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Energy and Society Engineering Lab
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A lab that explores how to live richly with fewer resources, from the perspectives of both materials and society.
AboutAbout the lab
A richer life with fewer resources
Aiming for a sustainable society, the Energy and Society Engineering Lab studies how to achieve the richest possible life with the fewest possible resources.
Here, resources include energy resources, mineral resources, and land resources.
The lab works through two groups: a fundamental/engineering group that develops materials and processes from a microscopic viewpoint, and an applied/social group that analyzes the real world with the aim of putting results into practice in society.
Key terms
- Photocatalyst
- A substance that, when exposed to light, drives chemical reactions such as the decomposition of water or of dirt
- First-principles calculation
- A method of calculating the properties of a material from the fundamental laws of quantum mechanics, without relying on experimental data
- Input-output table
- A statistical table summarizing how much goods and services are exchanged between industries
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Centered on the development of functional materials and new materials (eco-materials) and the development of new processes (eco-processes), the lab studies the effective use of resources from the standpoint of materials science, and also uses statistics and other methods to evaluate the environmental impact of products and systems.
*Illustrative imageEnvironmentally friendly materials and processes
From the viewpoint of materials science, the lab studies the effective use of resources in ways that are gentle on the global environment. Its work includes photocatalysts that operate under visible light, electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide, ammonia synthesis at low temperature, transparent thin-film electrodes, and proton-conducting materials.
*Illustrative imageSearching for new materials by computation
The lab searches for new materials using first-principles calculations. For example, it calculates the change in energy when lithium enters the space between layers of boron nitride.
*Illustrative imageEvaluating the environmental impact of products and systems
Using various statistics and input-output tables, the lab evaluates the environmental impact of products, processes, and systems. It also works on optimizing waste treatment, surveying energy literacy, and analyzing big data from academic papers.
*Illustrative imageOptimizing renewable energy
The lab studies the optimization of renewable energy and energy systems. Using the Yogyakarta region of Indonesia as an example, it determined the optimal values for wind and solar power generation with a geographic information system. It also analyzes solar sharing (agrivoltaic) farming.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Energy and Society Engineering Lab consist of faculty, researchers, doctoral students, master's students, and undergraduates.
- Associate ProfessorHideyuki Okumura
- Associate ProfessorTakaya Ogawa
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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: “Vertical bifacial solar panels on farm field” Wikideas1 / CC0 (cropped)
- Environmentally friendly materials and processes: “Autonomous materials discovery with the A-Lab” Authors of the study: Nathan J. Szymanski, Bernardus Rendy, Yuxing Fei, Rishi E. Kumar, Tanjin He, David Milsted, Matthew J. McDermott, Max Gallant, Ekin Dogus Cubuk, Amil Merchant, Haegyeom Kim, Anubhav Jain, Christopher J. Bartel, Kristin Persson, Yan Zeng & Gerbrand Ceder / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Searching for new materials by computation: “Example Life Cycle Assessment Stages diagram” MtW17 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Evaluating the environmental impact of products and systems: “2000- Clean power installation - wind, solar, storage - US” RCraig09 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Optimizing renewable energy: “Solar cells and wind turbines, Technical University of Łódź, Electrical, Electronic, Computer and Control Engineering Faculty” Zorro2212 / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Mechanical Systems Creation Lab): “Human-Robot-Collaboration-Sawing-2016-Luka-Peternel” Luka Peternel / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Adaptive Materials Mechanics Lab): “Woven carbon fiber fabric” Acheolg / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Solid Mechanics Lab): “Transmission electron microscope (Morgagni 268D) 2pl” Pleple2000 / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Environmental Thermo-Fluid Engineering Lab): “Kelvin-Helmholtz waves” Astronautilus / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
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