Abstract: The present application provides a deoxidizer comprising an alkaline compound, silicon, a porous substance, water and at least one organic acid selected from the group consisting of ascorbic acid, isomers thereof and phenol derivatives where pH of an extract when 1 g of the deoxidizer is extracted with 10 ml of water is 8 or lower. The deoxidizer does not generate hydrogen gas and achieves an excellent deoxidizing ability even at from weakly alkaline to acidic regions. When a suppressant for generation of hydrogen is further added to the deoxidizer, generation of hydrogen is suppressed even when the pH is 10 or lower and an excellent deoxidizing ability can be maintained as well. Those deoxidizers do not interfere with the food test using a metal detector.

Abstract: When a waste wax composition containing a filler is treated so that the filler is recovered and thus reclaimed, almost all the impurities coming from the lost wax casting mold may be removed, thereby recovering and thus refining at a high purity, a filler of a lost wax composition. Crude reclaimed filler is first produced by dissolving and dispersing a waste wax composition in an organic solvent, and separating a dissolved wax phase from a solids/wax-containing fraction. The crude reclaimed filler is then dispersed in an aqueous alkaline solution, so as to dissolve and thus remove alkali-soluble impurities, followed by a water-washing process.

Abstract: When a waste wax composition containing a filler is treated so that the filler is recovered and thus reclaimed, almost all the impurities coming from the lost wax casting mold may be removed, thereby recovering and thus refining at a high purity, a filler of a lost wax composition. Crude reclaimed filler is first produced by dissolving and dispersing a waste wax composition in an organic solvent, and separating a dissolved wax phase from a solids/wax-containing fraction. The crude reclaimed filler is then dispersed in an aqueous alkaline solution, so as to dissolve and thus remove alkali-soluble impurities, followed (or preceded) by dispersion in an acidic aqueous solution so as to dissolve and thus remove acid-soluble impurities.

Abstract: A used investment casting wax composition containing a filler and/or a residue after a wax component is removed from the composition is dissolved or dispersed into an organic solvent. The mixture is separated into a dissolved wax fraction and a wax-containing solids fraction. The organic solvent in the dissolved wax fraction is removed to recover a wax component, while the wax component and the organic solvent in the wax-containing solids fraction are removed to recover a crude filler. The crude filler is washed with water and/or an aqueous alkaline solution to recover a high-purity filler. A reclaimed investment casting wax thus obtainable is less degraded by heat.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for accurately diagnosing a state of damage on a wall of a coking chamber of a coke battery. The method includes accurately diagnosing the damage state of the chamber wall by combination of three detection means. The three detection means include means for photographing the wall of the coking chamber of the coke battery, means for detecting the chamber width between chamber walls by laser range finders, and means for detecting the chamber temperature by radiation thermometers. The joints and the brick surfaces of the coke battery is photographed by a CCD camera. The image of the chamber wall is separated into images of the joints and the brick surfaces. The states of the joints and the brick surfaces are separately recognized to accurately detect damage of the joints and damage of the brick surfaces.

Abstract: A preheating apparatus of an analysis apparatus for determining the in quantity hydrogen and carbon contained in a sample such as steel is employed to remove moisture adhered to a sample of the steel by spot-heating focused on the sample in a transparent bent tube which is turned one-half in its circumferential direction after completion of its preheating to make it possible for the sample to be transfered by gravity from the bent tube into a graphite crucible in which the sample is fused to extract hydrogen and carbon contained in the sample, so that the thus extracted hydrogen and carbon are determined.

Abstract: An aqueous electrolytic solution of a molybdate ion and an oxidizing agent is effective to detect phosphorus segregates in a metallic material, particularly cast steel through electrolysis. Segregated phosphorus can be detected by (a) applying a test sheet against a surface area of the metallic material to be examined for segregation, (b) introducing an aqueous electrolytic solution comprising 0.1 to 20% by weight of a molybdate ion and an oxidizing agent between the metallic material surface area and the sheet, (c) contacting a cathode plate with the sheet, (d) effecting electrolysis with the metallic material made anode, (e) removing the sheet from the metallic material surface, and (f) treating the sheet with a reducing agent.