Micro- and Nanobubbles

Hideki Tsuge is professor emeritus of chemical engineering at Keio University, Japan. He received his doctorate in engineering from Keio University in 1973. In 1984, he was visiting professor at Technische Universität Berlin, West Germany. From 1988 to 2007, he was professor in chemical engineering at Keio University, from where he retired in 2007. In 2007, he received the award for outstanding research achievement on bubble characteristics and their engineering applications from the Society of Chemical Engineers, Japan, and the award for outstanding research achievement on the reactive crystallization of dissolved salts in sea water from the Society of Sea Water Science, Japan. Dr. Tsuge has published more than 80 articles in international journals and authored and edited 23 books.

Fundamentals. Characteristics of microbubbles. Formation and analysis of microbubbles. Sonochemistry: Influence of acoustic flow and mechanical flow on the sonochemical efficiency. Application of Microbubbles. Environmental field. Industrial field. Engineering field. Food field. Agricultural・Marine・Stock-Raising field. Medical field. Fluid dynamics field ―Drag reduction of ships. Application of Nanobubbles. Introduction. Medical field.