Abstract: The biomass gasification device described in this embodiment is equipped with temporary holding sections (10)(20) that temporarily hold and discharge heat carriers (30). The temporary holding section has a vessel (111)(121) and a discharge section (119)(129) for discharging the heat carriers. A baffle (115)(125) within the vessel (111)(121) is provided to form a gap between the main body of the baffle and the interior side wall of the vessel, for the heat carriers (30) to pass through. Alternatively, piping (131)(141) may be provided on the interior side walls of the vessel (111)(121) for passage of the heat carriers.

Abstract: This embodiment provides an energy storage apparatus that includes: a plurality of energy storage devices, each having an external terminal; and a bus bar configured to conductively connect the external terminals to each other between different ones of the plurality of energy storage devices. The bus bar includes a pair of connecting portions, each placed on the external terminal. Each of the pair of connecting portions includes a plurality of curved welded portions, each formed in a curved shape that convexly curves inward in a first direction where the pair of connecting portions are aligned. The plurality of curved welded portions are formed to be aligned in the first direction.

Abstract: Provided is an energy storage apparatus which can be brought into a state where outputting of electricity from an overall terminal cannot be performed. The energy storage apparatus includes: a plurality of energy storage devices; an overall electrode to which electricity is supplied from the plurality of energy storage devices; an overall terminal which is electrically terminated from the overall electrode and is electrically connected to the overall electrode by a conductive member; a cover member which is removable and covers the overall electrode; and a cover which openably and closably covers the overall electrode covered by the cover member.

Abstract: The present invention provides a new hydrogen chloride removing agent that exhibits a good hydrogen chloride removal effect at a relatively low temperature. The present invention preferably provides a new hydrogen chloride removing agent for removing hydrogen chloride contained in a hydrogen-chloride-containing gas, such as a pyrolysis gas, a combustion exhaust gas, a dry distillation gas, etc., especially hydrogen chloride contained in a biomass pyrolysis gas. The present invention relates to a hydrogen chloride removing agent characterized by containing a mixture of a calcium carbonate and an imogolite and/or a synthetic imogolite, and relates to a method for removing, by using said hydrogen chloride removing agent, hydrogen chloride contained in a hydrogen-chloride-containing gas, especially hydrogen chloride contained in a biomass pyrolysis gas.

Abstract: A method for recovering hydrogen which is capable of efficiently recovering high concentration hydrogen gas by adsorbing and removing hydrocarbon gas such as carbon dioxide from biomass pyrolysis gas under a relatively low pressure, and also capable of storing the recovered high concentration hydrogen gas, preferably, in a cartridge type container that can be used as is as a hydrogen storing container for an apparatus equipped with a fuel cell. The method includes a first purifying stare of purifying biomass pyrolysis gas and a second purifying stage of purifying the obtained purified gas under a pressure equal to or less than the pressure in the first purifying stage to recover gas that contains hydrogen, and further includes a hydrogen storing stage of feeding the gas containing hydrogen recovered in the second purifying stage into the container filled with a hydrogen storage alloy and storing high purity hydrogen.

Abstract: Provided is an energy storage apparatus including: a neighboring member disposed adjacently to an energy storage device; and a terminal member disposed adjacently to the neighboring member on a side opposite to the energy storage device, wherein the terminal member has: a body extending along the neighboring member; and a bolt member having a head portion and a shaft portion extending from the head portion, and mounted on the body in a state where the shaft portion is made to pass through the body from a neighboring member side, the neighboring member has a protruding portion protruding in an axial direction of the shaft portion, and the protruding portion is inserted into the body at a position where at least a portion of the protruding portion overlaps with a projection region of the shaft portion in the axial direction.

Abstract: An energy storage apparatus includes: an energy storage device; an insulating adjoining member adjoining the energy storage device in a first direction; a conductive opposite member facing the energy storage device and the adjoining member in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction; an insulating member disposed between the energy storage device and adjoining member and the opposite member; and a conductive fastening member disposed through the insulating member in the second direction to fasten the adjoining member to the opposite member. At least one of the adjoining member and the insulating member includes an opposite projection projecting toward an other of the adjoining member and the insulating member and facing a periphery of the fastening member, and the opposite projection is in contact with the other of the adjoining member and the insulating member.

Abstract: Provided is an energy storage apparatus which includes: a plurality of energy storage devices arranged in a first direction; a plurality of bus bars electrically connecting the energy storage devices; and a bundle portion configured by bundling a plurality of electric wires connected to the energy storage device or the bus bar. The bundle portion is configured such that a base portion of the bundle portion is disposed at a position along the energy storage devices. The position is an intermediate position of the plurality of the energy storage devices in the first direction. The bundle portion is configured to change a direction thereof using the base portion as an initiation point.

