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  1. Project Name
  2. Duration
  3. Research Catagory 1
  4. Research Catagory 2
  5. Research Field
  6. Researchers
  7. Affiliation 1
  8. Affiliation 2
  9. Address
  10. Country
  11. Phone
  12. Fax
  13. Project Summary
  14. Publications
  15. International Joint Study with

Korea Institute of Energy Research(KIER), Korea

  1. Development of Bench-Scale PFBC technology
  2. 1994-1997
  3. coal combustion mechanism, emission, sulfur retention, energy, air
  4. combustor modeling, solid handling, emission control, countermeasures
  5. chemical engineering
  6. Keun-Hee HAN, Sung-Ho Cho, Dowon SHUN
  7. Waste Resources Utilization Team, Energy and Environment Department
  8. KIER
  9. 71-2 Jangdong, Yusungku, Taejon 305-343
  10. Korea
  11. 82-42-860-3676
  12. 82-42-860-3134
  13. The purpose of the research is to develop pressurized fluidized bed combustor. The aim is to develop pressurized fluidized bed technology which is thermally efficient and environmentally safe. Target fuel is imported bituminous coal.
  14. 1) Young-Woo Lee and Jae-Ek Son, "Pressurized Fluidized Bed Combustion Technology for Combined Cycle", Korean Chem. Ind. and Tech., 13(1), 53-69(1995)
  1. Development of a Hot Gas Desulfurization System for IGCC
  2. 1994-1996
  3. coal gas, desulfurization sorbents, energy, air
  4. system design, sorbents production, hot gas desulfurization, countermeasures
  5. chemical engineering
  6. Jae-Ek SON, Kyoung-Tae JIN, Do-Won SHUN, Keun-Hee HAN, Dal-Hee BAE, Sung-Ho Jo
  7. Waste Resources Utilization Team, Energy and Environment Department
  8. KIER
  9. 71-2 Jangdong, Yusungku, Taejon 305-343
  10. Korea
  11. 82-42-860-3673
  12. 82-42-860-3134
  13. The goal of the research is to develop a Hot Gas Desulfurization (HGD) technology, an element technology of the IGCC. The scope of work consists of the development of desulfurization sorbents, the investigation of their reaction characteristics, and the development of a bench scale hot gas desulfurization process.
  14. 1) YI, Chang-Keun et al. "A Hot Gas Desulfurization Technology for IGCC" Korea, Chemical Industry & Technology, 13, 466-474, 1995
    2) Rhee, Young-Woo et al., "Basic Study on High-Temperature Desulfurization Sorbents," Proceedings of the 11th Korea-U.S.A. Joint Workshop on Coal Utilization Technology, 137-151, 1995
  1. Development of Circulating Fluidized Bed Combustion Boiler for Co-generation
  2. 1991-1997
  3. coal combustion mechanism, emission, air, energy
  4. boiler design, operation techniques, emission control, countermeasures
  5. chemical engineering
  6. Keun-Hee HAN, Dal-Hee BAE, Sung-Ho Cho
  7. Waste Resources Utilization Team, Energy and Environment Department
  8. KIER
  9. 71-2 Jangdong, Yusungku, Taejon 305-343
  10. Korea
  11. 82-42-860-3672
  12. 82-42-860-3134
  13. The purpose of the research is to develop circulating fluidized bed boiler for industrial and utility purpose. The aim is to develop circulating fluidized bed technology which is thermally efficient and environmentally safe. Target fuel is domestic anthracite and imported bituminous coal.
  14. 1) Shun, Dowon et al., "Circulating Fluidized Bed Combustion of Korean Anthracite," Proceedings of the 10th Korea-U.S.A. Joint Workshop on Coal Utilization Technology, IV-69 (1994).
    2) Shun, Dowon et al., "Characteristics of Circulating Fluidized Bed Burning Korean Anthracite Coal," Proceedings of the 4th Asian Conference on Fluidized-Bed and Three Phase Reactors, Nov. 38-30, 1994
    3) Shun, Dowon, "Operation of CFB boilers in Korean Industry," APEC Experts' Group on Clean Coal Technical Seminar, August 29-31, 1995
    4) Shun, Dowon et al., "Development of Circulating Fluidized Bed Boiler in Korea," Proceedings of the 11th Korea-U.S.A. Joint Workshop on Coal Utilization Technology, 245-258, 1995
  1. Development of Fluidized-Bed Waste Plastics Pyrolysis Process
  2. 1991-
  3. waste treatment, toxic materials, energy recovery, energy, wastes
  4. process development, fuel and chemicals recovery,countermeaures
  5. chemical engineering
  6. Keun-Hee HAN, Dal-Hee BAE, Sung-Ho Cho
  7. Waste Resources Utilization Team, Energy and Environment Department
  8. KIER
  9. 71-2 Jangdong, Yusungku, Taejon 305-343
  10. Korea
  11. 82-42-860-3672
  12. 82-42-860-3134
  13. The purpose of the research is to develop fluidized bed pyrolysis process of waste plastics which is not amenable to landfill as well as incineration. Major subject of the research is to characterize the pyrolysis reaction pattern in a fluidized bed rector in connection with target product. To commercialize the process variables as well as elimination of toxic ingredients is under investigation for economically lucrative and the environmentally safe process.
