O-604 Case of biomass gasification plant by the earthquake rubble in Minamisanriku

Abstract

In March 2011, Great Earthquake was occurred in east Japan, and led to the catastrophe caused by the tsunami in Sanriku coast. In the town of Minamisanriku, located in the northern part of Miyagi Prefecture, 612 people were dead, 226 people are missing, 3,316 houses were stricken partially or completely destroyed. The amount of rubble generated in this disaster is 817,000 tons estimated in this area. We built a gasification generation plant to handle this earthquake rubble, and have carried out its operation. In this paper, we report the overview of this gasification plant and the actual process.