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Shin-ichi Sakai

Shin-ichi Sakai

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Chemistry

D-Index
52
Citations
10290
World Ranking
13457
National Ranking
1025

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
60
Citations
12898
World Ranking
2931
National Ranking
40

Overview

Shin-ichi Sakai is affiliated with Kyoto University in Japan and has focused research activity primarily within the field of Environmental Science. Their work spans several subfields, including Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Pollution, Mechanical Engineering, and Environmental Engineering.

The research topics central to Sakai's work include Recycling and Waste Management Techniques, Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact, Extraction and Separation Processes, Municipal Solid Waste Management, Microplastics and Plastic Pollution, Environmental Impact and Sustainability, and Sustainable Supply Chain Management.

Frequent coauthors in Sakai's research collaborations include:

  • Yasuhiro Hirai
  • Junya Yano
  • Junichiro Koshiba
  • Hidenori Matsukami
  • Shin Takahashi

Sakai has published in various scientific venues, with multiple papers appearing in:

  • Material Cycles and Waste Management Research
  • Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management
  • Journal of the Japan Society of Material Cycles and Waste Management
  • Environmental Geochemistry and Health
  • Journal of environmental chemical engineering

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Sakai illustrate the range and focus of their research:

  • "A review on management practices, environmental impacts, and human exposure risks related to electrical and electronic waste in Vietnam: findings from case studies in informal e-waste recycling areas," 2022, Environmental Geochemistry and Health
  • "Comparison of end-of-life vehicle material flows for reuse, material recycling, and energy recovery between Japan and the European Union," 2021, Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management
  • "Destruction of decabromodiphenyl ether during incineration of plastic television housing waste at commercial-scale industrial waste incineration plants," 2021, Journal of environmental chemical engineering
  • "Emission of Dioxin-like Compounds and Flame Retardants from Commercial Facilities Handling Deca-BDE and Their Downstream Sewage Treatment Plants," 2021, Environmental Science & Technology
  • "Use of comprehensive target analysis for determination of contaminants of emerging concern in a sediment core collected from Beppu Bay, Japan," 2020, Environmental Pollution

Best Publications

  • Environmental release and behavior of brominated flame retardants.

    Isao Watanabe;Shin-ichi Sakai

  • A novel abbreviation standard for organobromine, organochlorine and organophosphorus flame retardants and some characteristics of the chemicals

    Åke Bergman;Andreas Rydén;Robin J Law;Jacob de Boer

  • Brominated dioxin-like compounds: in vitro assessment in comparison to classical dioxin-like compounds and other polyaromatic compounds.

    Peter Alexander Behnisch;Kazunori Hosoe;Shin-ichi Sakai;Shin-ichi Sakai

  • Bioanalytical screening methods for dioxins and dioxin-like compounds — a review of bioassay/biomarker technology

    Peter A Behnisch;Kazunori Hosoe;Shin-ichi Sakai;Shin-ichi Sakai

  • International comparative study of 3R and waste management policy developments

    Shin-ichi Sakai;Hideto Yoshida;Yasuhiro Hirai;Misuzu Asari

  • Leaching of brominated flame retardants in leachate from landfills in Japan.

    Masahiro Osako;Yong-Jin Kim;Shin-ichi Sakai

  • Municipal solid waste incinerator residue recycling by thermal processes

    Shin-ichi Sakai;Masakatsu Hiraoka

  • Combustion of brominated flame retardants and behavior of its byproducts

    Shin-ichi Sakai;Jun Watanabe;Yoshiharu Honda;Hiroshi Takatsuki

  • Current status and research on E-waste issues in Asia

    Atsushi Terazono;Shinsuke Murakami;Naoya Abe;Bulent Inanc

  • World terends in municipal solid waste management

    S. Sakai;S.E. Sawell;A.J. Chandler;T.T. Eighmy

  • An international comparative study of end-of-life vehicle (ELV) recycling systems

    Shin-ichi Sakai;Hideto Yoshida;Jiro Hiratsuka;Carlo Vandecasteele

  • Brominated Flame Retardants and Other Polyhalogenated Compounds in Indoor Air and Dust From Two Houses in Japan

    Hidetaka Takigami;Go Suzuki;Yasuhiro Hirai;Shin-ichi Sakai

  • Photodegradation of perfluorooctane sulfonate by UV irradiation in water and alkaline 2-propanol.

    Takashi Yamamoto;Yukio Noma;Shin-ichi Sakai;Yasuyuki Shibata

  • Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), polybrominated dibenzo-p-dioxins/dibenzofurans (PBDD/Fs) and monobromo-polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins/dibenzofurans (MoBPXDD/Fs) in the atmosphere and bulk deposition in Kyoto, Japan.

    Kenichi Hayakawa;Hiroshi Takatsuki;Isao Watanabe;Shin-ichi Sakai

  • Polybrominated dibenzo-p-dioxins, dibenzofurans, and diphenyl ethers in Japanese human adipose tissue.

    Jae-Won Choi;T Susumu Fujimaki;Kimiyoshi Kitamura;Shunji Hashimoto

  • Isotope dilution analysis of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in transformer oil and global commercial PCB formulations by high resolution gas chromatography-high resolution mass spectrometry.

    Takumi Takasuga;Kurunthachalam Senthilkumar;Tohru Matsumura;Ken Shiozaki

  • Perinatal Exposure to Brominated Flame Retardants and Polychlorinated Biphenyls in Japan

    Yukiko Kawashiro;Hideki Fukata;Mariko Omori-Inoue;Kiyoshi Kubonoya

  • Congener-Specific Composition of Polychlorinated Naphthalenes, Coplanar PCBs, Dibenzo-p-dioxins, and Dibenzofurans in the Halowax Series

    Yukio Noma;Takashi Yamamoto;Shin-Ichi Sakai

  • Flame retardants in indoor dust and air of a hotel in Japan

    Hidetaka Takigami;Go Suzuki;Yasuhiro Hirai;Yukari Ishikawa

  • Dioxin-like PCBs released from waste incineration and their deposition flux.

    Shin-Ichi Sakai;Kenichi Hayakawa;Hiroshi Takatsuki;Isamu Kawakami

Frequent Co-Authors

Hidetaka Takigami
Hidetaka Takigami National Institute for Environmental Studies
Shin Takahashi
Shin Takahashi Ehime University
Shinsuke Tanabe
Shinsuke Tanabe Ehime University
Masatoshi Morita
Masatoshi Morita United Nations University
Noriyuki Suzuki
Noriyuki Suzuki National Institute for Environmental Studies
Abraham Brouwer
Abraham Brouwer Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Jerzy Falandysz
Jerzy Falandysz Medical University of Lodz
Jinhui Li
Jinhui Li Tsinghua University
Tatsuya Kunisue
Tatsuya Kunisue Ehime University

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