Browsing School of Physics (Scholarly Articles) by Author "Sharkey, Martin"
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Halogenated flame retardants in Irish waste polymers: Concentrations, Legislative compliance, and preliminary assessment of temporal trends
Drage, Daniel; Sharkey, Martin; Al-Omran, Layla Salih; Stubbings, William A.; Berresheim, Harald; Coggins, Marie; Rosa, André Henrique; Harrad, Stuart (Elsevier, 2022-07-20)Halogenated flame retardants (HFRs) were measured in 470 waste plastic articles from Ireland between 2019 and 2020. We identified articles containing concentrations of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), hexabromocyclododecane ... -
Indoor air quality, thermal comfort and ventilation in deep energy retrofitted Irish dwellings
Coggins, Ann Marie; Wemken, Nina; Kumar Mishra, Asit; Sharkey, Martin; Horgan, Liam; Cowie, Hilary; Bourdin, Emmanuel; McIntyre, Brian (Elsevier, 2022-05-28)Residential building stock energy retrofits will play a key role in EU climate actions. The impact of these retrofits on indoor air quality (IAQ) and occupant comfort needs to be assessed to inform future renovation ... -
The invisible barrier to safe textile recycling
Sharkey, Martin; Coggins, Marie (Frontiers Media, 2022-06-14)Presence of certain chemical additives (e.g. halogenated flame retardants, perfluoroalkyl substances, and phthalates) could hinder textile recycling operations as their presence renders end-of-life materials as “hazardous” ... -
Leaching of decabromodiphenyl ether and hexabromocyclododecane from fabrics under simulated landfill conditions
Harrad, Stuart; Drage, Daniel S.; Sharkey, Martin; Berresheim, Harald (KeAi Communications Co. Ltd, 2019-12-30)A series of laboratory experiments were conducted to examine the leaching of decabromodiphenyl ether (BDE-209) and hexabromocyclododecane (HBCDD) from a mix of three fabrics. Consistent with previous reports that such ... -
Phasing-out of legacy brominated flame retardants: The UNEP Stockholm Convention and other legislative action worldwide
Sharkey, Martin; Harrad, Stuart; Abou-Elwafa Abdallah, Mohamed; Drage, Daniel S.; Berresheim, Harald (Elsevier, 2020-08-18)Due to their toxicity and persistence, several families of brominated flame retardants (BFRs) have been listed as persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in the Stockholm Convention, a multilateral treaty overseen by the ... -
Portable X-ray fluorescence for the detection of POP-BFRs in waste plastics
Sharkey, Martin; Abdallah, Mohamed Abou-Elwafa; Drage, Daniel S; Harrad, Stuart; Berresheim, Harald (Elsevier, 2018-05-26)The purpose of this study was to establish the efficacy of portable X-ray fluorescence (XRF) instrumentation as a screening tool for a variety of end of life plastics which may contain excess amounts of brominated flame ...