of the seed rod 7, again, maybe a little earlier, maybe a little later, will be, as was obviously known, thrown again onto the plane of the expanding annular single crystal structure “I” (see figure 2).

The fact of the obligatory onset of this event is determined, first of all, by the presence of the influence of the next action, which determines the inevitability of the moment of its practical implementation, an essential technical circumstance.

Flown by the seed rod 7, the "grains" of metal, enlarged in the jets of the vortex, ultimately end up either directly on the split petal membrane-washer 17 that overlaps the inlet opening of the nozzle 10 (see Fig. 4), or are located on the "intermediate" section of the adjacent to this zone itself, the surface of the bottom 6. Both those and other “pieces” of zirconium will be necessarily moved by the surface of the cheek 3 moving and periodically making angular rotations from the original location of its “basing”, directly to the center sweeping, jetting compressed air outlet opening provided in the center of the above structural member 17.

Since the pressure created in the cavity of the working chamber by blowing nozzles 10 of the air flows is quite high (overpressure corresponds to 0.4-0.6 kgf / cm ² ), metal “fragments” from this element Zr that literally fall into their last jets literally in the sense of the word, they are simply “kicked out” of the zone of their location and thrown up and to the side at oblique angles.

When they encounter any obstacle on the trajectory of this kind of “approach”, for example, the surface of a moving cheek - piston 3, these pieces of metal zirconium bounce off it and change, as a result, the direction of their movement. In this case, there is again a rather high probability that these “thrown up” metal “fragments” will be thrown directly onto the outer surface of the annular columnar “I” single crystal grown on the seed rod 7. Indeed, in this central zone of the working chamber, unlike all the others located on its periphery, "calm calm" always reigns, because the so-called "eye of the storm" is located in this area. If, even after this single “jump” is completed, a piece of metal flies past the surface of the “I” single crystal grown in the device, the previously indicated cycle of repeated “tosses” and “flights” will continue until this event nevertheless turns into practically implemented.

Ultimately, the granules of this metal that got on the surface of the “I” single crystal during the execution of a series of such “rebounds” and “rebounds” “stick” to its body, and continue together with the components of this single crystal and previously settled on its body base layers to carry out a joint process of its further growth.

An increase in the uniformity of the distribution of the thickness of the components of the annular columnar single crystal “I” along its entire length of the walls, as well as an increase in the purity of its outer side surface in the process of its formation, is ensured by the constant execution of a series of turns carried out with a small angular velocity (2-4 r / minute), around its longitudinal axis of symmetry.

To eliminate the appearance of possible “gross” errors obtained by the single crystal of a ring shape, on the second, already inverse segment of the path of its movement along the surface of the cavity of the housing 6, the direction of rotation of the single crystal “I” is reversed (it is reversed).

All of the above events performed in the cavity of the mobile working chamber are completed and proceed in its volume throughout the entire cycle of its movement inside the case used for processing the device itself. When this assembly unit reaches the extreme front “right” position; (the straight segment of the travel path has been completely passed), the travel limit switch (not shown in the drawing) is triggered, and the translational movement of the working chamber begins with the transfer of its constituent structural components, bringing them closer to the rear “left” part of the device body 6.

The direction of the angular displacement of the components of this chamber around its own longitudinal axis of symmetry, at this point in time, as already indicated, also changes to the opposite.

Thus, in the implementation of the second, “final” “reverse” stage of the cycle of movement, the last stages of the process of body formation of the “And” columnar ring single crystal synthesized on the seed rod 7, which ensures that the last condition ". That is, how to “finish” the “refinement” of this finished final product to obtain the parameters required for it and stipulated by the technical conditions. Ultimately, moving in the opposite direction, the working chamber again returns to its original initial position it occupied, that is, it again falls into the cavity of the removable cap 4, in which its volume was previously loaded with the processed raw material 1.

In the process of passing through the working chamber of the corresponding areas of the housing 6, periodic “bleeding” of the volumes of newly obtained in the process of metal reduction from the ore particles of volatile gas compounds, as well as excessively received portions of the compressed air supplied thereto, was periodically “bleed”. To carry out this operation, we used outlet pipes 18 fixed on the device casing 6, the cavity of which was connected to the volume of the working chamber at the moments of operation of the pressure reducing valves 19. The latter were opened if the overpressure in the cavity of the mobile working chamber exceeded the value specified by the processing technology .

The opening of the pressure reducing valves 19, in the end, provided the emission of gas volumes unnecessary for the process of forming the “I” single crystal directly into the outside atmosphere surrounding the device.

Since on the lateral outer surface of the right and left piston-shaped cheeks 3 that are part of the mobile working chamber, it is planned to install elastic “slippery” seals to seal its volume, then to prevent their premature failure (seals are not shown in the drawing), during manufacture the proposed device used the following design methods.

