Our laboratory uses combustion and heat transfer engineering as its fundamental technology to tackle energy and environmental issues, and is conducting research that will lead to the reduction of CO2 emissions as a measure to prevent global warming. Research themes include: 1) research into fuel injection conversion in steelmaking blast furnaces (from coal to natural gas or biomass), 2) research into the heat transfer behavior of yarns with non-uniform thermal conductivity, and 3) research into improving the efficiency of energy sources, consumption, and emissions flows in industry. Students will acquire Practical learning research methods, experimental techniques, analysis, and report writing skills that connect the knowledge of mathematics, physics, chemistry, thermodynamics, combustion engineering, etc. that they learned at their undergraduate level to the industrial manufacturing process.
Basic Information
Faculty name/Affiliation
Akihiko Shinotake / Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Course Department of Integrated Science and Engineering and Engineering
Specialized Fields
Combustion / heat transfer research
Research theme
Research on fuel conversion and efficiency improvement in combustion and heat transfer processes -Toward the construction of a low-carbon society-
Research on in-furnace behavior to reduce CO2 emissions from iron-making blast furnaces In iron-making blast furnaces, coal and coke are used as a source of reduction of iron ore and heat energy, so a large amount of CO2 is generated. When changing the fuel from a fuel with a high carbon ratio such as coal to a fuel with a high hydrogen ratio such as natural gas and biomass in order to reduce CO2 emissions, we will investigate how the combustion and flow behavior change due to changes in the fuel type. We will conduct cold model experiments mainly assuming a blast furnace, analyze and consider the results, and predict the actual furnace phenomenon.
Study on temperature rise and melting behavior of solid by heat transfer from high temperature gas In an iron-making blast furnace, low-temperature solid particles (iron ore) charged from the top of the furnace heat up and melt due to heat transfer from the high-temperature gas that rises from below. The efficiency of this heat transfer greatly affects productivity and energy intensity. We are investigating the mechanism and controlling factors of heat transfer from high-temperature gas to solids in the furnace and temperature rise / melting by conducting model experiments and computer simulations. In the future, we will not use fossil fuels instead of blast furnaces (CO 2 It can also be applied to the process of iron making in a (carbon-neutral) hydrogen reduction furnace that does not emit.
Conference presentation
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Effect of filled particles and blast on blast furnace raceway formation
