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Reaction Engineering Lab
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The lab creates new processes and materials from the mechanisms of reactions.
AboutAbout the lab
Understanding reactions to design processes
The Reaction Engineering Lab (Kawase Lab) develops new reaction processes and materials based on an understanding of reaction mechanisms and reaction processes.
The lab studies modeling and process development for a variety of reaction processes, and the production of new functional materials using chemical reactions.
It works on modeling electrochemical processes such as fuel cells, and on producing materials by CVD.
It also studies how to efficiently convert carbon resources such as coal and biomass into energy and useful chemicals.
Key terms
- polymer electrolyte fuel cell
- A type of fuel cell that generates electricity by reacting hydrogen with oxygen. It uses a thin resin membrane as the electrolyte.
- CVD
- Chemical vapor deposition: a method of making a thin film by reacting source gases so that the film is deposited on a substrate.
- organic electrosynthesis
- A method of making chemicals by oxidizing or reducing organic compounds using electricity.
NewsLab news
Lab students won an Excellence Award at the 28th Student Presentation Meeting of the Society of Chemical Engineers, Japan
Paper published on the development of carbon-supported metal catalysts for formic acid dehydrogenation in the liquid phase
Paper published on a model of hydrogen molecule mass transfer inside a fuel cell
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies modeling and process development for a variety of reaction processes, and the production of new functional materials using chemical reactions. Its current work has three themes: electrochemical processes, functional materials and their production processes, and conversion of heavy carbonaceous resources.
*Illustrative imageTreating a fuel cell as a reactor
The lab treats the polymer electrolyte fuel cell as a reactor and builds mathematical models for numerical simulations that can be used in design. It is also developing an organic electrosynthesis process that synthesizes chemicals while producing hydrogen from water.
*Illustrative imageFunctional materials and how to make them
The lab develops functional materials and models their production processes and reactors. Topics include producing aluminum nitride films by CVD, how carbon forms from hydrocarbons, and CVD of perovskites for solar cells.
*Illustrative imageMaking full use of coal and biomass
The lab proposes and tests new ways to efficiently convert coal and biomass into energy and chemicals. It studies fractionation of coal with high-temperature solvents and a new power generation method that uses reactions between carbon resources and inorganic substances.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Reaction Engineering Lab are faculty, researchers, and doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- ProfessorMotoaki Kawase
- LecturerRyuichi Ashida
- Program-Specific Assistant ProfessorShinobu Sekine
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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: “Toyota Mirai fuel cell stack and hydrogen tank SAO” Mariordo (Mario Roberto Durán Ortiz) / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Treating a fuel cell as a reactor: “PEMFC” Katarina Katić / Public domain (cropped)
- Functional materials and how to make them: “Chemical Vapor Deposition Setup” Aksy88 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Making full use of coal and biomass: “Biomass Pellets from India - White coal.” Kapilbutani / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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