Influence of multi-industrial activities on trace metal contamination: An approach towards surface water body in the vicinity of Dhaka Export Processing Zone (DEPZ)

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 184, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 4181-4190

  Ahmed, Golam ^a   Miah, M Arzu ^a   Anawar, Hossain M ^c   Chowdhury, Didarul A ^b   Ahmad, Jasim U ^a  

^a JAHANGIRNAGAR UNIVERSITY   (Bangladesh)

^b Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission   (Bangladesh)

^c INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO E NUCLEAR   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Contamination; Effluent; Statistical approach; Surface water; Trace metals; Vicinity of DEPZ

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; AVERAGE CONCENTRATION; BANGLADESH; CONTAMINATION FACTORS; CONTAMINATION LEVELS; DISCHARGED EFFLUENTS; DISSOLVED OXYGEN CONCENTRATIONS; EFFLUENT DISPOSAL; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS; HIGH CONCENTRATION; HUMAN HEALTH; INDUSTRIAL EFFLUENT; INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATERS; METAL CONCENTRATIONS; METAL CONTENT; PROCESS WATER; STANDARD VALUES; STATISTICAL APPROACH; STRONG CORRELATION; SURFACE WATER BODY; TOTAL DISSOLVED SOLIDS; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; TOTAL SUSPENDED SOLIDS; TOXIC METALS; TRACE METAL; TRACE METAL CONTAMINATIONS; VICINITY OF DEPZ; WATER SAMPLES; WATERBODIES;

ALKALINITY; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CHROMIUM; CONTAMINATION; COPPER; ECOSYSTEMS; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; EFFLUENTS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; HEALTH HAZARDS; HIGHER ORDER STATISTICS; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; INDUSTRIAL WATER TREATMENT; INDUSTRY; LEAD; METALS; SEWAGE; SILVER; WATER QUALITY; ZINC;

SURFACE WATERS;

ARSENIC; CHROMIUM; COBALT; COPPER; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; LEAD; LITHIUM; NICKEL; ORGANIC CARBON; SELENIUM; SILVER; STRONTIUM; SURFACE WATER; TRACE METAL; VANADIUM; ZINC;

ALKALINITY; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISCHARGE; EFFLUENT; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; LAGOON; PH; SURFACE WATER; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; TRACE METAL; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

ALKALINITY; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ECOTOXICITY; EFFLUENT STANDARD; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HEALTH HAZARD; INDUSTRIAL AREA; INDUSTRIALIZATION; LAGOON; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PH MEASUREMENT; POLLUTION MONITORING; TOXIC WASTE; WASTE WATER; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SAMPLING;

BANGLADESH; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FRESH WATER; INDUSTRY; METALS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

BANGLADESH; DHAKA [BANGLADESH];

EID: 84864851399     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-011-2254-9     Document Type: Article

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