A compound superconducting wire 10 includes a reinforcement portion 12 and a compound superconductor 11. In the reinforcement portion 12, an assembly of plural reinforcement elements 4 are disposed. The reinforcement elements 4 each include plural reinforcement filaments 1 disposed in a stabilizer 2, and a stabilizing layer 3 at the outer periphery thereof. The reinforcement filaments 1 each mainly contain one or more metals selected from the group consisting of Nb, Ta, V, W, Mo, Fe, and Hf, an alloy consisting of two or more metals selected from the aforementioned group, or an alloy consisting of copper and one or more metals selected from the aforementioned group.

Disclosed is a method for producing a permanently joined plate heat exchanger comprising a plurality of metal heat exchanger plates having a solidus temperature above 1100 C., provided beside each other and forming a plate package with first plate interspaces for a first medium and second plate interspaces for a second medium, wherein the first and second plate interspaces are provided in an alternating order in the plate package, wherein each heat exchanger plate comprises a heat transfer area and an edge area comprising bent edges which extend around the heat transfer area, wherein a first surface of the plates forms a convex shape and a second surface of the plates forms a concave shape, wherein the heat transfer area comprises a corrugation of elevations and depressions, wherein said corrugation of the plates and the bent edges are provided by pressing the plates. Also disclosed is a plate heat exchanger produced by the method.

Disclosed is a method for producing a permanently joined plate heat exchanger comprising a plurality of metal heat exchanger plates having a solidus temperature above 1100 C., provided beside each other and forming a plate package with first plate interspaces for a first medium and second plate interspaces for a second medium, wherein the first and second plate interspaces are provided in an alternating order in the plate package. Each heat exchanger plate comprises a heat transfer area and an edge area which extend around the heat transfer area. The heat transfer area comprises a corrugation of elevations and depressions, wherein said corrugation of the plates are provided by pressing the plates. Also disclosed is a plate heat exchanger produced by the method.

Disclosed is a zirconium-based metal pretreatment coating composition that includes a metal chelator that chelates copper in the metal pretreatment coating composition and thereby improves adhesion of paints to a metal substrate coated with the pretreatment coating composition and the chelating agent is present in a sufficient amount to ensure that in the deposited pretreatment coating on the metal substrate the average total atomic % of copper to atomic % of zirconium is equal to or less than 1.1. The pretreatment coating composition is useful for treating a variety of metal substrates.

Disclosed is a zirconium-based metal pretreatment coating composition that includes a metal chelator that chelates copper in the metal pretreatment coating composition and thereby improves adhesion of paints to a metal substrate coated with the pretreatment coating composition and the chelating agent is present in a sufficient amount to ensure that in the deposited pretreatment coating on the metal substrate the average total atomic % of copper to atomic % of zirconium is equal to or less than 1.1. The pretreatment coating composition is useful for treating a variety of metal substrates.

The purpose of the present invention is to provide a water-soluble finishing agent for a trivalent chromium chemical conversion coating film, which has low insulation, no problems with tightening properties, outstanding gloss and high corrosion resistance, and can obtain a trivalent chromium chemical conversion coating film, especially a black trivalent chromium chemical conversion coating film, having few scratches and flaws. The finishing agent for a trivalent chromium chemical conversion coating film is characterized by containing a trivalent chromium source, a phosphate ion source, a zinc ion source, a chelating agent which can form a complex with trivalent chromium, and a non-ionic water-soluble polymer compound selected from a group comprising poly(vinyl alcohol) and derivatives thereof, poly(vinyl pyrrolidone) and derivatives thereof, poly(alkylene glycol)s and derivatives thereof, and cellulose ethers and derivatives thereof.

A turbine component having a low residual stress ferromagnetic damping coating. The ferromagnetic damping coating may include a ferromagnetic damping material applied in powder form, which may be directed at a surface of the substrate at an application velocity so that it causes partial plastic deformation of the surface while adhering to the surface of the substrate to create a ferromagnetic damping coating. The ferromagnetic damping coating has a balanced coating residual stress, including a tensile quenching stress component and a compressive peening stress component. The resulting coated substrate exhibits a high damping capacity.