- Personal Information
- Name: Yukihiro Higashi (東 之弘)
- Date of Birth: 29th December 1958 (57 years old)
- Place of Birth: Okayama, Japan
- Nationality: Japanese
- Work Address: Research Center for Next Generation Refrigerant Properties
(NEXT-RP), International Institute for Carbon-Neutral Energy Research (I2CNER),
Kyushu University
744, Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka, 819-0367, Japan
Tel & Fax: +81-92-802-6728
- Academic Qualifications:
- • Ph. D. in Engineering
“Experimental Study of the Vapor-Liquid Coexistence Curve for Halogenated
Hydrocarbons and Their Mixtures in the Critical Region”
Mechanical Engineering Course, Graduate School of Keio University, Yokohama,
Japan, March 1986 (Supervisor: Prof. Koichi Watanabe)
- • M. Sc. in Mechanical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering Course, Graduate School of Keio University,
Yokohama, Japan, March 1983
- • B. Sc. in Mechanical Engineering
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering,
Keio University, Yokohama, Japan, March 1981.
- Professional Carrier
- 1985.10 – 1986.3 Research Fellowship for Young Scientists, Japan Society
for the Promotion of Science
- 1986.4 – 1987.3 Assistant, Department of Mechanical Engineering, College
of Science and Engineering, Meisei University
- 1987.4 – 1991.3 Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering,
College of Science and Engineering, Iwaki Meisei University
- 1991.4 – 2000.3 Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering,
College of Science and Engineering, Iwaki Meisei University
- 1998.4 – 1999.3 Guest Researcher, National Institute of Standards and Technology,
Department of Commerce, Boulder, CO, USA
- 2000.4 – 2016.3 Professor, Department of Science and Engineering, College
of Science and Engineering, Iwaki Meisei University
- 2016.6 – present Professor, Research Center for Next Generation Refrigerant
Properties, International Institute for Carbon-Neutral Energy Research,
Kyushu University
- Membership (as of May 2017)
- • International Institute of Refrigeration (IIR)
Commission B1 Member
International Advisory Board of International Journal of Refrigeration
(IJR)
• Japan Society of Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers (JSRAE)
Chairperson of Technical Committee for Refrigerants
• Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME)
• Japan Society of Thermophysical Properties (JSTP)
• The Heat Transfer Society of Japan (HTSJ)
• Japan Association of Energy and Environmental Education (JAEEE)
Vice President of JAEEE
- Awards
- 1991. 8 Sadi Carnot Award, International Institute of Refrigeration (IIR)
- 2000. 1 Kagaku Keisoku Shinkoukai Award (Kagaku Keisoku Shinkoukai)
- 2010. 6 Research Achievement Award, Environmental Engineering Division,
Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers(JSME)
- 2011. 8 Best Paper Award 2009/2010, International Journal of Refrigeration,
Elsevier.
- 2013. 9 Asian Academic Award, Japan Society of Refrigerating and Air Conditioning
Engineers (JSRAE), The Chinese Association of Refrigeration (CAR), The
Society of Air-Conditioning and Refrigerating Engineers of Korea (SAREK)
- 2015. 8 Best Paper Award 2014/2015, International Journal of Refrigeration,
Elsevier.
- Five selected papers
- 1. "Measurements of PT Properties, Vapor Pressures, Saturated Densities
and Critical
Parameters for R1234ze(Z) and R245fa"
Yukihiro Higashi, Shugo Hayasaka, Chihiro Shirai, and Ryo Akasaka
International Journal of Refrigeration, Vol. 52 (2015), 100-108.
- 2. "Thermodynamic properties of HFO-1234yf(2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene)
"
Katsuyuki Tanaka and Yukihiro Higashi
International Journal of Refrigeration, Vol. 33, No. 3 (2010), 474-479.
- 3. "Critical parameters and saturated densities in the critical region
for trans-1,3,3,3- tetrafluoropropene (HFO-1234ze(E)) "
Yukihiro Higashi, Katsuyuki Tanaka, and Tomohide Ichikawa
Journal of Chemical and Engineering Data, Vol. 55, No. 4 (2010), 1594-1597.
- 4. "Vapor-liquid equilibria for the binary difluoromethane (R-32)
+ propane (R-290) mixture"
Yukihiro Higashi
International Journal of Thermophysics, Vol. 20, No. 2 (1999), 507-518.
- 5. "Critical parameters for HFC134a, HFC32 and HFC125 "
Yukihiro Higashi
International Journal of Refrigeration, Vol. 17, No. 8 (1994), 524-531.