Abstract
In Japan’s Aichi Prefecture, we promoted cooperation between a farmers’ cooperative, firms, and local administrations to advance an enterprise using agricultural waste. We used tomato stems, 30,364 t of which are produced annually in agrarian areas of Aichi, as the principal raw materials. For cost reduction, we studied novel and effective methods for bio-ethanol. With these methods (a heating and high-pressure fluid mill system and novel small water-amount saccharification system), saccharification efficiency became two to four times greater than that of the conventional method, and energy use in the distillation process was decreased to 1/8.
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Morikawa, Y., Ito, M. (2016). Topic: Regional Utilization of Unused Agricultural Waste. In: Kato, Y., Koyama, M., Fukushima, Y., Nakagaki, T. (eds) Energy Technology Roadmaps of Japan. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55951-1_32
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