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Morii Lab
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The lab investigates the mechanisms of combustion and ignition through both experiments and computation.
AboutAbout the lab
Exploring combustion through the recirculation of heat and mass.
The Morii Lab studies the behavior of thermal fluids involving combustion and chemical reactions.
With the recirculation of heat and mass as a keyword, the lab approaches the fundamentals of combustion phenomena through both experiments and numerical computation.
It also investigates the ignitability of substances used in familiar devices, such as refrigerants and the electrolytes of lithium-ion batteries.
The lab's website is shared with the lab of Professor Kaoru Maruta, and the lab is presented there under the name "Maruta/Morii Lab."
Key terms
- Ignitability
- How easily a fuel or liquid catches fire
- Micro flow reactor with a controlled temperature profile
- A device that creates a defined temperature gradient in a narrow tube so that weak flames can be observed stably
- Combustion reaction model
- A compilation of the chemical reactions that occur when a fuel burns, organized so that they can be reproduced by computation
NewsLab news
An explanatory article on knock prediction was published in the Newsletter of the Thermal Engineering Division of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
A paper on the effect of flame stretch on the boundary of explosive transition was published in Physics of Fluids
A paper on applying quantum computing to reactive flow problems was published in Proceedings of the Combustion Institute
ResearchResearch themes
With the recirculation of heat and mass as a keyword, the lab studies the behavior of thermal fluids involving combustion and chemical reactions. It investigates the ignition process of familiar substances such as refrigerants and battery electrolytes using a micro flow reactor with a controlled temperature profile and measurement of chemical species, and works on verifying and building combustion reaction models.
*Illustrative imageCan Refrigerants Ignite?
Refrigerants in air conditioners and refrigerators are shifting to ones with lower environmental impact, but many of them are flammable. Using a micro flow reactor with a controlled temperature profile and chemical species analysis, the lab has investigated the ignition process of hydrofluorocarbon refrigerants, and has identified for the first time in the world a region where fluorine-containing combustion intermediates react slowly after the main heat release.
*Illustrative imageInvestigating the Ignition of Battery Electrolytes
Fires in lithium-ion batteries have become a social problem, and the organic solvents in the electrolyte have been pointed out as possible sources of ignition. Using a micro flow reactor with a controlled temperature profile and chemical species measurement, the lab analyzes the ignition process of electrolyte solvents, verifying and building combustion reaction models and searching for additives that suppress ignition.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Morii Lab consist of faculty, visiting faculty and researchers, technical staff, technical assistants, secretaries, and graduate and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- ProfessorKaoru Maruta
- Associate ProfessorYouhi Morii
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Report an errorAbout the images
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: “Iss072e456120 (Jan 13, 2025) --- NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 Flight Engineer Nick Hague works in the Destiny laboratory module's Combustion Integrated Rack swapping samples of materials to observe how they burn i” NASA Johnson Space Center / Public domain (cropped)
- Can Refrigerants Ignite?: “Air conditioner ballu” Sancho85 / Public domain (cropped)
- Investigating the Ignition of Battery Electrolytes: “Lithium-Ion Battery for BMW i3 - SB-LiMotive Cells” RudolfSimon / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Maruta Lab): “ISS-65 Mark Vande Hei works on the Combustion Integrated Rack” NASA / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Shigeta-Sugimoto Lab): “Plasma Cutter” Tim Drivas / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Muneoka Lab): “Nano-plasma” Al126 at wiki / CC0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Sato-Yamaguchi Lab): “Battery researcher” Altynay N Zhumabekova / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
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