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YAMASUE EIJI

Department / Course College of Science and Engineering Department of Mechanical Engineering

Title / Position Professor

Other Affiliations
1.	Graduate School of Science and Engineering
2.	Research Organization of Science and Technology Ecological Technology & Management Research Center for the Energy and Environment Field
3.	Research Organization of Science and Technology The Bio Medical Engineering Research Center
4.	Research Organization of Science and Technology Research Center of Advanced Materials

Academic background
1.	2000/03 Degree Acquisition	│ Tokyo Institute of Technology Ph. D.
2.	～1992/03	│ Hatsushiba Tondabayashi Senior High School │ Graduated
3.	～1995/03	Department of Metallurgy │ School of Engineering │ Tokyo Institute of Technology │ Advanced a year
4.	～1997/07	Master Course │ Department of Metallurgy │ Graduate School of Engineering │ Tokyo Institute of Technology │ Completed
5.	～2000/03	Doctoral Program (2nd Semester) │ Department of Metallurgy │ Graduate School of Engineering │ Tokyo Institute of Technology │ Completed

Business career
1.	2024/04/01 ～	Fellow │ │ Ritsumeikan Advanced Research Academy (RARA)
2.	2019/04/01	Professor │ Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Science & Engineering, │ Ritsumeikan University
3.	2016/04/01 ～ 2019/03/31	Associate Prof. │ Department of Mechanical Engineering, Collage of Science & Engineering, │ Ritsumeikan University
4.	2012/10/16 ～ 2016/03/31	Visiting researcher │ │ National Institute for Environmental Studies
5.	2009/04/26 ～ 2010/01/03	Visiting researcher │ │ Vienna University of Technology
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Committee and society
1.	2019/05	Phosphorus Industry Development Organization Director

Research activities
1.		International Society of Industrial Ecology
2.		Japan Society of Energy and Resources
3.		The Mining and Materials Processing Institute of Japan
4.		The Japan Society for Precision Engineering
5.		The Institute of Life Cycle Assessment, Japan
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Subject of research
1.	Interdisciplinary Research on Sustainable Energy and Resource Use

Research summary
Interdisciplinary Research on Sustainable Energy and Resource Use The research interests of our group may be encapsulated as "Sustainable Energy and Resource Use". Our laboratory is grappling with the development of materials and processes, and their environmental impact assessment from multidimensional (present, past and future; local, domestic, and global) viewpoints. More academically, our research fields consist of natural science (materials science, thermodynamics and transport phenomena, etc.) supported by industrial ecology (material flow analysis, life-cycle assessment, environmental system engineering, etc.), and sometimes experimental archaeology. Current targets are metals (iron, nickel, zinc, copper and related scarce metals), phosphorus and foods, and related processes. With regard to these particular products, we focus not only natural mines but also urban mines that were thought of as waste.

Present specialized field
Thermal engineering, Environmental dynamic analysis, Environmental impact assessment, Environmental conscious materials and recycle, Design and evaluation of sustainable and environmental conscious system, Nanomaterials engineering, Physical properties of metals/Metal-base materials, Metal making/Resorce production engineering, Earth system and resources engineering (Keyword：Ferrous materials, nonferrous materials, rare metals, phosphorus, materials science, thermodynamics, solid state physics, thermophysical properties, mechanochemistry, Food production, photocatalysts, recycling, life cycle assessment, material flow analysis, total material requirement ,sustainable society, industrial ecology, environmental system engineering, experimental archaeology)

Books
1.	2024/01/17	EcoDesign for Sustainable Products, Services and Social Systems I
2.	2022/05/30	Chapter 16: Advanced manufacturing and high-quality materials: phosphorus
3.	2021	Economy-Wide Material Flow Analysis and Its Projection: DMI Versus TMR in Japan.
4.	2021	Towards Intercity Cooperation: Comparison of Spatial Transport Energy Efficiency Between Central and Peripheral Cities in Japan.
5.	2018	Phosphorus Recovery and Recycling │ ,pp.349-364
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Papers
1.	2025/03/05	Resource intensity in the Japanese transportation system: Integration of vehicle and infrastructure │ Sustainability │
2.	2024/03/26	Resource Intensity Analysis of Producing 21 Types of Plastic in Terms of Mining Activity │ Sustainability │ 16 (7),pp.2715
3.	2023/12/29	Contradictory relationship between efficiency and renewable energy under breakeven point: Optimal selection of electrical and electronic equipment │ Cleaner Energy Systems │ ,pp.100103
4.	2023/06/14	Global waste management cost for retorted mercury in artisanal and small-scale gold mining │ Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management │
5.	2023/05/25	Recycling or chemical stabilization? Greenhouse gas emissions from treatment of waste containing mercury under the Minamata Convention │
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Academic conference presentation
1.	2019/11/25	A novel process for yellow phosphorus formation from a steelmaking slag using silicon sludge
2.	2019/11/25	Consequences of consequential transitions
3.	2019/11/25	Economy-wide material flow analysis and its projection: DMI vs TMR in Japan
4.	2019/11/25	The impact of a modal shift on end-of-life vehicle management for Asian countries
5.	2019/11/25	Towards intercity cooperation: Comparison of spatial transport energy efficiency between central and peripheral cities in Japan
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Other research achievements
1.	2010	Special Issue on Growth of Ecomaterials as a Key to Eco-Society IV (PREFACE) (Materials Transactions, Vol.51, No.5)

Winning science prize
1.	2017	Energy and Material Efficiency and CO2 Reduction in the Steel Industry Best Poster Award (EMECR2017) (Analysis of Total Material Requirement for automotive technological change)
2.	2017	4th International Conference on Final Sinks 2017 Outstanding Oral Presentation Award (ICFS2017) (Analysis of Total Materials Requirement for Technological Change in Automobile)

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research -KAKENHI-
1.	2020/04/01 ～ 2023/03/31	Resource logistic analysis forwarding closed loop of phosphorus │ Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(C)
2.	2010/04 ～ 2013/03	Novel Evaluation Method of Quality of Material in Urban Ore in terms of Total Material Requirement.
3.	2010/04 ～ 2013/03	Rare Metals Recycling System based on local steel and nonferrous metal industries
4.	2008/04 ～ 2011/03	Magnetic Field Effect on Photocatalytic Reaction of Titanium Oxide
5.	2005/04 ～ 2008/03	Development of Chemical Vacuum Pump using Nitrogen Absorption Nano-Materials

Competitive grants, etc. (exc. KAKENHI)
1.	2012/04 ～ 2015/03	Resource logistics as a support tool of science, technology and innovation policy decision │ Research by External Competitive Fund