Ebara Corporation

Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology

Satoshi Konishi

Kunio Fujiwara

Masaji Akahori

Toshihiro Tanaka

Hiroshi Nagai

Takayuki Saito

Takashi Kawakami

Takanobu Sugo

Hideo Kawazu

Kazuyoshi Takeda

Noriaki Seko

Takayoshi Kawamoto

Tetsuya Miwa

Akio Katakai

Junichi Kanno

Syu Nakanishi

Keiji Hasegawa

Yosei Katsu

Toru Akiyama

Hideyuki Misawa

Shinzi Miura

Shin Hasegawa

A linear biodevice is provided with fibers that have a curved portion in its cross section approximately perpendicular to the longitudinal direction and approximately spherical adhesive cells that adhere to the periphery of the fiber. A membrane-like biodevice is provided with a sheet that has an opening and approximately spherical adhesive cells that adhere to the opening. A curved portion is present in the cross section on an inner edge of the opening. A bioreactor is provided with a membrane-like biodevice in which spherical adhesive cells grow densely so as to close the openings of the sheet.

Linear and membrane-like biodevices and bioreactors

A system and method for organic wastewater treatment through denitrification and nitrification processes. The system for treating organic wastewater includes a multistage treatment tank having at least two stages in series. Each stage has a denitrification tank and a nitrification tank connected in this order. The system includes a pipe for distributing feed water to the denitrification tank in each stage, a device for filtering and separating at least a part of an activated sludge mixed liquor present in at least one nitrification tank, and a pipe for supplying at least a part of the concentrated sludge mixed liquor obtained by the filtration and separation treatment to the denitrification tank.

Systems and methods for organic wastewater treatment

An object of the present invention is to provide a structure of a metal collecting material for use in seawater or river water or industrial wastewater to give the most excellent adsorption efficiency. Another object of the present invention is to provide a process for efficiently separating and recovering valuable metals or noxious metals from a metal collecting material having collected said valuable metals from seawater or noxious metals from river water or wastewater with the least possible waste generation. A metal collector according to an aspect of the present invention is formed by stacking at least partially alternate layers of a fibrous metal collecting material with a spacer for introducing a liquid to be treated into said collecting material, wherein the area of spacer side faces represents 25-75% of the total area of collecting material side faces and spacer side faces in the side faces of the stack. A process for eluting and recovering a metal from a metal collecting material according to another aspect of the present invention comprises the steps: (1) contacting the metal collecting material having absorbed a metal with a dilute eluent, (2) contacting the metal collecting material with an eluent more concentrated than in step 1 to recover the metal into the eluent; and (3) contacting a metal resorbing material with the eluate from step 2 to resorb the metal.

Metal-collecting apparatus and method for elution and recovery of metal from metal-collecting material

The object of this invention is to provide an electrical deionization apparatus with which various feed water types ranging from water of high ion concentration to water of low ion concentration can be consistently deionized with high efficiency. At least part of cation-exchange membranes and anion-exchange membranes alternate between electrodes to form an alternating array of deionization and concentration compartments and the deionization compartment contains a woven or non-woven fabric made of cation-exchange fiber that is placed on the cation-exchange membrane side in a face-to-face relationship with a woven or non-woven fabric made of anion-exchange fiber that is placed on the anion-exchange membrane side, with the passageway of feed water between the two woven or non-woven fabrics containing an ion-conducting spacer provided with an ion-exchanging capability.

Electric deionization apparatus

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Kanagawa, Japan

Satoshi Konishi