  14. Ghim, Y. S., Shun, D., Son, J. E., "Pyrolysis of Polystyrene in a Fluidized-Bed Reactor," Proceedings of the 3rd Asian Conference on Fluidized-Bed and Three-Phase Reactors, Kyungju, Korea, May 31-June 4, 201-209. 1992
  1. Oil Recovery by the Coprocessing of Waste Tire and Waste Oil
  2. 1992-1995
  3. Wastes, energy
  4. Reaction Mechanism, Pyrolytic Process Development, countermeasures
  5. Chemical Engineering
  6. Dong-Chan KIM, Dae-Hyun SHIN, Soo-Hyun CHUNG, Sang-Guk KIM, Gye-Shik KANG, Jae-Kyung WOO, Sung-Geun SON, Jung-Duk KIM, Nam-Sun ROH, Kwang-Ho KIM
  7. Wastes Pyrolysis Research Team, Energy&Environment Research Department
  8. KIER(Korea Institute of Energy Research), MOE(Ministry of Environment)
  9. 71-2 Jang-dong, Yusong-ku, Taejon 305-343
  10. Korea
  11. 82-42-860-3630
  12. 82-42-860-3134
  13. The process developed in this research enables waste tire and waste motor oil to be simultaneously pyrolyzed without causing any environmental problems. This process is to produce oil by thermally pyrolyzing waste tires in heated waste motor oils. The R&D work on this process is now actively underway aiming at the appication of the technology to actual plant.
  14. 1) Dong-Chan Kim et al., Recovering Oil through the Coprocessing of Waste Tire and Waste Oil, Journal of the Korean Institute of Resources Recycling,Vol.4,No.4,1995
    2) Soo-Hyun Chung et al., Study on the Reaction of CuO/=A5=E3-Al2O3 and SO2 Using Distributed Pore Size Model, Hwahak konghak(Journal of the Korean Institute of Chemical Engineers),Vol.28,No.2,April, pp.184-195,1990
    3) Sang-Guk Kim et al., A Study on the Utilization of Waste Tire/Waste Motor Oil Pyrolytic Residue for Asphalt, Journal of the Korean Institute of Resources Recycling,Vol.4,No.4,1995
  1. Study on the Development of the Combustion Technology of Gaseous Products and Tar Produced from the Waste Pyrolysis
  2. 1990-1993
  3. Wastes, energy
  4. Reaction Mechanism, Pyrolytic Process and Combustion Technology Development, countermeasures
  5. Chemical Engineering
  6. Nam-Sun ROH, Kwang-Ho KIM, Dae-Hyun SHIN, Dong-Chan KIM, Jung-Duk KIM, Soo-Hyun CHUNG, Gye-Shik KANG
  7. Wastes Pyrolysis Research Team, Energy & Environment Research Department
  8. KIER(Korea Institute of Energy Research), MOST(Ministry of Science and Technology)
  9. 71-2 Jang-dong, Yusong-ku, Taejon 305-343
  10. Korea
  11. 82-42-860-3630
  12. 82-42-860-3134
  13. In this study, pyrolytic gasification experiments are performed for the 3 types of wastes such as waste tires, waste rubberws, and waste synthetic resins, using bench-scale experimental facilities. The experimental results including the analysis on the production amount and composition of the pyrolytic gaseous products, the acquisition of optimum combustion conditions, and combustion gas disposal are utilized as a basis data for the facility improvement and equipment design.
  14. 1) Dong-Chan Kim et al., A Comparative Analysis of Pollution Problem between Combustion Oil and Coal, Energy R & D,Vol.5,No.3,1982
  1. A Study on the Separation of Heavy Hydrocarbon Oil and Valuable Metals from Residual Oil
  2. 1989-1992
  3. heavy hydrocarbon oil, valuable metal recovery, wastes, energy
  4. supercritical solvent extraction, countermeasures
  5. chemical engineering
  6. YoungIhll KIM, ChoonHo KIM, IlHyun BAEK, IkSoo Choi, SangDo Park, JongSup LEE, JoungKi KIM
  7. Fossil Fuel Research Team, Energy and Environment Department
  8. KIER
  9. 71-2 Jangdong, Yusungku, Taejon 305-343
  10. Korea
  11. 82-42-860-3640
  12. 82-42-860-3134
  13. Supercritical solvent extraction technique was applied for the extraction of heavy hydrocarbon oil from the atmospheric and vacuum residues and for the recovery of vanadium and nickel from the separated asphaltene.
