The present invention discloses a method for recovering rare earth particulate material from an assembly comprising a rare earth magnet and comprises the steps of exposing the assembly to hydrogen gas to effect hydrogen decrepitation of the rare earth magnet to produce a rare earth particulate material, and separating the rare earth particulate material from the rest of the assembly. The invention also resides in an apparatus for separating rare earth particulate material from an assembly comprising a rare earth magnet. The apparatus comprises a reaction vessel having an opening which can be closed to form a gas-tight seal, a separator for separating the rare earth particulate material from the assembly, and a collector for collecting the rare earth particulate material. The reaction vessel is connected to a vacuum pump and a gas control system, and the gas control system controls the supply of hydrogen gas to the reaction vessel.

A method and a device for recovering hydrogen pulverized powder of a raw-material alloy for rare-earth magnets capable of lowering the possibility that hydrogen pulverized powder remains in a recovery chamber; therefore, enhancing magnetic properties by reducing an oxygen content of an obtained rare-earth magnet. A processing container 50 is carried into a recovery chamber 40 from a processing chamber after inert gas is introduced into the recovery chamber 40. The raw-material alloy for rare-earth magnets in the processing container 50 is discharged into the recovery chamber 40 after the pressure in the recovery chamber 40 is reduced Thereafter, inert gas is introduced into the recovery chamber 40, and the raw-material alloy for rare-earth magnets is recovered into the recovery container 50 after a pressure in the recovery chamber 40 is set to a predetermined pressure by inert gas.

The invention discloses a neodymium-iron-boron magnet material, a preparation method, and use thereof. The neodymium-iron-boron magnet material of the invention comprises a nanocrystalline Cu-rich phase located in an intergranular triangular zone, wherein: the nanocrystalline Cu-rich phase consists of elements TM, RE, Cu and Ga at an atom ratio of TM:RE:Cu:Ga=(1-20):(20-55):(25-70):(1-15); and a volume percentage of the nanocrystalline Cu-rich phase in the intergranular triangular zone is 4-12%, wherein TM comprises Fe and/or Co, and RE is a rare earth element. The neodymium-iron-boron magnet material of the present invention can improve the intrinsic coercivity and reduce the cost without using heavy rare earth elements or using a small amount of heavy rare earth elements, while maintaining the performances of higher remanence, magnetic energy product and squareness.

A continuous hydrogen pulverization method of a rare earth permanent magnetic alloy includes: providing a hydrogen adsorption room, a heating dehydrogenation room and a cooling room in series, applying hydrogen adsorption, heating dehydrogenation and cooling on a rare earth permanent magnetic alloy in the production device at the same time, wherein collecting and storing under an inert protection atmosphere can also be provided. Continuous production is provided under vacuum and the inert protection atmosphere in such a manner that an oxygen content of the pulverized powder is low and a proportion of single crystal in the powder is high.

The present disclosure relates to a method for recovering magnet material from a samarium cobalt, SmCo, magnet, the method comprising: initiating a hydrogen decrepitation process within a reaction vessel, wherein the hydrogen decrepitation process comprises: increasing a concentration of hydrogen in the reaction vessel, and maintaining the reaction vessel at either: a temperature of less than 70 C. and at a pressure of more than 10 bar, or at a temperature of more than 70 C. and at a pressure of less than 5 bar, to cause hydrogen decrepitation of the SmCo magnet disposed in the reaction vessel and produce SmCo-hydride material; and initiating a degasification process within a degasification vessel, wherein the degasification process comprises: removing gas from the degasification vessel and maintaining the degasification vessel at a temperature within a range of 150 C. to 300 C., to de-gas SmCo-hydride material disposed in the degasification vessel and produce SmCo material.