New Project “Japan Auto-Oil Program (JATOP)” Launch
Japan Petroleum Energy Center has run “Japan Clean Air Program (JCAP*): Development of fuel and vehicle technologies for improving air quality” conducted in cooperation with oil and automobile industries, and subsidized by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry since FY 1997, to address a key issue of improving air quality by reducing motor vehicle emissions.
(*JCAPI :FY 1997 ~ 2001 JCAPII :FY 2002 ~ 2006)
A new project called Japan Auto-Oil Program (JATOP) has launched as an enhanced form of JCAP in FY 2007. With an eye to addressing global warming issues and ensuring energy security as premises for conservation and improvement of air quality, the five-year program aims to establish fuel and vehicle technologies that might be best suited to solve three issues in parallel: reduced carbon dioxide emissions, fuel diversification and reduced vehicle emissions.
JATOP Conference
JATOP Conference has been held on June 25, 2010 at the Hitotsubashi Memorial Hall, Tokyo, to report the research results of the first three years of this project, where the number of attendees reached about 340.
Original presentation materials have been provided in Japanese only, so that an English translation has been provided for the convenience of the visitors to our website. The English version of the presentation materials from Session II and the JATOP glossary is now available on this site.
| Program | |
| Session I (Keynote lectures)* | |
| (1) | Perspectives on future vehicle and fuel technologies for environment （Yasuhiro Daisho, Professor of the Waseda University Graduate School of Environment and Energy Engineering） |
| (2) | Towards improvements in air quality (Shinji Wakamatsu, Professor of the Ehime University) |
| Session II (Presentation of JATOP research results) | |
| ＜Part 1: JATOP research overview and researches on vehicle and fuel technologies＞ | |
| (1) | Summary report on JATOP research activities |
| (2) | Biofuel/ Gasoline vehicle research WG report |
| (3) | Biofuel/ Diesel vehicle research WG report |
| ＜Part 2: Research on Improving Air quality＞ | |
| (1) | Overview of research on improving air quality - Response to issues on roadside concentrations of NO2 - |
| (2) | Overview of research on improving air quality - Approach to improving simulation accuracy of PM2.5 concentrations - |
| (3) | Overview of research on improving air quality - Overview of regional observation of PM2.5 in summer/ winter - |
| (4) | Overview of research on improving air quality - Summary - |
| JATOP glossary | |
*For keynote lectures, original presentation materials (in Japanese) are available as read only.
There is no plan to translate the presentation materials from Session I into English.