  15. 1) IlHyun BAEK, ChoonHo KIM, SungHyun Kim, YoungIhll KIM, SungSun Hong, "The Separation of the Separated Asphaltene Oil from Atmospheric Residual Oil using Continuous feeding system," Jrnl. of the Korean Ind. & Eng. Chemistry, 4 (3), 515 (1993).,
    2) IlHyun BAEK, ChoonHo KIM, SungHyun Kim, YoungIhll KIM, SungSun Hong, "A Study on the Extraction of Heavy Hydrocarbon Oil from Atmospheric Residual Oil using Supercritical n-pentane Solvent, " Jrnl. of KIChE, 31 (6), 796 (1993).
  1. Development of Industrial Waste Heat Recovery System Using Chemical Heat Pump with NH3-salt
  2. 1993-1996
  3. waste heat recovery, chemical heat pump, energy
  4. system design, static & dynamic simulation, experimental works, countermeasures
  5. chemical engineering
  6. IkSoo Choi, YoungIhll KIM, IlHyun BAEK, JoungKi KIM
  7. Fossil Fuel Research Team, Energy and Environment Department
  8. KIER
  9. 71-2 Jangdong, Yusungku, Taejon 305-343
  10. Korea
  11. 82-42-860-3640
  12. 82-42-860-3134
  13. The objective of this research is to develop industrial waste heat recovery system using chemical heat pump which adopt NH3-salts as media. Experimental apparatus was set to measure the performance of chemical heat transformer, and the simulation program for system design was developed.
  15. 1) SeungHoon Choi, SaeIll Lee, HongKyu Choi, IlHyun BAEK, IkSoo Choi, HaeSoo Chun, "A Study on the Dynamic Design of STELF system for Performance Enhancement," in the Proceedings of '94 KIChE Fall Meeting, (1994).
    2) IlHyun BAEK, YoungIhll KIM, IkSoo Choi, SeungHoon Choi, "Performance Characteristics of Chemical Heat Transformer using Salts-NH3 System," in the Proceedings of '95 KIChE Spring Meeting (1995).
  1. Development of Manufacturing Process for Coal-Base Fragmental Activated Carbon through Pilot Scale Plant
  2. 1992-1993
  3. coal-base activated carbon, manufacturing process, energy
  4. pilot scale design, countermeasures
  5. chemical engineering
  6. ChoonHo KIM, IkSoo Choi, JoungKi KIM
  7. Fossil Fuel Research Team, Energy and Environment Department
  8. KIER
  9. 71-2 Jangdong, Yusungku, Taejon 305-343
  10. Korea
  11. 82-42-860-3640
  12. 82-42-860-3134
  13. In order to develop the manufacturing process for coal-base fragmental activated carbon, basic experiments to test the performances of activated carbon for liquid treatment made by Indonesian lignite were executed. And then pilot scale manufacturing process plant was designed and built. The activated carbons produced through this pilot plant were tested, and showed suffiecient performances for liquid treatment.
  1. Development of High Quality Activated Carbon Manufacturing Process using Chinese Coal
  2. 1995-1996
  3. coal-base activated carbon, manufacturing process, energy
  4. pilot scale design, countermeasures
  5. chemical engineering
  6. ChoonHo KIM, IkSoo Choi, JoungKi KIM
  7. Fossil Fuel Research Team, Energy and Environment Department
  8. KIER
  9. 71-2 Jangdong, Yusungku, Taejon 305-343
  10. Korea
  11. 82-42-860-3640
  12. 82-42-860-3134
  13. Coal-based activated carbon was manufactured using a bench-scale rotary kiln type furnace and the effects of various operating variables on the process yield and quality of the product were investigated. Two kinds of Chinese coals were used as the feed to the process.
  1. A Study for the Rerefining Process of Waste Lubricating Oil as a Fuel Oil
  2. 1992-1994
  3. waste lub oil rerefining, chemical treatment, energy
  4. process development, basic experiment, countermeasures
  5. chemical engineering
  6. SangDo Park, JongSup Lee, JoungKi Kim
  7. Fossil Fuel Research Team, Energy and Environment Department
  8. KIER
  9. 71-2 Jangdong, Yusungku, Taejon 305-343
  10. Korea
  11. 82-42-860-3640
  12. 82-42-860-3134
  13. The object of this study is to develop the rerefining process of waste lubricating oil mainly from the passenger cars. Rerefined waste lubricating oil by chemical treatment is to be used as a fuel oil. In this study rerefining process of waste lubricating oil by chemical treatment was designed by commercial-scale based on laboratory-scale experiments. And the TFE(thin film evaporator) to produce higher quality oils from waste lubricating oils was designed by computer simulation and basic experimental results.
  1. Recovery of energy from wastes (Development of the oil recovery from waste-water sludge by using high pressure liquefaction technology)
  2. 1994-1996
  3. waste, energy
  4. reaction mechanism, modeling, countermeasures
  5. engineering
  6. Ho-Tae Lee,
  7. Energy Conversion Research Department
  8. KIER
  9. 71-2 Jang-dong Yousung-Ku, Taejon, 305-343
  10. KOREA
  11. 82-42-860-3662
  12. 82-42-860-3302
  13. energy recovery and utilization of wastes like sewage sludge, plastics, etc.
