The invention belongs to the technical field of
rare earth permanent magnets and particularly provides a process of preparing a
rare earth permanent
magnet Sm2Fe17NX
powder. According to the process, an Fe-M
powder and an Sm
powder are employed as raw materials (wherein M is selected from one or more than two from Hf, Zr, Co, Nb, Cr, V, Ti, Ga, B and the like), and a
solid-
liquid phase diffusion reaction method is employed to prepare a Sm2Fe17
intermetallic compound, and finally the
intermetallic compound is nitrided to obtain the final product Sm2Fe17NX. The process includes the steps of (1) uniformly mixing the Fe-M powder and the Sm powder; (2) performing cold-pressing moulding to the mixed
raw material powder; (3) performing the
solid-
liquid phase diffusion reaction to the cold-pressed billet to obtain a Sm2Fe17 mono-phase block; and (4) crushing and
grinding the Sm2Fe17 mono-phase block into powder, performing nitridation to the powder under an
atmosphere containing
nitrogen or
ammonia to prepare the Sm2Fe17NX powder. On the basis of the Sm2Fe17NX powder, an aeolotropic bonded
magnet having excellent performances can be produced. The process is simple in operations, is easy to control in process parameters, is environment-protective and
pollution-free, and is easy to achieve large-scale production.