Dr. Mamoru KUWABARA
Professor

Materials Reaction Engineering Laboratory,
Materials Processing Research Group,
Division of Materials Science and Engineering,
Department of Materials, Physics and Energy Engineering,
Graduate School of Engineering,
Nagoya University, Japan

       TEL： +81-52-789-4642
       FAX： +81-52-789-3249
       E-mail： kuwabara@numse.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Research Interests

Design of high temperature reaction processes, Ironmaking and steelmaking, Transport phenomena, Ultrasonic processing (Sonoprocessing) of materials, Electromagnetic processing of materials, Combustion synthesis of inorganic compounds, Environmental process engineering.

Short Biography

1967: Bachelor Course, Nagoya University (Dept. of Iron and Steel Engineering, Faculty of Engineering); 1969: Master Course, Nagoya University (Dept. of Iron and Steel Engineering, Graduated School of Engineering); 1969: Research Associate, Nagoya University (Dept. of Iron and Steel Engineering, Faculty of Engineering); 1988: PhD, Nagoya University; 1992~1993: Post Doctoral Fellow, University of California at Berkeley (Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering); 1996: Associate Professor, Nagoya University (Dept. of Materials Processing Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering); 2003: Professor, Nagoya University (Dept. of Materials Processing Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering); 2004: Professor, Vice-chair(Dept. of Materials, Physics and Energy Engineering , Chair of Division of Materials Science and Engineering), 2006: Chair of Division of Materials Science and Engineering (Including recruiting and employment affairs for students),2007:Emeritus Professor of Liaoning University of　Science and Technology, China.
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Academic Award

(Best Paper)

1976, April　 TAWARA Best Paper Award of ISIJ（2 Papers：Mathematical Model of Blast Furnace with Horizontally Layered Burdens, Mathematical Model of Blast Furnace with Radially Distributed Burdens）

2002, March　SAWAMURA Best Paper Award of ISIJ（Desulfurization of Molten Iron with Magnesium Vapor Produced In-situ by Carbothermic Reduction of Magnesium Oxide）

2007, March　SAWAMURA Best Paper Award of ISIJ（Morphology Control of Copper Sulfide in Strip Casting of Low Carbon Steel）

(Academic Achievement）

1997, March　　　NISHIYAMA Memorial Award of ISIJ
　　（Mathematical Modeling of Materials Production Processes）

2007, March　　　Best Academic Achievement Award of ISIJ
　　(Reacction Engineering Based Research on Base-Materials Production Processes)

2007,September　5th　Significant　Contribution　Award　of　JIM(The　Japan　Institute　of　Metals）

（Best Research Group）（YAMAOKA Best Research Group Awards of ISIJ)

1986 March Committee on Reaction within Blast Furnace
1995 March Committee on Advanced Ironmaking Technologies
2005 March Committee on Innovative Design of Highly Effective Mixing/Separation Reactor

Academic Society

The Iron and Steel Institute of Japan(ISIJ), The Japan Institute of Metals(JIM), The Society of Chemical Engineers, Japan(SCES), Japan Society of Applied Electromagnetics and Mechanics, Materials Research Society of Japan, Mining and Materials Processing Institute of Japan (MMIJ), Institute of Physics, TMS(USA), AIST(USA).

Main Publications

＜Ultrasonic Processing, Sonoprocessing＞

(1) Cold Model Study on Mass-Transfer Enhancement at Gas-Liquid Interfaces Exposed to Sound Waves, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions, Part B, 38(2007)5, pp.809-818.
(2) Influence of High-Power Ultrasonic Irradiation on Primary Nucleation Process during Solidification, Jpn. J. Appl. Phys, 46(2007), No. 7B, pp. 4939-4944.
(3) (Review) High Power Ultrasonics in Pyrometallurgy: Current Status and Recent Development, ISIJ International, 45(2005)12, pp. 1765 - 1782.
(4) Acoustic Cavitation Based Production of Foamed Metallic Material, Jpn. J. Appl. Phys, 45(2006), No. 5B, pp. 4793 - 4799.
(5) Visualization of Acoustically Induced Cavitation Bubbles and Microjets with the Aid of High Speed Camera, Jpn. J. Appl. Phys., 44(2005), No. 6B, pp. 4647 - 4652.
(6) Design of Ultrasonic Field in Liquid Metal Processing, Tetsu-to-Hagane,86(2000)9, pp.625-632.
(7)    Orientation of Fibers in Liquid by Applying Ultrasonic Standing Wave, Jpn. J. Appl. Phys.,39(2000) 6A, pp.3683-3687.
(8)    Effect of Process Parameters on Ultrasonic　Separation of Dispersed Particles in Liquid, Jpn. J.Appl. Phys, 38(1999)5B, pp.3096-3100.
(9)    Suppression of Slag Foaming under Sound Wave Application, ISIJ International. 40(2000)5, pp.431-437.
(10)    Control of Foam Height by Using Sound Waves, ISIJ International, 39(1999)12, pp.1207-1216.

