The Faculty

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Research and development on combustion, exhaust gas emission formation and destruction, battery charge – discharge processes dominated by transport phenomena and chemical reactions in internal combustion engines and its system, catalysts and its control, lithium ion batteries, internal combustion engine – motor hybrid system.

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This research area aims to develop CO2 capture and storage (CCS) system for thermal power plants, innovative iron and steel making process, smart energy network system and next generation vehicles by using technologies of chemical recuperation, fuel cells, CO2 absorbents and energy storage materials based on mutual conversion among electric, thermal and chemical energies from the viewpoint of ‘Exergy’.

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Research and development of utilization methods of biomass resources such as agriculture and forestry, and research on the environmental evaluation methods of ecological system including agriculture and forestry. Research on the energy policy and the promotion methodology of biomass utilization of Japanese forestry and southeast Asian agriculture from the viewpoint of environment and technology transfer. Research on the thermoacoustic system which is one of the appealing utilization system of waste heat from biomass combustion.

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Design, trial production, and environmental friendliness evaluation of electric-driven vehicles and their components (Keywords: Battery electric vehicles, Plug-in hybrid vehicles, Hybrid vehicles, Fuel cell vehicles, Heavy-duty vehicles, Lithium-ion batteries, Wireless charging systems, Motors, On road test, Finite element electromagnetic field analysis, Energy flow analysis.).

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Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of Products, technologies and system, 3R, environmental friendly products and service, recycling system, new energy and energy saving, a local-supply-and-local-consumption biomass system, a next-generation mobility system, etc. are turned to the advancement of a sustainable society or low carbon society made into the keyword, and they are new technological developments and advanced social system research.

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Research on realizing sustainable communities from the viewpoint of public policy. Regional revitalization by utilizing unused resources such as renewable energy and biomass, Construction of innovation systems in the food industry and agriculture, Genetic resources, Circulating and ecological economy policies, Agricultural policies, Food policies, Regional policies.

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Research on environmental, energy, and climate change policy in local community with policy process theory, consensus building, behavioral science, etc. as the main frameworks and approaches. Specifically, consensus building of renewable energy facilities siting, citizen science on climate change impact, attitude and behavior changes in environmentally friendly behaviors, development and operation of deliberative methods, climate transition and the occurrence and diffusion process of policy innovation etc.

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With the aim of securing sustainable metal resources, we conduct research and development on metal production and recycling processes that simultaneously reduce environmental impact and save energy, based on physical chemistry, thermodynamics, electrochemistry, reaction engineering, and materials science. We work on the development of new production and recycling processes for precious metals, rare metals, and active metals, the development of impurity removal processes from base metals, and fundamental analyses of metal deposition and dissolution. We also actively promote industry–academia–government collaboration and international collaboration.

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Mathematical modeling and analysis of energy and power systems for realizing a sustainable society, and economic and environmental assessments of climate change mitigation technologies (Keywords: Cost-optimal energy mix, Power grid planning, Renewable energy integration, Hydrogen supply chains, Critical minerals flow, Carbon neutral, Energy security, Mathematical programming, Spatial analysis, Machine learning, Energy economics, and Energy systems engineering)