  1. Study on the production of alternative fuels by carbon dioxide hydrogenation
  2. 1993-1996
  3. Global change, air, energy
  4. Countermeasures, Reaction mechanism
  5. Chemistry
  6. Kyu-Sung SIM, Sang-Do HAN, Jong-won KIM, Youn-Soon Kim, Ki-Bai Park
  7. Clean Fuel Res. Lab
  8. KIER
  9. 71-2, Jang-dong, Yusong-ku, Taejon 305-343
  10. Korea
  11. 82-42-860-3017
  12. 82-42-860-3302
  13. The aim of this study is the development of technologies of the fuel production from carbon dioxide by catalytic hydrogenation. These chemical fixation methods will help to reduce carbon dioxide emission, which is known as the main reason of global warming.
  1. The Development of Cyclone Combustor for Clean Coal Technology
  2. 1994-1996
  3. coal, waste gas, energy
  4. combustion technology, countermeasures
  5. engineering
  6. Eung Kwon SHON, Sang I1 CHOI, Si Hyun LEE, Ju Sik PARK, Yung Jun LIM, Sung Won KIM
  7. Low Emission Combustion Research Team, Energy Conversion Research Dept.
  8. KIER
  9. 71-2 Jangdong, Yusongku, Taejon 305-343
  10. Korea
  11. 82-42-860-3451
  12. 82-42-860-3302
  13. Advanced cyclone combustion systems are one class of the emerging clean coal technologies being developed to improve the quality of the nation's air, while increasing the use of abundant energy resource. In cyclone combustion system, coal is burned at a temperature high enough so that coal ash melts and turned to liquid. This liquid then flows down the combustor walls and is collected and withdrawn. Therefore, there are few soild ash particles to pass out of the chamber with the hot gases. In addition, the sulfur found in most coals can also be removed at this point. Calcium compounds are introduced into the chamber, where they combine with the sulfur. The resulting sulfur compounds melt and join the slag. Also, because a cyclone combustor operates fuel-rich in the primary zone it will suppress NOx formation. The hot gaseous combustion products formed are ducted into the retrofitted boiler, where sufficient air is added to complete combustion of these gases.
    The object of this study is to develop cyclone combustor by our own efforts, then we made two staged cyclone combustor which is bench scale. The result of burning test, the proper air ratio is about 1.0 and coal feeding rate were more then 30 kg/hr. In the case of Peco-semi coal combustion, it was certified that carbon conversion efficiency was more than 95% and ash removal efficiency in a state of fusion of slag was about 70%.
  14. 1) Ju Soo Hyun et. al., The Development of Cyclone Combustor for Clean Coal Technology, Korea, Report, 1996
    2) Ju Soo HYUN et. al., Combustion Characteristic of Slagging Combustor, Korea, The Korea Society for Energy Engineering, 1995
    3) Ju Soo Hyun et. al., Slagging Combustor, Korea, Energy R&D, 1992
  15. 15
  1. Thermal enegy recovery from waste by cyclonic incinerator
  2. 1994-1996
  3. hazardous subustances
  4. reaction mechanism, measurement
  5. engineering
  6. Eung-Kwon SHON, Si-Hoon LEE, Ju-Soo HYUN
  7. Low Emission Combustion Div. Department of Energy Conversion
  8. KIER
  9. 71-2 Jang-dong, Yusung-ku, Taejon, 305-343
  10. Korea
  11. 82-42-860-3450
  12. 82-42-860-3302
  13. This study aims at establishing incinerating technologies that are needed to reduce a toxic gas release from stack during the industrial liquid waste burning.
  1. Development of coal gasification technology for IGCC
  2. 1993-1996
  3. coal, energy
  4. gasification, countermeasures
  5. engineering
  6. Jae Goo LEE, Jae Ho KIM, Hyo Jin LEE, Tae Jun Park
  7. Coal Gasification Research Team, Energy Conversion Research Dept.
  8. KIER
  9. 71-2 Jangdong, Youseougku, Taejon, 305-343
  10. Korea
  11. 82-42-860-3353
  12. 82-42-860-3302
  13. This main purpose of this research is to support basic research for the development of entrained flow coal gasifier to be utilized for IGCC power system. The entrained flow coal gasifier was developed by KIER and various experiments was performed with the temperatures, oxygen ratios and coals. During this period, we carried out the following experiments ; pysicochemistry of coal, characteristics of slurry and burner apray, ash and slag formation, coal gasification kinetics and modeling.
