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Water Metabolic System -Sustainable Water Management

Objectives

  • Drastic solution to the issues of drought and water pollution
  • Shift emphasis from water transportation to quality conversion

“Area-based society” can be defined as a broad area of people’s livelihood including river basin and coastal area. In order to build up a sustainable society, we must maintain the environment of area-based society clean and comfortable, and also minimize what the urban activities affect on the natural environment. To achieve the above objectives, it is highly effective to take in the leading-edge bio or nano technologies to our conventional studies on the water environment. The water metabolic system group of our COE project, from this standpoint, works on various kinds of research activities, such as improvement and advancement of water supply and sewerage systems, recovery of valuable materials from sewage and waste water, conservation and improvement of watershed environment, evaluation of water quality, and so on.

Technologies required

  1. Autonomous water utilization and recycling system by integrating nanotechnology (i.e. membrane filteration and adsorbent mesoporous madreporite) and biotechnology (i.e. biochemical treatment)
  2. Resource (especially phosphorus) recovery technology from wastewater using adsorbent mesoporous madreporite and enzyme
  3. Establishment of multi-characteristic evaluation methods using new types of DNA chips for the risk managemen

Program Member,Post-doctoral Fellows,Research Assistants



Program Members

Name Laboratory Professional Title Assignment
Yoshimasa Watanabe
leader		 Lab of Water Quality Control Eng Professor Leading edge water treatment system Risk evaluation and control of toxic materials in the water environment
Satoshi Okabe
sub group leader		 Lab of Water Quality Control Eng Assoc. Professor (1)New methods for the waste water treatment using molecular biology
(2)Development of environmental restoration technologies
Naoyuki Funamizu Lab of Eng for Sustainable Sanitation Professor Sustainable sanitation system
Toshihiko Yamashita Lab of Coastal and Offshore Eng Professor Material transportation and the marine life behavior in coastal region
Yasuyuki Shimizu Lab of Hydraulic Research Professor Material transportation and assessment of the effect on the environment
Yoshihiko Matsui Environmental Risk Engineering Lab Professor Risk evaluation and control of toxic materials in the water environment
Katsuki Kimura Lab of Eng for Sustainable Sanitation Assoc. Professor Leading edge water treatment system using membrane filtration
Katsunori Nagano Environmental System Research Lab Professor Dispersive energy system utilizing treated sewage water

Hisashi Sato Lab of Water Quality Control Eng
Specia
Assoc. Prof.
 Production of useful material from organic wastewater
Masakazu Iwamoto Tokyo Institute of Technology, Chemical Resources Laboratory Guest　Prof. Development of new functional materials by using micropopous and mesoporous materials.


COE Post-doctoral Fellows

Name Laboratory Research theme Report
So Ryong CHAE Lab of Water Quality Control Eng Long-term evaluation of novel pilot-scale membrane systems for drinking water production Report
Koji KAWATA Lab of Water Quality Control Eng Development of multi-characteristic bioassay using DNA chip Report
Sun-Ja CHO Lab of Water Quality Control Eng  Autotrophic Ammonium Removal Process Report
Shinya HOTTA Lab of Eng for Sustainable Sanitation Separation and dispersion system for the treatment of household wastewater Report


COE Post-doctoral Fellows

Name Laboratory Research theme Report
Hiroshi YAMAMURA Lab of Water Quality Control Eng Development of theories for rational membrane selection and operation control corresponding to the quality of raw water Report


COE Research Assistants

Name Laboratory Research theme Report
Yuki MIURA Lab of Water Quality Control Eng Analysis of the mechanisms of microbial community that accompanies the operation of membrane bioreactor Report
Akinobu ITO Lab of Water Quality Control Eng Mechanisms of gene expression that condition biofilm development Report
Chung
Kyug M 		Lab of Water Quality Control Eng Power production and wastewater treatment of microbial fuel cell Report
Naoya ANDO Environmental Risk Engineering Lab Report
Nobutaka SHIRASAKI Environmental Risk Engineering Lab Report

COE Secretariat

Name Laboratory Jpbs Ex. No.
Tomoko KIKUCHI Lab of Water Quality Control Eng Total management of the project's administrative matters, personnel supervision, design, promotion and coordination of events 7162
Kikuko KAMADA Lab of Water Quality Control Eng Accounting, personnel assistance, administrative management of the group1 7162