Sustainable Energy & Environmental Society Open Innovation Research OrganizationWaseda University

SAITO, Kiyoshi, Director

In order to achieve an 80% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, we will need to optimally utilize the total set of various forms of energy, including low-quality heat, not only high-quality electric power and combustion energy, with renewable energy use at the core.

We cannot meet those goals through research and development within the existing vertically segmented academic system. It will be essential to establish innovative theoretical systems that can cross different energy conversion engineering systems, including electrical, mechanical, and thermal energy systems. Waseda University has been exploring the logic of phenomena and the structure of laws for more than 50 years to lead the world in showing that electric circuit theory, which is already firmly systematized, can be used as a common analytical structure to unify system analysis even among different engineering systems; and that by making the through-quantity and the across-quantity common quantities, their product, power, can constitute transformation groups as invariant quantities in energy conversion between systems.

The systematization of thermal energy systems has been left behind because they are extremely complex structures consisting of heat and flow phenomena that change form in a variety of ways, but we have clearly described the structure of flow energy transmission for thermal energy systems, and shown for the first time that network analysis can be achieved by adding specific flow phenomena attributable to blockage or gas-liquid separation to the network structure as constraint conditions on through-quantity. This has meant great progress in analysis systems for thermal energy systems, making direct linkage to equipment development possible. That progress is being applied in the analysis of heat pumps and renewable energy technologies, which are being promoted worldwide due to their energy-saving performance, and joint research with numerous companies as well as large-scale publicly funded R&D are moving ahead.

We will move ahead with co-creation in an open forum of a future energy society including variously converted forms of energy, such as electrical systems, mechanical systems, and thermal energy systems.We will also contribute to the creation of new environmental energy systems, coordinating with resource recycling processes, operational optimization technologies with new sensing technologies, human environmental science, economics, policy, etc.

• Current research project for the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO, National Research and Development Agency): Development of Technology and Assessment Techniques for Next-Generation Refrigerants with a Low GWP Value (Data acquisition and evaluation of basic properties of next-generation refrigerants / Research and development on evaluation of implementation of next-generation refrigeration and air-conditioning technology employing low-GWP refrigerants)
• Current research project for the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO): Research and Development Project on Innovative Thermal Management Materials and Technologies (Investigation, research, and development of actual conditions of exhaust heat / Development of a heat pump simulator in construction of integrated analysis simulation technology for heat pump technology, etc., and investigation of implementation scenarios)
• Current research project for the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO): Feasibility Study Program (Feasibility Study Program on Energy and New Environmental Technology / Development of a novel three-fluid heat and mass exchanger in liquid desiccant humidification and air-conditioning systems, in the development of a new concept heat and mass exchanger by surface and structure functionalization)
• In the context of the Cabinet Office program ‘Cross-ministerial Strategic Innovation Promotion Program (SIP),’ the third phase initiative titled ‘Development of Smart Energy Management System,’ is currently underway to visualize implementation effect of Energy Management System (EMS) including thermal and Digital Twin technology.

• ARAO, Yoshihiko Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering, School of Fundamental Science and Engineering
• ARIMURA, Toshihide Professor, Faculty of Political Science and Economics, School of Political Science and Economics
• DONDINI, Damiano Research Associate, Sustainable Energy & Environmental Society Open Innovation Research Organization
• GIANNETTI, Niccolo Researcher (Associate Professor), Sustainable Energy & Environmental Society Open Innovation Research Organization
• HISHIYAMA, Reiko Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering, School of Creative Science and Engineering
• HOSOI, Atsushi Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering, School of Fundamental Science and Engineering
• IBRAHIM, Nasiru Ishaq Junior Researcher (Assistant Professor), Sustainable Energy & Environmental Society Open Innovation Research Organization
• IWASE, Eiji Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering, School of Fundamental Science and Engineering
• KIM, CheolHwan Junior Researcher (Assistant Professor), Sustainable Energy & Environmental Society Open Innovation Research Organization
• MINAMINOSONO, Ayato Junior Researcher (Assistant Professor), Sustainable Energy & Environmental Society Open Innovation Research Organization
• MIYASHITA, Tomoyuki Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering, School of Creative Science and Engineering
• MORIMOTO, Hideka Professor (without tenure), Faculty of Law, School of Law
• SAITO, Kiyoshi Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering, School of Fundamental Science and Engineering
• SUGA, Takeo Associate Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering, School of Advanced Science and Engineering
• TAKEZAWA, Akihiro Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering, School of Fundamental Science and Engineering
• TANABE, Shinichi Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering, School of Creative Science and Engineering
• TANAKA, Chitose Junior Researcher (Assistant Professor), Sustainable Energy & Environmental Society Open Innovation Research Organization
• TEZUKA, Asei Associate Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering, School of Fundamental Science and Engineering
• YAMAGUCHI, Seiichi Associate Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering, School of Fundamental Science and Engineering

• NIWA, Hideharu Guest Senior Researcher (Guest Professor), Sustainable Energy & Environmental Society Open Innovation Research Organization
• SASAKI, Masanobu Guest Senior Researcher (Guest Assistant Professor), Sustainable Energy & Environmental Society Open Innovation Research Organization

• ALHAMID, Muhammad Idrus
• Arnas
• ASTINA, I Made
• DANTOKU, Tatsuo
• ENOKI, Koji
• HASUIKE, Hiroshi
• HONGO, Ichiro
• KAMIYA, Shoji
• KAWAMURA, Kuniaki
• KAYUKAWA, Yohei
• KIM, Moojoong
• KODAMA, Akio
• KOHNO, Kyoji
• KURODA, Koheita
• MATSUDA, Kenji
• MENANDRO, Serrano Berana
• MIYAOKA, Yoichi
• MORI, Koji
• NAGASHIMA, Kei
• Nasruddin
• NISHIMURA, Kuniyuki
• OTSUKA, Takeru
• OYAMA, Suguru
• PASEK, Ari Darmawan
• SEI, Yuichi
• SHOLAHUDIN
• SUGAWARA, Norikazu
• TAJIMA, Osamu
• UEKUSA, Tsuneo
• WATANABE, Kenji
• WINAYA, I Nyoman Suprapta
• YABASE, Hajime
• YAMASHITA, Koji