  14. 1) Jae Goo LEE et. al., " Charateristics of entrained flow coal gasification in a drop tube reactor" , Fuel, 75(9), 1035-1042(1996)
    2)Jae Goo LEE et. al., "Drop tube sutdies for the entrained flow coal gasification", Hwahak Konghak, 34(4), 496-501(1996)
    3) Jae Goo LEE et. al., "Study on flow characteristics in entrained flow gasifier with high speed impinging jet", Transactions of the KSME, 20(5), 1735-1742(1996)
    4) Jae Goo LEE et. al., "Effect of CaCO3 addition as a flux on the melting of ash and slag", Energy Engg. J., 4(3), 372-378(1995)
    5) Jae Goo LEE et. al.,"Coal gasification characteristics in an entrained flow gasifier", Energy Engg. J., 4(3), 379-386(1995)
  1. Development of coal gasification technology for IGCC
  2. 1993-1996
  3. coal, energy
  4. gasification, countermeasures
  5. engineering
  6. Jae Ho KIM, Hyo Jin LEE, Jae Goo LEE, Tae Jun PARK
  7. Coal Gasification Research Team, Energy Conversion Research Dept.
  8. KIER
  9. 71-2 Jangdong, Yousungku, Taejon, 305-343
  10. Korea
  11. 82-42-860-3350
  12. 82-42-860-3302
  13. World faces a new round for the international concerning to restrain or even reduce the use of fossil fuels inducing environmental issues such as CO2 emissions causing green house effect or sulfur emissions for acid rain etc. In addition, the limited amount and uncertainty regarding to conventional fuels oil and natural gas reserves are required to develop their substitute fuels. Coal is the world's most abundant and widely distributed fossil fuel, and it has been dominant roles in energy industries over a century. It benefits from a relativery low and stable price that is little influenced by international events. However, conventional combustion technoligies are limited to resolve emission problems from burning coal. Therefore in the longer term, coal is to be converted to clean synthesis gas with advanced gasification technology and it must be clean, efficient in an environmentally sound manners.
    A number of developed countries have already poured the huge amount of investments for the researches and a considerable efforts to reduce emissions of sulfur, nitrogen oxides, and carbon dioxide emissions abatement. Such emissions will be reduced by the use of high efficiency clean coal technology based on integrated coal gasification combined cycles for power generation.
    This research aim is to support basic research for the development of high temperature entrained flow coal gasifier to be utilized for IGCC power system. The capacity of 0.5-1.0 ton/day PDU entrained flow coal gasifier was developed by KIER and it will be tested by various coal sources from overseas including Australian coals.
    During the research periods, the following work scopes and experiments were carried out.
    * Measured physical and chemical properties of candidated coals
    * Study for system design of coal gasifier
    * Development of burner and its characteristic study for combustion and gasification
    * Coal preparation and coal slurry feeding system
    * Characteristic of slag flow in gasifier
    * High temperature materials for gasifier
    * Study for instrumentations and control system
    * Slag and particulate removal system
    * Modeling of coal gasification
    * Date analysis for coal gasification experiments.
  14. 1) Jae Ho KIM, et. al., "Characteristics of entrained flow coal gasification in a drop tube reactor" , Fuel, 75(9), 1035-1042(1996)
    2) Jae Ho KIM, et. al., "Drop Tube studies for the Entrained Flow Coal Gasification", Hwahak Konghak, 34(4), 496-501(1996)
    3) Jae Ho KIM, et. al., "Effect of CaCO3 Addition as a Flux on the Melting of ash and slag", Energy Engg. J., 4(3), 372-378(1995)
    4) Jae Ho KIM, et. al., "Coal Gasfication Characteristics in An Entrained Flow gasifier", Energy Engg. J.,4(3), 379-386(1995)
  15. CSIRO. Division of coal and energy
  1. Development of Coal Gasification technology for IGCC. Research planning for Clean Coal Technologies.
  2. 1990-1996
  3. Development for entrained-flow coal gasification technology and technology evaluation for IGCC project in Korea, energy
  4. Review of Clean Coal Technologies and prepared Research Programes of CCT for Power generation plants, countermeasures
  5. Chemical, Physical Characteristics of Coals, Reactivity, Ranks, Structural analysis of Coal conversion.
  6. T.J. Park, J.H. Kim, H.J. Lee, J.G. Lee, R.S. OK et al.
  7. Energy Conversion Research Department
  8. KIER
  9. 71-2 Jang-dong Yusung-Ku, Taejon, 305-343
  10. Korea
  11. 82-42-860-3300
  12. 82-42-860-3302
  13. To research and development of coal gasification technology to apply for advanced power generation and clean coal technologies to reduce environmental problems. To investigate energy utilization technologies with new energy storage and long distance energy transportation technologies systems to be recovered by waste heat from industrial complex.
  14. Fuel, vol.75, 1996,11th US/Korea Joint Workshop on coal utilization technology proceeding 95/10/1 U.S.A, 1st China/Korea joint W/S on Coal Util. Tech. 96/9/2, China, Indonesia/Korea joint seminar on Coal Polocy & Releated Technology Proceeding 96.8.7.Indonesia. Collaborative research report. CSIRO/KIER(1995).
  15. International Collaborative research with Division of Coal & Energy Technology CSIRO, 51 Delhi Rd. North Ryde Sydney, Australia(since 1992- ), US DOE PETC( -1985), U.S.A. and Gas De France(1984- ), France.
