scholarly journals Geo-accumulation Index, Enrichment Factor and Quantification of Contamination of Heavy Metals in Soil Receiving Cassava Mill Effluents in A Rural Community in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvester Chibueze Izah ◽  
Sunday Etim Bassey ◽  
Elijah Ige Ohimain
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Enrichment Factor ◽  
Rural Community ◽  
Niger Delta ◽  
Delta Region ◽  
Niger Delta Region ◽  
Accumulation Index ◽  
Geo Accumulation Index ◽  
Geo Accumulation

scholarly journals Spatial Variability of Heavy Metals in Surface Water and Sediment in the Kolo Creek Water Body in the Niger Delta of Nigeria and Geochemical Factors that Influence their Interactions Using Geo-accumulation Index

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Abinotami Williams Ebuete ◽  
Andy Etta Bisong ◽  
Okereke Chukuma ◽  
Lucky E. Ndiwari ◽  
Ibim Yarwamara Ebuete
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Surface Water ◽  
Water Body ◽  
Niger Delta ◽  
Pollution Load Index ◽  
Pollution Load ◽  
Accumulation Index ◽  
Geochemical Factors ◽  
Geo Accumulation Index ◽  
Geo Accumulation

The Kolo Creek is an inland water body in the Niger Delta receiving organic and chemical wastes arising from anthropogenic activities within the catchment area. This study was therefore carried out to investigate the spatial variabilities of heavy metals in surface and sediment and their geochemical factors that influence their presence along the Kolo Creek in 2018 using Geo-accumulation index and pollution load index to extrapolate the level of heavy metal contraction in the two medium. Sediment and Water samples were collected for five (5) months and assessed from eight sampling points (A-h) for seven (7) heavy metals such as  Copper (Cu), Lead (Pb), Iron(Fe), Camium (Cd), Manganese (Mn), Nickel (Ni) and Mercury (Hg). All the heavy metals had geo-accumulation indices below zero which indicates no pollution except Fe which had geo-accumulation index in the range 3.327 in surface water and 7.751 in sediment, furthermore, the pollution load index revealed a toxicity of 0.664 times in surface water as against 1.501 times in sediment exceeding the background concentration in the Kolo Creek. Hence, poor ecological ethics and culture should be discouraged to keep the Kolo Creek water under check for safe domestic water use.

scholarly journals Monitoring Heavy Metal Contamination in the Pineapple (Ananas comosus) Cultivated tracts of Kerala, India

2021 ◽  
Vol 04 (05) ◽  
Author(s):  
Samitha K. A. ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Enrichment Factor ◽  
Heavy Metal Contamination ◽  
Translocation Factor ◽  
Contamination Factor ◽  
Ananas Comosus ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Accumulation Index ◽  
Geo Accumulation Index ◽  
Geo Accumulation

Agriculture plays an important role in the sustainable development of the country. Use of chemical fertilizers escalate certain components in excess quantity thereby deteriorate the productivity and leads to unpredicted outcome. This study makes an effort to reckon the accumulation of some selected heavy metals [Lead (Pb), Nickel (Ni) and Cadmium(Cd)] and related indices [bio concentration factor(BCF) and translocation factor (TF)] from roots, leaves and fruits of pineapple plantations in Ernakulam district. Contamination factor(CF), enrichment factor(EF) and geo accumulation index (Igeo) disclose the extent of soil contamination in the pineapple cultivated regions of Ernakulam district. Root to shoot TF derived for Pb, Ni, and Cd were 0.25, 0.733 and 0.6731. TF of Pb, Ni and Cd from root to fruit was 0, 0.5 and 0.195 respectively. Values obtained for BCF of Pb, Ni and Cd in root of the pineapple plant were 0.2013,0.5758 and 0.3288. In pineapple leaves BCF showed the values 0.0503, 0.4222 and 0.2214 by Pb, Ni and Cd. Pineapple fruit showed BCF values Zero, 0.2879 and 0.0641 for Pb, Ni and Cd. Enrichment factor for Pb, Ni and Cd in pineapple cultivated areas comes under the value 4.2, 3.7 and 2.8 respectively. Furthermore, the contamination factor of Pb, Ni and Cd was 9.93, 8.26 and 6.23, respectively. The values of geo accumulation index obtained for different heavy metals pass on that the degree of pollution with respect to Pb (6.621) was very strong and extremely contaminated, heavily to extremely contaminated for Ni (5.513) and Cd (4.15).

scholarly journals Contamination Level, Ecological Risk, and Source Identification of Heavy Metals in the Hyporheic Zone of the Weihe River, China

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 1070 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Irfan Ahamad ◽  
Jinxi Song ◽  
Haotian Sun ◽  
Xinxin Wang ◽  
Muhammad Sajid Mehmood ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Enrichment Factor ◽  
Ecological Risk ◽  
Risk Index ◽  
Contamination Factor ◽  
Contamination Level ◽  
Accumulation Index ◽  
Weihe River ◽  
Geo Accumulation Index ◽  
Geo Accumulation

