A method (500) for producing a titanium product is disclosed. The method (500) can include obtaining TiO.sub.2-slag (501) and reducing impurities in the TiO.sub.2-slag (502) to form purified TiO.sub.2 (503). The method (500) can also include reducing the purified TiO.sub.2 using a metallic reducing agent (504) to form a hydrogenated titanium product comprising TiH.sub.2 (505). The hydrogenated titanium product can be dehydrogenated (506) to form a titanium product (508). The titanium product can also be optionally deoxygenated (507) to reduce oxygen content.

A method to extract and refine metal products from metal-bearing ores, including a method to extract and refine titanium products. Titanium products can be extracted from titanium-bearing ores with TiO.sub.2 and impurity levels unsuitable for conventional methods.

The titanium-containing oxide slag, low-purity silicon and slagging fluxes are subject to reduction smelting together, and a bulk SiTi intermediate alloy is obtained by slag-metal separation; the obtained bulk SiTi intermediate alloy is crushed into SiTi intermediate alloy particles; and the obtained SiTi intermediate alloy particles are used as an anode, metallic molybdenum or metallic nickel as a cathode, metallic titanium as a reference electrode, and NaClKClNaF together with small amounts of Na.sub.3TiF.sub.6 or K.sub.3TiF.sub.6 as a molten salt, to carry out the electrolysis under a high-purity argon atmosphere at a temperature of 973 K. Ti in the SiTi intermediate alloy particles dissolved at the anode and deposited at the cathode, while Si in the SiTi intermediate alloy particles fell off from the anode as metallic silicon powder.

Process for producing a titanium alloy material, such as a titanium aluminum alloy, are provided. The process includes reduction of TiCl.sub.4), which includes a titanium ion (Ti.sup.4+), through intermediate ionic states (e.g., Ti.sup.3+) to Ti.sup.2+, which may then undergo a disproportionation reaction to form the titanium aluminum alloy.

Provided is a method for preparing a reduced titanium powder by a multistage deep reduction, including the following steps of: uniformly mixing a dried titanium dioxide powder with a magnesium powder to obtain a mixture, adding the mixture in a self-propagating reaction furnace, triggering a self-propagating reaction, obtaining an intermediate product of which low-valence titanium oxides Ti.sub.xO are dispersed in an MgO matrix, leaching the intermediate product with a hydrochloric acid as a leaching solution, performing filtering, washing and vacuum drying to obtain a low-valence titanium oxide Ti.sub.xO precursor, uniformly mixing the low-valence titanium oxide Ti.sub.xO precursor with a calcium powder, performing a pressing to obtain semi-finished products, placing the semi-finished products in a vacuum reduction furnace for a second-time deep reduction, and leaching a deep reduction product with a hydrochloric acid as a leaching solution so as to obtain the reduced titanium powder.

A method is provided for the production of titanium-aluminum-vanadium alloy products directly from a variety of titanium and vanadium bearing ores that reduces the processing steps significantly as compared to current TiAlV alloy production methods.

The invention relates to a method for preparing titanium alloys based on aluminothermic self-propagating gradient reduction and slag-washing refining, and belongs to the technical field of titanium-aluminum alloys. The method comprises the following steps of pre-treating raw materials, weighing the raw materials in the mass ratio of rutile or high-titanium slags or titanium dioxide to aluminum powder to V.sub.2O.sub.5 powder to CaO to KClO.sub.3 being 1.0:(0.60-0.24):(0.042-0.048):(0.12-0.26):(0.22-0.30), performing an aluminothermic self-propagating reaction in a gradient feeding manner to obtain high-temperature melt, performing a gradient reduction melting, performing heat insulation and separating the melt after the feeding is completed, then adding CaF.sub.2CaOTiO.sub.2V.sub.2O.sub.5 based refining slags into the high-temperature melt, performing slag washing refining, and finally removing slags to obtain titanium alloys. This method has the advantages including short flow, low energy consumption, easy operation, easy control on Al and V contained in alloys, and so on.

Process for producing a titanium alloy material, such as a titanium aluminum alloy, are provided. The process includes reduction of TiCl.sub.4, which includes a titanium ion (Ti.sup.4+), through intermediate ionic states (e.g., Ti.sup.3+) to Ti.sup.2+, which may then undergo a disproportionation reaction to form the titanium aluminum alloy.

Provided is a method for producing metal titanium by molten salt electrolysis using a conductive material containing titanium, aluminum, oxygen and other impurities. A method for producing metal titanium, wherein a refining process includes: a rough electrodeposition step of performing a molten salt electrolysis using an electrode containing a TiAlO conductive material in a chloride bath Bf to obtain a titanium-containing electrodeposit TC; and one or more refinement electrodeposition steps of performing a molten salt electrolysis using an electrode containing the titanium-containing electrodeposit TC in a chloride bath Bf, and wherein at least one of the chloride bath Bf used for the rough electrodeposition step and the chloride bath Bf used for the refinement electrodeposition step contains 30 mol % or more of magnesium chloride.

A method (400) for producing a titanium product is disclosed. The method (400) can include obtaining TiO.sub.2-slag (401), and producing a titanium product from the TiO.sub.2-slag using a metallic reducing agent (402) at a moderate temperature and a pressure to directly produce a titanium product chemically separated from metal impurities in the TiO.sub.2 slag (403). The titanium product can comprise TiH.sub.2 and optionally elemental titanium. Impurities in the titanium product can then removed (404) by leaching, purifying and separation to form a purified titanium product.