  16. Please refer to our department research activities of our home page at WWW(Energy Conversion Research Department, KIER) : http://WWW.kier.re.kr/e-con,html

Mechanical Engineering Laboratory(MEL), Japan

  1. Fundamental Research on Hydrogen-Oxygen Combustion System
  2. 1991-1996
  3. global change, energy
  4. counter measures
  5. engineering
  6. Jun HAMA, Hirohide FURUTANI, Norihiko IKI, Sanyo TAKAHASHI
  7. Combustion Engineering Division and Energy Conversion Division, Department of Energy Engineering
  8. MEL, AIST,MITI
  9. Namiki 1-2, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305
  10. Japan
  11. 81-298-61-7080,7081
  12. 81-298-61-7275
  13. The objectives of this program are to research a new combustion control that is necessary to develop a closed power system operated with hydrogen-oxygen stoichiometric combustion in the working fluid of monatomic molecules or superheated water vapor. Ignition experiments using an ArF excimer laser are made for hydrogen-oxygenargon mixtures to observe the phenomena from ignition to flame formation, and to evaluate the minimum ignition laser energy under various mixture conditions.
  14. 1)Jun Hama, Functional Tests of H2-O2 Combustion Gas Turbine with Inert-Gas Recirculation,JSME-ASME International Conference on Power Engineerings-93, , 475-480,1993
    2)H2-O2 Combustion Gas Turbine with Inert-Gas Recirculation, New Energy Systems and Conversion,,113-118,1993
    3)Hirohide Furutani et al., Ignition of Hydrogen-Oxygen Premixed Gases with Excimer Laser, 113-118,1994

Electrotechnical Laboratory(ETL), Japan

  1. Technology assessment for the diffusion of important countermeasures in the energy sector Subtitle:Evaluation of important countermeasures in the power generation sector
  2. 1994-1996
  3. Technology assessment, energy
  4. Countermeasures,modeling
  5. Engineering
  6. Masayuki KAMIMOTO,Kosuke KUROKAWA,Akinobu MURATA,Kazuhiko KATO,Sadaaki SHIMIZU,Izumi TSUDA
  7. Energy and Information Science Section, Energy Technology Division
  8. ETL,AIST,MITI
  9. 1-1-4 Umezono,Tsukuba,Ibaraki 305
  10. Japan
  11. 81-298-61-5411
  12. 81-298-61-5829
  13. The aim of this project is to investigate major factors limiting the diffusion of important countermeasures in the power generation sector, such as renewables and highly efficient power generation technologies. The scope of the study includes the estimation of nationwide variability of renewable energy resources, the estimation of impacts on the existing power system, and the life cycle assessment of countermeasure technologies.
  14. 1)Akinobu Murata et al.,Systems Analysis of the Effectiveness of Electricity Generation Technologies as Carbon Dioxide Emission Reduction Measures,Trans. of I.E.E.J,B114-10,969-978,1994
  1. International Clean Energy System Technology Utilizing Hydrogen(World Energy NETwork)
  2. 1995-1999
  3. energy technology,energy economics,enviromental and technical data base,global stabilization target, energy
  4. Global model(GOAL),Greenhouse gases,Systems Analysis, modeling
  6. Masayuki KAMIMOTO,Kosuke KUROKAWA,Sadaaki SHIMIZU,Eiichi ENDO,Akinobu MURATA, Kazuhiko KATO
  7. Energy and Information Science Section,Energy Technology Division
  8. ETL,AIST,MITI
  9. 1-1-4 Umezono,Tsukuba,Ibaraki 305
  10. Japan
  11. 81-298-61-5411
  12. 81-298-61-5829
  13. The aim of this study is to investigate on forcasting and evaluation of various energy technologies with efforts to fulfill the requirements for preserving better environment and for securing stable supply of energy.Its present major task involves studies on the Global Optimal Assessment Links (GOAL) in which interractions between energy technologies and various factors such as population,foods and economic activities are modeled with an advanced system analysis technique on the global scale.
  14. 1)Eiichi Endo et.al.,A Global Model for Evaluating Energy Technologies,Bulletin of TheElectrotehnical Laboratory,Vol.57,No.5,6,234-252,1993
  1. Studies for Establishment of Energy Saving Technology
  2. 1993-1997
  3. Others(energy conservation), energy
  4. Others(technology evaluation), impact assessment
  5. Engineering
  6. Masayuki KAMIMOTO,Kosuke KUROKAWA,Eiichi ENDO,Akinobu MURATA,Kazuhiko KATO,Sadaaki SHIMIZU
  7. Energy and Information Science Section,Energy Technology Division
  8. ETL,AIST,MITI
  9. 1-1-4 Umezono,Tsukuba,Ibaraki 305
  10. Japan
  11. 81-XXX-XX-5411
  12. 81-298-61-5829
  13. The aim of this study is to contribute an efficient promotion of research and development (R&D) in the field of energy technologies by evaluating them from the viewpoints of global warming mitigation and invested R&D resources, such as expenditure on R&D.Main subjects of this study is as follows,- To estimate relationships between invested R&D resources and energy efficiency improvement in energy technologies statistically and model their relationship by a function,- To give an optimal allocation of resources to R&D in energy technologies which have great potential of global warming mitigation through energy efficiency improvement by formulating with mathematical programing.
