Lab Members

Research Area

• Geologic Carbon Sequestration
• Enhanced Oil Recovery
• Nanoparticles

Biography

Hirotake Kitagawa is a visiting researcher in the Hildebrand Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Chemical Engineering from Chiba University in Japan. Since 2024, he has been collaborating with Professor Ryosuke Okuno on the application of silica nanofluids for geologic carbon sequestration.

Hirotake brings a decade of experience from his work in the inorganic material department at Nissan Chemical Corporation, where he has focused on the development of inorganic nanoparticles for geologic carbon sequestration and enhanced oil recovery.

Education

• M.S. in Chemical Engineering (2014), Chiba University, Japan
• B.E. in Chemical Engineering (2012), Chiba University, Japan

Representative Publications

• NK. Jha, H. Kitagawa, M. Abe, T. Sonoda, S. Murakami, M. Farrokhrouz, A. Keshavarz, S. Iglauer, SPE-215252-MS, “Chemically enhanced carbon dioxide geosequestration using nanofluids”
  DOI: 10.2118/215252-MS
• H. Kitagawa, N. Ichikuni, H. Okuno, T. Hara, S. Shimazu, Appl. Catal. A. 478 (2014) 66-70, “XAFS and HAADF STEM combined characterization for size regulated Ni nanocluster catalyst and its unique size dependence for water gas shift reaction”
  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apcata.2014.03.031