Abstract: The present invention provides a biomass gasification device that optimizes the pyrolysis temperature of biomass, the reforming temperature of pyrolysis gas, and the atmosphere thereof to generate a reformed gas containing a large amount of valuable gas. The present invention related to a biomass gasification device that is provided with a biomass pyrolyzer, a pyrolysis gas reformer, and a pyrolysis gas introduction pipe, wherein: the biomass pyrolyzer is further provided with a heat carrier inlet and outlet ports, and performs pyrolysis on the biomass by heat of the heat carrier; the pyrolysis gas reformer performs steam-reforming on pyrolysis gas generated by the pyrolysis of biomass; the pyrolysis gas reformer is further provided with an air or oxygen blow-in port; and the pyrolysis gas introduction pipe is provided on the biomass pyrolyzer-side surface below the upper surface of the heat carrier layer formed in the biomass pyrolyzer.

Abstract: The present invention provides a biomass gasification device that optimizes the pyrolysis temperature of biomass, the reforming temperature of pyrolysis gas, and the atmosphere thereof to generate a reformed gas containing a large amount of valuable gas. The present invention related to a biomass gasification device that is provided with a biomass pyrolyzer, a pyrolysis gas reformer, and a pyrolysis gas introduction pipe, wherein: the biomass pyrolyzer is further provided with a heat carrier inlet and outlet ports, and performs pyrolysis on the biomass by heat of the heat carrier; the pyrolysis gas reformer performs steam-reforming on pyrolysis gas generated by the pyrolysis of biomass; the pyrolysis gas reformer is further provided with an air or oxygen blow-in port; and the pyrolysis gas introduction pipe is provided on the biomass pyrolyzer-side surface below the upper surface of the heat carrier layer formed in the biomass pyrolyzer.

Abstract: An energy storage device includes: an electrode assembly, wherein electrodes each including a covered portion which is covered by an active material layer and a non-covered portion which extends from the covered portion and is not covered by the active material layer are stacked on each other such that the covered portions overlap with each other and the non-covered portions overlap with each other, and the electrode assembly having a non-covered stacked portion where the non-covered portions are stacked on each other; a protective plate being brought into face contact with the non-covered stacked portion from one side in a stacking direction of the non-covered stacked portion; a current collector including a bonding portion which is brought into face contact with the non-covered stacked portion from an other side in the stacking direction, and an enlarged width portion extending from the bonding portion.

Abstract: An energy storage apparatus includes: a main part; a conductive opposedly facing member disposed to opposedly face the main part; and an insulating member disposed between the main part and the opposedly facing member. The opposedly facing member includes an opposedly facing portion a part of which overlaps with the main part. The opposedly facing portion includes an end surface which overlaps with the main part, the end surface facing upwardly. The insulating member includes: a covering portion covering a surface of the opposedly facing portion directed toward a main part; and a seal portion extending from the covering portion toward the main part. The covering portion includes an end portion disposed at a position which agrees with the end surface or at a position outside the end surface in a direction orthogonal to the end surface. The seal portion extends from the end portion toward the main part.

Abstract: Provided is a hydrogen recovery method such that highly concentrated hydrogen gas can be obtained efficiently by adsorbing and removing hydrocarbon gas such as carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, and methane, using a relatively low pressure, from pyrolysis gas obtained by heat treating biomass. The present invention is the method for recovering hydrogen from pyrolysis gas obtained by heat treating biomass, characterized by including: a first purifying step of adsorbing and removing gas that mainly includes carbon dioxide under pressure from the pyrolysis gas to purify the pyrolysis gas; and a second purifying step of further adsorbing and removing gas that includes carbon dioxide under pressure from purified gas obtained by the first purifying step at a pressure lower than the pressure in the first purifying step to purify the purified gas in order to recover hydrogen from the purified gas.

Abstract: The present invention provides a new hydrogen chloride removing agent that exhibits a good hydrogen chloride removal effect at a relatively low temperature. The present invention preferably provides a new hydrogen chloride removing agent for removing hydrogen chloride contained in a hydrogen-chloride-containing gas, such as a pyrolysis gas, a combustion exhaust gas, a dry distillation gas, etc., especially hydrogen chloride contained in a biomass pyrolysis gas. The present invention relates to a hydrogen chloride removing agent characterized by containing a mixture of a calcium carbonate and an imogolite and/or a synthetic imogolite, and relates to a method for removing, by using said hydrogen chloride removing agent, hydrogen chloride contained in a hydrogen-chloride-containing gas, especially hydrogen chloride contained in a biomass pyrolysis gas.

