Yusuke Uehara

Yusuke


  PhD Student
  Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering
  Office: END 204
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  Email: yusuke.uehara2@ucalgary.ca
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Education

Yusuke has extensive work experiences in both his academic and professional careers. His undergraduate thesis project was for reaction analysis of an up-flow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) process for wastewater treatment by a numerical model. During his master's program, his research topic was towards biomass gasification using biomass-derived ash as the catalyst, which showed that their ashes could improve the effectiveness and reactivity of the gasification. After the completion, he has worked at HOYA GROUP Optics Division as a development and design engineer of melting furnace for optical glasses. One of his major achievements in the company is developing a novel coarse-melting furnace and establishing the operating conditions for the commercial utilization as a leading engineer for the project by involving all the development processes (from lab-scale experiments, prototype-plant testing, scale-up design, to construction supervision for the commercial plants), whose furnaces have contributed to reduction in the production costs of specified kinds of optical glasses by nearly 40%. They also gained two patents on the invention. His current project topic in this program is being focused on fabricating solid sorbents for post-combustion CO2 capture.

Past Proffessional Experiences

    1. Development and design engineer of melting furnace, HOYA GROUP Optics Division, Tokyo, Japan : 2006-2013

Area of Work:
Chemical & Petroleum Engineering, Bioenergy and Environmental

Research Interests & Projects
Yusuke's research interests and projects include:

    1. Catalytic gasification
    2. Thermochemical conversion
    3. Separation technology
    4. Waste water treatment
    5. Fluid dynamics of high temperature melts

Selected Conferences and Publications

    1. Katsuhiko Muroyama, Toshiyuki Nakai, Yusuke Uehara, Yasunori Sumida and Akihiko Sumi, Reactor Simulation for an Up-flow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket Process, Studies in Surface Science and Catalysis, Volume 159, pp. 661-664 (2006). PDF Link
    2. Yusuke Uehara, Katsuhiko Muroyama and Jun’ichi Hayashi, Biomass gasification using biomass-derived ash as catalyst [oral presentation in Japanese], 37th Autumn meeting of the Society of Chemical Engineers Japan, pp. 116, Okayama University, Japan, September 15-16 (2005).
    3. Muroyama, K., T. Nakai, Y. Uehara, Y. Sumida and A. Sumi, Reactor Simulation for an Up-flow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket Process[oral presentation], Proc. the 4th Asia-Pacific Chemical Reaction Engineering Symposium, pp. 459-460, Kyonju, Korea, June 12-15 (2005).
    4. Muroyama, K., T. Nakai, Y. Uehara, Y. Sumida and A. Sumi, Analysis of Reactions for Biodegradation of Volatile Acid Components in an Anaerobic Sludge Granular Bed Treating Beer Brewery Wastewater, J. of Chem. Eng. Japan, 37(8) pp. 1026-1034 (2004). PDF Link
    5. K. Muroyama, T. Nakai, Y. Sumida, Y. Uehara and A. Sumi, Analysis of Reactions and Reactor Simulation for an Up-flow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket Process[poster presentation], Prep. 6th Japanese/ German Symposium on Bubble Columns, pp. 262-269, Nara, Nov. 11-14 (2003). PDF Link

Award Received and Achievements

    1. Japanese Patent 5,784,166, H. Sakawa, Y. Uehara, H. Oguma, T. Ito, Method for producing glass raw material crude lysate, and method for producing optical glass, HOYA Corporation (Sep 24, 2015 registered)
    2. Japanese Patent 5,481,442, Y. Uehara, H. Oguma, T. Ito, H. Sakawa, Feedstock-melting furnace, HOYA Corporation (Apr 23, 2014 registered)
    3. Scholarship from the Graduate School, Kansai University (2005-2006)
    4. Academic Performance Award for outstanding B. Eng. students in Chemical Engineering, Kansai University (2004)
    5. 2nd rank of around 100 students of B. Eng. in Chemical Engineering, Kansai University (2004)

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