Abstract: The present invention can feed substrates without waste to generate seed sludge with high bacterial cell concentrations and can start up operation within a short time, in cultivating anaerobic ammonium oxidizing bacteria with ammonium and nitrite as substrates. Equipment for cultivating anaerobic ammonium-oxidizing bacteria, which cultivates, in a cultivation tank, novel anaerobic ammonium-oxidizing bacteria that anaerobically denitrify nitrite and ammonium used as substrates, comprises an ammonium feed device which feeds ammonium at a given concentration into the cultivation tank, a nitrite feed device which feeds nitrite at a given concentration into the cultivation tank, and a control device which controls a feed rate Y of the substrate.

Abstract: The present invention can feed substrates without waste to generate seed sludge with high bacterial cell concentrations and can start up operation within a short time, in cultivating anaerobic ammonium oxidizing bacteria with ammonium and nitrite as substrates. Equipment for cultivating anaerobic ammonium-oxidizing bacteria, which cultivates, in a cultivation tank, novel anaerobic ammonium-oxidizing bacteria that anaerobically denitrify nitrite and ammonium used as substrates, comprises an ammonium feed device which feeds ammonium at a given concentration into the cultivation tank, a nitrite feed device which feeds nitrite at a given concentration into the cultivation tank, and a control device which controls a feed rate Y of the substrate.

Abstract: An apparatus for continuously producing polyester comprises three single reactors, i.e. a single esterification reactor (first reactor), a single initial polymerization reactor (second reactor) and a single final polymerization reactor (third reactor or final polymerizer), where at least one of the first reactor and the second reactor is free from an external stirring power source, or the third reactor is a horizontal, one-shaft-type, low speed rotation type reactor. Necessary number of reactors for the esterification and polycondensation reactions can be a minimum and necessary stirring power consumption for the reaction can be a minimum, and thus polyester polymers of good quality can be efficiently produced at a minimum energy cost in a necessary minimum reactor structure.

Abstract: A dehumidifying system is disclosed which comprises a dehumidifying element to extract moisture from the air, a rotor to rotate the dehumidifying element, and a heat pump to cool and heat the air within the dehumidifying system. The dehumidifying unit has at least a regeneration zone and a dehumidifying zone. The dehumidifying zone is provided at a flow passage of supply air supplied to a low dew-point chamber and dehumidifies the supply air with a dehumidifying member. The regeneration zone allows regenerating air to pass through the dehumidifying member to regenerate the dehumidifying member. The heat pump is comprised of at least a condenser and an evaporator. The condenser of the heat pump is used to at least heat air passing through the regenerating zone and the evaporator of the heat pump is used to at least cool the supply air before it enters the dehumidifying zone.

Abstract: The method for treating microcystin-containing water which detoxifies microcystin in the microcystin-containing water, the method comprises the step of: bringing the microcystin-containing water into contact with a Sphingomonas bacterium to degrade biologically the microcystin in the microcystin-containing water, wherein: the Sphingomonas bacterium is a strain FERM P-19480 which is deposited as strain MDB1 with International Patent Organism Depositary, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology.

Abstract: The present invention provides a wet-type electrostatic precipitator that can prevent the corrosion of a discharge electrode even if a gas to be treated containing a corrosive mist is treated. In a wet-type electrostatic precipitator having a discharge electrode 14 arranged along a flow path of the gas to be treated 10, a spray nozzle 28 that can spray a water to the upstream side of the discharge electrode 14 is mounted, wherein a wet film is formed on the surface of the discharge electrode 14 with the water sprayed from the spray nozzle 28. The sprayed water is desirably a water vapor or a water droplet having a particle diameter of less than 10 ?m.

Abstract: The present invention provides a water-flowing mechanism in a wet type electrostatic precipitator that can stably and quickly form a water film on a dust-collecting plate even at the beginning of the operation and that has an excellent adjusting function of a supplying flow-rate of washing liquid. The present invention includes a dust-collecting plate, a washing liquid supplying source to wet the dust-collecting plate, and a cylindrical member that is opened according to the shape of the upper end face of the dust-collecting plate and into which the washing liquid supplying source is inserted, wherein the horizontal cross-section of the dust-collecting plate is formed in a corrugated shape, and the lower opening of the cylindrical member is formed in a corrugated shape according to the dust-collecting plate.

