Abstract: A shot treatment apparatus ejects shot material from a nozzle towards a workpiece, and has the nozzle; a nozzle moving mechanism; and a three-dimensional information obtaining sensor; a pattern storage portion storing a nozzle reference operation pattern when the workpiece is installed at a reference position and a reference pose within the treatment compartment; a model data storage portion storing workpiece three-dimensional model data; a position/pose displacement calculating portion comparing the position and pose information and reference position and pose data when the three-dimensional model data is at the reference position in the reference pose to calculate a displacement in a position and pose of the workpiece from the reference position and pose data; and a nozzle movement control portion correcting the pattern based on the displacement in the position and pose, and controlling the nozzle moving mechanism to move the nozzle based on the corrected pattern.

Abstract: An inspection device and an inspection method are provided. The inspection device includes: a main body portion, configured to be held by an inspector; a camera portion, disposed on the main body portion and configured to capture an inspected portion of a vehicle; and a guiding portion, configured to guide a camera direction of the camera portion to the inspector, so that an image obtained through the camera portion becomes a prescribed image suitable for inspection.

Abstract: A shot treatment apparatus ejects shot material from a nozzle towards a workpiece, and has the nozzle; a nozzle moving mechanism; and a three-dimensional information obtaining sensor; a pattern storage portion storing a nozzle reference operation pattern when the workpiece is installed at a reference position and a reference pose within the treatment compartment; a model data storage portion storing workpiece three-dimensional model data; a position/pose displacement calculating portion comparing the position and pose information and reference position and pose data when the three-dimensional model data is at the reference position in the reference pose to calculate a displacement in a position and pose of the workpiece from the reference position and pose data; and a nozzle movement control portion correcting the pattern based on the displacement in the position and pose, and controlling the nozzle moving mechanism to move the nozzle based on the corrected pattern.

Abstract: Methods, processes, and apparatuses for the large scale synthesis of carbon nanostructures are provided. Metal catalysts having small diameter and narrow distribution of particle sizes are prepared and continuously injected as aerosols into a reactor. The metal catalysts are supported on supports that are substantially free of carbon. The metal catalyst, in the form of a powder, is placed in an injector that is shaken vertically. The powder is aerosolized, and the powder entrailed in the gas is passed through a conduit that is bifurcated where one portion delivers the powder to the reactor while the other portion connects back to the ejector that is located in between the gas source and the top part of the container.

Abstract: [Problems to be Solved] Provide is a saccharified-solution manufacturing method and a saccharified-solution manufacturing device, which increases the amount of sugar yielded as a saccharified-solution, when lignocellulose-based biomass is subjected to saccharifying enzyme treatment. [Solution] A substrate and ammonia water are mixed at a predetermined mass ratio to yield a substrate mixture, the mixture is retained at a predetermined temperature for a predetermined time period for dissociating lignin from the substrate or swelling the substrate to yield a pretreated ammonia-containing product for saccharification. To a pretreated product for saccharification, which is yielded by separating ammonia from the pretreated ammonia-containing product for saccharification, an acid is added for pH adjustment, and also a saccharifying enzyme is added to yield a substrate/saccharifying enzyme mixture liquid containing a substrate of 15 to 30% by mass.

Abstract: A method for processing lignocellulose-based biomass capable of yielding a saccharide solution with an adequately high concentration by carrying out an enzymatic saccharification reaction of a pre-treated lignocellulose-based biomass is provided.

Abstract: Methods, processes, and apparatuses for the large scale synthesis of carbon nanostructures are provided. Metal catalysts having small diameter and narrow distribution of particle sizes are prepared and continuously injected as aerosols into a reactor. The metal catalysts are supported on supports that are substantially free of carbon. The metal catalyst, in the form of a powder, is placed in an injector that is shaken vertically. The powder is aerosolized, and the powder entrailed in the gas is passed through a conduit that is bifurcated where one portion delivers the powder to the reactor while the other portion connects back to the ejector that is located in between the gas source and the top part of the container.

