"...over the past few years research at the Light Metals Flagship (LMF) – an Australian Government-funded CSIRO initiative involving industry and research partners – a new processing technology is being developed that is said to have the potential to halve titanium processing costs. One of the keys to reducing the cost of producing titanium is TiRO™, a new processing technique developed by the LMF. TiRO™ is based on the same chemistry as the Kroll process – the traditional method for producing titanium metal – but is continuous, faster and eliminates many intermediate steps. It directly produces titanium metal in powder form.
The technology – based on reduction of titanium chemicals with aluminium – has produced 150 grams of alloy per hour in a continuous production mode in a small experimental unit."
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Thursday, April 10, 2008
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