Researcher Profile Minomo

Department・Position

Chemical Substances and Environmental Radioactivity Group / Senior Researcher

Field

Environmental chemistry

Theme of investigation and research

Environmental monitoring, analysis of environmental behavior, development of analytical method, and risk assessment for hazardous chemicals

The subject of research Future aspirations

Environmental behavior of dioxins

Degree

Ph. D.

Career

2000–: Center for Environmental Science in Saitama

Academic society to which belongs

Japan Society for Environmental Chemistry

Writings and Papers

Minomo K., Ohtsuka N., Nojiri K., Motegi M., and Horii Y.: Concentrations of dioxins in ash residue from small-sized incinerators placed at facilities such as schools, Journal of Environmental Chemistry, 22, 193–195 (2012, in Japanese).

Ohtsuka N., Minomo K., and Nojiri K.: Accuracy of annual average TEQ in ambient air dioxins monitoring, Journal of Environmental Chemistry, 22, 59–63 (2012, in Japanese).

Minomo K., Ohtsuka N., Nojiri K., Hosono S., and Kawamura K. : Seasonal change of PCDDs/PCDFs/DL-PCBs in the water of Ayase River, Japan: Pollution sources and their contributions to TEQ, Chemosphere, 85, 188–194 (2011).

Minomo K., Ohtsuka N., Nojiri K., Hosono S., and Kawamura K. : Polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins, dibenzofurans, and dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyls in rice straw smoke and their origins in Japan, Chemosphere, 84, 950–956 (2011).

Minomo K., Ohtsuka N., Nojiri K., Hosono S., and Kawamura K.: A simplified determination method of dioxin toxic equivalent (TEQ) by single GC/MS measurement of five indicative congeners, Analytical Sciences, 27, 421–426 (2011).

Ohtsuka N., Minomo K., and Nojiri K.: A method for estimating TEQ using indicative congeners and its application to quality control of dioxin analysis, Journal of Environmental Chemistry, 21, 79–84 (2011, in Japanese).

Minomo K., Ohtsuka N., Nojiri K., Hosono S., and Kawamura K.: Apportionment of TEQs from four major dioxin sources in Japan on the basis of five indicative congeners, Chemosphere, 81, 985-991 (2010).

Minomo K., Ohtsuka N., Nojiri K., Kurata Y., Karaushi M., and Isobe Y.: Characteristics of azaarenes and dioxins in gases emitted from waste incinerators, Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management, 11, 73–81 (2009).

Ohtsuka N., Hosono S., Nojiri K., and Minomo K.: Estimation of TEQs originated from four kinds of dioxin-sources using four indicator isomers, Journal of Environmental Chemistry, 17, 377–386 (2007, in Japanese).

Ohtsuka N., Minomo K., Hosono S., Kurata Y., and Sugisaki M. : Prediction for photodegradation pathways of PCDDs using semi-empirical molecular orbital method, Organohalogen Compounds, 52, 405–407 and 445 (2001).