Formed in the places of installation communicating with the internal volume of the housing 6 and used in the device structural elements 10; fourteen; 18 curvilinear recesses, obtained as if by themselves when mutually crossing contacting each other mating curved surfaces of the bodies of revolution, are filled with smoothing washers (see figure 3 - position 16; figure 4 - position 17). The latter are made in the form of petal membranes with a “hole” in the center, installed in the area where the lower outlet openings of the blowing nozzles 10, and also the outlet pipes 18 are located, and elastic rubber is used as the material for the manufacture.

When carrying out the installation of the focusing nozzles 14 in the cavity of the mounting sleeves 15 (see Fig. 3), the above curved recesses on the inner surface of the housing 6 are filled tightly pressed into these cavities obtained on its inner surface — the cavity, with a powder consisting of small particles of cobalt or iron (washer pos.17 - Fig.3).

And in this, and in another case, the use of the above structural elements eliminates the possibility of forming on the inner side surface of the housing 6, at the intersection of it with the surface of the nodes 10, 14, 18 sharp cutting edges. It turns out that all the mating zones of the latter with the housing 6 are as if “flush” and have absolutely smooth planes at the points of implementation of the possible passage of the cheek-pistons 3 located on the lateral outer surface and their sealing seals.

The installation of the F-shaped magnetic generators 11 with the nozzles 14 in their lower part on the surface of the housing 6 is carried out using rigidly fixed guide hollow sleeves 15, and through the use of fastening threads made on the abutted surfaces of the above parts (see Fig. 3). To increase the accuracy of the mutual fixation of the structural components that are assembled into a single unit, 2 lock nuts can be threaded onto the mounting thread located on the outer surface of the focusing nozzle 14 (the above-mentioned performance features of these parts are not reflected in the drawing).

So, after the mobile working chamber with the columnar ring monocrystal made of metal zirconium “I” formed inside its volume, it will completely occupy its original initial position in the volume of the cap removable cap 4, and the fact of the occurrence of this event will receive the corresponding signal from the one used for this the sensor for fixing its final position (for example, from the limit switch), all systems that service the operation of the installation are disconnected from the applied external power sources (drive ;; electrical circuits of magnetic generators supplying jets of compressed air nozzles).

Subsequently, from the housing 6, by disconnecting from each other annular flat docking flanges 5, carried out using quick-release fasteners (not shown in the drawing), the cap cap 4 is removed. Then, the lock nut 9 is unscrewed, fixing on the threaded neck of the roller 8 a piston-shaped left cheek 3, and the latter “pulls out” of its previous position previously occupied in the indicated node. In this case, free access to the formed annular columnar single crystal “I” is opened (see FIG. 2), and the latter is removed from the cavity of this device without any special difficulties.

"Comfortable" conditions for dismantling the metal formation previously obtained in the device are provided, first of all, by the fact that between the inner side surface of the hole formed at its center and the seed rod 7 an intermediate loose layer "G" is placed (see figure 2), entirely consisting of slag waste accumulated in this area.

After removing the “I” single crystal from the device, the finely dispersed slags partially filling the central bore hole contained in it are easily shaken from there when even a minor mechanical impact is applied to them.

The processing cycle on this can be considered completely completed. It should also be emphasized on the fact that the power supply units (not shown in the drawings) that allow supplying the supply windings to the coil 13 generators of 11 pulses are equipped with corresponding electronic circuits with which the signals are formed in the form of an “isosceles trapezoid” and are assembled into packets, (as if in a pseudophase), the components of which the elements have corresponding angular displacements relative to similar neighboring ones (see Fig. 5), as well as the latter also have additional contours that provide the ability to adjust the magnitude of the intensity and frequency of oscillations in the processing zone of the "trapezoidal" magnetic fields (that is, the magnitude of the current, voltage, frequency of the supplied electrical signals).

As noted earlier, by performing the above changes in the main technological parameters of the process of processing the mixture used, consisting of the starting raw material, it is guaranteed to obtain a finished final product that has the predetermined technical specifications of the drawing with its own qualitative technical indicators and positive properties.

The technical and economic indicators characterizing the degree of efficiency of the processing performed with its use, recorded during the use to achieve the above goals when applying this type of design of the proposed device, made it possible to determine the following:

With a device length of 1.5 meters and its width, taking into account the dimensions of the systems serving its operation of 1.2 m, as well as with a case diameter of 0.44 m, and if it is operated in 3 shift modes, it is ensured obtaining 0.7 ÷ 0.8 tons of zirconium metal in one day. Electricity consumption per tonne obtained in accordance with the proposed technology of this metal is 2.7-3.2 thousand kW / h.

