TOKYO UNIVERSITY of AGRICLTURE and TECHNOLOGY FUSHIMI LABORATRY

Faculty, P.I.

Chihiro FUSHIMI

Professor (Special Assistant to Dean)
Department of Chemical Engineering (Institute of Engineering)
Department of Applied Physics and Chemical Engineering (Graduate School and School of Engineering)
Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

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Ph.D. (Chemical Engineering) The University of Tokyo, March 2004
M.S. (Chemical Engineering) The University of Tokyo, March 2001
B.S. (Chemical Engineering) The Univesrity of Tokyo, March 1999
Graduated from Niigata High School, March 1995

April. 2023-March 2024: Department Head, Department of Applied Physics and Chemical Engineering,
Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

Dec. 2020-present: Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering,
Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

June 2019-Dec. 2019 Visiting Professor, Fuel and Energy Technology Institute, Curtin University (Perth, Australia)

Oct. 2011-Nov. 2020: Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering,
Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

Oct. 2011-March 2013: Researcher (part time),
Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo

Feb. 2008-Sep. 2011: Research Associate, Collaborative Research Center for Energy Engineering,
Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo

April 2007-Jan. 2008: Research Associate, Dept. of Mechanical and Biosystems Engineering,
Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo

April 2005-March 2007: Researcher, Chemical Research Group,
Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (Kyoto, Japan)

April 2004-April 2005: Visiting Scholar, Hawaii Natural Energy Institute,
University of Hawaii at Manoa (Honolulu, HI, USA)

August 2001-September 2001: Research Student,
CRC Clean Power from Lignite (Melbourne, Australia)


Memberships:
1. The Society of Chemical Engineers. Japan (SCEJ)
1-1) Energy Division 1-2) Division Chemical Reaction Engineering 1-3) Fluid & Particle Processing Division

2. The Japan Institute of Energy (JIE)
2-1) Biomass Division 2-2) Gasification Division 2-3) Young Scientists Division 2-4) Energy Study Division 2-5) Hydrogen Energy Division

3. The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME)
3-1) Power and Energy System Division 3-2) Thermal Engineering Division

4. Japan Society of Energy and Resources

5. American Chemical Society (ACS)
5-1) Division of Fuel Chemistry

6 The Society of Powder Technology, Japan

7. American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE)

Awards:
1) Chihiro Fushimi
“Steam Reforming of Volatiles Derived from Steam Gasification of Biomass by Using Co/MgO Catalysts”
13^th Kaya Encouragement Award, The Japan Society of Energy and Resources, June 10, 2009 (Tokyo)

2) Chihiro Fushimi
“Development of High-flux Solid Circulation Systems with Riser, Downer and Bubbling Fluidized Bed”
The JIE Progress Award 2009, The Japan Institute of Energy
February 23, 2010 (Tokyo)

3) Chihiro Fushimi
“Development of Large Scale Triple-Bed Circulating Fluidized Bed; (1) Flow Behavior during High Density Operation”
Symposium award, Fluid and Particle Processing Division,
The Society of Chemical Engineers, Japan, March 21, 2011

4) Guoqing Guan 1, Chihiro Fushimi 1, Masahiro Ikeda 2, Yu Nakamura 1, Atsushi Tsutsumi 1, Toshiyuki Suda 3, Masanori Ishizuka 4, Hiroyuki Hatano4, Satoru Matsuda 4, Yoshizo Suzuki 4 (1 The University of Tokyo, 2
Hiroshima Institute of Technology, 3 IHI Corporation, 4 AIST)
"Flow behaviors in a high solid flux circulating fluidized bed composed of a riser, a downer and abubbling fluidized bed”
Fluidization and particle processing symposium award, Fluidization Group, Society of Chemical Engineers of Japan.
December 6, 2010 (Niigata) 

5) Guoqing Guan, Chihiro Fushimi, Yu nakamura, Masanori Ishizuka, Atsushi Tsutsumi, Satoru Matsuda,Yoshizo Suzuki, Hiroyuki Hatano, Yongpan Cheng，Eldin Wee Chuan Lim, Chi-Hwa Wang
“Flow behaviors in the downer of a large-scale triple-bed combined circulating fluidized bed system with high solids mass fluxes”
Frontier award 2011, Fluid and Particle Processing Division,
The Society of Chemical Engineers, Japan
March 16, 2012  

6) Yuping Liu, Muhammad Aziz, Chihiro Fushimi, Yasuki Kansha, Kazuhiro Mochidzuki, Shozo Kaneko, Atsushi Tsutsumi, Katsuhiko Yokohama, Kazuyuki Myoyo, Koji Oura, Keisuke Matsuo, Shogo Sawa, Katsuhiko Shinoda
“Exergy Recuperative Fluidized Bed Drying of Rice Straw”
APPChE 2012 Young Researcher Award
February 23, 2012, Singapore

7) Chihiro Fushimi, Chiemi Tachibana, Ryo Usami,
“Optimization of Reaction Condition of Hydrothermal Liquefaction and Supercritical Methanol Method for Biofuel Production from Microalgae”
International Conference on Biomass 2018 (ICB 2018) Best Scientific Paper Award (1st out of 101 papers!)
Aug. 1, 2018, Bogor, Indonesia

