Professor Yasuyuki Ikegami has served as a Visiting Professor at the Duke University, and Director of the Institute of Ocean Energy, Saga University (IOES). He is a Delegate of Japan on Executive Committee Members of International Energy Agency – Ocean Energy System (IEA-OES) from 2003. And as a coordinator of the TASKFORCE on Status of OTEC and Its Resource Assessment in IEA-OES since 2016. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Hatakeyama Award by Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers and the Global 100 Eco-Tech Award. He is a member of several organizations, including the Japan Solar Energy Society, The Heat Transfer Society of Japan, and The Japan Society of Energy and Resources. He has done research on the optimization of the OTEC system, a heat exchanger (the condenser and the evaporator) for Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC), and By-product of OTEC for OTEC Laboratory in Saga University for almost 35 years. Recently, he has been investigating a new H-OTEC system and Double Rankine Cycle. He has collaborated on the project with several countries, including Malaysia, Indonesia, USA, Republic of Palau, India, and Korea. His special field is in energy conversion engineering, thermodynamic engineering, optimization of energy system, and heat transfer. Other projects include the antifouling of heat exchanger, development of turbine, and control system for the OTEC system.
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