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- [Energy Carrier] Creation of Innovative Core Technology for Manufacture and Use of Energy Carriers from Renewable Energy
※ Affiliations and titles are as of the end of the research activity.
Creation of core technologies for innovative energy carrier utilization aimed at the transport, storage, and use of renewable energy
This research area, looking ahead to a hydrogen energy society making stable and efficient use of renewable energy, aims to create fundamental and core technology for efficient conversion of renewable energy to energy carriers that store and transport chemical energy, and for extraction and use of electrical energy, hydrogen, and motive power, etc., from the energy carriers. The research to be carried out to these ends will fuse different fields such as electrochemistry, catalytic chemistry, materials science, and process engineering, without regard to the walls and fences between fields. Examples of the research topics are electrosynthesis, catalyzed synthesis, and electrode and reaction field materials enabling use of renewable energy such as wind power and sunlight for efficient direct synthesis of energy carriers, and synthesis of energy carriers by thermochemical processes using solar heat or the heat of the earth (geothermal energy). Also included in this research area are direct fuel cells, enabling electrical energy to be extracted by using energy carriers as fuel, and dehydrogenation technology for efficient dehydrogenation of energy carriers at low temperatures.
In this research, it is recommended that pioneering studies be carried out contributing to the synthesis and use of new energy carriers superior in hydrogen content, conversion efficiency, and safety to organic hydrides and ammonium, on which research is already under way. However, research on these existing energy carriers can be taken up in this research area if it covers original technology based on new ideas, with different methods for synthesis, use, storage and transport than those assumed up to now.
・Ken-ichi Aika
Professor Emeritus, Tokyo Institute of Technology
・Yoshimi Okada
Principal Researcher, Technology Development Unit/Hydrogen Supply Chain Development Unit, CHIYODA CORPORTION
・Natsuko Sakai
Deputy Director-General, Research and Innovation Promotion Headquarters, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
・Kenji Murata
Exective Research Fellow, The Institute of Applied Energy
・Atsushi Tsutsumi
Project Professor, The University of Tokyo
・Shigehito Deki
Professor Emeritus, Kobe University
・Takao Masuda
Vice Dean, Professor, Hokkaido University
・Shinichi Matsumoto
Professional Partner, Frontier Research Center, TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION
・Masahiko Mizuno
Group Manager, SUMITOMO CHEMICAL Co., Ltd.
New Oxyhydride Catalysts for Ammonia Synthesis
Research Director:
Yoji Kobayashi(Assistant Professor/Lecturer, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University)
Research Director:
Yasuhiro Shiraishi(Associate Professor, Research Center for Solar Energy Chemistry, Osaka University)
Research Director:
Takuya Tsujiguchi(Associate Professor, School of Science and Engineering, Kanazawa University)
Electrosynthesis of organic hydride at controlled liquid-liquid-solid three phase interface
Research Director:
Mitsuru Wakisaka(Associate professor, Faculty of engineering, Toyama Prefectural University)
Research Director:
Yoshikazu Ito(Associate Professor, Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba)
Research Director:
Nozomu Hashimoto(Associate Professor, Division of Mechanical and Space Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Hokkaido University)
Development of Membrane Integrated-Photocatalyst Sheets for Artificial Photosynthesis
Research Director:
Tsutomu Minegishi(Associate Professor, Department of Chemical System Engineering, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo)
Research Director:
Kohsuke Mori(Associate Professor, Division of Materials and Manufacturing Science, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University)