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Agricultural Systems Engineering Lab
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The lab views agriculture as a single system and optimizes it from the perspectives of energy, resources, and information.
AboutAbout the lab
Optimizing agriculture as a whole system
The Agricultural Systems Engineering lab views agriculture, in which many elements are interconnected, as a single system and studies it from the perspectives of energy, resources, and information.
The lab believes that solving the challenges of the 21st century, such as food and environmental problems and securing a stable energy supply, requires optimizing the whole system as well as advancing individual technologies.
Undergraduate students join the lab in their fourth year (graduate students belong to the Division of Environmental Science and Technology, Graduate School of Agriculture).
Key terms
- LCA
- Life cycle assessment. A method for evaluating the environmental impact of a product or system from raw materials to disposal
- Biomass
- Resources derived from living organisms, such as plants and waste. It can also be used as fuel or fertilizer
- Biochar
- Charcoal made by burning plant material and similar matter. When added to soil, it can store carbon
NewsLab news
Prof. Noguchi is awarded the title of Fellow by ISBS
A student wins the Student Best Presentation Award at the Kansai Society of Agricultural and Food Engineering
A student wins the Student Best Presentation Award at the 154th regular meeting of the Kansai Society of Agricultural and Food Engineering
A student wins the Student Best Presentation Award at the Kansai Society of Agricultural and Food Engineering
A student wins the Best Presentation Award at ICBS 2024
ResearchResearch themes
The lab views agriculture, a complex field in which many elements are interconnected, as a system and studies it from the perspectives of energy, resources, and information. Its work covers biomass in Southeast Asia, the environmental impact of food production systems, combustion, pesticide spraying, methane fermentation, and sensing.
*Illustrative imageBiomass and Environmental Impact in Southeast Asia
The lab analyzes palm oil production processes in Indonesia and Malaysia as systems and evaluates the use of biomass for energy through LCA. It also studies fuel production from microalgae grown on palm oil mill wastewater.
*Illustrative imageFood Production Systems Designed Around Nutrition
Focusing mainly on Southeast Asia, the lab evaluates the energy consumption and environmental impact of agricultural production systems designed around the amount of nutrition people need. It also investigates the effects of shifting to a diet centered on plant-based protein.
*Illustrative imageBurning Rice Husks Well
The lab studies techniques for burning rice husks while controlling combustion temperature, time, and air supply, so as to raise the heat output and suppress the generation of harmful substances. It also evaluates carbon sequestration by applying the resulting biochar to farmland.
*Illustrative imageSmarter Pesticide Spraying
The lab develops technology for automatically driving pesticide-spraying machines in places where GPS signals do not reach, such as orchards, as well as technology that senses the spraying conditions to apply the appropriate amount.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Agricultural Systems Engineering lab are faculty members, administrative assistants, doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students, and special research students.
- ProfessorRyozo Noguchi
- Assistant ProfessorJuro Miyasaka
- Assistant ProfessorKatsuaki Ohdoi
- Assistant ProfessorAyana Koyama
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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: “Tractor cultivating a field in Brittany” PtiBzh / CC0 (cropped)
- Biomass and Environmental Impact in Southeast Asia: “Kunak-District Sabah Oil-palm-plantation-01” CEphoto, Uwe Aranas / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Food Production Systems Designed Around Nutrition: “Asian food market (Unsplash)” Les Anderson lesanderson / CC0 (cropped)
- Burning Rice Husks Well: “Husked Rice. 03” OJjnr / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Smarter Pesticide Spraying: “Pear orchard at Wren's Hill - geograph.org.uk - 740533” Jonathan Billinger / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (水資源利用工学): “Heiwa Irrigation 1910 B” 作者不詳 / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (フィールドロボティクス): “John Deere Combine Harvester Ebing 1799” Ermell / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (農村計画学): “Kyoto Toin Koshihata Rice Fields 2013-09” At by At / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (水環境工学): “Creek in wheat fields in Honjo, Saga” Peka / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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