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• Thermally modified bamboo-eggshell adsorbent for phosphate recovery and its sustainable application as fertilizer

  Sarker Protima, Xin Liu, Naoki Hata, Hiroki Takeshita, Hiroshi Miyamura, Masahiro Maruo

  Elsevier  Environmental Research  231 (Part 1)   115992 -  2023.08

  10.1016/j.envres.2023.115992  Joint Work  Joint(The main charge)

  [Abstract]

  Phosphate recovery from wastewater using readily available biowaste-based adsorbents is beneficial for both eutrophication control and waste management. Bamboo char has a high-density porous structure and eggshell contains CaCO3 with high affinity for phosphate. The combination of calcined bamboo and eggshell is a potential adsorbent for P recovery that has not been tested previously. Because bamboo char and eggshell both are popular for soil amendment, a P-loaded bamboo and eggshell composite is a promising fertilizer for long-term soil improvement. In this work, the feasibility of calcined bamboo and eggshell (BE) for P recovery and its use as fertilizer were investigated. The adsorption capacity and mechanism were examined using adsorption kinetic, isotherm, and thermodynamic analysis. The kinetic study showed that the experimental data sets were fitted best by a pseudo second-order model, indicating chemisorption. The Langmuir isotherm model estimated maximum adsorption capacities of 95.14 and 98.40 mg/g for BE 1:1 and 2:1 adsorbent. Monolayer adsorption occurred on a homogenous surface. The adsorption reaction was non-spontaneous at 298 K and exothermic for the BE 1:1 and 2:1 adsorbent, and the calculated Langmuir separation factor indicated favorable conditions for P adsorption. The desorption study showed lower P desorption capacity in water than in neutral ammonium citrate. P-loaded eggshell-modified bamboo char was an effective slow-release fertilizer for Japanese mustard spinach cultivation, which is a sustainable and environment friendly use of P-loaded materials.

• Assessment of Heavy Metals pollution and contamination in Sediment of the Dhaleswari River, Bangladesh

  Abdullah Al Mamun, Protima Sarker, Md. Shiblur Rahaman, Md. Mahbub Kabir, Masahiro Maruo

   International Journal of Environment  10 (1)   1 - 19  2021.07

  10.3126/ije.v10i1.38399  Joint Work  

• Grain size distribution and chemistry of the brackish Lake sediment in Korea

  I Chan Shin, Tetsuji Akatsuka, Hisayuki Azumi, Lan Ao, Nozomi Amahashi, Maki Oyagi, Noriko Ishida, Naoshige Goto, Masahiro Maruo, Akihiko Yagi, Yashshi Seike, Seung Hyun Lee, Sung Ae Yoon, Jun Kil Choi, Young Woong Byeon, Byung Mo Lee, Osamu Mitamura,Kwang Jin Cho

  Korean Society of Environmental Engineer  Environmental Engineering Research  26 (5)   200365 - *  2020.10

  10.4491/eer.2020.365  Joint Work  Joint(The vice charge)

• Dual stable isotope characterization of excess methane in oxic water of a mesotrophic lake

  UrumuTsunogai, Yuko Miyoshi, Toshiyuki Matsushita, Daisuke D. Komatsu, Masanori Ito, Chiho Sukigara, Fumiko Nakagawa, Masahiro Maruo

  ASLO  Limnology and Oceanography  65 (2)   2937 - 2952  2020.07

  10.1002/lno.11566  Joint Work  Joint(The vice charge)

• Differences in dissolved phosphate in shallow-lake waters as determined by spectrophotometry and ion chromatography

  Yi R., Song P., Liu X., Maruo M., Ban S.

