Daicel Chemical Industries, Ltd.

Nippon Steel Engineering Co., Ltd.

Nittetsu Plant Designing Corporation

Norio Yoshitake

Mitsuhiko Fukabori

Masato Fujioka

Yasuhiko Kato

Shigeru Mitarai

Yasumitsu Suzuki

Nobuo Nakabayashi

Takafumi Kiuchi

Yasufumi Hajima

Kanshi Sakai

To provide a method for producing an ethanol which facilitates the processing of a solid component as a residue generated upon processing, while improving the recovery rate of heat energy contained in leftover food. The method for recovering and producing ethanol and oil is a method for producing ethanol by saccharification, fermentation, and distillation of leftover food. In this method, a three-phase centrifuge for performing separation into three phases of an oil component, an aqueous solution component, and a solid component is used in a step of solid-liquid separation of any one of a saccharified liquid, a fermented liquid, and a distillation waste liquid.

Method for recovering and producing ethanol and oil

Recovery of air bag inflator metal cases. An inflator processing apparatus configured to process a gas-generating chemical-containing inflator for automobile air bags, by heating the inflator to a temperature not lower than an operating temperature of the chemical to facilitate recovery of the metal inflator case. In the apparatus, a protective metal partition wall is provided between an inner surface of a wall of an inflator-processing furnace and the chemical-containing inflator. This prevents damage to the refractory furnace wall, and also prevents melting of the metal inflator case, which could otherwise be occasioned by the chemical during thermal processing of the inflator containing the gas-generating chemical.

Inflator processing apparatus and method of judging charge of inflator

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Kitakyushu, Japan

Norio Yoshitake