National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

Incorporated Administrative Agency National Agriculture and Food Research Organization

Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Environmental Solutions, Ltd.

Katsuichi Saito

Minoru Genta

Ryosuke Uehara

Kinya Fujita

Noriyuki Yamada

Naoto Hashimoto

Tsuyoshi Sakaki

Yasuhiro Hasa

An organic material production system includes: a pretreatment device () that pulverizes a biomass material (); a hydrothermal decomposition apparatus () that hydrothermally decomposes a pulverized biomass () by causing it to countercurrently contact with hot compressed water (), elutes lignin components and hemicellulose components into the hot compressed water (), and separates the lignin components and the hemicellulose components from a biomass solid residue; a first enzymatic hydrolysis device (-) that treats cellulose in a biomass solid residue (), discharged from the hydrothermal decomposition apparatus, with an enzyme () to enzymatically hydrolyze it to a sugar solution containing hexose; a fermenter () that produces ethanol by fermentation using a sugar solution () obtained by the first enzymatic hydrolysis device (-); and a refinerthat refines an alcohol fermentation liquid (), so as to separate it into ethanol () and a residue ().

Organic material production system using biomass material and method

Growing community of inventors

Hokkaido, Japan

Katsuichi Saito