Abstract: The present invention provides a recovery device of a blasting medium for recovering a blasting medium after use, which has been injected to a work and has fallen therefrom, into a solid-gas separating tank by suctioning with a suction blower, wherein the solid-gas separating tank comprising: a sucking unit of the blasting medium; a vertically rising pipe provided in a vertical direction and adapted to connect the sucking unit and a tank body; a cushioning member disposed opposedly to an upper exit of the vertically rising pipe; a sieve into which the blasting medium that has collided against the cushioning member reducing its velocity falls, and which vibrates to classify a reusable blasting medium and a non-reusable blasting medium; an outlet portion for the reusable blasting medium classified by the sieve and an outlet portion for the non-reusable blasting medium; and an airflow path provided downstream of the sieve in an air current direction, and connected to the suction blower.

Abstract: A method for enlarging the particle diameters of sulfuric acid mists in waste gas and collecting the sulfuric acid mists in high efficiency is provided. A process for disposing waste gas containing sulfur oxides that introduces the waste gas in dry type electrostatic precipitator to remove dusts and then introduces the waste gas in a wet desulfurization apparatus to carry out desulfurization, wherein outside air with a flow rate at which the waste gas introduced in the wet desulfurization apparatus is the dew point of acid is taken in from an introducing tube to mix the outside air in the waste gas.

Abstract: The method for treating an ammonium-containing liquid which biologically denitrifies ammonium contained in the ammonium-containing liquid in an anaerobic atmosphere, the method comprises the steps of: bringing the ammonium-containing liquid into contact with anaerobic bacteria in a biological treatment tank, the anaerobic bacteria having an ability to biologically denitrify the ammonium in the anaerobic atmosphere; and adding nitrite to the biological treatment tank from a nitrite storage tank concurrently with the bringing step, the nitrite storage tank storing the nitrite with a certain concentration.

Abstract: According to a cable installation support and management system of the present invention, each worker downloads the operation information which supports operations on cables authorized for use onto the portable terminal carried by the worker, the operation information being associated in advance with cable identification information and provided by the server. Then, the worker reads the cable identification information about a cable from the cabling data card attached to the end of the cable using the reading device of the portable terminal. Based on the cable identification information, the worker acquires operation information about the appropriate cable from the downloaded operation information and displays the acquired operation information on the display device of the portable terminal. This allows the worker to perform necessary operations by referring to the operation information displayed on the display device.

Abstract: According to an aspect of the present invention, an RFID tag has a long-distance communication RFID and a plurality of short-distance communication RFIDs. The RFID tag has tear-off lines for separating the short-distance communication RFID from the whole RFID tag, and when the short-distance communication RFID is separated, a loop-shaped antenna of the long-distance communication RFID is also cut up. And the RFID tag has an overall management identification code for identifying the whole tag before separation and a partial management identification code for identifying a partial tag after separation.

Abstract: The system for managing materials comprises: a material yard which has a material carry-in port and a material carry-out port, the material yard being divided into a plurality of yard sections which store materials; a plurality of first tags which record data of the materials to be read in a non-contact manner, the first tags being attached to the materials managed in the material yard; a second tag which stores and sends data of an identification ID issued for each of lots into which the materials are classified to check a current position of each of the lots via a position sensing signal transmitted to the material yard, the second tag being attached to each of the lots; a reading device which reads the data recorded in the first tags, the reading device being provided in at least one of the material carry-in port and the material carry-out port within the material yard; a plurality of receiving devices which receive a data signal of the identification ID transmitted from the second tag, the receiving devic

Abstract: A method for operating an anaerobic ammonium oxidation vessel in anaerobic ammonium oxidation in which ammonium and nitrite in water to be treated are simultaneously denitrified by anaerobic ammonium oxidizing bacteria, the method comprising the steps of: withdrawing a part of the anaerobic ammonium oxidizing bacteria from one anaerobic ammonium oxidation vessel in which the anaerobic ammonium oxidizing bacteria have been acclimatized, and introducing the withdrawn anaerobic ammonium oxidizing bacteria into another anaerobic ammonium oxidation vessel in which acclimatization is to be carried out to perform start-up operation, wherein the anaerobic ammonium oxidizing bacteria having been acclimatized in the one anaerobic ammonium oxidation vessel are provided as microbe-immobilized materials in which the bacteria are attached to and immobilized on immobilizing materials or entrapped and immobilized in immobilizing materials.

