The invention relates to a
plasma atomization method and apparatus for preparing spherical pure
titanium or
titanium alloy powder, and belongs to the technical field of preparation of
titanium or
titanium alloy powder. The
plasma atomization method for preparing pure titanium or
titanium alloy powder comprises the following steps of (1) preparing a titanium wire or
titanium alloy wire with the
diameter ranging from 3 millimeters to 20 millimeters, (2) using a
plasma torch to fuse and atomize the titanium wire or titanium
alloy wire in an atomization bin with an
argon atmosphere to obtain atomized pure titanium particles or titanium
alloy particles, and (3) feeding
argon flow with the temperature
ranging from 300 DEG C to 500 DEG C into the atomization bin, carrying out
laminar cooling on the atomized pure titanium particles or titanium alloy particles to obtain pure titanium or titanium alloy powder. The obtained powder is good
in degree of
sphericity and low in the content of
satellite balls, and has the advantages of being uniform in size distribution, high in purity and degree of
sphericity, good in liquidity, low in
oxygen content and
impurity content, free of bond or cluster phenomenon and the like. The prepared
titanium powder can be widely applied to the forming manners such as
metal additive manufacturing,
powder injection moulding and
hot isostatic pressing for manufacturing parts with high precision.