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Eiji HIHARA
Project Professor, Research and Development Department,
Natioanal Institution for Academic Degrees and Quality Enhancement of Higher Education
Emeritus Professor
Department of Human and Engineered Environmnental Studies, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences
The University of Tokyo
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Profile
| Professor Hihara received his doctoral degree from University of Tokyo in 1982. He joined the Mechanical Engineering Department of University of Tokyo as a Lecturer in 1982, and became an Associate Professor in 1983. He moved to the Institute of Environmental Studies at University of Tokyo as a Professor in 1999. |
Research Themes
Thermal engineering, Air conditioning and refrigeration engineering, Environmental energy technology
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– Promotion of energy efficiency in residential sector using solar energy
– Cooling systems using solar thermal energy
– Heat pump-desiccant hybrid air-conditioning systems
– Estimation method of annual energy consumption of domestic heat pump water heaters
– Estimation method of annual energy consumption of package air conditioners
– CO2 heat pumps (Cooling heat transfer of supercritical carbon dioxide)
– CO2 heat pumps (Boiling heat transfer of carbon dioxide inside small diameter tubes)
– CO2 heat pumps (Improvement of heat pump performance using an ejector)
– Low GWP refrigerant heat pumps (Vapor-liquid equilibrium for mixed-refrigerant)
– Low GWP refrigerant heat pumps (Boiling heat transfer of HFO-1234yf inside small diameter tubes) |
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