A method of treating cooling circuit water of industrial plants (2) contaminated with organic substances and inorganic particles, comprises the following steps: a) separating the organic substances and inorganic particles from the cooling circuit water to obtain precleaned cooling circuit water; b) cooling the precleaned cooling circuit water by an open cooling tower (11) to obtain cooled precleaned cooling circuit water; c) desalinating at least a partial volume flow of the cooled precleaned cooling circuit water by an desalination plant (14) to obtain cleaned cooling circuit water; and d) adding bacteria capable of degrading organic substances present in the cooling circuit water. The bacteria are added to the cooling circuit water before the separation in accordance with step a), before the cooling in accordance with step b) and/or before the desalination in accordance with step c), to form a biological cleaning stage.

Lubricant compositions and methods of producing die-cast products by applying such a lubricant composition to a working surface of a die prior to casting a product from a molten metal injected into the die. The composition serves as lubricant between the die and resulting product, and contains at least one active component that reacts with an oxide of the metal to remove a layer of the oxide that forms on a surface of the melt during the die casting process.

A heat-treatment oil composition can make it possible to achieve both high quenching hardness and reduced quenching distortion. A heat-treatment oil composition may include a base oil (A) and a vapor film rupturing agent (B). The heat-treatment oil composition may make it such that, on a cooling curve obtained in accordance with the cooling performance test method in JIS K2242:2012, the time in seconds to 300 C., e.g., the cooling time from 800 to 300 C., is less than 6 seconds. Component (B) may include a petroleum resin.

A low friction wear surface with a coefficient of friction in the superlubric regime including graphene and nanoparticles on the wear surface is provided, and methods of producing the low friction wear surface are also provided. A long lifetime wear-resistant surface including graphene exposed to hydrogen is provided, including methods of increasing the lifetime of graphene containing wear surfaces by providing hydrogen to the wear surface.

Provided is a heat-treatment oil composition that makes it possible to suppress quenching distortion and distortion variation and to achieve improved quenching hardness. A heat-treatment oil composition that includes a base oil (A) and a vapor film rupturing agent (B). The heat-treatment oil composition makes it such that, on a cooling curve obtained in accordance with the cooling performance test method in HS K2242:2012, the time in seconds to 300 C., e.g., the cooling time from 800 C. to 300 C., is at least 6.5 seconds but less than 10 seconds. Component (B) includes a petroleum resin.

A water-soluble quenching fluid composition prepared by blending: water, at least one kind selected from a polyoxyalkylene glycol and a derivative thereof (A), and an alkylene glycol ether (B), the polyoxyalkylene glycol or a derivative thereof (A) having a mass average molecular weight of 10,000 or more and 100,000 or less, the alkylene glycol ether (B) having a solubility in 100 mL of water at 20 C. of 2.0 g/100 mL-H.sub.2O or less and a molecular weight per 1 mol of 1,000 g/mol or less.

A release agent for a hot-forging die, containing micronanobubbles.

Provided is a lubricant composition for plastic working which lubricant composition is excellent in lubricity and mold releasability. The lubricant composition for plastic working which lubricant composition contains: (a) silica; and (b) an alkali metal salt of an organic acid, a weight ratio of (b) the alkali metal salt of the organic acid to (a) the silica (a weight of (b)/a weight of (a)) being not less than 2, is used.

A low friction wear surface with a coefficient of friction in the superlubric regime including graphene and nanoparticles on the wear surface is provided, and methods of producing the low friction wear surface are also provided. A long lifetime wear-resistant surface including graphene exposed to hydrogen is provided, including methods of increasing the lifetime of graphene containing wear surfaces by providing hydrogen to the wear surface.

A heat treatment oil composition is provided that suppresses the decrease of luster in a heat treatment of a metal material, and is capable of suppressing the increase of the number of second (characteristic number of second) until reaching the temperature where the vapor blanket stage ends with the lapse of time and the decrease of the kinetic viscosity with the lapse of time. The heat treatment oil composition contains (A) a base oil and (B) a vapor blanket breaking agent selected from one or more of a petroleum resin, a terpene resin, rosin, and derivatives thereof.