Unsafe chromium and its environmental health effects of Orissa chromite mines

Proceedings of the International Conference on Energy and Environment Technologies and EquipmProceedings of the International Conference on Energy and Environment Technologies and Equipment, EEETE '10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 111-122

  Iyer, Vijayan Gurumurthy ^a   Mastorakis, Nikos E ^b  

^a DR M G R EDUCATIONAL AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRTH DEFECTS; BRAIN DAMAGE; CHROMIUM ORES; CHROMIUM POISONING; CHROMIUM-BASED; COMPENSATION LAW; CONTROL STRATEGIES; ECONOMIC STATUS; EFFLUENT TREATMENT PLANTS; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING; HAZARDOUS WASTES; HEXAVALENT CHROMIUM; LUNG CANCER; MINE WATERS; MINE WORKERS; PLANNING STAGES; PREMATURE DEATH; RESPIRABLE PARTICULATE MATTERS; SOIL ENVIRONMENT; TOTAL CHROMIUM;

AIR POLLUTION; CHROMITE; CHROMITE DEPOSITS; CHROMIUM; CHROMIUM MINES; DERMATITIS; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; EFFLUENTS; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; GROUNDWATER; INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; METAL RECOVERY; MINE DUST; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL RISKS; POLLUTION CONTROL; TOXIC MATERIALS;

CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT);

EID: 79952650664     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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