The present invention relates to a process for the deoxidation of valve metal primary powders by means of reducing metals and/or metal hydrides, and a process for the production of tantalum powders that are suitable as anode material for electrolytic capacitors.

The present invention relates to a process for the deoxidation of valve metal primary powders by means of reducing metals and/or metal hydrides, and a process for the production of tantalum powders that are suitable as anode material for electrolytic capacitors.

The present disclosure generally relates to processes for the reduction of transition metals using alkali metals to produce reduced transition metals.

The present disclosure generally relates to processes for the reduction of transition metals using alkali metals to produce reduced transition metals.

The present invention relates to a process for the deoxidation of valve metal primary powders by means of reducing metals and/or metal hydrides, and a process for the production of tantalum powders that are suitable as anode material for electrolytic capacitors.

The present invention relates to a process for the deoxidation of valve metal primary powders by means of reducing metals and/or metal hydrides, and a process for the production of tantalum powders that are suitable as anode material for electrolytic capacitors.

According to an embodiment, a nuclear fuel material recovery method of recovering a nuclear fuel material containing thorium metal by reprocessing an oxide of a nuclear fuel material containing thorium oxide in a spent fuel is provided. The method has: a first electrolytic reduction step of electrolytically reducing thorium oxide in a first molten salt of alkaline-earth metal halide; a first reduction product washing step of washing a reduction product; and a main electrolytic separation step of separating the reduction product. The first molten salt further contains alkali metal halide, and contains at least one out of a group consisting of calcium chloride, magnesium chloride, calcium fluoride and magnesium fluoride. The method may further has a second electrolytic reduction step of electrolytically reducing uranium oxide, plutonium oxide, and minor actinoid oxide in a second molten salt of alkali metal halide.

A reducing and non-blast furnace smelting method of alkaline vanadium-titanium pellets and hot-pressed carbon-containing vanadium-titanium pellets. By upgrading the vanadium-titanium concentrates, improving quality of the reducing gas, increasing the proportion of the reduction section of the shaft furnace, removing the cooling section to achieve hot charging, and improving the electric furnace, the method accelerates the reduction rate of the vanadium-titanium pellets reduced by the gas-based shaft furnace, improves the final reduction degree of the vanadium-titanium pellets, achieves the rapid non-blast furnace smelting of the vanadium-titanium pellets. Addition of the hot-pressed carbon-containing pellets can alleviate the problems caused by reduction swelling of pellets, overcome the problem that the alkaline vanadium titanium pellets do not meet the requirement of a reduction swelling rate of less than 10% of fed pellet ore for gas-based shaft furnace since its high reduction swelling rate, and broaden the variety of fed pellets for the shaft furnace.

A reducing and non-blast furnace smelting method of alkaline vanadium-titanium pellets and hot-pressed carbon-containing vanadium-titanium pellets. By upgrading the vanadium-titanium concentrates, improving quality of the reducing gas, increasing the proportion of the reduction section of the shaft furnace, removing the cooling section to achieve hot charging, and improving the electric furnace, the method accelerates the reduction rate of the vanadium-titanium pellets reduced by the gas-based shaft furnace, improves the final reduction degree of the vanadium-titanium pellets, achieves the rapid non-blast furnace smelting of the vanadium-titanium pellets. Addition of the hot-pressed carbon-containing pellets can alleviate the problems caused by reduction swelling of pellets, overcome the problem that the alkaline vanadium titanium pellets do not meet the requirement of a reduction swelling rate of less than 10% of fed pellet ore for gas-based shaft furnace since its high reduction swelling rate, and broaden the variety of fed pellets for the shaft furnace.

The present disclosure generally relates to processes for the reduction of transition metals using alkali metals to produce reduced transition metals.