Manufacturing Process to Transform Low-Grade Titanium Alloys to Suitable High-Grade Value Products
Closed Solicitation Posted
- Solicitation number
- BA-1052_1107
- Agency
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Department of Energy
- Responses due
- Set-aside
- No set-aside
Opportunity facts
- NAICS code
- 21 Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction
- Place of performance
- Idaho Falls ID 83415 USA
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Notice text
3 versions
Update #3 · Latest ·
Though titanium is a high-value engineering metal with widespread applications the problems with titanium are:
- Significant oxygen consumption
- High buy-to-fly (BTF) ratio (the weight of the raw material purchases compared to the weight of the final product)
- No suitable substitutes
- Expensive
Industry Applications:
- Automotive
- Aerospace
- Chemical Plants
- Desalination
- Sports
- Biomedical
- Marine
- Oil & Gas production
- Power generation (gas turbine)
INL's Solution:
- Two-pronged approach
- Conversion of titanium oxide/oxide mixtures containing titanium to commercially pure titanium and its alloys
- Transform oxidized/waste alloys to usable grade alloys
- Refined Alloys can directly be put back into the service chain
- The process is generic in nature:
- Applicable to a host of waste engineering metal and alloys
- Investments:
- Purchase price of Ti 64 scrap: $1.5-4 / lb
- Processing cost: ~ $10 / lb
- Total investment: ~ $15 / lb
- Return on Investment
- Market price of the refined Ti 64 bar: $26/lb
INL is seeking to license the above intellectual property to a company with a demonstrated ability to bring such inventions to the market. Exclusive rights in defined fields of use may be available.
Update #2 ·
Though titanium is a high-value engineering metal with widespread applications the problems with titanium are:
- Significant oxygen consumption
- High buy-to-fly (BTF) ratio (the weight of the raw material purchases compared to the weight of the final product)
- No suitable substitutes
- Expensive
Industry Applications:
- Automotive
- Aerospace
- Chemical Plants
- Desalination
- Sports
- Biomedical
- Marine
- Oil & Gas production
- Power generation (gas turbine)
INL's Solution:
- Two-pronged approach
- Conversion of titanium oxide/oxide mixtures containing titanium to commercially pure titanium and its alloys
- Transform oxidized/waste alloys to usable grade alloys
- Refined Alloys can directly be put back into the service chain
- The process is generic in nature:
- Applicable to a host of waste engineering metal and alloys
- Investments:
- Purchase price of Ti 64 scrap: $1.5-4 / lb
- Processing cost: ~ $10 / lb
- Total investment: ~ $15 / lb
- Return on Investment
- Market price of the refined Ti 64 bar: $26/lb
Update #1 ·
Though titanium is a high-value engineering metal with widespread applications the problems with titanium are:
- Significant oxygen consumption
- High buy-to-fly (BTF) ratio (the weight of the raw material purchases compared to the weight of the final product)
- No suitable substitutes
- Expensive
INL's Solution:
- Two-pronged approach
- Conversion of titanium oxide/oxide mixtures containing titanium to commercially pure titanium and its alloys
- Transform oxidized/waste alloys to usable grade alloys
- Refined Alloys can directly be put back into the service chain
- The process is generic in nature:
- Applicable to a host of waste engineering metal and alloys
- Investments:
- Purchase price of Ti 64 scrap: $1.5-4 / lb
- Processing cost: ~ $10 / lb
- Total investment: ~ $15 / lb
- Return on Investment
- Market price of the refined Ti 64 bar: $26/lb
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