A metal titanium production apparatus includes: a reductor that subjects titanium tetrachloride to a reduction process in presence of bismuth and magnesium to obtain a liquid alloy containing titanium and the bismuth; a segregator that subjects the liquid alloy to a segregation process to obtain a precipitate; and a distillator that subjects the precipitate to a distillation process to obtain metal titanium, and the distillator sets an atmosphere so as to preferentially vaporize the bismuth attached to the precipitate and then sets the atmosphere so as to vaporize the bismuth forming the precipitate.

Apparatuses and methods of making titanium or a titanium alloy which include providing a first feed material and a carbon source material to a first reaction chamber in which the first feed material includes a solid aluminum oxide. The method also includes heating the first feed material and the carbon source material to reduce the solid aluminum oxide to one or more gaseous species including aluminum. The method also includes providing the one or more gaseous species including aluminum to a second reaction chamber, the second reaction chamber containing a second feed material which includes a solid titanium oxide. The method also includes reducing the solid titanium oxide with the one or more gaseous species including aluminum to form molten titanium metal or molten titanium alloy.

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.

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 of an AlCl.sub.3-based salt solution that includes Ti.sup.3+ and an AlCl.sub.3-based salt solution that includes Ti.sup.2+, which may then undergo a disproportionation reaction to form the titanium aluminum alloy.

The present invention relates to metallurgical processes, and more particularly to a process for producing titaniferous feedstock and fines, a process for agglomerating titaniferous fines, and a process for producing titaniferous metals and titaniferous alloys. Recovery of rare-earth, vanadium and scandium from titanium iron bearing resources is also disclosed. Selective leaching for Scandium recovery from all magnetite type resources such as ilmenite, ferro titanic resources, nickel laterites, magnetite iron resources etc.

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.

A metal titanium production apparatus includes: a reductor that subjects titanium tetrachloride to a reduction process in presence of bismuth and magnesium to obtain a liquid alloy containing titanium and the bismuth; a segregator that subjects the liquid alloy to a segregation process to obtain a precipitate; and a distillator that subjects the precipitate to a distillation process to obtain metal titanium, and the distillator sets an atmosphere so as to preferentially vaporize the bismuth attached to the precipitate and then sets the atmosphere so as to vaporize the bismuth forming the precipitate.

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.

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.

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.