Other

Hitachi Plant Engineering Construction Co., Ltd.

Hitachi Plant Technologies, Ltd.

Sapporo Breweries Limited

Japan Sewage Works Agency

Naomichi Mori

Tatsuo Sumino

Hiroki Nakamura

Masayuki Kojima

Hirofumi Yamamoto

Kazuhiko Noto

Hiroyoshi Emori

Hitoshi Kawaziri

Khoji Ogata

Yasushi Funakoshi

Naoki Abe

Kiwamu Kase

Takayuki Nakamura

Akitake Makinouchi

Yutaka Mitani

Hajime Ikuta

Syuzo Koike

Yasuhiro Oki

Minoru Kayanoki

Kazuo Nakajima

Tamio Igarashi

Ryuichi Matsuyama

Minoru Tada

Syouji Harada

Yukio Kawaguchi

Tamotsu Mizuguchi

Masami Hotta

Toshio Yamadera

Yasutomo Ohtake

Tsutomu Minaki

Takashi Kimata

Yuuko Fujii

Tetsuya Kondo

Masahiro Kon

The hydrogen-producing method of the an aspect of the present invention is a method for producing hydrogen in which hydrogen is produced from an organic matter using a microorganism, characterized by using pellets on which hydrogen-producing acid-resistant bacteria are entrapped and immobilized, producing hydrogen by bringing the pellets into contact and react with the organic matter in an environment of a pH of 4 to 6. The inventors of the present invention have obtained a finding that a hydrogen-producing bacteria are entrapped and immobilized, so that the optimum pH of the hydrogen-producing bacterium shifts to low range. The present invention is made based on the above finding and uses pellets on which the hydrogen-producing bacteria are entrapped and immobilized, so that the hydrogen-producing bacterium is activated at a low pH range of 4 to 6 to produce hydrogen. Therefore, the effects of contaminated bacteria that consume hydrogen are less, and the yield of hydrogen can be improved.

Method and apparatus for producing hydrogen and microorganism-immobilization pellets used in the same

A principle curvature of a target curved surface S&prime; and a principle curvature of a corresponding position of a reference surface S are obtained and each part is displayed by being classified into (a) a case where two principle curvatures increase, (b) a case where two principle curvatures decrease, and (c) a case where one of the principle curvatures increases and the other decreases from the difference between the principle curvatures. (a), (b), and (c) are determined as mountain, valley, and twist, respectively, and are displayed in different symbols or colors on an image. Consequently, a different part between two three-dimensional shapes can be accurately grasped, the cause of the occurrence of the error such as a partial curve or the like can be easily found, how much the shapes coincide with each other as a whole can be indicated by an objective numerical value, and the error can be easily determined even if the reference shape is complicated.

Method of discriminating shape of free-form curved surface

An oligomer is provided having a polyalkylene glycol main structure, a polymeric double bond group arranged at both ends of the main structure, and a sub-structure arranged between the main structure and each polymeric double bond group. The sub-structures lengthen the main structure, and are composed of a urethane bond and an ethyleneoxy, or a urethane bond, an ethyleneoxy and a propyleneoxy. The introduction of urethane bonds causes crystallization (network formation) with the urethane bonds themselves so that a hydrous gel resulting from polymerizing the oligomer has increased flexibility, strength and erosion resistance. As a result, even though the main structure is lengthened to increase capacity to entrap microorganisms, the strength of the hydrous gel is not reduced. The ethyleneoxy weakens hydrophobicity of urethane regions to improve affinity of the gel for microorganisms. Microorganisms can adhere to and grow on the surface of a hydrous gel produced by polymerizing the oligomer. A hydrous gel containing entrapped microorganisms can be formed by mixing microorganisms with the oligomer and polymerizing. Environmental pollutants can be decomposed using the hydrous gel containing microorganisms.

Oligomers for polymerizing to produce hydrous gels entrapping microorganisms

A sewage treatment system is provided for cleaning sewage by filtering solid components in the sewage through use of a floating filter medium, wherein the filtration performance can be improved and the filtration cleaning can be performed efficiently. The sewage flows upwardly in the treatment tank and is filtered through the floating filter media layer made of cylindrical mesh floating filter media which have a smaller specific gravity than the sewage. To wash the floating filter medium, air is jetted from the air jetting pipes to generate a circular flow to scape off solid components adhering to the filter medium. Then the waste, which has washed the floating filter medium is discharged to the outside of the treatment tank while the air is jetted from the air jetting pipe for full jetting of the floating filter media layer unidirectionally.

Sewage treatment system

A sewage treatment system is provided, for cleaning a sewage by filtering solid components in the swage through floating filter medium, wherein the filtration performance can be improved and the filtration cleaning can be performed efficiently. The sewage 18 is flowed into the treatment tank 12 in upward-flow, and filtered through the floating filter media layer 22 made of the meshy cylindrical floating filter medium 20 which have smaller specific gravity than the sewage 18. To wash floating filter medium 20, the air is jetted from the air jetting pipe 54 and the revolution flow is generated to scale solid components adhering to filter medium, and then the sewage 18, which has washed the floating filter medium 20, are discharged to the outside of the tank 12 while the air is jetted from the air jetting pipe 56 for full jetting to jet the floating filter media layer 22 in whole.

Sewage treatment system with air jetting means

A system for treating waste water using a particulate body formed by covering and fixing nitrifying bacteria. In the system, the particulate body is inserted in a nitrifying vessel which including therein an air diffusion device for supplying oxygen to the nitrifying bacteria and a particulate body separation device for preventing the outflow of the particulate body. The nitrifying vessel and the particulate body contained therein are used as a nitrifying vessel unit and one or more such nitrifying vessel units are arranged within a treating tank. Waste water is circulated between the nitrifying vessel and the other portions of the treating tank than the nitrifying vessel by means of the air lift effect of the air diffused from the air diffusion device.

System for treating waste water by nitrification

Microorganisms such as in activated sludge are immobilized by forming a mixture containing the microorganisms, a monomer or prepolymer and alginic acid or water soluble alignate, and dropping the mixture into a water solution of polyvalent metal ion and a polymerization initiator to form particles containing the microorganisms. Preferably, the monomer is an acrylamide monomer, the prepolymer is an ester of an acrylic acid group and polyethylene glycol and the polymerization initiator is a persultate. By this method, the microorganisms are protected from toxic substances such as the polymerization initiator during immobilization.

Immobilization of microorganisms by entrapment

Growing community of inventors

Tokyo, Japan

Naomichi Mori