Professor
Okayama University
Dr. Katsuya Kawamoto is a professor in the Graduate School of Environmental and Life Science of Okayama University, Japan. He has made a major contribution in the field of environmental science and technology and his research work has three main fields. The first issue is the study on environmental fate assessment of synthetic chemicals, which was conducted for organohalogen compounds such as trichloroethylene (TCE) and tetrachloroethylene (PCE) and further several organochlorine pesticides abundantly used in Japan in 1980s. The second research subject is dioxin formation and control in the process of thermal treatment of municipal solid waste (MSW). Exhaust gas treatment is an important technical means there, and this presentation is also an issue for exhaust gas treatment using activated carbon adsorbents. The third research subject is the development of gasification and catalytic reforming of biomass waste. In order to recover more energy and materials than conventional mass burning system, a gasification and reforming process has been developed. The use of catalyst in the reforming process can be expected greatly for recovering hydrogen and also reducing tar formation as well as temperature reducing of the whole process. Studies have been carried out to investigate effective catalyst for the accomplishment of those purposes.