摘要:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method of manufacturing a titanium ingot capable of removing HDI (High Density Inclusion) from titanium alloy, reducing persistence of LDI (Low Density Inclusion) with a particle diameter of up to about 10-15 mm to 1% or less, and obtaining the titanium ingot with high quality and high reliability at low cost.SOLUTION: The method of manufacturing the titanium ingot 30 includes: a step of melting the titanium alloy for a predetermined time by CCIM; and a subsequent step of supplying molten titanium 6 to a cold hearth 10 and separate the HDI 8 by sedimentation in the cold hearth 10 while spraying a plasma jet onto a bath surface of the molten titanium 6.
摘要:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To melt a high quality ingot by obtaining the composition of recycled titanium scrap as a raw material and adding additives to the scrap.SOLUTION: The method comprises the steps of: storing individual recognition information and processing history information, which are made to pass a read means and attached to the scrap, in a server; predicting changed portions in chemical composition of the scrap from the processing history information and correcting the individual recognition information (chemical composition) by a computing means; in an initial stage of ingot production, calculating necessary combinations among the scrap, sponge titanium and additives of the raw materials and individual feed rates in the corrected individual recognition information stored in the server, so as to satisfy chemical composition and production rate of the aimed ingot; starting to feed by transmitting the signals corresponding to the calculation results to the feed rate control means of the individual feed means of these raw materials from the computing means; while after the initial stage of ingot production, reading actual production rate of ingot by a detection means of extraction site of ingot; and controlling each feed rate of these raw materials by the computing means based on the actual production rate.
摘要:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a melting raw material that can be efficiently melted as a melting raw material for an electron-beam melting furnace using scraps, and to provide a method of melting a metal by which the metal can be efficiently melted using the scraps.SOLUTION: The melting raw material for producing the metal has a surface part in which a compound layer containing at least either of oxide or nitride of a main constituent metal forming the melting raw material is formed, wherein the thickness of the compound layer is 1,000 μm or less. The melting raw material for producing the metal is melted in an electron-beam melting furnace equipped with at least one hearth.
摘要:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To recover rare metal more easily at low cost.SOLUTION: Prepared mixed powder is subjected to pulverization treatment. For example, the pulverization treatment can be performed using a ball mill. Through the pulverization treatment, a metal oxide and a reducing agent in the mixed powder react each other in a solid phase by a mechanochemical reaction, so that the metal oxide is reduced. It is known that, in pulverization treatment by rotational motion using a pulverization ball in a ball mill, not only physical pulverization treatment but also a mechanochemical reaction causing a chemical reaction by mechanical energy are caused. A reduced material such as metal is derived from the metal oxide by the reduction.