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Kobayashi Lab
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The lab researches technology that uses the power of microbes to convert CO2 into fuels and other useful products.
AboutAbout the lab
Technologies for the environment, energy, and decarbonization.
The Kobayashi Lab researches technologies for the environment, energy, and decarbonization.
The lab works on technology that uses microbes and electricity to produce useful substances, such as fuels, from CO2.
Through Social Cooperation Programs with companies, the lab also researches oil and natural gas development, technology for storing CO2 underground, and countermeasures for subsurface environmental contamination.
Key terms
- Social Cooperation Program
- A program established within the university with funding from companies and other organizations, in which research and education are carried out jointly
- Biocathode
- An electrode on whose surface microbes live and use electrons received from the electrode to help synthesize substances
- CCS
- Carbon capture and storage: technology that separates and captures CO2 and stores it underground
ResearchResearch themes
The lab researches technologies for the environment, energy, and decarbonization. In addition to CO2 conversion using microbes and biotechnology for resource development, the lab works on countermeasures for subsurface contamination and on CCS through Social Cooperation Programs with companies.
*Illustrative imageCountermeasures for Subsurface Environmental Contamination
In a Social Cooperation Program with Shinko Holdings, the lab researches technologies to remove subsurface environmental contamination, prevent it from spreading, understand how it moves, and detect it. The research integrates biotechnology, environmental engineering, and civil engineering.
*Illustrative imageEnergy Resource Development and CCS
In a Social Cooperation Program with INPEX, the lab works on oil and natural gas development and on CCS technology development. Research includes new tracer technologies and AI-based optimization of development and operation plans.
*Illustrative imageConverting CO2 to Methane with Microbes
This research uses electricity and an electrode colonized by microbes (a biocathode) to produce methane and other products from CO2. The lab also works on elucidating the mechanism of electron transfer and on improving the devices.
*Illustrative imageBiotechnology for Resource Development
The lab develops new biotechnologies for use in the oil and natural gas field. Its work includes oil recovery using bioparticles, observation of subsurface fluid movement, and methane production associated with sour gas treatment.
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- ProfessorKobayashi HajimePublications ↗
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “U.S. Department of Energy - Science - )” U.S. Department of Energy / Public domain (cropped)
- Countermeasures for Subsurface Environmental Contamination: “Groundwater monitoring well at Chelungpu Fault Preservation Park” Kai3952 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Energy Resource Development and CCS: “SilivriOffshorePlatform” CeeGee / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Converting CO2 to Methane with Microbes: “Methanogens ( )” NASA, ESA, Maryland Astrobiology Consortium / Public domain (cropped)
- Biotechnology for Resource Development: “Oil Well Pump Jack ( )” Chad Davis from Minneapolis, United States / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
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- Related lab (辻研究室): “Full moon partially obscured by atmosphere” NASA / Public domain (cropped)
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小宮山研究室): “Liverpool Transmission Substation, New South Wales 04” Chris.sherlock2 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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