Given all of the above, we can come to the following conclusion. Using the proposed method for producing metallic zirconium, as well as the device used to implement this technology, provides a significant reduction in the cost of electric energy required for processing the feedstock into a finished final product. That is, the application of the proposed technical solutions creates the conditions for reducing its consumption by 8-15 times in relation to its quantity necessary to obtain a similar product, carried out using a melt of the metal salts constituting it, which is also formed using sufficiently complex technical systems created from various sorts and purposes of smelting and chemical units.

In addition, if the processing process is carried out in accordance with the proposed method, the latter proceeds during only one technological transition, and no harmful substances are emitted into the surrounding equipment environment, which inevitably accompanies the methods of obtaining the same procedures performed in accordance with the “classical” scheme the end product itself.

It should also be noted that metal zirconium itself, which is completely ready for subsequent use, is formed in the form of a continuous columnar ring single crystal, which has a practically unchanged intrinsic configuration, and including zirconium synthesized from the feedstock, the content of which is in the volume of this structure is 99.99999%.

Formed in accordance with the proposed technology, the metal has a high degree of stability of its obtained, moreover, during only one and short technological stage, its own physico-chemical, as well as mechanical characteristics.

Made using almost the same type of raw material, zirconium metal itself has a fairly low specific bulk density, and has high refractoriness, as well as good resistance to external aggressive influences.

Obtained using the proposed technology, columnar ring single crystals based on metal zirconium of the so-called "nuclear purity" can be used to meet the corresponding needs of existing industrial production without any additional operations for their "final" refinement.

The introduction of the proposed process, as well as the device used in the course of its implementation, does not require significant investments, and is not associated with the need to use significant labor costs, as well as the long lead times required for the preparation of production.

The choice of materials and components included in the composition of the proposed device was made taking into account the possibility of using as the latter similar, widespread and used in equipment designed to perform similar to the above technologies. This proposed device itself is distinguished by a high degree of simplicity of its design, and as a result, it has good indicators of its own operational reliability.

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1. The method of producing metallic zirconium from an aqueous suspension of ore particles containing zirconium compounds, including the generation of physical fields superimposed on portions of the processed raw material, the restoration of zirconium into an integral monolithic crystalline structure with continuous mixing of the raw material, followed by accumulation of the product and its formation in the form monolithic annular columnar single crystal consisting of zirconium, while an aqueous suspension of ERZHAN zirconium ore particles with dispersion within 0.001 ÷ 0.008 mm in an amount of 40-70% by volume of an aqueous suspension, wherein as the physical fields using toothed trapezoidal magnetic field with intensity 1,1 × ¹⁰ May ÷ 1,5 × 10 ⁵ A / M and the oscillation frequency of the pulses that form clusters in the form of field lines having a configuration as close as possible to the outline of the spatial formation obtained by rotating a rectangle elongated in length, making turns about its own longitudinal axis of symmetry wherein, the process of restoration and formation of the said annular columnar formation of a single crystal is carried out on a metal rod located in a sealed movable working chamber installed in the cavity of the housing and performing reciprocating movements, and when the housing makes angular rotations of the housing relative to its own longitudinal axis of symmetry, with the feed to the layers of the raw material mass of gas jets, consisting of compressed atmospheric air and carbon as a reducing agent present the composition of compressed gases, with mixing of the raw material by transferring it into the internal volume of the working chamber, and then due to crushing and subsequent extrusion of individual microporities of the feedstock flowing under the influence of shocks created by intersecting jets of compressed air coming under an overpressure of 0.4 ÷ 6, 0 kgf / cm ^2. 2. A device for producing metallic zirconium from an aqueous suspension of ore particles containing zirconium compounds, comprising a housing consisting of two parts, one of which is removable and made in the form of a cap removable cap connected by ring flat flanges with its fixed base in the form a cylindrical shell, with the formation of the assembly, the length of the fixed base of the assembly is 80-85% of its entire length, and the remaining part is the removable part of the housing, while in the cavity of the assembly the node has a sealed working chamber, which is made with the possibility of reciprocating movement, and the housing of the prefabricated node is made to rotate relative to its own longitudinal axis of symmetry, and the working chamber is equipped with left and right cheeks in the form of pistons mounted on the roller, and mounted between them a metal rod, and focusing magnetic nozzles generating clusters of magnetic field lines, mounting sleeves are passed through the walls of the fixed base of the assembly ki and blowing nozzles intended for the entry of compressed atmospheric air jets into the body cavity and having both radial angles and tangential angles of inclination of 30 -45 ° with respect to the housing surface, and outlet pipes are installed in the left and right halves of the fixed base of the assembly to withdraw into the outside atmosphere the excess gas accumulated in the working chamber, and in the upper part of the removable cap there is a feed hopper of raw materials, the volume of which is through a through hatch with communication with the cavity disposed beneath the working chamber.

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