Abstract: A magnetic separation unit can prevent any magnetic flocs deposited on an inner wall of a water passing pipe from closing a water channel for stabilizing a magnetic separation performance and reduce cost by a small-diameter portion of the water passing pipe. The magnetic separation unit has an air-core solenoid type magnet provided around the water passing pipe guiding, from a lower side, treated water including magnetic flocs in which contaminants and magnetic particles are flocculated, a rotating disc type magnetic filter case provided above the air-core solenoid type magnet for attracting the magnetic flocs in the treated water supplied from the water passing pipe and flushing means for flushing the matrixes to which the magnetic flocs are attracted. The water passing pipe has a small-diameter pipe positioned in the air-core solenoid type magnet, and an enlarged pipe enlarged from the small-diameter pipe toward a water passing part of the rotating disc type magnetic filter case.

Abstract: In a method of the present invention for holding a substrate in a vacuum, a glass substrate (5) is held by an adhesive pad (20) or an adhesive sheet, both of which are made from a material containing a diene based resin, whereby an adhesive agent is prevented from remaining on the substrate, and the adhesive sheet can be detached with ease from the substrate after assembling the substrates.

Abstract: The present invention provides a blasting device, comprising: a container in which a blast medium is stored; a suction pipe which is inserted in the container to be rotatably supported, and is formed substantially in an L-shape with a lower suction port bent at a right angle; a rotary drive part which rotates the suction pipe; a hose connected to the suction pipe via a rotary joint; an ejector nozzle connected to the hose; an air compressor which supplies compressed air to the ejector nozzle; a pressure sensor which measures pressure in the suction pipe; and a control part which controls a rotational frequency of the suction pipe by the rotary drive mechanism based on a measured value by the pressure sensor.

Abstract: In a method of the present invention for holding a substrate in a vacuum, a glass substrate (5) is held by an adhesive pad (20) or an adhesive sheet, both of which are made from a material containing a diene based resin, whereby an adhesive agent is prevented from remaining on the substrate, and the adhesive sheet can be detached with ease from the substrate after assembling the substrates.

Abstract: The present invention provides a blasting apparatus for an outer surface of a pipe which ejects a blast material to an outer side of a pipe and grinds the outer surface, comprising: a blast head containing a nozzle which ejects the blast material and a suction port which sucks a blast material used for grinding and dust particles; a guide member which is provided along a longitudinal direction of the outer surface of the pipe, and guides the blast head along the longitudinal direction of the outer surface of the pipe; and a ring member which is a ring member constructed by connecting at least two half-split members and having an inside diameter larger than an outside diameter of the pipe, and which is disposed to have the pipe inserted through the ring member, holds the guide member, and guides the blast head in a circumferential direction of the outer surface of the pipe by turning in the circumferential direction on the outer surface of the pipe.

Abstract: The present invention provides a blasting apparatus for an outer surface of a pipe which ejects a blast material to an outer side of a pipe and grinds the outer surface, comprising: a blast head containing a nozzle which ejects the blast material and a suction port which sucks a blast material used for grinding and dust particles; a guide member which is provided along a longitudinal direction of the outer surface of the pipe, and guides the blast head along the longitudinal direction of the outer surface of the pipe; and a ring member which is a ring member constructed by connecting at least two half-split members and having an inside diameter larger than an outside diameter of the pipe, and which is disposed to have the pipe inserted through the ring member, holds the guide member, and guides the blast head in a circumferential direction of the outer surface of the pipe by turning in the circumferential direction on the outer surface of the pipe.