List of works - Taku Matsushita

Adsorption capacities of activated carbons for geosmin and 2-methylisoborneol vary with activated carbon particle size: Effects of adsorbent and adsorbate characteristics.

scientific article

Analysing mass balance of viruses in a coagulation-ceramic microfiltration hybrid system by a combination of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method and the plaque forming units (PFU) method.

scientific article

Assessment of indirect inhalation exposure to formaldehyde evaporated from water

scientific article published on 23 April 2019

Assessment of the efficacy of membrane filtration processes to remove human enteric viruses and the suitability of bacteriophages and a plant virus as surrogates for those viruses

scientific article published on 24 February 2017

Branched pore kinetic model analysis of geosmin adsorption on super-powdered activated carbon.

scientific article published on 19 April 2009

Changes in mutagenicity and acute toxicity of solutions of iodinated X-ray contrast media during chlorination.

scientific article published on 27 April 2015

Changes in mutagenicity of herbicide chlornitrofen during biodegradation.

scientific article

Characteristics and components of poly-aluminum chloride coagulants that enhance arsenate removal by coagulation: Detailed analysis of aluminum species.

scientific article

Characteristics of competitive adsorption between 2-methylisoborneol and natural organic matter on superfine and conventionally sized powdered activated carbons ⬇️

scientific article published on June 16, 2012

Comparison of behaviors of two surrogates for pathogenic waterborne viruses, bacteriophages Qbeta and MS2, during the aluminum coagulation process.

scientific article published on 19 November 2008

Comparison of natural organic matter adsorption capacities of super-powdered activated carbon and powdered activated Carbon

scientific article published on 04 June 2010

Corrigendum to "Investigation of enteric adenovirus and poliovirus removal by coagulation processes and suitability of bacteriophages MS2 and φX174 as surrogates for those viruses" [Sci. Total Environ. 563-564(2016) 29-39].

scientific article published on 26 October 2016

Direct observation of solid-phase adsorbate concentration profile in powdered activated carbon particle to elucidate mechanism of high adsorption capacity on super-powdered activated carbon

scientific article published on 06 September 2010

Effect of natural organic matter on powdered activated carbon adsorption of trace contaminants: characteristics and mechanism of competitive adsorption.

scientific article published in November 2003

Effect of rice-cooking water to the daily arsenic intake in Bangladesh: results of field surveys and rice-cooking experiments

scientific article published on 01 January 2009

Effects of decreasing activated carbon particle diameter from 30 μm to 140 nm on equilibrium adsorption capacity.

scientific article published in August 2017

Elimination of representative contaminant candidate list viruses, coxsackievirus, echovirus, hepatitis A virus, and norovirus, from water by coagulation processes.

scientific article published on 8 December 2016

Evaluation of the suitability of a plant virus, pepper mild mottle virus, as a surrogate of human enteric viruses for assessment of the efficacy of coagulation-rapid sand filtration to remove those viruses.

scientific article published on 21 November 2017

Exposure assessment of metal intakes from drinking water relative to those from total diet in Japan

scientific article published on 01 January 2010

Geosmin and 2-methylisoborneol adsorption on super-powdered activated carbon in the presence of natural organic matter.

scientific article published on January 2010

Identification of a mutagenic chlorination by-product produced from (E)-1, 3-dichloropropene (a component of nematocide DD) by using high resolution LC/MS and multivariate analysis

scientific article published on 14 September 2018

Identification of mutagenic transformation products generated during oxidation of 3-methyl-4-nitrophenol solutions by orbitrap tandem mass spectrometry and quantitative structure-activity relationship analyses.

scientific article published on 14 November 2017

Identifying, counting, and characterizing superfine activated-carbon particles remaining after coagulation, sedimentation, and sand filtration.

scientific article published on 17 March 2018

Improved virus removal by high-basicity polyaluminum coagulants compared to commercially available aluminum-based coagulants.

scientific article

Investigation of enteric adenovirus and poliovirus removal by coagulation processes and suitability of bacteriophages MS2 and φX174 as surrogates for those viruses.

scientific article published on 29 April 2016

Isotope Microscopy Visualization of the Adsorption Profile of 2-Methylisoborneol and Geosmin in Powdered Activated Carbon

scholarly article by Yoshihiko Matsui et al published 8 September 2014 in Environmental Science & Technology

Mechanisms of trichloramine removal with activated carbon: stoichiometric analysis with isotopically labeled trichloramine and theoretical analysis with a diffusion-reaction model.

scientific article

Micro-milling of spent granular activated carbon for its possible reuse as an adsorbent: Remaining capacity and characteristics.

