邁向頂尖大學計畫

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國立成功大學「邁向頂尖大學計畫」

　　延攬優秀人才工作報告表

NCKU’s “Aim for the Top University Project”

Work Report Form for Distinguished Scholars

□續聘continuation of employment ■離職resignation

100 年 7 月 13 日更新受聘者姓名

Name of the Employee 西田靖 ^■男

Male Female

聘期 Period of Employment

from 2014 年(y) 7 月(m) 1 日(d) to 2015 年(y) 7 月(m) 31 日(d) 研究或教學或科技研發與

管理計畫名稱 The project title of research,

teaching, technology development and management

邁向頂尖大學計畫

計畫主持人

（申請單位主管）

Project Investigator (Head of Department/Center)

談永頤

補助延聘編號

Grant Number HUA 103 - 25 - 2 - 302

一、研究、教學、科技研發與管理工作全程經過概述。（由受聘人填寫）

Please summarize the entire research, teaching, or science and technology R&D and management work process (To be completed by the employee)

Dr. Y. Nishida had started the plasma application research works recent about 15 years, before that and including overlapping duration, he worked on basic plasma physics phenomena and made many remarkable results. After joining NCKU, he mainly focused on plasma applications related to (1) industrial fields and (2) plasma medicine.

In the industrial applications, Dr. Nishida made patent applications to Japan, USA, Europe and Taiwan, in addition to publications of basic results in the world wide journals as well.

Some of the patent applications have been approved and now he is collaborating with companies which will make commercial materials. In order to realize patents, he had performed many basic researches together with other colleagues.

The basic plasma physics fields Dr. Nishida worked include the subjects related to non-linear plasma wave phenomena and plasma based high energy particle accelerations, in which he is one of the most highly evaluated researchers in the world.

I. In the following recent results related to plasma applications are briefly explained.

1. Prolonged preservation system with use of Plasma.

By using High Electric Field Plasma (HEFP), this concept was first proposed by Nishida [1], he invented prolonged preservation system of fresh plants, including vegetables, fruits and flowers using well-controlled refrigerator with HEFP system. By this method, he succeeded prolonged preservation more than 2- 10 times longer compared with popular techniques or the case the materials left in the room in daily life. He obtained the related patents in 2005 and 2006 in Japan [2,3]. He with his colleagues had Gold medal [4,5] and Silver medal [6].

2. Air cleaning system

With use of HEFP system Dr. Nishida had another patent related to air cleaning system. With this air cleaner, bacteria had been eliminated and also bad smell chemicals, such as ammonia, toluene, or ethylene had been decomposed, are dissolved. At the same time this system decomposes water vapor and the condition in the room was made dry up. This system can be applied to medical fields for sterilization of the contaminated room. [7,8] We had Gold medal [6,9].

In the advanced machine, micro-particles such as less than 3 μm will be caught in air cleaner and this system is now on sale in Taiwan.

3. Hydrogen production system working on vehicle

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This was the main project at NCKU, and I had spent most of the time for the related research works [10-12]. Low carbon emission is the national and international key issues for energy usage in the 21^st century. To reduce carbon emission, hydrogen fuel cells system is the best candidate to power vehicles or produce electricity for up to several hundred kW.

There are several methods to produce hydrogen;

1. Chemical methods including

(1) Partial oxidation, (2) Steam reforming, (3) Dry CO2 reforming and others.

2. Plasma assisted reforming including

(1)Thermal plasma treatment, (2) Nonthermal plasma treatment,

All of those methods are mainly performed in large chemical plants, specifically chemical methods, or in laboratories as basic experimental trials. Therefore, produced hydrogen must be put into the conveyable tank in order to put or carries hydrogen to the places where the gas is consumed. In this process, the hydrogen gas must be cooled down to about 20 K temperature and compressed under a high pressure over 100 kPa, and then compressed into small tanks. Thus, new liquid hydrogen storage facilities should be set up in populated areas.

On vehicles powered by hydrogen fuel cells, liquid hydrogen in a small tank is fed continuously to the fuel cell battery. Producing liquid hydrogen requires much more energy than liquid hydrocarbons. For example, in order to make liquid propane, it spends only about 9% of the energy required for producing liquid hydrogen.

A highly efficient method for hydrogen production and purification powered by the electric batteries on vehicles is proposed and the experimental verifications of hydrogen production have been done. The produced hydrogen will be fed directly to the fuel cell on vehicles to produce electricity for driving vehicles. Liquefied hydrocarbons such as the liquefied natural gas (LNG) are the original fuel and are decomposed into hydrogen and carbon by plasma reactor. The carbon produced in this process is stored inside the reactor and is taken out later during regular cleanings. Because there is no oxygen inside the reactor, there is no emission of CO2 gas in this process. The whole hydrogen-powered electricity generation system can be combined with other driving system. One example is to combine with electric vehicles (EV). In this system it is possible to greatly reduce the electricity required for charging the batteries on EV from the power lines, thus it is possible to reduce large amount of exhaust gases from the power plant including CO2, NOx and others. Therefore, the proposed system is a real clean energy system. For realizing the whole system in commercial base, we need additional investment to improve the reactor efficiency and purification filter.

