工学府 博士後期課程の、国際環境システム工学特別コースの開講科目です。

CL2: INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEM ENGINEERING -Energy Problems- Present and Future with Particular Reference to Coal-

Class ScheduleWednesday, 10:30-12:00 

Contents

1.  Introduction to problems on energy and mineral resources productions

Lecturer:   Professor Kyuro SASAKI

Topic:         Long History of energy consumption and demand in the world and recent production methods of new and unconventional energy

 

2. Greenhouse gases and geological CO2 storage

Lecturer:   Professor Kyuro SASAKI

Topic:         Greenhouse gas control technology, such as CO2-ECBMR, CO2-EOR and CO2 storage, and discussions on global warming.

 

3. Energy production from unmineable coal seams

Lecturer:   Associate Professor Yuichi SUGAI

Topic:         Techniques for producing energy resources from unmineable coal seams such as low rank coal seams and deep coal seams.

 

4. Fossil fuel production technologies

Lecturer:   Associate Professor Yuichi SUGAI 

Topic:         Trend of research and development for new technologies producing fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas.

 

5, 7. Mine rehabilitation

Lecturers: Professor Hideki SHIMADA & Assistant Professor Akihiro HAMANAKA

Topic:         Rehabilitation planning, Soil and planning, Mining of overburden and coal, Mine drainage and sediment control, Erosion control, Re-vegetation, Maintenance and management of rehabilitated areas

 

6, 8. Opencut and underground mining

Lecturer:   Associate Professor Takashi SASAOKA

Topic:         Mining methods, Slope stability, Rock excavation, Ground control problems, Monitoring of rock behavior, Transportation systems, Environmental issue

 

9. Coal cleaning technology

Lecturers: Assistant Professor Moriyasu NONAKA & Associate Professor Hajime MIKI

Topic:         Minerals in coal, Properties used in coal cleaning and separation technologies, Dry separation processes and Wet separation processes, Upgrading of low rank coal

 

10. Minerals resources processing

Lecturer:   Associate Professor Hajime MIKI

Topic:         Various resource processing, Mineral processing, Hydrometallurgy, Australia and Chile resource situation

 

11. Biomineral processing

Lecturer:   Associate Professor Naoko OKIBE

Topic:         Biomining (Bioleaching; Biooxidation), Geomicrobiology, Microbial Fe oxidation, Microbial acid mine drainage production

 

12. Acid mine drainage

Lecturer:   Professor Keiko SASAKI

Topic:         Pyrite and its related mineralogy, Generation of acid mine drainage, Prevention of acid mine drainage, Wetland, Phytoremediation, Permeable reactive barriers