Shirai Marie

Shirai Marie

• Research Worker Tokyo Gas Co., Ltd.

Shirai Marie has worked on the Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) at the Energy System Research Institute in Tokyo Gas for four years. She works in the SOFC cell stack which is one of the main parts of the SOFC system and is making the SOFC system with ready-made blowers to accelerate the development of a new SOFC system for commercial application. Shirai holds Bachelor and Master Degrees in Applied Chemistry from Waseda University.

Shirai developed the high generation efficiency system with Hatae Toru, Nakamura Kazuo, Ide Takahiro, Nakajima Tatsuya, Dohokoh Tatsuki and Akabaane Shunnosuke. They demonstrated the 5 kW class small output SOFC system with 65% power generation efficiency for LHV in Tokyo Gas CO., Ltd.