The invention provides a method for preparing a high-purity
niobium ingot by utilizing multistage refining and the high-purity
niobium ingot, and the method comprises the following steps: (1) taking aluminum particles,
niobium pentoxide, a heat generating agent and a
slag former as raw materials, preparing an aluminum-
niobium alloy ingot by adopting an exothermic method outside a furnace, and then carrying out surface treatment and crushing treatment to obtain aluminum-
niobium alloy particles; (2) the aluminum-
niobium alloy particles are subjected to horizontal
electron beam
smelting, and a smelted niobium plate is obtained; (3) stacking a plurality of
smelting niobium plates, and then sequentially performing vacuum
diffusion welding and
vacuum arc smelting to obtain a primary niobium ingot; and (4) the primary niobium ingot is placed in a double-gun
electron beam smelting furnace to be smelted, and the high-purity niobium ingot is obtained. The stable production of the high-RRR value high-purity niobium is realized by adopting a multi-stage refining process
coupling system of an aluminothermy method, horizontal
electron beam melting,
diffusion welding,
electric arc melting and double-gun electron beam melting, and the technical problems of
high energy consumption, high cost, low production efficiency and the like in the traditional process are effectively solved.