MICROBIAL LEVEL CALCULATION DEVICE AND MICROBIAL LEVEL CALCULATION METHOD

• Main Authors: YONEKAWA KOSUKE, MORI RYOSUKE, NIINA YUSUKE, SHIROMORI SHINJI, HIRABAYASHI TAKESHI, IBE MASAYA, KADOYA TADAYOSHI, OSADA TAKESHI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 08.04.2024
• Subjects: APPARATUS FOR ENZYMOLOGY OR MICROBIOLOGY; BEER; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHEMISTRY; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF; CULTURE MEDIA; DISPOSAL OF SOLID WASTE; ENZYMOLOGY; FERMENTATION OR ENZYME-USING PROCESSES TO SYNTHESISE A DESIREDCHEMICAL COMPOUND OR COMPOSITION OR TO SEPARATE OPTICAL ISOMERSFROM A RACEMIC MIXTURE; METALLURGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROORGANISMS OR ENZYMES; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PROPAGATING, PRESERVING OR MAINTAINING MICROORGANISMS; RECLAMATION OF CONTAMINED SOIL SOIL; SPIRITS; TRANSPORTING; VINEGAR; WINE

To provide a microbial level calculation device and a microbial level calculation method that can suppress excessive consumption of microbes for methane fermentation.SOLUTION: A processor 212 of a control device 210 includes an oxygen level acquisition unit 212a that acquires the oxygen level in biomass to be put into a methane fermentation tank 12, and a microbial level calculation unit 212d that calculates the level of microbes to be put into the methane fermentation tank 12 for methane fermentation of biomass.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 4 【課題】メタン発酵のための微生物が過剰に消費されることを抑制可能な微生物量算出装置及び微生物量算出方法を提供する。【解決手段】制御装置２１０のプロセッサ２１２は、メタン発酵槽１２に投入されるバイオマスに含まれる酸素量を取得する酸素量取得部２１２ａと、酸素量に応じて、バイオマスをメタン発酵させるためにメタン発酵槽１２に投入する微生物の量を算出する微生物量算出部２１２ｄと、を備える。【選択図】図４