Bioresource Engineering

Department Chairman: Ryozo Noguchi, Vice Chairman: (under adjustment), Secretary: (under adjustment)

To solve the challenges of the 21st century, such as the concentration of the world's population in cities, population decline in mature societies and rural areas, food and environmental problems, securing stable energy, and transformation to new lifestyles. It is thought that the utilization of a large number of biological resources (biomass resources) on the earth will play a major role. Although there are high expectations for the utilization of biological resources, their utilization is still developing. On the other hand, in Southeast Asia, palm oil is being used for food and fuel on the premise of protecting the environment of tropical rain forests, and new biological resources are being used internationally to build a sustainable society. Is underway. The Bioresource Engineering Subcommittee aims to solve technical issues for designing a sustainable global environment and society by utilizing the latest agricultural information technology.

Research subject examples and keywords:

The approach to bioresource engineering in the field of agricultural information is becoming more and more important. Since biological resources mainly deal with living things (things), integrated information management for optimal processing of them, and the impact on the global environment are emphasized. It is also necessary to search for points of contact such as economics and ethics in the engineering use of biological resources.

The following are examples of research topics and keywords.

• System design of biological resource utilization society, resource / energy conversion of organic waste (GIS, LCA, system dynamics, data mining, decision support, system analysis, energy / exergy analysis)

• Intergenerational ethics in the use of biological resources (natural restoration, engineers, sustainable development)