Abstract: Aluminum or aluminum alloy scraps or wastes are broken into chips and extruded under a high temperature to produce extruded structural profiles. The method is characterized by the fact that the interior of the extruder is evacuated prior to or simultaneously with the extrusion step so as to exhaust air entrapped in the body of the chips. There is also disclosed apparatus suitable for performing the method.

Abstract: An aluminum alloy consising essentially of 0.65 to 0.75% by weight of magnesium and 0.50 to 0.60% by weight of silicon or 0.47 to 0.57% by weight of magnesium and 0.75 to 0.85% by weight of silicon, 0.15% to 0.25% by weight of iron, less than 0.05% of an impurity selected from the group consisting of copper, manganese, zinc, chromium, and titanium and the balance aluminum, the aluminum alloy being subjected to aging treatment at a temperature below 200.degree. C for 20 to 50 minutes to obtain 0.2% proof stress larger than 11 kg/mm.sup.2, ultimate tensile strength larger than 20 kg/mm.sup.2 and elongation more than 8%. Aluminum alloy shapes are formed of the above aluminum alloy by extrusion forming of the aluminum alloy to obtain an extrusion, coating a film on the surface of the extrusion with a water-soluble paint after forming thereon a ground film, heating the extrusion at a temperature below 200.degree.

Abstract: Method for producing extruded structural profiles from aluminum or aluminum alloy scrap materials. The scrap materials are compacted under room temperature or under heat suitable for hot extrusion into a cylindrical body which is of such a dimension that is suitable for insertion into an extruder. The compacted body has an average density which is 70 to 86 percent of that of aluminum, and includes longitudinal air passages. Suction pressure is applied to the interior of the extruder during extruding process for removing air entrapped in the body, which may otherwise cause voids in the extruded products.

Abstract: Aluminum or aluminum alloy scraps or wastes are broken into chips and converted into a cylindrical body to be extruded under a temperature suitable to produce extruded structural profiles. The method is characterized by the fact that the interior of the extruder is evacuated prior to or simultaneously with the extrusion step so as to exhaust air entrapped in the cylindrical body.

Abstract: An apparatus for electrolytically processing aluminium material comprising rectifier means for supplying a pulse power to the electrodes, at least one of which is the aluminium material to be processed, and controller means for supplying a control signal to the rectifier means to enable the same to produce from a multi-phase AC power a pulse power balanced between the phases. The electrodes are connected with each other by a by-pass circuit which is controlled such that the electrodes are short-circuited by the by-pass circuit during the quiescent time of the pulse power to enable the electric charge stored in the electrolytic bath to be discharged rapidly to prevent the trailed natural discharge through the electrolytic path from interfering with the rise of the next pulse, thus preventing the deformation of the pulse waveform supplied to the electrodes.

Abstract: In the treatment of petroleum heavy oil by thermally cracking a petroleum heavy oil mixed with an alkali metal carbonate or carbonates at a cracking temperature of 450.degree. to 650.degree.C and recovering the resulting low sulfur liquid hydrocarbon and light hydrocarbon gas, (1) gasification of residual coke produced by said cracking, in the presence of the alkali metal carbonate or carbonates and an alkali metal sulfide or sulfides by-produced during the cracking, with steam alone or steam together with an oxygen-containing gas, at 550.degree. to 800.degree.C and under the atmospheric pressure to 10 atm. to produce a hydrogen- and CO.sub.2 -- rich gas, and (2) regeneration from said by-produced alkali metal sulfide or sulfides to said alkali metal carbonate or carbonates, with CO.sub.2 gas produced by said gasification and steam, are simultaneously carried out in the same reaction zone.

Abstract: A strong base layer for painting on an aluminous material, a thermosetting resin paint and a painted film having high cohesion and corrosion resistance are produced by forming a boehmite layer in various processes on the aluminous material and immersing the aluminous material provided with the boehmite layer in a water soluble thermosetting resin paint at 40.degree.-60.degree.C containing an organic amine and removing the aluminous material from the paint bath and heating the paint thus deposited on the aluminous material to bake and cure the paint.

Abstract: A method of forming a colored oxide film on the surface of an aluminum material is disclosed in which the aluminum material is subjected to an electrolytic treatment in an aqueous solution containing sulfuric acid to form an aluminum oxide film containing aluminous oxides and having lattice defects; sulfuric ions in the solution are caused to enter into the lattice defects of the oxide film; some or all of the sulfuric ions are reduced to form sulfur and sulfides; and the colored oxide film is formed using the sulfur and sulfides as coloring sources.