  Springer  Limnology  21 (3)   329 - 339  2019.04

  10.1007/s10201-019-00574-2  Joint Work  Joint(The vice charge)

  [Abstract]

  © 2019, The Japanese Society of Limnology. Phosphorus (P) plays important roles in aquatic ecosystems, but accurately determining phosphorus species (particularly bioavailable phosphate) is difficult. When phosphate concentrations are spectrophotometrically measured as soluble reactive P (SRP), the actual values are often overestimated. Ion chromatography is one method for accurately measuring orthophosphate concentrations. To clarify how the spectrophotometrical measurement overestimates actual phosphate concentrations, we compared estimates of phosphate concentrations in lake waters using both methods. SRP and orthophosphate concentrations in water samples collected from four shallow lakes around Lake Biwa, Japan, were determined monthly for 1 year by spectrophotometry and ion chromatography, respectively. SRP concentrations were frequently higher than those for orthophosphate in all lakes throughout the study period, suggesting that SRP and orthophosphate are not equivalent, although a significant relationship was found between them. Orthophosphate/SRP (ortho/SRP) ratios varied spatiotemporally in all lakes (range 0.11–1.04; mean 0.56), being well predicted by biological-mediated relevant parameters using a stepwise multiple logistic regression analysis (R 2 = 0.76). The results implied that organic matter associated with biological activity contributes to the variability in ortho/SRP ratios. Such large variability in ortho/SRP ratios emphasizes the importance of accurate orthophosphate estimates for understanding P dynamics in aquatic ecosystems.

• Determination of trace methylphosphonate in natural waters by ion chromatography

  Tsuji K, Maruo M, Obata H

   68 (4)   275 - 278  2019.04

  10.2116/bunsekikagaku.68.275  Joint Work  

• Determination of dissolved and particulate thiols in Lake Biwa water and extracted fulvic acids by solid phase extraction followed by HPLC with fluorescence detection

  Rasheduzzaman Md., Mai Kawaguchi, Hajime Obata, Masahiro Maruo

  Limnology  Limnology  19 (3)   299 - 309  2018.08

  10.1007/s10201-018-0547-1  Joint Work  

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  © 2018, The Japanese Society of Limnology. Thiols are important antioxidants that can modulate the bioavailability and biogeochemistry of many soft metals, although their detection remains challenging in both their reduced (R–S) and oxidized (R–S–S–R) forms. Here, a modified biochemical method was applied to determine the levels of dissolved and particulate thiols in Lake Biwa water and extracted Lake Biwa fulvic acids obtained at various depths. This method involves the use of the reducing agent tris(2-carboxyethyl)phosphine and the fluorescent label 7-fluorobenzofurazan-4-sulfonic acid ammonium salt (SBD-F), followed by solid-phase extraction and HPLC with fluorescence detection. Dissolved cysteine (Cys) (2.0–6.0 nM), glutathione (GSH) (2.8–5.1 nM), and N-acetyl-l-cysteine (NAC) (1.6–4.2 nM) were detected throughout the water column but were broadly consistent at depths of 5–20 m. In contrast, abundant levels of particulate cysteine (1.3–3.5 × 102nM) and glutathione (1.6–3.1 × 102nM) were detected down to depths of 15 m. The particulate cysteine and glutathione were significantly covariant, and the ratios between them reflected the differences in the plankton community composition and availability of these compounds. This work also studied the concentrations of Cys, GSH and NAC in Lake Biwa fulvic acids (LBFAs) for the first time (at 0 m: cysteine, 0.8 nM; glutathione, 1.6 nM; NAC, 2.5 nM; at 10 m: cysteine, 1.4 nM; glutathione, 0.6 nM; NAC, 1.6 nM). The nanomolar to sub-nanomolar concentrations of the particulate and dissolved Cys, GSH and NAC in the lake indicates that these are an important class of ligands for chalcophile metals and may influence the distribution of plankton communities from the epilimnion to the hypolimnion of the lake.