Abstract: Methods, processes, and apparatuses for the large scale synthesis of carbon nanostructures are provided. Metal catalysts having small diameter and narrow distribution of particle sizes are prepared and continuously injected as aerosols into a reactor. The metal catalysts are supported on supports that are substantially free of carbon. The metal catalyst, in the form of a powder, is placed in an injector that is shaken vertically. The powder is aerosolized, and the powder entrailed in the gas is passed through a conduit that is bifurcated where one portion delivers the powder to the reactor while the other portion connects back to the ejector that is located in between the gas source and the top part of the container.

Abstract: A fuel supplying apparatus for maintaining a stable supply of a mixed water-methanol solution while preventing water from freezing in a cold climate, and for immediately supplying a mixed water-methanol gas that has a composition which is outside of the high-rate reaction region during the starting/stopping operation of the reformer when the control tends to be unstable. The methanol reforming apparatus that generates a hydrogen-rich gas by reacting a mixed gas of water, methanol and air on a catalyst is supplied with the fuel from a fuel supplying apparatus comprising a mixed water-methanol solution tank wherein the molar ratio of water and methanol used for reforming is controlled to a predetermined value, a mixed water-methanol solution tank wherein the molar ratio of water and methanol is controlled to 4.6 or higher, and a switching means that switches the mixed water-methanol solution tank used as a fuel source according to the conditions of operation of the methanol reforming apparatus.

Abstract: In a reforming catalyst apparatus provided with a reforming catalyst for forming a hydrogen rich reformed gas by a reforming reaction of the fuel with water, the catalyst performance can be recovered by heating the catalyst within a temperature ranging from 500° C. to 800° C. while supplying said fuel and air to the catalyst. This method allows recovery of the catalyst performance without demounting the catalyst from the reforming catalyst apparatus and allows providing the reforming catalyst with a long service life.

Abstract: Methods, processes, and apparatuses for the large scale synthesis of carbon nanostructures are provided. Metal catalysts having small diameter and narrow distribution of particle sizes are prepared and continuously injected as aerosols into a reactor. The metal catalysts are supported on supports that are substantially free of carbon. The metal catalyst, in the form of a powder, is placed in an injector that is shaken vertically. The powder is aerosolized, and the powder entrailed in the gas is passed through a conduit that is bifurcated where one portion delivers the powder to the reactor while the other portion connects back to the ejector that is located in between the gas source and the top part of the container.

Abstract: A catalyst for selective oxidation of carbon monoxide present in a hydrogen-containing gas is provided in which the catalyst comprises ruthenium supported on an alumina hydrate. This catalyst has a high selective oxidation activity to carbon monoxide. A carbon monoxide elimination method using this catalyst is also provided. In this method, to a gas containing at least hydrogen and carbon monoxide and being richer in the hydrogen than the carbon monoxide on the basis of volume, oxygen is added in an amount necessary for oxidizing at least part of carbon monoxide present in that gas, and thereafter the gas to which the oxygen has been added is brought into contact with the catalyst described above. Also provided is a solid polymer electrolyte fuel cell system that utilizes this method.

Abstract: A methanol-decomposing catalyst comprises catalytically active components containing copper and zinc, and a carrier composed of zirconia and/or titania and ceria for supporting the catalytically active components. The methanol-decomposing catalyst has excellent catalytic activity, thereby efficiently producing a hydrogen gas while suppressing side reactions.

Abstract: A catalyst for selective oxidation of carbon monoxide present in a hydrogen-containing gas is provided in which the catalyst comprises ruthenium supported on an alumina hydrate. This catalyst has a high selective oxidation activity to carbon monoxide. A carbon monoxide elimination method using this catalyst is also provided. In this method, to a gas containing at least hydrogen and carbon monoxide and being richer in the hydrogen than the carbon monoxide on the basis of volume, oxygen is added in an amount necessary for oxidizing at least part of carbon monoxide present in that gas, and thereafter the gas to which the oxygen has been added is brought into contact with the catalyst described above. Also provided is a solid polymer electrolyte fuel cell system that utilizes this method.