The sediment pollution caused by different metals has attracted a great deal of attention because of the toxicity, persistence, and bio-accumulation. This study focuses on heavy metals in the hyporheic sediment of the Weihe River, China. Contamination levels of metals were examined by using “geo-accumulation index, enrichment factor, and contamination factor” while ecological risk of metals were determined by “potential ecological risk and risk index”. The pollutant accumulation of metals ranked as follows: “manganese (Mn)   >   chromium (Cr)   >   zinc (Zn)   > copper (Cu)   >   nickel (Ni)   >   arsenic (As)   >   lead (Pb)”. The geo-accumulation index identified arsenic as class 1 (uncontaminated to moderate contamination), whereas Cu, Cr, Ni, Zn, Pb, and Mn were classified as class 0 (uncontaminated). According to the enrichment factor, arsenic originated through anthropogenic activities and Cr, Ni, Cu, Zn, and Pb were mainly controlled by natural sources. The contamination factor elucidated that sediments were moderately polluted by (As, Cr, Cu, Zn, Mn, and Pb), whereas Ni slightly contaminated the sediments of the Weihe River. All metals posed a low ecological risk in the study area. The risk index revealed that contribution of arsenic (53.43 %) was higher than half of the total risk.

scholarly journals Assessment of Heavy Metals in Street Dusts of Tehran Using Enrichment Factor and Geo-Accumulation Index: A

Health Scope ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol In Press (In Press) ◽  
Author(s):  
Seyed Nosratolah Taghavi ◽  
Hossein Kamani ◽  
Mohammad Hadi Dehghani ◽  
Ramin Nabizadeh ◽  
Nasim Afshari ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Enrichment Factor ◽  
Accumulation Index ◽  
Geo Accumulation Index ◽  
Geo Accumulation

Distribution and Contamination Status of Heavy Metals in the Surface Sediments along Western Coast of Bali Strait, Banyuwangi

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Defri Yona ◽  
Syarifah Hikmah Julinda Sari ◽  
Anedathama Kretarta ◽  
Citra Ravena Putri Effendy ◽  
Misba Nur Aini ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Heavy Metal ◽  
Metal Pollution ◽  
Contamination Factor ◽  
Pollution Index ◽  
Western Coast ◽  
Sampling Locations ◽  
Accumulation Index ◽  
Geo Accumulation Index ◽  
Geo Accumulation

This study attempted to analyze the distribution and contamination status of heavy metals (Cu, Fe and Zn) along western coast of Bali Strait in Banyuwangi, East Java. Bali Strait is one of the many straits in Indonesia with high fisheries activities that could potentially contributed to high heavy metal pollution. There were five sampling areas from the north to south: Pantai Watu Dodol, Pantai Kalipuro, Ketapang Port, Pantai Boom and Muncar as the fish landing area. Heavy metal pollution in these locations comes from many different activities such as tourism, fish capture and fish industry and also domestic activities. Contamination factor (CF), geo-accumulation index (Igeo) and enrichment factor (EF) of each heavy metal were calculated to obtain contamination status of the research area. The concentrations of Fe were observed the highest (1.5-129.9 mg/kg) followed by Zn (13.2-23.5 mg/kg) and Cu (2.2-7.8 mg/kg). The distribution of Cu, Fe and Zn showed variability among the sampling locations in which high concentrations of Cu and Zn were higher in Ketapang Port, whereas high concentration of Fe was high in almost all sampling locations. According to the pollution index, contamination factors of Cu, Fe and Zn were low (CF < 1 and Igeo < 1). However, high index of EF (> 50) showed high influence of the anthropogenic activities to the contribution of the metals to the environment. This could also because of the high background value used in the calculation of the index due to the difficulties in finding background value from the sampling areas.Keywords: heavy metals, pollution index, contamination factor, geo-accumulation index, Bali Strait

Geo-Accumulation Index of Heavy Metals in Pond Water Sediment of Raipur

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 733-736 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vinod Jena ◽  
Sanjay Ghosh ◽  
Aditi Pande ◽  
Kresimir Maldini ◽  
Natalija Matic
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Pond Water ◽  
Accumulation Index ◽  
Geo Accumulation Index ◽  
Geo Accumulation

scholarly journals Concentration and pollution assessment of heavy metals within surface sediments of the Raohe Basin, China

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jin Wei ◽  
Maoqing Duan ◽  
Yiping Li ◽  
Amechi S. Nwankwegu ◽  
Yong Ji ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Surface Sediments ◽  
Reference Method ◽  
Pollution Assessment ◽  
Mining Area ◽  
Sampling Area ◽  
Accumulation Index ◽  
Extraction Scheme ◽  
Geo Accumulation Index ◽  
Geo Accumulation

Abstract Surface sediment samples were collected from four areas (the Jingdezhen Industrialized Area (JDZ), Upstream (UP), the Dexing Mining Area (DX), and Downstream (DM)) to investigate the concentration and chemical composition of heavy metals. The sediments were analysed for Cu, Zn, Pb, Cd, Cr, As, and Ni using a sequential extraction scheme according to the improved BCR (European Community Bureau of Reference) method. The obtained results show that the maximum values of Cu (793.52 μg·g−1), Zn (72.09 μg·g−1), Pb (222.19 μg·g−1), and Cd (1.60 μg·g−1) were collected from the DX sampling area, while the JDZ area had the highest concentrations of Cr (97.09 μg·g−1), As (318.05 μg·g−1), and Ni (66.35 μg·g−1). The majority of metal values far exceeded their corresponding background values. The risk analysis of geo-accumulation index (Igeo) indicated that the heavy metals Cu and As were the main pollution factors and each element of the pollution degree followed the order of: Cu > As > Pb > Cd > Cr > Zn. Metal partitioning characteristics were also considered and more than 80% of metals show potential bioavailability and toxic effects.

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