Sota Wada (B4), Department of Chemical System Engineering, recieved SCEJ 89th Annual Meeting Student Encouragement Award

On 19th March 2024, Sota Wada (B4), Sugiyama -Badr Lab., Department of Chemical System Engineering, recieved SCEJ 89th Annual Meeting Student Encouragement Award.

SCEJ 89th Annual Meeting Student Encouragement Award

Among poster presentations by students, the research and presenters were comprehensively evaluated by industry, academia, and government judges, and were awarded to those who were in the top 5% of all the presenters.

About awarded research

Decontamination is an important changeover process in the manufacturing of sterile pharmaceutical products. It is a very time-consuming process, and this has been serving as an issue for the industry. Recently, a new decontamination technology, ultrasound-assisted decontamination, has been developed and is expected to highly improve the productivity of the process. However, ultrasound-assisted decontamination consists of highly complex phenomena and design of the process is mostly done by trial and error. In this work, a high-resolution, high-fidelity model of ultrasound-assisted decontamination was developed using computational fluid dynamics (CFD), and by conducting simulations on this model, insights into designing the process were obtained. The study was conducted as a collaborative research between Airex Co. Ltd., and UTokyo.

Your impression & future plan

I would like to express my gratitude to the collaboration members, and to Prof. Hirokazu Sugiyama and the laboratory members for their huge support on my research. I am very honored to receive such an award at my first conference and would like to further develop my research in my master’s program, encouraged by this award.