scientific article published on 14 February 2017

Micro-milling super-fine powdered activated carbon decreases adsorption capacity by introducing oxygen/hydrogen-containing functional groups on carbon surface from water

scientific article published on 20 February 2019

Minimizing residual aluminum concentration in treated water by tailoring properties of polyaluminum coagulants ⬇️

scientific article published on January 31, 2013

Minimizing residual black particles in sand filtrate when applying super-fine powdered activated carbon: Coagulants and coagulation conditions

scientific article published on 05 October 2018

Modeling high adsorption capacity and kinetics of organic macromolecules on super-powdered activated carbon.

scientific article published on 24 November 2010

Monte-Carlo and multi-exposure assessment for the derivation of criteria for disinfection byproducts and volatile organic compounds in drinking water: Allocation factors and liter-equivalents per day

scientific article published on 16 March 2018

Mutagenic fate of insecticide fenitrothion in the environment-mutagenicity increases both by anaerobic biodegradation and photodegradation.

scientific article published in January 2008

Mutagenicity of anaerobic fenitrothion metabolites after aerobic biodegradation.

scientific article published on 13 April 2005

Prediction of 1,4-dioxane decomposition during VUV treatment by model simulation taking into account effects of coexisting inorganic ions

scientific article published on 26 July 2019

Relative source allocation of TDI to drinking water for derivation of a criterion for chloroform: A Monte-Carlo and multi-exposure assessment ⬇️

scientific article published on July 16, 2013

Removal of iodide from water by chlorination and subsequent adsorption on powdered activated carbon

scientific article

Removals of pesticides and pesticide transformation products during drinking water treatment processes and their impact on mutagen formation potential after chlorination

scientific article published on 16 March 2018

Selecting analytical target pesticides in monitoring: Sensitivity analysis and scoring

scientific article published on 25 November 2011

Selecting pesticides for inclusion in drinking water quality guidelines on the basis of detection probability and ranking.

scientific article published on 26 November 2013

Sensitivity analysis using a diffuse pollution hydrologic model to assess factors affecting pesticide concentrations in river water

scientific article published on January 2010

Suitability of pepper mild mottle virus as a human enteric virus surrogate for assessing the efficacy of thermal or free-chlorine disinfection processes by using infectivity assays and enhanced viability PCR

scientific article published on 10 September 2020

Superiority of wet-milled over dry-milled superfine powdered activated carbon for adsorptive 2-methylisoborneol removal

scientific article published in July 2016

The variation on the mutagenicity of CNP during anaerobic biodegradation.

scientific article published in August 2001

Trichloramine Removal with Activated Carbon Is Governed by Two Reductive Reactions: A Theoretical Approach with Diffusion-Reaction Models

scientific article published on 29 March 2017

Use of gas chromatography-mass spectrometry-olfactometry and a conventional flask test to identify off-flavor compounds generated from phenylalanine during chlorination of drinking water.

scientific article published on 30 August 2017

Use of orbitrap-MS/MS and QSAR analyses to estimate mutagenic transformation products of iopamidol generated during ozonation and chlorination

scientific article

Virus inactivation during coagulation with aluminum coagulants.

scientific article

Virus inactivation in aluminum and polyaluminum coagulation.

scientific article published in November 2003

List of works by Taku Matsushita

Adsorption capacities of activated carbons for geosmin and 2-methylisoborneol vary with activated carbon particle size: Effects of adsorbent and adsorbate characteristics.

Analysing mass balance of viruses in a coagulation-ceramic microfiltration hybrid system by a combination of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method and the plaque forming units (PFU) method.

Assessment of indirect inhalation exposure to formaldehyde evaporated from water

Assessment of the efficacy of membrane filtration processes to remove human enteric viruses and the suitability of bacteriophages and a plant virus as surrogates for those viruses

Branched pore kinetic model analysis of geosmin adsorption on super-powdered activated carbon.

Changes in mutagenicity and acute toxicity of solutions of iodinated X-ray contrast media during chlorination.

Changes in mutagenicity of herbicide chlornitrofen during biodegradation.

Characteristics and components of poly-aluminum chloride coagulants that enhance arsenate removal by coagulation: Detailed analysis of aluminum species.

Characteristics of competitive adsorption between 2-methylisoborneol and natural organic matter on superfine and conventionally sized powdered activated carbons ⬇️

Comparison of behaviors of two surrogates for pathogenic waterborne viruses, bacteriophages Qbeta and MS2, during the aluminum coagulation process.

Comparison of natural organic matter adsorption capacities of super-powdered activated carbon and powdered activated Carbon

Corrigendum to "Investigation of enteric adenovirus and poliovirus removal by coagulation processes and suitability of bacteriophages MS2 and φX174 as surrogates for those viruses" [Sci. Total Environ. 563-564(2016) 29-39].

