Abstract
Our team at International Photosynthesis Industrialization Research Center (IPIRC), University of Kitakyushu, aims to uncover and develop the systems for sustainable yield of energy such as fuels through science and engineering of both natural and artificial photosynthesis under collaborations with industries and foreign institutions. The natural systems under collaborations include projects with European institutions such as Univ. Paris-Diderot (France) and Univ. of Florence (Italy) for bio-oil production from a Mediterranean halophyte grown on the non-agricultural lands and a collaborative project held in Kitakyushu city, for producing the jet fuel using marine micro-algae run by Electric Power Development Co., Ltd, as we have developed an efficient protocols for extraction of bio-oils from bio-materials [1].
Highlights
Our team at International Photosynthesis Industrialization Research Center (IPIRC), University of Kitakyushu, aims to uncover and develop the systems for sustainable yield of energy such as fuels through science and engineering of both natural and artificial photosynthesis under collaborations with industries and foreign institutions
Paris-Diderot (France) and Univ. of Florence (Italy) for bio-oil production from a Mediterranean halophyte grown on the non-agricultural lands and a collaborative project held in Kitakyushu city, for producing the jet fuel using marine micro-algae run by Electric Power Development Co., Ltd, as we have developed an efficient protocols for extraction of bio-oils from bio-materials [1]
Ltd. has launched, under the auspices of the presidential office of the government of Philippine, a pilot plant in the suburb of Manilla, Philippine, empirically aiming for the process allowing the atmospheric CO2 to be captured in the oil/methanol/water mixture for further direct reaction yielding hydrocarbons under mild conditions in the presence of several types of catalysts; the priority mission for our academic team was to mimic the phenomena in the laboratory bench-top scale based on the working hypothesis possibly explaining the phenomena
Summary
Our team at International Photosynthesis Industrialization Research Center (IPIRC), University of Kitakyushu, aims to uncover and develop the systems for sustainable yield of energy such as fuels through science and engineering of both natural and artificial photosynthesis under collaborations with industries and foreign institutions. Our team has been intensively engaged in development of novel artificial photosynthetic model reactions which allow reversible uptake and/or release of atmospheric CO2 [2], followed by production and/or consumption of simple organic molecules in laboratory scale in vitro systems. The approach towards such artificial photosynthesis research involves the development and use of organic and inorganic catalysts (artificial enzymes) employed by analogies to redox active natural enzymes or proteins.
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