Academic Staff and Fellows

SAWAI Toru: Professor Dr. Eng.; Department/Mechanical Engineering　
Department of Mechanical engineering
Graduate school/Mechanical Engineering

Torrefied Cellulose

Research Area	Thermal engineering、Biomass energy engineering
Teaching (Undergraduate Course)	Thermodynamics
Selected Publications	[1] Toru SAWAI, Kentaro TAMAKOSHI, Satoru MIZUNO, Takahiro MURAKAMI, Effect of wet torrefaction and densification molding on energy properties of solid biofuels with Japanese cedar , Journal of Thermal Science and Technology, 2025, Vol. 20, Issue 2, Pages 25-00088. [2] Tomohito Inoue, Kentaro Tamakoshi and Toru Sawai, Wet torrefaction kinetics and heating value estimation for wet torrefied Japanese cedar and rice straw, Journal of Thermal Science and Technology, 2024, Vol. 19, Issue 1, Pages 23-00561. [3] Toru Sawai, Kenji Yokota and Nami Tagami-Kanada, Generalized heating value estimation of torrefied woody biomass based on pyrolysis kinetics of primary constituent polymers, Journal of Thermal Science and Technology, 2022, Vol. 17, Issue 3, Pages 22-00114.
Research and Achievements	06_sawai_toru.pdf

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