| 摘要 |
This invention relates to a process and an apparatus for converting lump-size material, particularly scrap, of titanium metal or its alloys, preferably of low oxygen content, into powder-form material, which is useable for forming in a powder-metallurgical way pressings and workpieces, wherein the lump-size material is highly embrittled by charging with hydrogen, the embrittled material is size-reduced by means of size-reducing machines, particularly impeller breakers, impact mills, hammer mills, impact hammer mills or hammer breakers, the size-reduced brittle material preferably having a particle size of less than about 10 mm and more particularly of less than about 6 mm is further size-reduced by means of at least one jet stream by impinging on a baffle plate or an anvil or on the particles of at least one other jet stream for the purpose of conversion into the powder-form material, and the powder-form material is converted into the ductile state by heating, preferably at temperatures above 450 DEG C. and more particularly at temperatures above 700 DEG C., preferably under reduced pressure and more particularly under a reduced pressure of the order of 10-1 Torr or lower.
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