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Fukushima Lab
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The lab designs the systems of a circular society by combining technologies.
AboutAbout the lab
Designing the systems of a circular society.
The Fukushima Lab studies how chemical technologies should be combined to achieve a circular society.
Its subject is not a single factory but "chemical systems" that link multiple plants, consumers, and primary industries such as agriculture and forestry.
Using process simulation and mathematical models, the lab evaluates the effects of technologies in terms of both cost and environmental impact.
The lab aims to visualize how resources are used in each region and to propose improvement measures suited to that region as a system.
Key terms
- Life cycle assessment (LCA)
- A method for estimating the environmental impact of a product or technology across its entire life, from raw material extraction to disposal
- Process simulation
- Reproducing the reactions and separations that take place in a chemical plant by calculation, in order to study its design and operation
- Material flow
- The flow of resources and materials, showing where they move from and to, and how much, within a region or society
NewsLab news
A master's student wins the Student Excellent Poster Presentation Award at PSE Japan 2026
A doctoral student's paper published in Computers & Chemical Engineering
Assistant Professor Yagihara's paper published in Carbon Capture Science & Technology
A master's student wins the Student Encouragement Award at the Hachinohe Meeting of the Society of Chemical Engineers, Japan
A doctoral student's paper published in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering and selected as a Cover Picture
ResearchResearch themes
The lab is moving from the discipline of designing a single chemical plant to the design of chemical systems that create value by linking multiple plants, consumers, and primary industries such as agriculture and forestry. It aims to develop design methods and tools for building regional circular zones.
*Illustrative imageTechnology assessment for a sustainable society
Achieving net-zero CO2 emissions requires a production system that uses renewable energy and takes plant biomass, flue gas, and waste plastics as feedstock. The lab develops methods, such as life cycle assessment, to verify how much such technologies can contribute.
*Illustrative imageDeveloping chemical processes for the next generation
New chemical technologies are not used alone but work as "processes" that combine many of them. Because the possible combinations are enormous, the lab builds methods that use design and simulation to find the combinations that fit the kind of society we envision.
*Illustrative imageRegion-based process systems
A single innovative technology cannot solve large problems such as global warming countermeasures and regional revitalization. The lab's goal is to combine technologies that can be implemented based on a region's current situation, and to provide improvement measures suited to that region as a system.
*Illustrative imageVisualizing material flows
The lab investigates where, how much, and in what form resources and materials are used in a target region. From this, it identifies the characteristics of the region's resource use and its sustainability challenges, and considers the technologies and policies that are needed.
MembersFaculty
The Fukushima Lab consists of faculty members, administrative assistants, postdoctoral researchers, doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students, and research students.As of 2026
- ProfessorYasuhiro Fukushima
- Associate ProfessorHajime Ohno
- Assistant ProfessorKoki Yagihara
- Project Assistant ProfessorYuki Matsuda
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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: “Ultramar1 (cropped a lot)” Cephas / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Technology assessment for a sustainable society: “Red Trail Energy ethanol CO2 capture plant Richardton ND1” Acroterion / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Developing chemical processes for the next generation: “Colonne distillazione” User:Luigi Chiesa / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
- Region-based process systems: “Biogas Photovoltaik Wind” Florian Gerlach (Nawaro) / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Visualizing material flows: “Aerial photograph 400D DxO” Walter Rademacher / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Yoshioka Lab): “FLAKES” TOP PLASTIC / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Kasai Lab): “EFluor Nanocrystal Vials” Travis.jennings / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Shuku Lab): “Andrea Santiuste LydiaGarcía CristinaMoreno” PracticaGarSanMo / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Aoki Lab): “Combustor-Temp-Plane” Atif Masood (FetchCFD) / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
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