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Recent articles from Japanese High Energy Efficiency & Clean Energy Technologies

Japan's new energy planned targets.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... The Japanese government's policy to significantly increase the sources of new energy (that is not conventional, long established sources and methods), is well worth noting for it indicates just where the biggest realtime expansions of new...

Gasoline-sourced hydrogen favoured over methanol for vehicle fuel cells.(The Ministry of Economy, Trade & Industry)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... The Ministry of Economy, Trade & Industry has established and funded a new R & D project, to be supervised by it's New Energy Foundation, with the aim of finding a practical viable technology enabling gasoline to be used as the source of...

New fuel cell hydrogen power source.(Kogakuin University)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... An R & D team based at Kogakuin University has developed a new fuel which it is said provides hydrogen to fuel cells in a simpler more effective way than is the case with existing counterparts. A metal catalyst is used to set off the release of...

Update of superconductivity r & d in japan.(The Superconductivity Research Laboratory)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... The Superconductivity Research Laboratory is a joint enterprise on the part of the Agency of Industrial Science & Technology and some 45 corporations in the private sector, with a mandate to develop high temperature superconducting materials....

High temperature superconducting wire.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... The Laboratory notes that a first generation high temperature superconducting wire is already in practical use. It is a silver-covered bismuth-based oxide wire 0.25 mm thick and 3.5mm wide, enabling a superconducting electric current of 11 QA...

New type of high temperature superconducting magnet.(Toshiba Corporation, Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd.)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... Toshiba Corporation, Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd. and Shinetsu Semiconductor Co. Ltd. have jointly developed a high temperature superconducting magnet featuring a storage energy of 1,100kJ and coil centre magnetic field of 1 .5T. ...

New superconducting material fabricated as wire.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... An R & D group based at Tokyo's Aoyama Gakuin University and led by Professor Jun Akimitsu, has joined forces with the Materials Engineering Laboratory of the National institute for Materials Science to further develop the superconducting...

Photovoltaic power generation system for housing units.(Sharp Corp. (Japan))(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... Sharp Corporation has developed a photovoltaic power generation system for housing which uses a large 155 sq mm solar cell and can readily be adapted to roofs of various shapes. The company says this is the first storage converter...

Illumination type solar light simulator.(Seric Co. Ltd.)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... Seric Co. Ltd. has developed a solar simulator system in which a dummy solar light is provided by xenon lamps. The light from a xenon lamp is passed through a unique spectral compensation filter developed by the company, by which light...

Noiseless highly efficient wind-based power system.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... Zephyr Corporation in a technical tie-up with Sanken Electric Company, has developed a compact wind-based power generation which is noiseless and incorporates five new technical improvements. In Japan there is an increasing demand for...

Technology increasing electric vehicle power generation by 20%.(Fukui University of Technology)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... Fukui University of Technology, in association with the Industrial Technology Center of Fukui Prefecture, and Kiyokawa Plating Company, has developed a technology that increases the generating capacity of nickel-hydrogen storage batteries in...

Mitsubishi electric automobile cuts charging times by 65%.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... Mitsubishi Motors working with Japan Storage Battery Company, is conducting extensive road tests on a prototype Eclipse EV electric passenger vehicle in which battery charging times have been reduced by 65%, and the mileage covered by a single...

Fuel cell cogeneration system for domestic use.(Mitsui & Company has joined forces with Osaka Gas Company and H. Power Corp.)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... Mitsui & Company has joined forces with Osaka Gas Company and H. Power Corp. of the USA, to develop a domestic-use cogeneration system which will generate electricity from fuel cells, derived from propane gas. This cogeneration system will...

45% Fuel reduction - gas driven engine hybrid air conditioning system.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... Tokyo Gas Company, together with Mayekawa Manufacturing Company, and Waseda University, has developed a gas driven hybrid air conditioning system that utilises a natural refrigerant (ammonia and water), and features prevention of both ozone...

Economic transformer cooling system based on reverse osmosis treatment technique.(Kandenko Company Ltd.)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... Kandenko Co. Ltd. has developed a cooling system for transformers and ultrahigh voltage underground power transmission cables that is designed to prevent the adhesion of calcium scales on piping and equipment. The new cooling system is...

Air-conditioner using carbon lamp heater.(from Kashima Company Ltd.)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... Kashima Co. Ltd. has developed an air conditioner (Sun Picker), that introduces the carbon lamp heater as it's heating source. The peak wavelength lies in the domain of far infrared rays, particularly in the range 2.5-8 micron, so that...

Gas-fired steam boiler with ultra low nox emissions.(from Samson Company Ltd., Osaka Gas Company Ltd.)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... Samson Co. Ltd. and Osaka Gas Co. Ltd. have jointly developed a compact steam boiler which when operating at full capacity emits exhaust gas with an NOx (nitrogen oxide) content of under 30 ppm. The compact drum body has improved thermal...

Diesel exhaust gas system cuts nox emission by 75%.(from Tokyo Denshi Service Co.)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... Tokyo Denshi Service Company, has developed a new form of exhaust gas system (Exhaust Max), for diesel vehicles that enables the concentration of black smoke (diesel exhaust gas particles DEP), to be decreased by 75 percent. The new system...

Ultra-mini carbon dioxide sensor with low power consumption rate.(from Figaro Engineering Inc.)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... Figaro Engineering Inc. has developed a carbon dioxide sensor that works at a much reduced rate of power consumption. It is compact and described as up to one thirteenth the volume of conventional counterparts. This is a solid-state...

Fluon gas decomposition system.(from Asada Corp., University of Tsukuba)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... Asada Corporation and the University of Tsukuba have jointly developed a fluon gas decomposition system (FA-1500) based on the plasma technologies developed by the company, the University of Tsukuba, and the National Industrial Research...

Carbonisation treatment of wastes in oxygen-free state.(from Maekawa Seisakusho Company Ltd.)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... Maekawa Seisakusho Co. Ltd. has started marketing a new type of commercial carbonisation treatment system available in the TMX Series which indirectly heats wastes such as garbage, vegetable scraps, paper diapers and polypropylene based vinyl...

Rapid identification of sources of greenhouse gases.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... A joint R & D team drawn from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, and Hitachi's Central Research Laboratory, has developed a technology enabling a fast identification of sources of greenhouse gases both natural, and manufactured. The...

High efficiency of the carbon dioxide heat pump water heater.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... The Ministry of Economy Trade & Industry, through it's Energy Efficiency & Conservation Division of the Agency of Natural Resources and Energy, is paying great attention to the development and potentially widespread use of a carbon dioxide heat...