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Environmentally Harmonious Industry Lab
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A lab that works on the front lines of water and chemical substances to envision industry in harmony with the environment.
AboutAbout the lab
Toward sustainable industry in harmony with the environment
The Environmentally Harmonious Industry Lab studies the conservation and management of the water environment, the recycling of materials, and the creation of energy-saving industries.
The lab uses techniques such as water quality analysis and water treatment, the analysis and treatment of trace contaminants, and the analysis of satellite and land-use data.
The lab combines field surveys and experiments with model-based analysis to carry out research that is useful in practice.
The lab belongs to the School of Global Environmental Studies. For graduate school, students can choose either the Department of Environmental Management in the Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies or the Department of Urban and Environmental Engineering in the Graduate School of Engineering.
Key terms
- Nanoplastics
- Plastic particles that have degraded in the environment and broken down to the nanometer scale
- Disinfection byproducts
- Substances unintentionally formed when water is disinfected with chlorine or similar agents and reacts with substances in the water
- Organofluorine compounds
- Synthetic compounds that repel water and oil (such as PFAS). They resist breakdown and persist in the environment
NewsLab news
A doctoral student received a Research Encouragement Award at the 46th Kyoto University Environmental Sanitary Engineering Research Conference Symposium
Students received awards including the Annual Meeting Excellent Presentation Award (Kurita Award) at the 58th Annual Meeting of the Japan Society on Water Environment
ResearchResearch themes
Using techniques such as water quality analysis and water treatment, the analysis and treatment of trace contaminants, and the analysis of satellite and land-use data, the lab studies the conservation and management of the water environment, the recycling of materials, and the creation of energy-saving industries.
*Illustrative imageDo fragmented plastics reach cells?
The lab is developing analytical methods and test systems to determine whether plastics that have degraded and broken into small pieces in the environment reach the cells of living organisms as nanoplastics. Its targets include bitterlings, sea anemones, and coral reefs in Thailand.
*Illustrative imageCan water quality standards serve as indicators for new hazardous substances?
Because it is difficult to constantly measure every hazardous substance in tap water, the lab evaluates whether the items in current standards can serve as indicators for newly identified hazardous substances. It focuses on substances formed by chlorination and builds its discussion by integrating the literature with data from water utilities.
*Illustrative imagePredicting disinfection byproducts with cheminformatics
For disinfection byproducts formed by chlorine or ozone treatment, the lab builds a database of how each compound forms from experiments and the literature. Using computational chemistry and data science, it develops methods to determine whether a given compound will be converted into a byproduct.
*Illustrative imagePredicting the behavior of organofluorine compounds and removing them
For organofluorine compounds and their precursors, which are suspected of affecting genes, the lab develops technologies to prevent their spread from factories. Working with water treatment plants in Okinawa Prefecture, it traces the sources and also maps how soil contamination around military bases is distributed by depth.
MembersFaculty
The lab's members consist of faculty, researchers, teaching support staff and technical support staff, and doctoral and master's students.As of 2026
- ProfessorShinya Echigo
- Associate ProfessorShuhei Tanaka
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “McMillan Reservoir Park, Washington, D.C. ( )” USEPA Environmental-Protection-Agency / Public domain (cropped)
- Do fragmented plastics reach cells?: “Microplastics that have penetrated inside cells” Karimov Denis, Valova Iana / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Can water quality standards serve as indicators for new hazardous substances?: “Humanitarian aid OCPA- a” Technical Sergeant Mike Buytas of the United States Air Force / Public domain (cropped)
- Predicting disinfection byproducts with cheminformatics: “Organic Chemistry Lab 5 by marthou” Marthou / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Predicting the behavior of organofluorine compounds and removing them: “PFAS Biomagnification” Yanishevsky / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Integrated Disaster Prevention Information Systems Lab): “FEMA - 36456 - Aerial of a partially flooded town in Missouri” Jocelyn Augustino / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Crisis Management Information Systems Lab): “Locals using Geographic Information System ( )” USAID Indonesia / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Transportation Information Engineering Lab): “HAVI Logistics truck at the Warsaw West Station – railway station, Poland” WrS.tm.pl / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Applied Mechanics Lab): “Fluid simulation created using Blender 3D” Original uploader was Charybdis at en.wikibooks / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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