A portable renewable energy microgeneration system is disclosed. The system comprises one or more holding tanks that are configured to perform anaerobic digestion on waste in a multi-phase process using bacteria and a controller configured to automatically control the multi-phase process and to re-use the bacteria. The controller re-uses the bacteria by removing at least a portion of the liquid from the waste after anaerobic digestion is performed on the waste and using the at least a portion of the liquid to wet other waste and repeat the multi-phase process.

A plate for biological cell processing operation has a plate body and a lid. The plate body has an upper surface portion, a base portion, an annular wall portion extending above the base portion, a recess inside the annular wall portion, cell processing solution in the recess, and a sealing sheet sealing the recess. The lid covers the annular wall portion and recess of the plate and is placed over the base portion. The sealing sheet has a sheet body portion sealing the recess and a gripping portion for peeling. In the lid attached state, the gripping portion for peeling passes between the annular wall portion and the lid and is close to an upper surface portion of the base portion, while in the lid unattached state, the gripping portion for peeling rises up and away from the upper surface portion.

An apparatus for the automated processing of samples containing biological cellsin particular, of blood samples or other cell samples is provided. The apparatus has at least the following components: a sample receiving device configured to receive one or more samples; an auxiliary material receiving device configured to receive one or more auxiliary materials; a sample carrier receiving device configured to receive one or more sample carriers; a discharge device configured to discharge one or more samples from a discharge position; and a capture device configured to capture one or more discharged samples in a capture position to obtain one or more prepared samples; wherein the distance between the discharge position and the capture position can be adjusted to a prespecified height, and the apparatus further includes at least one temperature control device for controlling the temperature of at least one of the sample carriers.

A continuous sterilizing apparatus circulates, through members constituting a flow channel, a sterilizing medium that sterilizes the members to sterilize the members, circulates a sterilizing liquid subjected to sterilization treatment through pipes, performs a series of pieces of treatment including heating treatment, holding treatment, and cooling treatment on the sterilizing liquid, controls a flow rate, a temperature, and a pressure to be preset conditions, and switches a liquid to be circulated through the flow channel from the sterilizing liquid to a liquid to be sterilized.

Biomass (e.g., plant biomass, animal biomass, and municipal waste biomass) is processed to produce useful products, such as fuels. For example, systems are described that can use feedstock materials, such as cellulosic and/or lignocellulosic materials, to produce ethanol and/or butanol, e.g., by fermentation.

A renewable energy microgeneration apparatus is disclosed that includes a mixing tank that mixes waste with a liquid, a buffer tank that receives and pre-warms the mixed waste, a pasteurization tank that pasteurizes on the pre-warmed mixed waste, a digestion tank that performs anaerobic digestion on the pasteurized waste, a de-watering device that separates liquid digestate and removes salt from the liquid, sensors that measure salinity and biogas quality, and a controller. The controller causes the transfer of digestate from the digestion tank to the pasteurization tank to the dewatering device, causes the de-watering device to separate the liquid and remove the salt from the liquid, monitors the salinity of the liquid and the quality of biogas using the sensors, and causes the mixing of the liquid with the waste and adjusts the feed rate of the waste to reduce the salinity of the waste and increase methane production.

A method of producing a saccharified solution, in which saccharified slurry is obtained by hydrothermally treating cellulosic biomass slurry in a supercritical state or a subcritical state by a continuous reactor. The method reduces the risk of a pressure reducing valve becoming clogged when the high-temperature and high-pressure slurry is flash-evaporated after being hydrothermally treated. Also provides an apparatus for producing a saccharified solution and a continuous reactor. At the time of hydrothermally treating the cellulosic biomass slurry by the continuous reactor continuously, the slurry is intensely stirred in a front part of the continuous reactor, and stirred in a rear part of the continuous reactor by a stirring device with low propelling force, such that the plug flow in the axial direction is kept while the slurry is being uniformly mixed with respect to the cross section perpendicular to the mixing axis.

Provided is a antimicrobial susceptibility testing device, including: an ATP examination culture plate that includes a reaction vessel, a reagent holding parts for holding reagents to be supplied to the reaction vessel, and a culture solution holding part for holding a culture solution to be supplied to the reaction vessel, and has plural layers that can be joined and separated; a gas feeding path for feeding a gas into the ATP examination culture plate; a heater; an optical detection unit; and a determination unit for determining sensitivity of a bacterial strain contained in the culture solution to a drug based on a detection result of the optical detection unit, wherein when the plural layers of the ATP examination culture plate are joined, at least the culture solution holding part and the reaction vessel are in a sealed state while communicating with each other.

Methods of keeping microorganisms working at maximum efficiency in an anaerobic digester to produce a renewable biogas, within a temperature range of 100 degrees F., preferably at a plus or minus of 0.5 degrees F., without adding heat to the mixture. Most preferably, the method includes premixing a batch of biomass including the microorganisms to form a uniform mixture, which also can include preheating the mixed biomass to approximately 100 degrees F. The digester operation identifies the rate that the mixture in the digester can be changed to a different mixture. Furthermore, the method can include separately collecting the CH.sub.4 biogas and the CO.sub.2 biogas in different chambers to meet the desired concentration of each these gases and can include removing from the biogas any sulfur containing gas and liquid water, and additionally separating lighter and/or heavier than water non-organic materials prior to them entering the digester.

An industrialized protein production system using carbon-containing industrial gas includes a bacteria preparation system, a raw gas purification system, a water purification system, a bacteria separation system and a protein preparation system, wherein the bacteria preparation system is respectively communicated with the raw gas purification system, the water purification system and the bacteria separation system, and the protein preparation system is communicated with the bacteria separation system. By purifying the raw gas and the raw water and removing impurities from the raw gas and competing bacteria in the raw water, excellent raw materials and environment are provided for bacterial reproduction, which enable the raw gas to have high-efficiency fermentation, thereby increasing the yield of proteins.