Abstract: A methanol-decomposing catalyst comprises catalytically active components containing copper and zinc, and a carrier composed of zirconia and/or titania and ceria for supporting the catalytically active components. The methanol-decomposing catalyst has excellent catalytic activity, thereby efficiently producing a hydrogen gas while suppressing side reactions.

Abstract: A catalyst for selective oxidation of carbon monoxide present in a hydrogen-containing gas is provided in which the catalyst comprises ruthenium supported on an alumina hydrate. This catalyst has a high selective oxidation activity to carbon monoxide. A carbon monoxide elimination method using this catalyst is also provided. In this method, to a gas containing at least hydrogen and carbon monoxide and being richer in the hydrogen than the carbon monoxide on the basis of volume, oxygen is added in an amount necessary for oxidizing at least part of carbon monoxide present in that gas, and thereafter the gas to which the oxygen has been added is brought into contact with the catalyst described above. Also provided is a solid polymer electrolyte fuel cell system that utilizes this method.

Abstract: A catalyst for selectively oxidizing carbon monoxide in a hydrogen-containing gas comprises an alumina hydrate carrier and at least platinum supported thereon. With an aluminum hydrate as a carrier, the catalyst is resistant to deactivation which would be caused by an oxygen-containing hydrocarbon in a hydrogen-rich gas. The method for selectively removing carbon monoxide comprises the steps of adding oxygen to a hydrogen-rich gas containing carbon monoxide, in an amount necessary to oxidize at least part of carbon monoxide, and bringing the resulting mixture into contact with the catalyst for selectively oxidizing carbon monoxide. The solid polymer electrolyte-type fuel cell system utilizes the above method for selectively removing carbon monoxide.

Abstract: In a reforming catalyst apparatus provided with a reforming catalyst for forming a hydrogen rich reformed gas by a reforming reaction of the fuel with water, the catalyst performance can be recovered by heating the catalyst within a temperature ranging from 500° C. to 800° C. while supplying said fuel and air to the catalyst. This method allows recovery of the catalyst performance without demounting the catalyst from the reforming catalyst apparatus and allows providing the reforming catalyst with a long service life.

Abstract: The present invention provides a reforming apparatus and a scavenging method for the reforming apparatus that simplifies the system for the operation stop of the apparatus without requiring an inert gas for scavenging and can limit the degradation of the catalyst. The present invention comprises a reformer 3 that generates a hydrogen rich gas from a fuel stream by a reforming reaction using a reforming catalyst, a fuel introducing device 4 that can introduce a fuel stream into a reformer 3, a selective oxidizing apparatus 12 that oxidizes carbon monoxide in the reformed gas into carbon dioxide by a selective oxidizing reaction using a selective oxidizing catalyst, and an air introducing device 5 that can introduce air into the reformer 3, and wherein the reforming catalyst of the reformer 3 is a noble metal catalyst carried by a metallic oxide, and the selective oxidizing catalyst of the selective oxidizing apparatus 12 is a catalyst that incorporates platinum.

Abstract: A device for carbon monoxide removal by selective oxidation including a plurality of carbon monoxide selective oxidation catalyst layers, each of which contains a carbon monoxide selective oxidation catalyst that reduces the concentration of carbon monoxide contained in a gas by oxidation. The carbon monoxide selective oxidation catalyst layers are serially connected to each other, and an amount of a metallic catalyst contained in each of the carbon monoxide selective oxidation catalyst layer is lowest in the carbon monoxide selective oxidation catalyst layer located at the upstream side in the flow direction of the gas and is highest in the carbon monoxide selective oxidation catalyst layer located at the downstream side in the flow direction of the gas.