Production of titanium powder by the calciothermic reduction of titanium concentrates or ore using the preform reduction process

Materials Transactions

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2244-2251

  Zheng, Haiyan ^a   Ito, Hiromasa ^b   Okabe, Toru H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b CHIBA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Calciothermic reduction; Preform reduction process (PRP); Titanium; Titanium concentrates or ore; Titanium powder; Titanium smelting process

Indexed keywords

HYDROCHLORIC ACID; LIME; PREFORMING; REDUCTION; SMELTING; SOLUTIONS; TITANIUM ORE TREATMENT;

CALCIOTHERMIC REDUCTION; PREFORM REDUCTION PROCESS (PRP); TITANIUM CONCENTRATES;

TITANIUM POWDER METALLURGY;

EID: 34648825184     PISSN: 13459678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2320/matertrans.MER2007115     Document Type: Article

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