National Agriculture and Food Research Organization

Umeda Jimusho Ltd.

Taiyo Seisakusho Co., Ltd.

Chugoku Maintenance Co., Ltd.

Hiromu Shishido

Keiji Umeda

Seiichiro Isobe

Yositaka Nadachi

Takumi Yamamoto

Yukio Ogasawara

Ryo Maruyama

Norio Omoda

A method for heating and pasteurizing a material, comprising placing the material inside of a semi-sealed chamber at atmospheric pressure that contains an atmosphere produced by replacing air in the chamber with a gas component produced by spraying or injecting hot water droplets and steam at a temperature of at least 100&#xb0; C. into the chamber which is heated to a temperature of at least 100&#xb0; C. which is equal to or higher than the temperature of the sprayed hot water droplets and steam, which gas component has a humidity of at least 95% and contains no more than 1% oxygen; contacting said material to the gas component for exposing it to continual temperature variation during heating ranging from 10-50&#xb0; C. inside the chamber at temperature(s) ranging from 90-180&#xb0; C. for a time sufficient to heat or pasteurize it. An apparatus for performing this method.

Innovative pasteurization method, use thereof and apparatus

In a gasification furnace, a combustible gas is generated from an organic substance for gasification containing biomass of organic wastes or the like. An engine of a cogeneration is operated using this combustible gas to generate electricity by an electric generator driven by the engine, and hot water is generated by heating water in a radiator. The hot water is heated by a superheated steam generator of a heat storage type utilizing the electric power from the electric generator to generate superheated steam. Furthermore, a dry-distilled gas and a carbide are generated by dry-distilling and carbonizing an organic substance for carbonization containing biomass of organic wastes or the like with this superheated steam in the carbonization furnace. Thus, the resources are recovered from the organic substances containing biomass of organic wastes or the like by gasifying or carbonizing the organic substances with the superheated steam.

Apparatus and method for resource recovery from organic substance

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Hiroshima, Japan

Hiromu Shishido