Aluminum deoxidation gas
Since Al2O3 is very stable, powerful acids such as HF and chromic acid are used to remove the oxide surface. Since you're working with fine particles and wish to use a gas, rather than liquid, you'll need to consider what will become of the removed oxides. Gaseous HF would leave fluorides behind. Perhaps atomic hydrogen might work, but you'd have to remove the resultant water before the Al reoxidizes.

It is easier to prepare powdered aluminum in an inert atmosphere from bulk aluminum. There are a number of sites showing how to grind aluminum using anything from a file to a coffee grinder; you'd need to adapt this to run in argon, perhaps with a glove-box.

Sintering might be difficult, since Al is so soft that pore spaces would close.