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Hiroaki Furumai

Hiroaki Furumai

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
48
Citations
8145
World Ranking
5569
National Ranking
98

Overview

Hiroaki Furumai is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a significant body of work addressing pollution, water science and technology, health, toxicology, mutagenesis, environmental engineering, and industrial and manufacturing engineering.

The main topics covered by their research include:

  • Water Treatment and Disinfection
  • Fecal contamination and water quality
  • Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Urban Stormwater Management Solutions
  • Analytical chemistry methods development
  • SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing

Furumai has contributed research published in several frequent venues, including:

  • Journal of Water and Environment Technology
  • Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers Ser G (Environmental Research)
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Journal of Disaster Research
  • Chemosphere

Notable recent publications include:

  • A chronicle of SARS-CoV-2: Seasonality, environmental fate, transport, inactivation, and antiviral drug resistance (2020), Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • Applicability of polyethylene glycol precipitation followed by acid guanidinium thiocyanate-phenol-chloroform extraction for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA from municipal wastewater (2020), The Science of The Total Environment
  • Microplastics in urban wastewater and estuarine water: Importance of street runoff (2021), Environmental Monitoring and Contaminants Research
  • Non-target screening of dissolved organic matter in raw water, coagulated water, and chlorinated water by Orbitrap mass spectrometry (2020), Chemosphere
  • Application of Capsid Integrity (RT-)qPCR to Assessing Occurrence of Intact Viruses in Surface Water and Tap Water in Japan (2020), Water Research

Furumai has collaborated extensively with several coauthors including Futoshi Kurisu, Ikuro Kasuga, Manish Kumar, Hiroyuki Katayama, and Yoshihiro Shibuo. These collaborations reflect a well-connected network within environmental science research focused on water quality and contamination.

Their book publication record includes the title Resilience, Response, and Risk in Water Systems (2020) published by Springer International Publishing.

Best Publications

  • Urban rainwater harvesting systems: Research, implementation and future perspectives.

    Alberto Campisano;David Butler;Sarah Ward;Matthew J Burns

  • Dynamic behavior of suspended pollutants and particle size distribution in highway runoff.

    H. Furumai;H. Balmer;M. Boller

  • Present state of rivers and streams in Japan

    Chihiro Yoshimura;Chihiro Yoshimura;Tatsuo Omura;Hiroaki Furumai;Klement Tockner

  • Concurrence of antibiotic resistant bacteria (ARB), viruses, pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) in ambient waters of Guwahati, India: Urban vulnerability and resilience perspective.

    Manish Kumar;Bhagwana Ram;Ryo Honda;Chomphunut Poopipattana

  • Molecular characterization of low molecular weight dissolved organic matter in water reclamation processes using Orbitrap mass spectrometry.

    Phanwatt Phungsai;Futoshi Kurisu;Ikuro Kasuga;Hiroaki Furumai

  • Changes in Dissolved Organic Matter Composition and Disinfection Byproduct Precursors in Advanced Drinking Water Treatment Processes

    Phanwatt Phungsai;Phanwatt Phungsai;Futoshi Kurisu;Ikuro Kasuga;Hiroaki Furumai

  • Size- and density-distributions and sources of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in urban road dust.

    Michio Murakami;Fumiyuki Nakajima;Hiroaki Furumai

  • Rainwater and reclaimed wastewater for sustainable urban water use

    Hiroaki Furumai

  • Direct and indirect inactivation of Microcystis aeruginosa by UV-radiation.

    Zamir Bin Alam;Masahiro Otaki;Hiroaki Furumai;Shinichiro Ohgaki

  • Evaluation of microbial regrowth potential by assimilable organic carbon in various reclaimed water and distribution systems

    Parinda Thayanukul;Futoshi Kurisu;Ikuro Kasuga;Hiroaki Furumai

  • Tracing source and distribution of heavy metals in road dust, soil and soakaway sediment through speciation and isotopic fingerprinting

    Manish Kumar;Hiroaki Furumai;Futoshi Kurisu;Ikuro Kasuga

  • Multiple evaluations of the removal of pollutants in road runoff by soil infiltration.

    Michio Murakami;Nobuyuki Sato;Aya Anegawa;Norihide Nakada

  • Modelling of runoff behaviour of particle-bound polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) from roads and roofs

    Michio Murakami;Fumiyuki Nakajima;Hiroaki Furumai

  • Evaluation of virus removal efficiency of coagulation-sedimentation and rapid sand filtration processes in a drinking water treatment plant in Bangkok, Thailand

    Tatsuya Asami;Hiroyuki Katayama;Jason Robert Torrey;Chettiyappan Visvanathan

  • The sorption of heavy metal species by sediments in soakaways receiving urban road runoff.

    Michio Murakami;Fumiyuki Nakajima;Hiroaki Furumai

  • Validation of Internal Controls for Extraction and Amplification of Nucleic Acids from Enteric Viruses in Water Samples

    Akihiko Hata;Hiroyuki Katayama;Masaaki Kitajima;Chettiyappan Visvanathan

  • Dynamic behavior of fractional suspended solids and particle-bound polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in highway runoff.

    R.K. Aryal;H. Furumai;F. Nakajima;M. Boller

  • Effects of rainfall events on the occurrence and detection efficiency of viruses in river water impacted by combined sewer overflows

    Akihiko Hata;Hiroyuki Katayama;Keisuke Kojima;Shoichi Sano

  • A chronicle of SARS-CoV-2: Seasonality, environmental fate, transport, inactivation, and antiviral drug resistance.

    Manish Kumar;Payal Mazumder;Sanjeeb Mohapatra;Alok Kumar Thakur

  • Applicability of polyethylene glycol precipitation followed by acid guanidinium thiocyanate-phenol-chloroform extraction for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA from municipal wastewater.

    Shotaro Torii;Hiroaki Furumai;Hiroyuki Katayama

  • Predominance of ammonia-oxidizing archaea on granular activated carbon used in a full-scale advanced drinking water treatment plant.

    Ikuro Kasuga;Hirotaka Nakagaki;Futoshi Kurisu;Hiroaki Furumai

Frequent Co-Authors

Klement Tockner
Klement Tockner Goethe University Frankfurt
Enedir Ghisi
Enedir Ghisi Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
Norihide Nakada
Norihide Nakada Kanagawa University
Markus Boller
Markus Boller Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
David Butler
David Butler University of Exeter
Herbert H. P. Fang
Herbert H. P. Fang University of Hong Kong
Hideshige Takada
Hideshige Takada Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Eran Friedler
Eran Friedler Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Simon Beecham
Simon Beecham University of South Australia
Chart Chiemchaisri
Chart Chiemchaisri Kasetsart University

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