8) Yuki Mori, Mikio Sakai (The University of Tokyo), Chihiro Fushimi (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology), Takashi Kawano, Teruyuki Kita (Takuma Co.)
Good Poster Award, 24th SCEJ Symposium on Fluidization & Particle Processing
"Numerical simulation of large-scale circulating fluidizec bed with coarse grain model"
Dec. 5, 2018, Hachioji, Tokyo

9) Chihiro Fushimi
"Development of low-temperature efficient fluidized bed gasifier of carbonaceous resources and its system "
2019 Japan Institute of Energy, Academic Promotion Award,
Feb. 26, 2020 (Tokyo)

10) Chihiro Fushimi
Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Faculty Award (regarding Online Education)
March 31, 2022(Tokyo)


Awards for students
1) Miho Kobayashi
Good Poster Award, 22nd SCEJ Symposium on Fluidization & Particle Processing
「Investigation of reactivity of coal in a downer pyrolyzer with heat  
carrying particles and steam」
Dec. 9, 2016, IIS, The University of Tokyo

2) Haruka Taguchi,
Good Poster Award, 23rd SCEJ Symposium on Fluidization & Particle Processing
"Design of High-Efficiency Circulating Fluidized Bed Gasifier Model to Achieve Cold Gas Efficiency over 80%"
Dec. 7, 2017, Hamamatsu

3) Chiemi Tachibana, Chihiro Fushimi
Poster Award, 13th Biomass Science Symposium
"Optimization of Reaction Conditions of Hydrothermal Liquefaction and Supercritical Methanol Method for Biodiesel Production from Microalgae
Jan. 18, 2018, Tohoku University, Sendai

4) 〇Ryu SATO, Hiromu SASAKI, Ryuta X. SUZUKI, Kentaro ATSUKAWA, Ryota MIYAMOTO,　and Chinatsu UKAWA,
“Frocess Design for Sustainable Production of Value Chemicals from Agricultural Wastes Instead of Fossil Resources”
APCChE 2019, Student Program - Research Proposal on SDGs from Youth, Impact Award
September 23, 2019 (Sapporo)

5) 〇Mana Yazaki, Chihiro Fushimi
“Integration of solid biomass fuel production process with waste gasification and direct melting system”
Poster Award (2nd ranking)
15th Biomass Science Symposium, December 11-12, 2019 (Fukushima)

6) 〇Kengo Fujii, Chihiro Fushimi
"Design of fatty acid extraction process from microalgae with flash hydrolysis"
Excellent paper award in ACBS2020 (8th Asian Conference on Biomass Science)
January 22, 2021 (Online)

7) 〇Naoya Shirota
“Thermochemical heat storage performances of MgO/Mg(OH)2 particles in a fluidized bed "
Student Presentation Award (1st ranking)
30th SCEJ Symposium on Fluidization & Particle Processing,
December 12, 2024 (Niigata)


TUAT Internal Awards
1) Akihiro Umeda
Silver Award, Master Thesis Presentation
Department of Chemical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering,
Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Feb. 9, 2016

2) Mana Yazaki
Bronze Award, Bachelor Thesis Presentation
Department of Chemical Engineering, School of Engineering,
Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Feb. 15, 2018

3) Mana Yazaki
Best Poster Award
Graduate school and School of Engineering
Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Jan. 9, 2019

4) Yusuke Furusawa
Gold Award, Master Thesis Presentation
Department of Chemical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering,
Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Feb. 7, 2019

5) Ryo Usami
Silver Award, Master Thesis Presentation
Department of Chemical Engineering, School of Engineering,
Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Feb. 7, 2019

6) Ryu Sato
Gold Award, Master Thesis Presentation
Department of Chemical Engineering, School of Engineering,
Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Feb. 14, 2019

(7) Kengo Fujii
Silver Award, Master Thesis Presentation
Department of Chemical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering,
Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Feb. 9, 2021

(8) Ryo Murakoshi
Bronze Award, Master Thesis Presentation
Department of Chemical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering,
Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Feb. 9, 2021

(9) Takahito Yasui
Silver Award, Master Thesis Presentation
Department of Chemical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering,
Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Feb. 14, 2023

(10) Ryu Ukawa-Sato
Best Academi Record Award
Ph.D. Course, Graduate School of BioApplication and Systems Engineering,
Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
March 26, 2024


<Alumni and Alumnae (As of April 2024, since FY. 2012)>
〇2 Ph.D. 　
・Dr. Takayuki UCHINO, March 2023
・Dr. Ryu UKAWA-SATO, March 2024

〇23 M.S.
-> Ph.D. course (1) <Breakdown:　Fushimi Lab. (1)>
-> Working for a company (22)
　　　　　　　
〇39 B.S.
-> M.S. course (34) <Breakdown: Fushimi Lab.（29), Other Labs. in TUAT (2), Other Univ.（3)>
-> 5-year Ph.D. course (2) <Breakdown: Fushimi Lab. (2)>
-> Working for a company (2)