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Hitoshi Wakabayashi, Associate Professor
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The Environmental Ergonomics Lab studies how to create environments where people can live safely, healthily, and comfortably, from a human-centered perspective. Focusing on homes, workplaces, cities, and extreme environments where temperature, humidity, light, and other factors interact, the lab develops evaluation methods, technologies for controlling the environment, and design guidelines. While valuing individual differences among people, the lab aims to achieve both energy savings and well-being.
Takao Katsura, Professor
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The Environmental Systems Engineering Lab studies building environmental systems engineering, including heat supply, heating and cooling, air conditioning, and indoor environments, with the aim of "creating healthy and sustainable living environments." Recently, the lab has expanded into the planning, design, and impact assessment of facilities, buildings, and houses that use energy-saving technologies and renewable energy utilization technologies it has developed itself. The lab places importance on handling everything itself: developing materials and devices, developing equipment and systems that use them, and then planning, design, and commissioning in real buildings.
Yasumasa Tojo, Professor
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The Waste Disposal Engineering Lab studies waste from sorting through final disposal. The lab views the waste problem as a "system" that connects generation, sorting, and collection with intermediate treatment, resource recovery, and landfilling. Using both experimental, survey-based, and chemical-analysis methods and approaches such as questionnaires and data analysis, the lab aims to build comprehensive waste treatment systems.
Taku Matsushita, Professor
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The Environmental Risk Engineering Lab researches the development and evaluation of new drinking water treatment technologies for producing safe drinking water. Its targets include per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), pesticides, substances that cause chlorine odor, and pathogenic viruses found in tap water. Through laboratory experiments and surveys at actual water treatment plants, the lab investigates how well these substances can be removed by drinking water treatment, and also aims to make recommendations for establishing tap water quality standards. The lab also works on treating PFAS with vacuum ultraviolet light, which has a shorter wavelength than ordinary ultraviolet light, and on evaluating treatability using the outer protein (capsid protein) of norovirus.
Kazuei Ishii, Professor
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The Circular Symbiosis Systems Lab researches how to make the fullest use of waste and the unused resources that lie dormant in local communities as new materials and energy. It aims for a society that avoids producing waste as much as possible and uses it as a resource (a circular economy). By combining basic experiments, field surveys, questionnaire and interview surveys, and modeling, the lab proposes waste flows and conversion systems that can actually be used in society. A distinctive feature is that it takes on these problems not only from the technical side but also from the perspectives of economics, institutions, and human psychology and consensus building.
Mayumi Ito, Professor
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The Resource Recycling Engineering Lab studies technologies for separating and recovering useful substances from natural resources and waste with little effort and energy. To build a circular society, the "urban mine," a hub for recovering and recycling urban waste as a resource, is the key. The lab conducts basic and applied research on recycling and waste-to-resource technologies, as well as advanced separation and refining technologies for making use of unused resources. The lab also works on environmental conservation technologies that build on these results, and on research to add value to resources.
Naoki Hiroyoshi, Professor
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The Resource Chemistry Lab studies mineral processing and smelting, which extract useful metals from ore, as well as the environmental remediation of mines. Under Professor Hiroyoshi, students tackle challenges such as flotation and leaching using both experiments and machine learning models. Under Associate Professor Arima, students investigate mine environmental remediation, focusing on acid mine drainage, and how heavy metals and other substances dissolve out. Students also take part in environmental surveys for an international joint project in Kazakhstan and in field surveys in the Philippines.
Yohei Kawamura, Professor
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The Resource Management Lab studies "Smart Mining," which combines mining engineering, the discipline of extracting mineral resources, with information engineering such as AI. Most mines that are easy to work have already been mined out. What remains are dangerous locations deep underground and low-grade deposits that contain only small amounts of metal. To make safe and profitable development possible even in such places, the lab develops technologies such as automation of mining operations, digital twins, and VR and AR. From a geology perspective, Associate Professor Ohtomo studies natural hydrogen, which forms naturally underground, and is also involved in developing technologies that use rocks to reduce carbon dioxide.
Elakneswaran Elakneswaran, Professor
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The Geosphere Mass Transfer Lab studies fluid dynamics and mass transfer related to resources and the environment. It investigates how underground water, and the fine particles and dissolved substances moving within it, travel through gaps in rock and through layers of particles. In addition to experiments, numerical analysis, and theoretical analysis, the lab also develops new measurement systems. Some of its themes connect to resource and environmental issues, such as geological disposal of radioactive waste and ore separation without water.
Kazunori Nakashima, Professor
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The Resource Bioengineering Lab works to solve problems of resources, the environment, and energy by using and imitating the remarkable functions of the many kinds of organisms found in nature. It uses the ability of microorganisms and other organisms to adsorb metals to remove harmful metals from the environment and to recover valuable metals from urban mines. Learning from beachrock, the rock formed when sand and gravel on a seashore naturally harden, the lab has also developed a technique that uses microorganisms to solidify soil in a short time.
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