For these purposes, it is better to cooperate with commercial companies for developing the realistic system for commercial use. The system has possibilities using for moving vehicles on board and for residential and industrial usage.

We had patents in Japan (2010) and Taiwan (2011, 2013) and applied in USA (2014) [13-15]. We obtained Silver Medal [5] and Gold medal [6].

II In the following, research results related to basic plasma phenomena are described briefly.

1.Plasma based high energy particle accelerators

Dr. Nishida worked for long duration on non-linear plasma physics phenomena. Some old results related to plasma based high energy accelerator concept and related experimental results have been evaluated highly and he received “The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan”. (April 11, 2011). Recent 5 year he with his colleagues is interested in the radiation phenomena, specifically THz range radiation, because new radiation phenomena should be clarified [16-25].

2. Solitary wave phenomena

Solitary wave in a plasma makes reflection and refraction and these phenomena have been

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investigated both in uniform and/ or non-uniform plasma. Historically I am a first discoverer of the reflection phenomena of ion acoustic soliton in non-uniform plasma including boundary (1984). Since then I have collaborated many researchers and recently I am interested in the reflection phenomena in magnetized plasma. So far no one was interested in this phenomenon [26-29].

3. Plasma diagnostic methods

We have to develop new or advanced method or techniques required for measuring the plasma characteristics. We are developing the advanced plasma density fluctuation measuring method or plasma parameter measuring method [30-33].

III In the following the class works are reviewed.

In the regular class, I gave a lecture and had a seminar course for the students. In the lecture, I used the my own text book containing the “plasma applications”, which includes, 1) basic plasma phenomena in the universe, 2) plasma production methods in the laboratory and related machines, 3) plasma diagnostics, and 4) plasma applications to energy, environmental fields, and medical fields. These contents are even basic and including much deeper contents, we made a book entitled, “Introduction to Plasma Phenomena and Plasma Medicine” [34].

I also had regularly a seminar type class, in which each student has to select published papers related their own fields and presents the contents precisely to other students attending this class.

References:

[1] C.M. Liu, Y. Nishida, K. Iwasaki, and K. Ting, IEEE Trans. on Plasma Sci., 39, pp.

717-724. (2011)).

[2] 西田靖、長澤武、湯上登伊藤弘昭、川津輝雄 , Japanese patent, applied:1998-11-12, approved: 2006-06-23, patent No.:3819167.

[3] 西田靖、長澤武、岩崎憲一, Japanese patent, applied: 2001-11-22.approved:

2005-3-4. Patent No.:3650932

[4] The Best Innovation of 5th International Warsaw Invention Show, IWIS 2011, Nov.

5th, 2011, Warsaw, Poland,

[5] XV Moscow International Salon of Inventions and Innovation Technologies

"Archimedes-2012", held on March 20-23, 2012, at Moscow, Russia.

[6] The 26^th World Genius Convention, Oct. 25-26, 2012, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan.

[7]Yasushi Nishida, Chung-Ming Liu, Fang-Yu Fan, Kenichi Iwasaki, and Keng-Liang Ou, J. Exp. Clin.

Med. 5(1): pp.5-11 (2013)).

[8] Y. Nishida and K. Iwasaki,, Japanese patent: applied: 2009-7-14, approved: 2013-11-15.

Patent No.: 5409151.

[9] The 29^th World Genius Convention, July 4-5, 2015, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan.

[10] Y. Nishida, C. Z. Cheng and K. Iwasaki, IEEE Trans. Plasma Science, 42, pp.3674 – 3680 (2014).

[11] Y. Nishida, H.C. Chaing, T. C. Chen, and C. Z. Cheng, IEEE Trans. Plasma Science, 42, pp. 3765 – 3771 (2014).

[12] Y. Nishida, H.C. Chaing, T. C. Chen, T. Konishi and C. Z. Cheng, IEEE Trans. Plasma Science, (in press).

[13] Y. Nishida, C.M. Liu and K. Iwasaki, Patent, applied to Japanese patent, 2010-8-18, approved: 2014-11-2. Patent No.: 5641814. Applied to Taiwan Patent: 2011-8-18, approved:

2014-5-30, Taiwan Patent No. :100 129 597

[14]. Y. Nishida, C. Z. Cheng, C.M. Liu and K. Iwasaki, “Plasma Hydrogen Generation Device for New Energy Car”. Applied Taiwan patent, March 28, 2013, approved: 2015-2-21.

Patent No.: 473912

[15] Y. Nishida, C. Z. Cheng, and C.M. Liu, “Plasma Hydrogen Generation Device for New

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Energy Car” (applied USA patent, March 28, 2014).

