Tsukishima Kikai Co., Ltd.

Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc.

Kureha Corporation

Lixil Corporation

Koji Miwa

Minoru Morita

Keizo Takegami

Kazuto Nakamaru

Akira Watanabe

Naohiro Sonobe

Ken Higuchi

Shigeru Kuroda

Mayu Komatsu

Yasuhiro Oba

Kojiro Watari

Ryoji Sugamiya

Kokei Ueno

Hitomi Yamai

There are provided a method capable of producing a large amount of a carbonaceous material for a negative electrode of a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery from a carbon precursor impregnated with an alkali metal element or an alkali metal compound, and an apparatus for performing such production. The method for producing a carbonaceous material for a negative electrode of a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a heat treatment step of feeding a carbon precursor containing an elemental alkali metal and/or an alkali metal compound, heating the carbon precursor in a temperature range from 1000&#xb0; C. to 1500&#xb0; C. in a non-oxidizing gas atmosphere to produce a carbonaceous material, and discharging the carbonaceous material; and an exhaust gas treatment step of contacting a non-oxidizing exhaust gas containing a gas and a flying carbonaceous matter evolved in the heat treatment step with water or an aqueous solution to treat the exhaust gas.

Method for producing carbonaceous material for negative electrode of non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery and production apparatus thereof

Air suction device for a flush toilet configured to suction air from a toilet drain duct having a suction chamber dividing a tank body interior, a float in the suction chamber and an on-off valve closing an air inlet when the float lifts to prevent air flow from the toilet drain duct side into the suction chamber. The air inlet is higher than the water level in a toilet flushing standby mode. The on-off valve opens the air inlet to allow air flow form the drain duct side in the suction chamber when flush water in the tank drops such that the float is lowered form the raised position. An embodiment includes a valve chest, a float and attracting member for on-off valve manipulation. Another embodiment includes a valve chest with a small air flow manipulation hole.

Drain duct air suction device for flush toilet

Four-wheeled motorcycle

A countercurrent, cooling crystallization and purification method for a multi-component molten mixture wherein the mixture is treated by a purification system comprising one or more crystallizers (1A, 1B) each having, at the respective upper portion, a clarifying portion (10A, 10B) and a purifier (2) arranged in series to the crystallizer or crystallizers and having, at its upper portion, a clarifying portion (20), the crystallizer or crystallizers and the purifier having a temperature difference therebetween and disposed in the order of temperature. The starting mixture is fed to one of the crystallizers and subjected to crystallization there, and the resulting crystals are taken out from the bottom of the crystallizer and fed to another crystallizer or a purifier of higher temperature while the clarified liquid, i.e., mother liquor positioned at the clarifying portion of the crystallizer is led to another crystallizer of lower temperature or discharged out of the system. In each of the crystallizers and purifier, the crystals are moved downwardly while the mother liquor is moved upwardly to effect countercurrent contact with the mother liquor. Through this countercurrent contact of the crystals with the mother liquor of higher temperature, the crystals are purified by being washed with the mother liquor. With this arrangement, the purification of the mixture can be attained effectively and at a reasonable cost.

Countercurrent, cooling crystallization and purification method for

A mixture containing monochloroacetic acid and dichloroacetic acid as the main components are admixed with 5-25% by weight of water on the basis of sum total of monochloroacetic acid, dichloroacetic acid and water, and subjected to adiabatic cooling under a pressure of 133 to 2,660 Pa, whereby monochloroacetic acid is crystallized with a high purity.

Process for purifying monochloroacetic acid

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Tokyo, Japan

Koji Miwa