The invention provides a
gas phase magnesium purification method based on a pure iron
filter material. The method uses the pure iron
filter material to filter
magnesium vapor, on one hand, the pure iron does not react with the
magnesium vapor, and no new impurities are brought to the
system; on the other hand, impurities Al, Mn and iron in the magnesium vapor have special affinity, and stable
solid solution can be formed with iron; meanwhile, pure iron can be used as
a site for
nucleation of certain impurities in the magnesium vapor, so that the
nucleation energy barrier can be reduced, the certain impurities can be deposited in advance, and impurities can be removed. The method can be applied to industrial large-scale
gas phase magnesium purification, the production efficiency of magnesium purification is improved on the
order of magnitude through increasing the temperature, the content of impurities Mn in the magnesium
raw material is reduced to 10 ppm or below, the content of Al isreduced to 10 ppm or below, the content of Ca is reduced to 20 ppm or below, and meanwhile, non-
metal impurity elements such as F, Cl and S can be removed to obtain the magnesium with the purity of 99.99% or above.