Technologies of secondary refractory rare metals (Review)

A short review of works by A.V. Elyutin et al. in the field of rare metals is presented. Technologies of the recovery of zirconium, hafnium, tungsten, tantalum, and niobium from various types of secondary raw materials, notably, scrap metal, scrap of refractory materials, wastes and scrap of hard alloys, and obsolete scrap of capacitors, are considered. Possibilities of increasing the purity of these metals by electrolytic refining and electron-beam melting are shown.