Abstract
This paper investigated the change of the number of aerobic/anaerobic bacteria alive in refuse derived fuel (RDF) with the progress of incubation and discussed its relationship to the change of hydrogen gas production in order to understand the mechanism of hydrogen gas production from RDF. This paper used Kuwana and Sakura; two kinds of RDFs that showed the significant difference in hydrogen gas production among the RDFs collected at 7 locations. As a result, it was found that the change of number of aerobic/anaerobic bacteria was similar with that of hydrogen gas production with the progress of incubation.
