Abstract: The present invention provides a dispersant for carbon materials, the dispersant containing a copolymer having a nitrogen-containing group, wherein the copolymer has a nitrogen content of 0.01 wt % or more and 5 wt % or less and the copolymer has an SP value of 8.0 to 12 (cal/cm3)1/2.

Abstract: The present invention provides a dispersant for carbon materials, the dispersant containing a copolymer having a nitrogen-containing group, wherein the copolymer has a nitrogen content of 0.01 wt % or more and 5 wt % or less and the copolymer has an SP value of 8.0 to 12 (cal/cm3)1/2.

Abstract: The present invention provides a dispersant for carbon materials, the dispersant containing a copolymer having a nitrogen-containing group, wherein the copolymer has a nitrogen content of 0.01 wt % or more and 5 wt % or less and the copolymer has an SP value of 8.0 to 12 (cal/cm3)1/2.

Abstract: To provide a high-carbon steel wire rod with excellent wire drawability. The high-carbon steel wire rod of the present invention includes predetermined components and also includes pearlite and proeutectoid cementite, and an area ratio of pearlite is 90% or more relative to the entire structure, a maximum length of proeutectoid cementite is 15 ?m or less, and a concentration difference between an average of the Si concentration inside proeutectoid cementite and a maximum value of the Si concentration inside ferrite that forms a lamellar structure of pearlite is 0.50 to 3%.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a wire rod for a steel wire, which is excellent in low cycle fatigue characteristics and is useful as a material for a high-strength steel wire such as a wire rope or a PC steel wire, and to provide a steel wire that can exhibit such characteristics. A wire rod for a steel wire of the present invention comprises by mass: C: 0.70 to 1.3%; Si: 0.1 to 1.5%; Mn: 0.1 to 1.5%; N: 0.001 to 0.006%; Al: 0.001 to 0.10%; Ti: 0.02 to 0.20%; B: 0.0005 to 0.010%; P: 0% or more and 0.030% or less; and S: 0% or more and 0.030% or less, with the balance being iron and inevitable impurities, wherein, the wire rod has pearlite as a main phase, an area ratio of proeutectoid ferrite is 1.0% or less, and an average thickness of the proeutectoid ferrite is 5 ?m or less.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a wire rod for a steel wire, which is excellent in low cycle fatigue characteristics and is useful as a material for a high-strength steel wire such as a wire rope or a PC steel wire, and to provide a steel wire that can exhibit such characteristics. A wire rod for a steel wire of the present invention comprises by mass: C: 0.70 to 1.3%; Si: 0.1 to 1.5%; Mn: 0.1 to 1.5%; N: 0.001 to 0.006%; Al: 0.001 to 0.10%; Ti: 0.02 to 0.20%; B: 0.0005 to 0.010%; P: 0% or more and 0.030% or less; and S: 0% or more and 0.030% or less, with the balance being iron and inevitable impurities, wherein, the wire rod having pearlite as a main phase and a hydrogen diffusion coefficient D in steel at 300° C. satisfies formula (1) below: D?2.5×10?7(cm2/sec)??(1).

Abstract: A technique with which air blast cooling can be used to produce a high-strength steel wire material that achieves uniform high strength and high ductility, even when cold drawn; a high-strength steel wire produced from this high-strength steel wire material; and a zinc-plated high-strength steel wire. This high-strength steel wire material includes 0.80-1.3% of C, 0.1-1.5% of Si, 0.1-1.5% of Mn, more than 0% but not more than 0.03% of P, more than 0% but not more than 0.03% of S, 0.0005-0.01% of B, 0.01-0.10% of Al, and 0.001-0.006% of N, the remainder being iron and unavoidable impurities. The area ratio of pearlite in the structure of the high-strength steel wire material is at least 90%. The average grain size number (Pave) of pearlite nodules and the standard deviation (P?) thereof respectively satisfy formula (1), namely 7.0?Pave?10.0, and formula (2), namely P??0.6.

