Profile
Prof Hideaki KOBAYASHI
Special Advisor
Prof Hideaki Kobayashi is a Research Professor at Tohoku University, Japan. He received his master\'s degree from Tohoku University in 1983 and PhD in 1991 and was appointed associate professor at the same university in 1992. He was promoted to professor at Institute of Fluid Science, Tohoku University in 2003. He has been involved in research on fundamental processes of combustion phenomena in extreme environments. He served as the team leader of the ammonia direct combustion research in the national project SIP “Energy Carriers”, which ran for five years from 2014.
Prof Kobayashi is currently engaged in multiple projects related to basic ammonia combustion, development of ammonia gas turbines and industrial furnaces using ammonia, with a view to decarbonization and fuel conversion in the energy and industrial sectors. He also works on national and international project evaluations and international standardization on ammonia utilization as a fuel. He served as President of Combustion Society of Japan from 2015 to 2017 and Vice-President of The Combustion Institute from 2016 to 2020.
Japan
Researchers
HYCOMBS
Research Interest
- High-pressure combustion
- Turbulent premixed combustion
- Supersonic combustion
- Microgravity combustion
- Low-oxygen, high-temperature air combustion
- Ammonia combustion
- Laser diagnostics
Key Publications
Google Scholar Link
CO2 Free Ammonia as an Energy Carrie – Japan\'s Insights –, K. Aika, H. Kobayashi Eds., 2022, Springer, ISBN 978-981-19-4766-7, ISBN 978-981-19-4766-7 (eBook).
Y. Xia, Y. Shen, K. Sakai, D. Matsumoto, S. Colson, T. Kudo, A. Hayakawa, H. Kobayashi, Emission Characteristics of Confined Non-Premixed Ammonia–Oxygen–Nitrogen Turbulent Jet Flames Under Oxygen-Enriched Conditions, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, Vol.40 (2024), 105704. 10.1016/j.proci.2024.105704.
K.D.K.A. Somarathne, H. Yamashita, S. Colson, K. Oku, K. Honda, E. C. Okafor, A. Hayakawa, T. Kudo, H. Kobayashi, Towards the Development of Liquid Ammonia/Air Spray Combustion in a Gas Turbine-Like Combustor at Moderately High Pressure, Applications in Energy and Combustion Science, Vol.16 (2023), 100215. 10.1016/j.jaecs.2023.100215.
E. C. Okaor, H. Yamashita, A. Hayakawa, K. D. K. A. Somarathne, T. Kudo, T. Tsujimura, M. Uchida, S. Ito, H. Kobayashi, Flame Stability and Emissions Characteristics of Liquid Ammonia Spray Co-fired with Methane in a Single Stage Swirl Combustor, Fuel, Vol.287 (2021), 119433. 10.1016/j.fuel.2020.119433.
H. Kobayashi, A. Hayakawa, K.D.K.A. Somarathne, E.C. Okafor, Science and Technology of Ammonia Combustion, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, Vol. 37 (2019), pp.109-133. 10.1016/j.proci.2018.09.029.
T. Mai, Y. Sakimitsu, H. Nakamura, Y. Ogami, T. Kudo and H. Kobayashi, Effect of the Incident Shock Wave Interacting with Transversal Jet Flow on the Mixing and Combustion, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, Vol.33 (2011), pp.2335-2342. 10.1016/j.proci.2010.07.056.
H. Kobayashi, J. Park, T. Iwahashi, T. Niioka, Microgravity Experiments on Flame Spread of an n-Decane Droplet Array in a High-Pressure Environment, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, Vol.29 (2002), pp.2603-2610. 10.1016/S1540-7489(02)80317-0.
H. Kobayashi, H. Kawazoe, Flame Instability Effects on the Smallest Wrinkling Scale and Burning Velocity of High-Pressure Turbulent Premixed Flames, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, Vol.28 (2000), pp.375-382. 10.1016/s0082-0784(00)80233-7.
H. Kobayashi, T. Tamura, K. Maruta, T. Niioka, F. A. Williams, Burning Velocity of Turbulent Premixed Flames in a High-Pressure Environment, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, Vol.26 (1996), pp.389- 396. 10.1016/S0082-0784(96)80240-2.
Achievements
2022 The Bernard Lewis Gold Medal of The Combustion Institute
2022 Technology Award of The Gas Turbine Society of Japan
2021 Tanigawa Thermal Engineering Award, Tanigawa Thermal Technology Promotion Foundation
2019, 2020, 2023 Best Paper Award, Combustion Society of Japan
2019 Fellow of The Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Sciences
2018 Fellow of The Combustion Institute
2017 Thermal Engineering Award for Outstanding Academic Contribution, Thermal Engineering Division, The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
2017 Fluid Science Research Award, The Fluid Science Foundation
2017 Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)
2008 Fellow of The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
2008 Thermal Engineering Achievement Award, Thermal Engineering Division, The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
2006 Best Paper Award, The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
1998 Best Paper Award, The Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Sciences
1996 Young Researchers’ Award, Combustion Society of Japan