Sasaki Kyuro

Kyuro Sasaki is a senior researcher, Institute for Future Engineering (IFENG) , and a professor emeritus, Kyushu University(KU), Japan  since April 1st, 2021. He taught at Mining College, Akita University for 20 years, and  Department of Earth Resources Engineering, Faculty of Engineering KU for 16 years. He holds BS, MS and PhD degrees from Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan. His research interests are mineral resources production, fluid mechanics and heat & mass transfer phenomena in Mining and Petroleum Industries. He has published several papers on SAGD, Methane Hydrate Production Method and Enhanced Coal Bed Methane Recovery, CO₂ Geological Storage, Spontaneous Combustion of Coal and Mine Ventilation, etc.  He recently focuses on studying CO₂ geological storage, CO₂ leakage monitoring system and Engineering education.

The research topics to date are as follows.

・Future forecasts based on fluctuations and correlation analysis of consumption and inventory of fossil fuel resources and energy

・Carbon dioxide underground storage (coal seam fixation, CO2 underground storage, CCS, etc.) technology

・Modeling of soil CO2 dissipation behavior related to terrestrial CCS and leakage monitoring

・Methane production technology from methane hydrate layer

・Development of crude oil CO2-EOR and in-situ recovery technology

・Research on the mechanism and prevention of spontaneous combustion of coal and peat layers to reduce CO2 emissions

・Measurement of underground ventilation network using tracer gas method and development of fluid analysis method

・Application of geological estimation to open pit mine optimization