Akira Matsuoka's Biography

Akira Matsuoka, Researcher, Technical Development Group, Kobe Steel Ltd.

I have earned a master’s degree in chemical engineering from Nagoya University, Japan, in 2008. After assigning to the current position at Technical Development Group, Kobe Steel, LTD., I worked for the development of the pressure swing adsorption system for carbon monoxide separation from combustion exhaust gas in iron making plants and petrochemical plants from 2008 to 2011. I am joining to the research and development for micro chemical process technologies from 2011 to present. My current tasks are to establish the methodology for device and process designs of multichannel large capacity micro channel reactor and to develop the applications of our device, stacked multi-channel reactor (SMCR®), for bulk chemical industries.