Design and assessment of plant-derived production system based on transboundary analysis and modeling between agriculture and engineering

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25870163
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Reaction engineering/Process system; Design and evaluation of sustainable and environmental conscious system
• Research Institution: The University of Tokyo
• Principal Investigator: Kikuchi Yasunori 東京大学, 「プラチナ社会」総括寄付講座, 特任准教授 (70545649)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: バイオマス / 再生可能資源 / サトウキビ / 産業共生

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We propose a design method of sugarcane-derived combined sugar-ethanol production based on transboundary viewpoints between agriculture and engineering. New cultivar breeding and technology development are taken into account for increasing productivity per unit area and amount of sugarcane. By applying the obtained knowledge of biomass-derived production as process model, we demonstrated that the combination of newly bred cultivars and sugar-ethanol production technologies enables to increase both sugar and ethanol per unit area of land, in other words, the competition of food and chemicals can be avoided. A simulation-based scenario analysis is conducted for designing production system involving farm land, sugar mill, ethanol factory and other related stakeholders.

Free Research Field

プロセスシステム工学