Assessment of Heavy Metals Pollution in Soil Affected by Industrial Activities

Riyad Al-Anbari; Abdul Hameed M.J. Al Obaidy; Fatima H. Abd Ali

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Assessment of Heavy Metals Pollution in Soil Affected by Industrial Activities

Riyad Al-Anbari, Abdul Hameed M.J. Al Obaidy, Fatima H. Abd Ali

Engineering and Technology Journal
2015, Volume 33, Issue 3 Part (A) Engineering, Pages 526-534

Abstract

Twenty soil samples were collected in the Al-Duraa Refinery Industrial District. The soil samples displayed high concentrations of Cd, Cr, Ni, Pb and Zn than the calculated worldwide mean of unpolluted soils. The geoaccumulation index indicated that the soil samples were strongly polluted by Cd and moderately to strongly polluted byPb. The level of pollution by Ni was moderate, whereas Cr and Zn observed unpolluted to moderately pollution. Furthermore, the result of the calculated enrichment factor (4.11-227.49) indicated significant to extremely high enriched and suggesting an important role of anthropogenic pollution due to various industrial activities done by the refinery.

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Heavy metals, Geoaccumulation, Enrichment factor, Soil pollution

Year	Total	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2022	74	7	6	8	7	11	2	5	7	14	2	4	1
2021	66	5	7	2	6	10	13	5	3	2	4	5	4
2020	52	4	4	4	3	5	9	7	5	3	2	3	3
2019	43	2	8	3	2	5	2		9	3	1	3	5
2018	37	5	2		5	1	6	4	5	1	4	3	1
2017	40	3	3	3	1	5		5	2	3	7	4	4
2016	40			4	4	2	5		8	7	5	3	2
2015	36						1	3	4	8	12	2	6

Assessment of Heavy Metals Pollution in Soil Affected by Industrial Activities

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