The Japan machinery federation established the institute for interchanging studies on industrial microbe utilization as a part of its efforts for interchanging industrial studies among the three parties related to it i. e. the industrial world, the official world and the learned world, and was carrying on studying microbe utiligation for pulp and paper manufacturing processes hence. Recently, the institute made a summarized report on the results of this study. The present writer, who continued to participate in the process of this study as on observer, would like to outline this report for readers and add a few personal views of mine to it.
The contents of this article may be summarized as follows.
1. On utilization of microbes.
2. On bio-pulping.
3. On the possibility of utilization of microbes.
1) Scheme of appilication of microbe utilization to pulp and paper manufacturing process in general.
2) Their utilization for wood chip yard.
3) Their utilization for deodorizing spent liquor.
4) Possibility of applicating their utilization to methane fermentation.
5) Their utilization for raising efficiency of removing COD.