＜Ironmaking＞
(11) Mechanism of Carbothermic Reduction of Hematite in Hematite-Carbon Composite Pellets, ISIJ International, 47(2007)10, pp.1394-1400.
(12) Advances in Transport Phenomena Based Mathematical Model of Blast Furnace, Proc. Japan- Korea Workshop on Science and Technology in Ironmaking and Steelmaking, Chiba, March 30-31(2003), pp.83-88.
(13)   Mathematical Two-dimensional Model of the Blast Furnace Process, Tetsu-to-Hagane,77(1992)10, pp.1593- 1600.
(14)   Analysis of Combustion Zone in Raceway under Operation of Pulverized Coal Injection, Tetsu-to-Hagane, 72(1986)14, pp.1847-1854.
(15)   Mathematical Modelling for Process of Direct Reduction of Iron Ore by Rotary Kiln, Tetsu-to-Hagane, 72(1986)3, pp.380-387.
(16) Mathematical Model of Blast Furnace with Horizontally Layered Burdens, Trans. ISIJ, 17(1977)5, pp.271-277.
(17) Mathematical Model of Blast Furnace with Radially Distributed Burdens, Trans. ISIJ, 17(1977)6, pp.321-329.

＜Steelmaking / Refining＞

(18) Effect of Lime Particle Size on Melting Behavior of Lime-Containing Flux, ISIJ International, 47(2007)10, pp.1401-1408.
(19) Mechanism of Carbothermic Reduction of Chromium Oxide, ISIJ International, 47(2007)10, pp.1387-1393.
(20) Characteristics of Inclusions Generated during Al-Mg Complex Deoxidation of Molten Steel, ISIJ International, 47(2007)10, pp.1379-1386.
(21) In Situ Observation of Aluminothermic Reduction of MgO with High Temperature Optical Microscope, ISIJ International, 46(2006)2, pp. 202 - 209.
(22) Prevention of Resulfurization in the Desulfurization Process with Magnesium Vapor Produced In Situ by Aluminothermic Reduction of Magnesium Oxide, ISIJ International, 45(2005)12, pp. 1795 - 1803.
(23) Mechanism of Resulfurization in the Magnesium Desulfurization Process of Molten Iron, ISIJ International, 45(2005)11, pp. 1607 - 1615.
(24) Behavior of Magnesium in the Desulfurization Process of Molten Iron with Magnesium Vapor Produced In-situ by Aluminothermic Reduction of Magnesium Oxide, ISIJ International, 42(2002)7, pp.685-693.
(25) Desulfurization of Molten Iron with Magnesium Vapor Produced In-situ by Carbothermic Reduction of Magnesium Oxide, ISIJ International, 41(2001)9, pp. 945-954.
(26) Deoxidation of Molten Iron with Magnesium Vapor produced In-situ by Aluminothermic Reduction of Magnesia, Tetsu-to-Hagane, 88(2002)6, pp. 306-313.
(27) Deoxidation of Molten Iron with Magnesium Vapor produced In-situ by Carbothermic Reduction of Magnesia, Tetsu-to-Hagane, 87(2001)10, pp. 635-642.

＜Solidification / Texture Control＞

(28) Nucleation of Acicular Ferrite on Sulfide Inclusion during Rapid Solidification of Low Carbon Steel ISIJ International, 47(2007)12, pp.1781-1788.
(29) Interaction between Phosphorus Micro-Segregation and Sulfide Precipitation in Rapidly Solidified Steel－Utilization of Impurity Elements in Scrap Steel, Materials Transactions, 48(2007)12, pp.3709-3087.
(30) Effect of Iron and/or Carbon on the Grain Refinement of Mg-3Al Alloy, Materials Transactions, 48(2007)11, pp.2903-2908.
(31) Isothermal Precipitation Behavior of Copper Sulfide in Ultra Low Carbon Steel, ISIJ International, 47(2007)11, pp.1672-1679.
(32) “In-situ” Observation of the delta/gamma Phase Transformation on the Surface of Low Carbon Steel Containing Phosphorous with different Cooling Rates. ISIJ International, 46(2006)6, pp. 847 - 853.
(33) Morphology and Precipitation Mechanism of Copper Sulfide in Strip Casting of Low Carbon Steels, ISIJ International, 46(2006) 5, pp. 744 - 753.
(34) Process Analysis of Non-contact Continuous Casting of Materials Using Cold Crucible, ISIJ International, 36(1996)4, pp.380-387.
(35) Theoretical Analysis and Model Experiment on Thermosolutal Convection during Uni-directional Solidification in the Vertical Direction, Tetsu-to-Hagane, 75(1989)4, pp.618-625.

＜Combustion Synthesis, Environment＞
(36) Mechanism of Aluminothermic Reduction of Chromium Oxide, Journal of High Temperature Society of Japan, 34(2008)1, In Print.
(37) Numerical Analysis of Self-Propagating High-Temperature Synthesis(SHS) Combustion Wave Based on Movable Non-uniform Grid, Intern. Journal of Self-Propagating High-Temperature Synthesis, 4(1995)3, pp.253-261.
(38) Thermit Reaction Assisted Agglomeration of Iron Ore, Proc. Int. Conf. on Steel And Society (ICSS 2000). Osaka, June 4-6 (2000), pp.81-84.
(39) Influences of Process Parameters on Stable Propagation of SHS Combustion Wave, Proc. 1^st Russian-Japanese Workshop on SHS: “Just before the Jump into a New Millenium”, Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, Oct.30-Nov.3, (1998), pp.35-38.

＜Books＞
(40) Moving Bed Reactor“Practice and Fundamentals”, (Co-author), (Hokkaido University Press, 2000).
(41) Advances in Transport Processes in Metallurgical Systems: Principles of Metallurgical Reaction Engineering, (Co-author), (Elsevier Applied Science Pub, 1992).
(42) Blast Furnace Phenomena and Modelling, (Co-author), (Elsevier Applied Science Pub, 1987).

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