Carbon producing apparatus utilizing biomass
AssigneesResearch Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth, Shimadzu Corporation
InventorsShigeki Ono, Saburo Kato
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Abstract
An anaerobic fermentation part generates gas containing methane and carbon dioxide by anaerobically fermenting biomass. The gas is passed to a methane.carbon dioxide separation part to be separated into methane and carbon dioxide, and part of the separated methane is fed to a methane reforming part to be decomposed into carbon and hydrogen under the presence of a catalyst. The carbon dioxide separated in the methane.carbon dioxide separation part and the hydrogen formed in the methane reforming part are fed to a carbon dioxide fixing part, which in turn reacts the carbon dioxide with the hydrogen under the presence of a catalyst for continuously forming carbon and hydrogen and fixing the carbon dioxide.
Claims19
A carbon producing apparatus comprising:
- an anaerobic fermentation part for generating methane and carbon dioxide by anaerobically fermenting biomass;
- a methane.carbon dioxide separation part for separating methane and carbon dioxide, supplied with mixed gas containing methane and carbon dioxide generated in said anaerobic fermentation part;
- hydrogen forming means for forming hydrogen, supplied with methane separated in said methane.carbon dioxide separation part;
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- a carbon dioxide fixing part for forming carbon by reducing carbon dioxide with hydrogen under the presence of a catalyst, supplied with carbon dioxide separated in said methane.carbon dioxide separation part and with hydrogen formed in said hydrogen forming means.
A carbon producing apparatus comprising:
- an anaerobic fermentation part for generating methane and carbon dioxide by anaerobically fermenting biomass;
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- a carbon dioxide fixing part supplied with mixed gas containing methane and carbon dioxide formed in said anaerobic fermentation part for generating carbon by reacting the same under the presence of a catalyst.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.