Abstract: Provided are: a high-strength steel wire material which exhibits excellent cold-drawing properties and a high prescribed strength; a high-strength steel wire produced from this high-strength steel wire material; and a zinc-plated high-strength steel wire. This high-strength steel wire material is characterized by respectively including 0.80-1.3% of C, 0.1-1.5% of Si, 0.1-1.5% of Mn, more than 0% but not more than 0.03% of P, more than 0% but not more than 0.03% of S, 0.02-0.2% of Ti, 0.01-0.10% of Al, and 0.001-0.006% of N, the remainder comprising iron and unavoidable impurities. The high-strength steel wire material is further characterized in that the relationship in formula (1), namely 0.05%?[Ti*]?(0.0023 [C]) (with the caveat that [Ti*]=(the total amount of Ti?the total amount of Ti in compounds having a size of at least 0.1 ?m), and [C] represents the carbon content (in mass %)), is satisfied.

Abstract: Provided are: a technique with which air blast cooling can be used to produce, with excellent productivity, a high-strength steel wire material capable of achieving uniform high strength and high ductility, even when cold drawn; a high-strength steel wire produced from this high-strength steel wire material; and a zinc-plated high-strength steel wire. This high-strength steel wire material respectively includes 0.80-1.3% of C, 0.1-1.5% of Si, 0.1-1.5% of Mn, more than 0% but not more than 0.03% of P, more than 0% but not more than 0.03% of S, 0.0005-0.01% of B, 0.01-0.10% of Al, and 0.001-0.006% of N, the remainder comprising iron and unavoidable impurities. The area ratio of pearlite in the structure of the high-strength steel wire material is at least 90%. The average grain size number (Pave) of pearlite nodules and the standard deviation (P?) thereof respectively satisfy formula (1), namely 7.0?Pave?10.0, and formula (2), namely P??0.6.

Abstract: Provided are: a steel wire rod material for a high-strength spring, which does not undergo the increase in deformation resistance arising from the increase in hardness and can exhibit good wire-drawing processability and the like even when a heat treatment, which deteriorates productivity, is eliminated or a simplified and rapid heat treatment is employed instead; a useful method for producing the steel wire rod material for a high-strength spring; a high-strength spring produced using the steel wire rod material for a high-strength spring as a material; and others. This steel wire rod material for a high-strength spring is a steel wire rod material that has been hot-rolled already, and has a texture having a specified chemical composition and mainly composed of pearlite, wherein the average value (Pave) of the pearlite nodule size numbers and the standard deviation (P?) of the pearlite nodule size numbers fulfill the following formulae (1) and (2), respectively: 9.5?Pave?12.0;??(1) and 0.2?P??0.7??(2).

Abstract: Provided are: a steel wire rod material for a high-strength spring, which does not undergo the increase in deformation resistance arising from the increase in hardness and can exhibit good wire-drawing processability and the like even when a heat treatment, which deteriorates productivity, is eliminated or a simplified and rapid heat treatment is employed instead; a useful method for producing the steel wire rod material for a high-strength spring; a high-strength spring produced using the steel wire rod material for a high-strength spring as a material; and others. This steel wire rod material for a high-strength spring is a steel wire rod material that has been hot-rolled already, and has a texture having a specified chemical composition and mainly composed of pearlite, wherein the average value (Pave) of the pearlite nodule size numbers and the standard deviation (P?) of the pearlite nodule size numbers fulfill the following formulae (1) and (2), respectively: 9.5?Pave?12.0;??(1) and 0.2?P??0.

Abstract: An operating method for a refuse processing furnace which processes refuse by melting with electric power, comprising steps of detecting a surface level of heaped refuse in the furnace and controlling amount of either or both of power input and refuse input into the furnace in response to the detected level of the heaped refuse in the furnace. The method assures stable processing with constant yield or outflow of molten refuse besides preventing the furnace and its equipments from being damaged by heat radiation from the molten surface.