Direct observation of solid-phase adsorbate concentration profile in powdered activated carbon particle to elucidate mechanism of high adsorption capacity on super-powdered activated carbon

Effect of natural organic matter on powdered activated carbon adsorption of trace contaminants: characteristics and mechanism of competitive adsorption.

Effect of rice-cooking water to the daily arsenic intake in Bangladesh: results of field surveys and rice-cooking experiments

Effects of decreasing activated carbon particle diameter from 30 μm to 140 nm on equilibrium adsorption capacity.

Elimination of representative contaminant candidate list viruses, coxsackievirus, echovirus, hepatitis A virus, and norovirus, from water by coagulation processes.

Evaluation of the suitability of a plant virus, pepper mild mottle virus, as a surrogate of human enteric viruses for assessment of the efficacy of coagulation-rapid sand filtration to remove those viruses.

Exposure assessment of metal intakes from drinking water relative to those from total diet in Japan

Geosmin and 2-methylisoborneol adsorption on super-powdered activated carbon in the presence of natural organic matter.

Identification of a mutagenic chlorination by-product produced from (E)-1, 3-dichloropropene (a component of nematocide DD) by using high resolution LC/MS and multivariate analysis

Identification of mutagenic transformation products generated during oxidation of 3-methyl-4-nitrophenol solutions by orbitrap tandem mass spectrometry and quantitative structure-activity relationship analyses.

Identifying, counting, and characterizing superfine activated-carbon particles remaining after coagulation, sedimentation, and sand filtration.

Improved virus removal by high-basicity polyaluminum coagulants compared to commercially available aluminum-based coagulants.

Investigation of enteric adenovirus and poliovirus removal by coagulation processes and suitability of bacteriophages MS2 and φX174 as surrogates for those viruses.

Isotope Microscopy Visualization of the Adsorption Profile of 2-Methylisoborneol and Geosmin in Powdered Activated Carbon

Mechanisms of trichloramine removal with activated carbon: stoichiometric analysis with isotopically labeled trichloramine and theoretical analysis with a diffusion-reaction model.

Micro-milling of spent granular activated carbon for its possible reuse as an adsorbent: Remaining capacity and characteristics.

Micro-milling super-fine powdered activated carbon decreases adsorption capacity by introducing oxygen/hydrogen-containing functional groups on carbon surface from water

Minimizing residual aluminum concentration in treated water by tailoring properties of polyaluminum coagulants ⬇️

Minimizing residual black particles in sand filtrate when applying super-fine powdered activated carbon: Coagulants and coagulation conditions

Modeling high adsorption capacity and kinetics of organic macromolecules on super-powdered activated carbon.

Monte-Carlo and multi-exposure assessment for the derivation of criteria for disinfection byproducts and volatile organic compounds in drinking water: Allocation factors and liter-equivalents per day

Mutagenic fate of insecticide fenitrothion in the environment-mutagenicity increases both by anaerobic biodegradation and photodegradation.

Mutagenicity of anaerobic fenitrothion metabolites after aerobic biodegradation.

Prediction of 1,4-dioxane decomposition during VUV treatment by model simulation taking into account effects of coexisting inorganic ions

Relative source allocation of TDI to drinking water for derivation of a criterion for chloroform: A Monte-Carlo and multi-exposure assessment ⬇️

Removal of iodide from water by chlorination and subsequent adsorption on powdered activated carbon

Removals of pesticides and pesticide transformation products during drinking water treatment processes and their impact on mutagen formation potential after chlorination

Selecting analytical target pesticides in monitoring: Sensitivity analysis and scoring

Selecting pesticides for inclusion in drinking water quality guidelines on the basis of detection probability and ranking.

Sensitivity analysis using a diffuse pollution hydrologic model to assess factors affecting pesticide concentrations in river water

Suitability of pepper mild mottle virus as a human enteric virus surrogate for assessing the efficacy of thermal or free-chlorine disinfection processes by using infectivity assays and enhanced viability PCR

Superiority of wet-milled over dry-milled superfine powdered activated carbon for adsorptive 2-methylisoborneol removal

The variation on the mutagenicity of CNP during anaerobic biodegradation.

Trichloramine Removal with Activated Carbon Is Governed by Two Reductive Reactions: A Theoretical Approach with Diffusion-Reaction Models

Use of gas chromatography-mass spectrometry-olfactometry and a conventional flask test to identify off-flavor compounds generated from phenylalanine during chlorination of drinking water.

Use of orbitrap-MS/MS and QSAR analyses to estimate mutagenic transformation products of iopamidol generated during ozonation and chlorination

Virus inactivation during coagulation with aluminum coagulants.

Virus inactivation in aluminum and polyaluminum coagulation.