Global Zero Emission Research Center(GZR) Overview

KOBAYASHI Tetsuhiko

Vice-President, Director-General,Department of Energy and Environment

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)

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Global Zero Emission Research Center Overview

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Background Oct 2019: “Research and Development 20 for clean energy

technologies (RD20)” hosted by AIST

Oct 2019: Prime Minister Abe unveils plans to establish a “Global Zero Emissions Research Center” at the Green Innovation Summit

Jan 2020: Dr. YOSHINO Akira appointed General-Director of center.

To conduct foundation research pertinent to environmental innovation in order to create innovation vital to strengthening measures to reduce CO2, in accordance with the Japanese government ‘s Progressive Environment Innovation Strategy.

Philosophy To tackle the global challenge that is climate change by gathering the world’s expertise, developing

basic sciences and industrial technologies, and making an Environment and Energy Technology (ET) revolution a reality.

Established January 29, 2020

Purpose

Global Zero emission Research Center (GZR)

Dream of a Zero-emission Society

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Thermoelectric

Power electro

nicsFC BatteryPV

Wind Geothermal

H2Recycling resource

Stational Energy system

Renewable energy

Zero-emission international collaborative research

LCA・Risk assessment

International collaboration

Digitalizationby AI, IoT

Automobile AircraftShip Wearable

Mobility

BasicSpecific technologies

Dem

onstration

Mobile Energy system

Collaboration withUniversities

Collaboration with Industries

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*Its place within the Department of Energy and Environment, AIST

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AIST Tsukuba

AIST Tokyo WaterfrontAIST Kansai ※Headquarters

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GZR Maintenance Area

Completed Image(Slated funding with Supplementary budget)TSUKUBA West Center

●AIST Tokyo Waterfront (Headquarters), AIST Tsukuba (Basic Research)●Fukushima Renewable Energy Research Institute (FREA), AIST Kansai (Experimental Research)

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Global Zero Emission Research Center Locations

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Organic-inorganic Hybrid PV Team

Hydrogen Production and Storage Team

Carbon-based Energy Carrier Research Team

Smart CO2 Utilization Research Team

Environmental and Social Impact Assessment Team

Artificial Photosynthesis Research Team

Thermoelectrics and Thermal Management Team

Fundamentals of Ionic Devices Research Team

Multijunction PV Team

Deputy Director-General(Administrative affairs)

Deputy Director-General

(general affairs）RD20 Secretariat

GZR Organizational Chart

Deputy Director-General

(Research affairs)Director, Research

Planning Office

Resource Circulation Technology Research Team

AIST President

Deputy Director-General

(Assistant affairs)

Materials & Chemistry

Geological Survey of Japan

National Metrology Institute of Japan

Electronics & Manufacturing

Life Science & Biotechnology

Energy & Environment

Fellow(Director, GZR)

Research StrategyAnd Planning Division RD20 Secretariat

Director-General Global Zero Emission Research Center

Director-General, Energy & Environment

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Artificial photosynthesisDeveloping a high-quality photoelectrode catalyst that enables production of hydrogen as well as useful chemicals, (hydrogen peroxide, etc.)

Energy CarrierDeveloping a catalyst that enables synthesis of hydrogen carrierssuch as formic acid and ammonia under conditions milder than theconventional ones.

ThermoelectricDeveloping a high-reliability thermoelectric device with the world’shighest conversion efficiency, enabling direct conversion of wasteheat into electricity.

Organic PV devicesDeveloping high-quality materials/devices with flexibility and permeability for use in mobility/architectural materials/wearable devices.

Main Research Topics

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Electrochemical Reaction ControlBasic research aimed at producing hydrocarbon (methane, etc.) using water electrolysis technology. Establishing a cutting-edge method for evaluating materials needed to develop safe/secure high-performance batteries.

CO2 separation and utilizationDeveloping a catalyst that enables efficient synthesis of methanol (a raw material in the chemical industry) from CO2 at low temperature. Sophistication of methanation process control method for producing methane by the reaction of CO2 and hydrogen.

Energy evaluationDeveloping a technique for the quantitative evaluation of global-scale risk/sustainability from an LCA standpoint by combining energy systems/resource risk analyses.

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Expected international collaborations

Hydrogen carrier, Artificial photosynthesis (BNL)Hydrogen carrier (PNNL)PV, Energy management,LIB (NREL)Thermoelectric(ANL,ORNL)LIB (SLAC)

Hydrogen carrier, PV,Energy management (FhG-ISE)Hydrogen carrier (Leibniz)Thermoelectric, LIB, FC (DLR)

LIB, PV (JRC)

Thermoelectric, Hydrogen carrier (CNRS)PV, LIB, Thermoelectric, FC (CEA)

Energy management (AIT)

Hydrogen storage(TU Delft)

Hydrogen, PV (ETH)

HydrogenCombustion(NRC)

Hydrogen carrier, PV (KAUST)

Hydrogen carrier (KAIST)

PV (CSIRO)Hydrogen Combustion (UNSW)