Toshiba Ceramics Co., Ltd.

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Shunji Yasuda

Takeshi Kobayashi

Shigehito Ikeda

Yoshihisa Katoh

Shinji Iijima

Toshiro Minami

Masayuki Taniguchi

Shinichi Nakao

A continuous microorganism cultivating apparatus has a stock solution tank which receives a stock solution for a microbial reaction and is provided with a cylindrical filter through which the stock solution is passed. The stock solution is separated by the filter into filtrate containing a metabolic product and concentrated liquid containing microbes. The concentrated liquid is then recycled to the stock solution. The filter is a ceramic filter having a multitude of pores, which is connected to a back wash device.

Continuous microorganism cultivating apparatus

An activated sludge treatment apparatus in which waste water is introduced into a sludge tank and an activated sludge treatment is performed in said sludge tank, the improvement characterized in that a ceramic filter is provided in a passage through which waste water as effluent from said sludge tank is to be passed, and the waste water is allowed to pass through the interior of said ceramic filter and thereby separated into activated sludge and treatment water.

Activated sludge treatment apparatus

A method comprising passing a culture solution including Bacillus subtilis or gene-recombinated Bacillus thereof through a pipe-like ceramic filter at a flow rate of 2 m/sec or less, the ceramic filter having a filter layer at an inner cylindrical surface thereof, the filter layer being made of spherical particles, and a surface roughness (Rmax) of the inner surface of the ceramic filter being 10 microns or less.

Method for filtering Bacillus subtilis

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Funabashi, Japan

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