• Assessment of the Status of Groundwater Arsenic at Singair Upazila, Manikganj Bangladesh; Exploring the Correlation with Other Metals and Ions

  Md. Mostafizur Rahman, Rebeka Sultana, Mashura Shammi, Joti Bikash, Tanveer Ahmed, Masahiro Maruo, Masaaki Kurasaki, M. Khabir Uddin

  Springer  Exposure and Health  8 (2)   217 - 225  2016.02

  10.1007/s12403-016-0196-8  Joint Work  Joint(The vice charge)

• Trace elements influenced by environmental changes in Lake Biwa: (I) Seasonal variations under suboxic hypolimnion conditions during 2007 and 2009

  Yusuke Nakashima, Akiyoshi Shimizu, Masahiro Maruo, Yoshiki Sohrin

  Springer  Limnology  17 (2)   151 - 162  2016.01

  10.1007/s10201-015-0474-3  Joint Work  Joint(The vice charge)

• Trace elements influenced by environmental changes in Lake Biwa: (II) Chemical variations in the hypolimnion over the last half-century

  Yoshiki Sohrin, Yusuke Nakashima, Masahiro Maruo

  Springer  Limnology  17 (2)   163 - 173  2016.01

  10.1007/s10201-015-0477-0  Joint Work  Joint(The vice charge)

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• The Geology, Biodiversity and Ecology of Lake Hovsgol (Mongolia)

  C. E. Goulden, T. Sitnikova, J. Gelhaus, B. Boldgiv編：熊谷道夫、占部城太郎、CE Goulden、D Hadbaatar、辻村茂男、速水祐一、関野樹、丸尾雅啓、B. Boldgiv、N. Soninkhshig ほか

  Backhuys Publishers, Leiden, Nederland  526p  2006.02

  Scholarly Book  Joint Work

• Marine Environment: The Past, Present and Future

  Chen-Tung Arthur Chen編、著者：中山英一郎、丸尾雅啓ほか多数

  Fuwen Press, Kaohsiung, Taiwan  516p  2002.09

  Scholarly Book  Joint Work

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• Metal speciation in inland waters

  Masahiro Maruo

  Institute of Oceanochemistry  Transactions of The Institute of Oceanochemistry  28 (1)   2 - 9  2015.04

   Single Work  

• Chemical analysis of metal complexing ligands in natural waters

  Masahiro Maruo

  Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry  Bunseki  * (470)   71 - 75  2014.02

   Single Work  

• Editorial: Hydrobiogeochemistry of major Asian rivers

  Tareq S.M., Lu X.X., Shammi M., Maruo M.

  Frontiers in Earth Science  Frontiers in Earth Science  10    2022.11

  10.3389/feart.2022.1065133  Joint Work  

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• Improvement of thermally activated biochar with calcium from natural source for phosphorus recovery from waste water and its effectiveness as fertilizer

  The 6th International Congress on Water, Waste and Energy Management (WWEM-22)  2022.07

• 琵琶湖水中の鉄(II)の存在形態に与える溶存有機物の影響

  日本腐植物質学会第37回講演会　テーマ講演「琵琶湖水中における炭素循環プロセス」  2021.11

• Determination of Trace Methylphosphonate in Freshwater by Ion Chromatography

  SIL 34th International Congress (International Society of Limnology)  2018.08

• Determination of Dissolved and Particulate Thiols in Lake Biwa Water and Extracted Fulvic Acid by HPLC-Fluorescence Detection with SPE

  3rd SUT-USP Joint Symposium on Environmental Science  2017.12

• Comparison between soluble reactive phosphorus and orthophosphate concentrations in lake waters

  The 17th International Symposium on River and Lake Environments (ISRLE2014)  2017.03

• Development of analytical methods for chemical speciation of nutritious elements

  2nd SUT-USP Joint Symposium on Environmental Science  2017.02

• Determination of nanomolar levels of phosphate in water of P-limited lake in Japan (Lake Biwa) bu ion chromatography

  SIL2016 (33rd SIL Congress)  2016.08

• Determination of trace orthophosphate in water of Lake Biwa (Japan) by ion chromatography

  25th Goldschmidt 2015  2015.08

• Characterization of highly strong metal binding ligands in waters of natural lakes in Japan and Korea by electroanalysis

  The 16th International Symposium on River and Lake Environments (ISRLE2014)  2014.08

• Speciation of Iron(II) in oxic freshwater Lake Biwa, Japan

  SIL XXXII (SIL2013)  2013.08

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