  14. 1)Eiichi Endo,Effects of Energy Efficiency Improvement on Carbon Dioxide Emissions on Japan,Proc. of the 5th Intl. Energy Conf.,5,112-125,1993

National Institute for Resources and Environment(NIRE), Japan

  1. Research and Development of the Artificial Photosynthesis System
  2. 1994-1998
  3. global change, energy
  4. counter measures, reaction mechanism
  5. chemistry
  6. Takashi IBUSUKI, Koji TAKEUCHI, Kazuhide KOIKE, Hisao HORI
  7. Photoenergy Application Div., Global Warming Control Dept.
  8. NIRE, AIST, MITI
  9. 16-3 Onogawa, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305
  10. Japan
  11. 81-298-61-8162
  12. 81-298-61-8158
  13. This project aims to develop the photochemical system which can perform the conversion of CO2 and H2O into high energy products (hydrocarbon, organic acids, etc.) using solar energy. As the active element in this system, we have focused on two candidates, metal oxide semiconductor and metal complex photocatalyst. To improve their reaction efficiencies and product selectivities, modification of the semiconductor surface by metal particle loading and ligand modification of the complex species were studied and the significant enhancement of the reaction yields was achieved by palladium metal loading to the semiconductor and phosphorous ligand introduction to the rhenium carbonyl complex.
  14. 1) Hisao HORI et al., Efficient Carbon Dioxide Photoreduction by Novel Complexes and its Reaction Mechanisms, Energy Conversion and Management, 36, 621, 1995, 2) Osamu ISHITANI et al., Photophysical Behavior of a New CO2 Reduction Catalyst, Re(CO)2(bpy){P(OEt)3}+, Inorg. Chem. 33, 2712, 1994.
  1. Energy System Analysis
  2. 1995-1999
  3. global change, energy
  4. source inventory
  5. engineering, system analysis
  6. Atsushi INABA, Yasuhiko KONDOH
  7. Fundamental Research Lab. Energy Resources Dept.
  8. NIRE, AIST, MITI
  9. 16-3, Onogawa, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305
  10. Japan
  11. 81-298-61-8430
  12. 81-298-61-8430
  13. An analysis to estimate energy consumption of all processes related to the technologies and/or the industrial products in the life cycle must be developed. It must be useful to estimate emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases, and energy resources consumption.
  1. Beneficial Utilization of Eucalyptus Silvicultured at Biomass Plantation for Environmental Preservation
  2. 1995-1997
  3. Tannin extraction, biomass utilization, biomass plantation , energy, wastes
  4. Critical water extraction, liquidization, hot compressed water, conuter measures
  5. Chemistry, engineering, biology
  6. Tomoko OGI, Sei-icni INOUE, Tomoaki MINOWA, Sigeki SAWAYAMA
  7. Biomass Laboratory, Global Warming Control Department
  8. NIRE, AIST, MITI
  9. 16-3 Onogawa, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305
  10. Japan
  11. 81-298-61-8181
  12. 81-298-61-8158
  13. Eucalyptus and other fast growing species trees silivicultured in plantation in Australia are thermochemically converted to fuel and/or chemicals.
  14. T.Ogi, T.Minowa, S.Inoue, Y.Yazaki, Thermochemical Conversion of Eucalyptus and other Woody Biomass silvicultured in Australia and Japan. Joint Australia / Japanese WS.Proceeding 1995.
  15. International Joint Research with CSIRO Forestry and Frorest Products Div., Australia.
  1. Hydrogen Production from Wet Biomass by Catalytic Gasification at Lower Temperature
  2. 1996-1998
  3. Hydrogen Wet biomass, Metal catalyst, Renewable energy, energy
  4. Steam gasification, Super critical condition, Reaction mechanism, measurement
  5. Engineering Chemistry
  6. Tomoaki MINOWA, Sei-ichi, INOUE, Tomoko OGI, Sin-ya YOKOYAMA
  7. Biomass Laboratory, Global Warming Control Department
  8. NIRE, AIST, MITI
  9. 16-3 Onogawa, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305
  10. Japan
  11. 81-298-61-8183
  12. 81-298-61-8158
  13. Hydrogen is produced by gasification of wet cellulosic biomass in the presence of Ni catalyst at 300-400oC
  14. Hydrogen Production from Wet Cellulose by Low Temperature Gasification Using a Reduced Ni Catalyst. Chem. Lett. 937-938, 1995
  15. Exchange of information with Prof.M.Antal of University of Hawaii.
  1. Biofuel Production for Environmental Preservation
  2. 1995-1998
  3. Microalgae, biofuel, waste water treatment, energy production, energy
  4. Incubation liquefaction, conuter measures
  5. Biology, chemistry, engineering
  6. Sigeki SAWAYAMA, Kenichiro TSUKAHARA, Sei-ichi INOUE, Tatsuo YAGISHITA, Tomoaki MINOWA, Tomoko OGI
  7. Biomass Laboratory Global Warming Control Department
  8. NIRE, AIST, MITI
  9. 16-3 Onogawa, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305
  10. . Japan
  11. . 81-298-61-8184
  12. . 81-298-61-8158
  13. . Hydrocarbon-rich microalgae is cultured in treated sewage water and fuel oil is recovered by liquefaction of microalgae.
