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Environmental Process Engineering Lab
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The lab applies chemical engineering to turn waste and waste heat into resources.
AboutAbout the lab
Linking resources, energy, and the environment as one.
The Environmental Process Engineering Lab aims to establish "environmentally harmonious processing," which rationally integrates the links among resources, energy, and the environment.
The lab works on developing new methods of material conversion and organizing the engineering behind them into a systematic framework.
It is also developing energy-efficient microreactors and other devices, and making environmentally friendly plastics with the whole life cycle in mind.
It also explores ways to use biomass, which is renewable and widely available, without waste.
Key terms
- Biomass
- Renewable resources derived from living things, such as wood, grass, and food scraps
- Microreactor
- A small reactor in which chemical reactions take place inside thin channels tens to hundreds of micrometers wide
- LCA
- Life cycle assessment, a method of evaluating a product's environmental impact from production to disposal
ResearchResearch themes
To sustain society while overcoming resource constraints and global environmental problems, environmentally harmonious processing, which rationally integrates the chain of resources, energy, and the environment, and the people to carry it out are indispensable. Aiming to develop new material conversion methods and systematize the engineering behind them, the lab focuses on the following four areas.
*Illustrative imageConverting biomass in new ways
The lab investigates new conversion methods that produce industrial raw materials, hydrogen, methane, and alcohols from biomass using only about as much energy as waste heat provides. It also develops pretreatment methods for biomass with high water content and pyrolysis methods for woody biomass.
*Illustrative imageMaterials that clean the environment
The lab develops high-performance catalysts that decompose and remove harmful substances such as phosphorus, hydrofluoric acid, sulfur compounds, and nitrate nitrogen at low temperatures. It also studies environmental purification, starting from the fundamentals.
*Illustrative imageTurning waste back into resources
Rather than simply treating waste, the lab develops new conversion methods that use the energy of waste heat to turn it into high-value resources. It is also devising an environmental assessment method as an alternative to LCA and examining how to configure processes across industries.
*Illustrative imageControlling reactions in tiny channels
The lab develops microreactors with channels tens to hundreds of micrometers wide, and works on new ways of controlling reactions with them. It also produces nanoparticles and develops compact reformers for fuel cells.
MembersFaculty
The faculty of the Environmental Process Engineering Lab are Associate Professor Taisuke Maki and Assistant Professor Yosuke Muranaka.
- Associate ProfessorTaisuke Maki
- Assistant ProfessorYosuke Muranaka
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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: “Waste recycling plant, Industrial Park, 2018 Karcag” Globetrotter19 / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Converting biomass in new ways: “Heaps of chipped woody biomass in Namibia” GIZ Bush Control and Biomass Utilisation Project / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Materials that clean the environment: “Illustration of a typical drinking water treatment process-el” CK-12 Foundation τροποποιήσεις & μετάφραση: Michail Angelos Georgoulas / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Turning waste back into resources: “Singapore Recycling-bins-01” CEphoto, Uwe Aranas / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Controlling reactions in tiny channels: “Чип химического проточного реактора” РТУ МИРЭА- "Российский технологический университет" / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Materials Process Engineering Lab): “Scanning electron image of wood pulp paper - 100x” Ckazilek / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Industrial Electrochemistry Lab): “Bumblebeeelectroplating” Huravaleriia / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Organic Molecular Transformation Lab): “Iron(III)-chloride-hexahydrate-sample” Benjah-bmm27 / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Interfacial Energy Process Lab): “Molten salt extraction line” United States Department of Energy / Public domain (cropped)
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