Rhenium Production Cost Reports

Rhenium production cost report provides a comprehensive analysis and know-how for setting up a Rhenium production plant. The study covers all the requisite aspects that one needs to know for the production of Rhenium. This includes manufacturing processes, raw material requirements, utility requirements, infrastructure requirements, machinery and technology requirements, manpower requirements, packaging requirements, transportation requirements, etc.

Rhenium (Re) is a rare earth metal, among the rarest chemical element in the world. It is not present in nature or as a mineable mineral species compound but is extensively spread all over the crust of the Earth to the extent of about 0.001 parts per million. It is commercially produced by using extraction from the flue dust of molybdenum smelters. It belongs to the Group 7 of the periodic table with the atomic number 75 and has no mineral characteristics. It is usually found in specific platinum and molybdenite ores.

Rhenium appears to be a silvery-white, heavy, polyvalent transition metal closely resembling manganese. It has a very high melting point, just behind the Tungsten metallic element that has a higher melting point. It has a solid form at 20°C. Its melting and boiling points are 3185°C and 5590°C, respectively. The element gets formed by using the oxidising smelter residues obtained by molybdenite processing.

Rhenium is used as an additive in tungsten- and molybdenum-based alloys in order to add useful properties. The following alloys then find application in oven filaments and x-ray machines that propels the market growth. It also finds use as an electrical contact material since it is wear-resistant and resists arc corrosion. Catalysts of rhenium are highly resistant to poisoning (deactivation) and hence are used in the hydrogenation of fine chemicals, which is boosting its industry demand.

It is also used as a petroleum reforming catalyst as well as in high-temperature components of turbine engines as superalloys. Other uses of the element that forward the market's expansion include its use in mass spectrographs and ion gauges as filaments; in thermocouples including rhenium and tungsten alloys which are used to estimate temperatures up to 2200 ° C; in the photography segment, rhenium wire is used in photoflash lamps, and for plating jewellery. As a result of the wide range of applications of the rare metal, its demand across several industries is growing.