  14. . Y.Dote, S.Sawayama, S.Inoue, T.Minowa, Recovery of liquid fuel from hydrocarbon rich microalgae by thermochemical liquefaction, Fuel 73,12 1855-1857, 1994
  1. Power-generation System by using Biological Metabolic Function
  2. 1995-1997
  3. Bio-fuel cell, microalgae, energy
  4. conuter measures
  5. Biology,electrochemistry
  6. Tatsuo YAGISHITA, Kenichiro TSUKAHARA, Shigeki SAWAYAMA, Tomoko OGI
  7. Biomass Laboratory Global Warming Control Department
  8. NIRE, AIST, MITI
  9. 16-3 Onogawa, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305
  10. Japan
  11. 81-298-61-8186
  12. 81-298-61-8158
  13. Electrons generated during photosynthesis and/or respiration of microalgae is directly taken out and converted to electricity.
  14. T.Yagishita, S.Sawayama, K.Tsukahara, T.Ogi, Photosynthetic bio-fuel cells using immobilized cyanobacterium Anabaena variabilis M-3. Immobilized Cells: Basics and Applications, 563-569, 1996 Elsevien Science

Hokkaido National Industrial Research Institute(HNIRI), Japan

  1. The research on advanced combustion technology adopting a microgravity environment
  2. 1993-1998
  3. combustion, air pollutant reduction, air, energy
  4. reaction mechanism
  5. engineering
  6. Kunihiro KITANO
  7. Silicon Material Section, Materials Division
  8. HNIRI, AIST, MITI
  9. 2-17 Tsukisamu-higashi, Toyohira-ku, Sapporo 062
  10. Japan
  11. 81-11-857-8462
  12. 81-11-857-8977
  13. The improvement of combustors is the important subject to solve the problem of the global environmental issue. The object of this research is to elucidate the combustion mechanisms of fuel and to establish the clean and efficient combustion technology. The example of research subjects is the emission control of CO2 and NOx from the standpoint of combustion mechanisms. Microgravity environment is adopted to simplify the phenomena of combustion for experimental observation. It is possible to eliminate the effect of natural convection and to make a homogeneous mixture of particulate fuel and air under the microgravity environment
  14. 1)Kunihiro Kitano, Coal Dust Cloud Combustion in a Microgravity Environment, Journal of Japan Institute of Energy 73,1053-1059,1994
    2)Kunihiro Kitano, Coal Gasification, Journal of Japan Institute of Energy 73,459-464,1994
    3)Kunihiro Kitano et al., Estimation of Active Site on Char Particle for Gasification Reaction, The 4th Japan-China Symposium on Coal and C1 Chemistry, Osaka,1993
  15. NASA Lweis Research Center, USA

National Industrial Research Institute of Nagoya(NIRIN), Japan

  1. Studies on Plant Growth Regulators for Useful Plants
  2. 1996-1999
  3. energy, food problem, global warming, global change
  4. organic synthesis, plant growth regulators, conuter measures
  5. organic chemistry, sythetic chemistry
  6. Masato KATAYMA, Hiroshi KIMOTO, Shozo FUJII, Katsuya KATO
  7. Lab. of Bioorganic Chemistry , Dept. of Chemistry, Director of Dept. of Chemistry
  8. NIRIN, AIST, MITI
  9. 1-1 Hirate-cho, Kita-ku, Nagoya, Aichi 462
  10. Japan
  11. 81-52 911-2111
  12. 81-52-914-3439
  13. The objective of this study is to develop novel plant growth regulators(PGRs) for increasing the tapioca production yield and for stimulating the growth of important plants with high CO2 fixation ability. Fluorinated and chlorinated plant growrh regulators have been synthesized. It is found in the joint project with the Thai Tapioca Development Institute that both of the PGRs stimulated remarkably the tuber growth of tapioca. The chlorinated and fluorinated PGRs are useful for the preparation of saplings and the stimulation of the growth of many plants which should play an important role for the improvement of global environment.
  14. 1)Masato Katayama et al., (S)-(+)-4,4,4-Trifluoroindole-3-(indole-3-)butyric Acid, a Novel Fluorinated Plant Growth Regulator, Experientia, 51, 721-724,1995.
    2)Masato Katayama and Rakesh K. Gautam, Synthesis and Biological Activities of Substituted 4,4,4-Trifluoro-3-(indole-3-)butyric Acids, Novel Fluorinated Plant Growth Regulators, Biosci.Biotech.Biochem., 60, 755-759,1996.
    3)Katsuya Kato et al., Optical Resolution of 2,2,2-Trifluoro-1-(9-Phenanthryl)ethanol via Enzymatic Alcohols of Its Activated Ester, J.Ferment.Bioeng., 81, 206-211, 1996.
  15. The Thai Tapioca Development Institute (Thailand)