COST ENGINEERING

Cost engineering for the development and evaluation of novel energy systems

             Thinking ahead to the future implementation of energy conversion systems that will contribute to the realization of a low-/zero- carbon society, we are working on energy system designs, including fuel cell designs and chemical looping process designs, and analyzing the economic viability of such systems.
              Technologies for improved fuel cell power generation performance, cell design, and manufacturing processes are being continually and rapidly developed. In our lab, we use a technical evaluation method, called “cost engineering”, to develop data structure and evaluation methods that can adapt to these technological improvements in real-time. Using this evaluation method, we investigate the techno-economic potentials of future fuel cell technologies and hydrogen production processes via water electrolysis.
              By crafting scenarios that link these cutting-edge technologies to society, and unveiling the technological challenges for implementation, we aim to propose pathways for the development of materials and energy devices.