National Institute for Materials Science

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Limited

Sumitomo Metal Industries, Inc.

Hitachi, Ltd.

Agency of Industrial Science and Technology

Nippon Steel Sumitomo Metal Corporation

Fujio Abe

Masaaki Igarashi

Masato Tanaka

Hirokazu Okada

Toshiyasu Sakakura

Masaki Taneike

Susumu Tsukamoto

Toshiaki Horiuchi

Masayuki Kondo

Masaaki Tabuchi

A welded joint of a tempered martensitic heat resisting steel includes a fine-grained heat affected zone of weldment of a heat resisting steel having a tempered martensite structure which exhibits a creep strength of 90% or more of the creep strength of the base metal thereof. The welded joint is inhibited in the formation of the fine-grained HAZ exhibiting a significantly reduced creep strength.

Welded joint of tempered martensite based heat-resistant steel

A ferritic heat-resistant steel, which exhibits excellent creep characteristics even at a high temperature exceeding 600&#xb0; C., comprises, on the basis of percent by weight, 1.0 to 13% of chromium, 0.1 to 8.0% of cobalt, 0.01 to 0.20% of nitrogen, 3.0% or less of nickel, 0.01 to 0.50% of one or more of elements selected from a group consisting of vanadium, niobium, tantalum, titanium, hafnium, and zirconium that are MX type precipitate forming elements, and 0.01% or less of carbon and a balance being substantially iron and inevitable impurities, wherein the MX type precipitates precipitate on grain boundaries and in entire grains and the grain boundary existing ratio of an MCtype precipitate precipitating on the grain boundaries is 50% or less.

Ferritic heat-resistant steel and method for production thereof

The present invention provides a martensitic heat resistant alloy having a composition (A) comprising, % by weight: 0.03 to 0.15% of C; 0.01 to 0.9% of Si: 0.01 to 1.5% of Mn; 8.0 to 13.0% of Cr; 0.0005 to 0.015% of Al; no more than 2.0% of Mo; no more than 4.0% of W; 0.05 to 0.5% of V; 0.01 to 0.2% of Nb; 0.1 to 5.0% of Co; 0.008 to 0.03% of B; less than 0.005% of N: and Fe and inevitable impurities as the remainder, wherein (B) the contents (% by weight) of Mo, W, B and N satisfy the following formulae (1) and (2).B&#x2212;0.772N&#x3e;0.007&#x2003;&#x2003;(1)W+1.916Mo&#x2212;16.99B&#x3e;2.0&#x2003;&#x2003;(2) The martensitic heat resistant alloy of the present invention has excellent oxidation resistance, hot workability and ductility and exhibits high creep rupture strength in a range of relatively long rupture time at a high temperature.

Heat-resistant martensite alloy excellent in high-temperature creep rupture strength and ductility and process for producing the same

A efficient photochemical method for the preparation of an alcohol compound, e.g., benzyl alcohol, from a non-olefin hydrocarbon compound, e.g., benzene, was proposed in which a mixture of the non-olefin hydrocarbon compound as the starting material and a hydrogen donor compound, which is a cycloalkane of 5 to 16 carbon atoms in a molecule, e.g., cyclooctane, or an aliphatic alcohol of up to 10 carbon atoms in a molecule, e.g., isopropyl alcohol, is irradiated with light under an atmosphere of carbon monoxide in the presence of a complex compound of rhodium or iridium, of which at least one of the ligands is preferably a monophosphine or bisphosphine compound. The method is advantageous in that the reaction can proceed under mild reaction conditions and that the amount of the aldehyde compound formed in the reaction mixture as a by-product is very small as compared with conventional methods so as to greatly facilitate isolation of the desired alcohol product from the reaction mixture.

Method for the preparation of an alcohol from hydrocarbon

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