[16] Y. Nishida, M.Yosizumi, and R.Sugihara, Phys. Lett. 105A, 300 (1984).

[17] Y. Nishida, M.Yoshizumi, and R.Sugihara, Phys. Fluids 28, 1574 (1985).

[18] Y. Nishida and N.Y. Sato, Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, No.6, 653-656 (1987).

[19] Y. Nishida and T. Shinozaki, Phys. Rev .Lett. 65, No.19, pp.2386-2389 (1990)).

[20] Y. Nishida, N. Yugami, H. Onihashi, T. Taura, and K. Otuka, Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, No.14, pp.1854-1857 (1991).

[21] H. Nakanishi, Y. Yoshida, Y. Nishida, et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, pp.1870-1873 (1991).

[22] Y. Nishida, T. Okazaki, N. Yugami, and T. Nagasawa, Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, pp.2328-2331 (1991)

[23] K. Nakajima, A. Ogata, Y. Nishida, et al , Phys. Rev. Lett. 74, pp 4428-4431 (1995)).

[24] H. Ito, Y.Nishida and N.Yugami, Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, pp 4540-4543 (1996)).

[25] Anil K. Malik, Hitendra K. Malik and Y. Nishida, Physics Letters A. 375, pp.

1191-1194, (2011)

[26] Y. Nishida and T. Nagasawa, Phys. Rev. Lett. 45, 1626 (1980).

[27] T. Nagasawa and Y. Nishida, Phys. Rev. Lett. 56, 2688 (1986).

[28] Y. Nishida and T. Nagasawa, Phys. Fluids 29, 345 (1987).

[29] H.K. Malik, D.K. Singh, and Y. Nishida, Physics of Plasmas. (2009) 16, 072112.-1-7).

[30] H. Ito, W. Sakai, N. Yugami and Y. Nishida, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 73, 2002, pp.

4229-4231 (2002)).

[31] H. Ito, R. Oba, N. Yugami and Y. Nishida, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 75, pp.3294-3297 (2004).

[32] T.Y. Hsieh, E. Kawamori, and Y. Nishida, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 84, 023502 (2013)).

[33] E. Kawamori, Y.H. Lin, A. Mase, Y. Nishida, and C. Z. Cheng, Rev. of Sci. Instr. 85, 023507 (2014).

[34] Yasushi Nishida and Keng-Liang Ou, “Introduction to Plasma Phenomena and Plasma Medicine”, Wu-Nan Book Inc., Taiwan (in print).

二、研究或教學或科技研發與管理成效評估（由計畫主持人或單位主管填寫）

Please evaluate the performance of research, teaching or science and technology R&D and management Work: (To be completed by Project Investigator or Head of Department/Center)

(1)是否達到延攬預期目標？

Has the expected goal of recruitment been achieved?

是。西田靖教授於本年度聘期內取得專利 2 項(水素発生装置並びにその装置を用いた自動車用燃料発電装置、新能源汽車用電漿產氫裝置)，發表期刊論文 2 篇、會議論文 3 篇、專書 1 本，已經完成階段性預期工作成果。

(2)研究或教學或科技研發與管理的方法、專業知識及進度如何？

What are the methods, professional knowledge, and progress of the research, teaching, or R&D and management work?

西田靖教授的專長為電漿產業應用，尤其將電漿技術應用於氫能、環境改善、醫療科技等，他也是美國物理學會會士，榮獲許多國際獎項，專業能力獲國際認可。

(3)受延攬人之研究或教學或科技研發與管理成果對該計畫(或貴單位)助益如何？

How have the research, teaching, or R&D and management results of the employed person given benefit to the project (or your unit)?

西田靖教授為協助本所轉型跨入新式專利研發與創新電漿產業應用領域之重量級師資，本所借重他的產業合作經驗，開授電漿產業技術相關課程。

(4)受延攬人於補助期間對貴單位或國內相關學術科技領域助益如何？

How has the employed person, during his or her term of employment, benefited your unit or the relevant domestic academic field?

西田靖教授開授「電漿現象之應用」與「電漿物理專題」等課程，並協助本所轉型跨入新式專利研發與創新電漿產業應用領域，且取得專利及發表論文研究成果於國際知名頂尖期刊。

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(5)具體工作績效或研究或教學或科技研發與管理成果：

Please describe the specific work performance, or the results of research, teaching, or R&D and management work:

在本校任職期間，榮獲 2011 年日本文部科學大臣科學技術獎、2011 年第 5 屆波蘭華沙國際發明展暨發明競賽金牌及特別獎、台北醫學大學生醫物理學講座教授，並執行多個研究計畫。成功完成階段性預期工作成果。

(6)是否續聘受聘人? Will you continue hiring the employed person? □續聘Yes ■不續聘No 經費不足

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