Although such problems made this an extremely difficult project, the hotels were completed successfully thanks to the efforts of Kajima personnel and local employees. That Generates Electrical Power from Raw Garbage without Incineration Kajima has developed a new technology that generates electricity from raw garbage without incineration. The process uses methane produced by fermenting raw garbage to generate electrical power from a fuel cell. If raw garbage is incinerated without proper equipment, poisonous dioxins may be emitted. Kajima's new process, however, emits no poisonous substances.
Raw garbage is shredded, liquidized, and fed into the hermetically sealed fermentor.
Inside the fermentor, a special microorganism decomposes the organic slurry to produce methane. A catalyst is used to convert the methane to hydrogen, which is then passed into the electric cell where it generates electrical power.