HOME    World’s first hydrogen station for vehicle to utilize the wastewater treated in the Fukuoka Chubu Sewage Treatment Center. The process has been developed as a result of the verification testing of technology for hydrogen creation sourced from wastewater biogas.   The hydrogen supply to vehicle In March 2015, Fukuoka City and Kyushu University installed a station where the hydrogen is derived from renewable energy, which produces hydrogen from biogas generated from the fermentation of sewage sludge. This facility forces the biogas through a separation membrane to separate it into methane and CO2, and produces hydrogen via steam reforming in which this methane is made to react with steam.     Fukuoka Chubu Sewage Treatment Center It was adopted as a Breakthrough by Dynamic Approach in Sewage High Technology (B-DASH) Project in FY2014 as part of the Hydrogen Leader City Project, which is being subsidized by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism. It will produce 3,300m3 of hydrogen from the 2,400m3 of biogas generated per day from sewage treatment. Since there are sewage treatment plants located all over Japan, this could be tied in with the local production of energy for local consumption. According to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, it is estimated that 130 million m3 of hydrogen could be produced each year …

Fukuoka Hydrogen Station…の続きを読む

                                                                                                                                            HOME    Waste paper recycling by Kyushu Seishi.  Refined waste papers is recycled into toilet papers. Sludge generated during the toilet paper production process is used to produce a foaming inhibitor used by steel works.   Product : Household toilet paper Raw material : 100 % of waste paper come from offices and household is used  Production capacity : 25,000 ton per year     General information   Address 21 Maeda Kukioka, Yahata-higashi, Kitakyushu-city, Fukuoka-prefecture Access A 30 minutes ride a vehicle from JR Kokura Station Days of visit Weekdays except Saturdays, Sundays and National Holidays Fee No visiting fee is required Booking Can be made by Japan KYUSHU Tourist     Home  Tailor-made tours　Study tours　Christian Pilgrimage tours　Golf tour　Kyushu tour packages    

Waste paper recycling in Kitakyushu…の続きを読む

                                                                                                                                           HOME    Melting Furnace  / Sin-Moji Plant.  The collected waste including metals is melted at over 1,700 degree Celsius in the Melting Furnace and then the melted slag and metals are discharged.  The slag is used as raw materials for pavement and bricks and the metals are  re-used for other steel products. The process and technology of the Melting Furnace can be learned.      General information   Address 3-79 Shinmoji Moji, Kitakyushu-city, Fukuoka-prefecture Access A 30 minutes ride a vehicle from JR Kokura Station Days of visit Weekdays except Saturdays, Sundays and National Holidays Fee No visiting fee is required Booking Can be made by Japan KYUSHU Tourist     Home  Tailor-made tours　Study tours　Christian Pilgrimage tours　Golf tour　Kyushu tour packages    

Melting Furnace in Kitakyushu…の続きを読む

                                                                                                                                          HOME    Continental voyages waiting room This is a wooden 2-storey building consisting of an octagonal observatory andvivid  orange-colored walls. It was built in 1917 as the Osaka Shosen Moji Branch Office. At that time, the observatory was used for looking out over Moji Port, and the building was utilized as a waiting room for continental voyages.   At present the building serves as a gallery for the works of Watase Raizo (who is an illustrator from Kitakyushu City), as well as the locale for the Moji-ko Art Mura (Art village) called   “Minato-no Machieiru”.     General information   Address 7-18 Minato-machi, Moji-ku, Kitakyushu-city, Fukuoka-city Access A short walk from JR Mojiko Station 25 minutes by a vehicle from JR Kokura Station Open hours 9:00 to 17:00 Admission fee No fee is required Days closed No closing days   Home  Tailor-made tours　Study tours　Christian Pilgrimage tours　Golf tour   Kyushu tour packages    

Mitsui O.S.K Line Building…の続きを読む