Stanford research institute international (SRT) has developed a new kind of titanium technology, compared with the traditional kroll process, this process is simple, low energy consumption, product for titanium powder. And, through the preparation of titanium powder pressing close to finished product shape can be obtained, the molten titanium products.

 

 

SRT energy center, senior director Barbara Heydorn titanium technology about the new system has carried on the simple introduction. It is the use of plasma arc first to break into hydrogen atoms and hydrogen molecules and hydrogen reaction with titanium chloride production of aerosolized titanium, mist again after rapid cooling forming titanium titanium powder. SRT is introduced in this paper has been successfully used in the laboratory preparation of pure titanium, in-depth study of ongoing industrialization promotion before, in order to improve the use of the technology in the production of titanium powder production and reduce production costs. However, will be a new technology promotion to the actual production in real is not easy. Materials chemistry professor Donald Sadoway at the Massachusetts institute of technology, enterprises to adopt new processes need to invest a lot of money to buy equipment, new plant, but conventional wisdom suggests metal industry has grown up, the most suitable technology has been developed and used, so the new process is hard to get financial support.