Abstract: A hydrogen storage cartridge small and lightweight allows storage and discharge of hydrogen at low pressure and normal temperature. It also can effectively absorb the volume expansion accompanying atomization of a hydrogen storage alloy that occurs due to repeated storage and discharge of hydrogen, and therefore a hydrogen storage cartridge (A) is provided in which deformation due to repeated use, and in particular irregular deformation, extremely unlikely, also it can effectively avoid hydrogen storage irregularities of the hydrogen storage alloy. The hydrogen storage cartridge (A) is used for storage of hydrogen contained in biomass thermal decomposition gas, wherein the material of the hydrogen storage cartridge (A) is pure titanium, and the hydrogen storage cartridge (A) includes in the interior space (1), as a hydrogen storage alloy, at least one hydrogen storage alloy selected from the group comprising lanthanum mischmetal/nickel, titanium/iron, calcium/nickel, and lanthanum/nickel.

Abstract: An energy storage apparatus includes an energy storage device including a surface having a first end face from which an external terminal protrudes and a second end face on an opposite side from the first end face and a retaining member that includes paired end members disposed on opposite sides of the energy storage device in a second direction orthogonal to a first direction in which the external terminal protrudes and a coupling portion for coupling the paired end members.

Abstract: A method for recovering hydrogen which is capable of efficiently recovering high concentration hydrogen gas by adsorbing and removing hydrocarbon gas such as carbon dioxide from biomass pyrolysis gas under a relatively low pressure, and also capable of storing the recovered high concentration hydrogen gas, preferably, in a cartridge type container that can be used as is as a hydrogen storing container for an apparatus equipped with a fuel cell. The method includes a first purifying stare of purifying biomass pyrolysis gas and a second purifying stage of purifying the obtained purified gas under a pressure equal to or less than the pressure in the first purifying stage to recover gas that contains hydrogen, and further includes a hydrogen storing stage of feeding the gas containing hydrogen recovered in the second purifying stage into the container filled with a hydrogen storage alloy and storing high purity hydrogen.

Abstract: Provided is a hydrogen recovery method such that highly concentrated hydrogen gas can be obtained efficiently by adsorbing and removing hydrocarbon gas such as carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, and methane, using a relatively low pressure, from pyrolysis gas obtained by heat treating biomass. The present invention is the method for recovering hydrogen from pyrolysis gas obtained by heat treating biomass, characterized by including: a first purifying step of adsorbing and removing gas that mainly includes carbon dioxide under pressure from the pyrolysis gas to purify the pyrolysis gas; and a second purifying step of further adsorbing and removing gas that includes carbon dioxide under pressure from purified gas obtained by the first purifying step at a pressure lower than the pressure in the first purifying step to purify the purified gas in order to recover hydrogen from the purified gas.

Abstract: A gasification apparatus can produce hydrogen-containing gas from biomass with high thermal efficiency at low costs without severe trouble caused by tar generated by pyrolyzing the biomass, while maximizing the gasification rate of the tar. The gasification apparatus includes a biomass pyrolyzing zone for heating biomass in a non-oxidizing atmosphere, and a gas reforming zone for heating the resulting pyrolyzed gas in the presence of steam. A plurality of preheated granules and/or lumps is moved from the gas reforming zone to the biomass pyrolyzing zone, the apparatus reforms the gas generated by pyrolyzing the biomass and pyrolyzes the biomass, using the heat of the granules and/or lumps. The biomass pyrolyzing zone and the gas reforming zone is provided in a single vessel, and at least one partitioning plate is provided between the biomass pyrolyzing zone and the gas reforming zone.

Abstract: A gasification apparatus can produce hydrogen-containing gas from biomass with high thermal efficiency at low costs without severe trouble caused by tar generated by pyrolyzing the biomass, while maximizing the gasification rate of the tar. The gasification apparatus includes a biomass pyrolyzing zone for heating biomass in a non-oxidizing atmosphere, and a gas reforming zone for heating the resulting pyrolyzed gas in the presence of steam. A plurality of preheated granules and/or lumps is moved from the gas reforming zone to the biomass pyrolyzing zone, the apparatus reforms the gas generated by pyrolyzing the biomass and pyrolyzes the biomass, using the heat of the granules and/or lumps. The biomass pyrolyzing zone and the gas reforming zone is provided in a single vessel, and at least one partitioning plate is provided between the biomass pyrolyzing zone and the gas reforming zone.