Applications of EDXRF and INAA techniques for studying impact of industries to the environment

2015 Atomic Spectrometry Update – a review of advances in X-ray fluorescence spectrometry and their applications

“…Although Zamfara presented an extreme picture of both Pb and multiple heavy metal mortality and morbidity, similar situations have become increasingly prevalent worldwide. Dutta et al 237 used the EDXRF and INAA techniques for two cases; (a) enrichment of Zn levels in the soil (1080 AE 76 mg kg À1 ) and Zn uptake ranging between 40 and 628 mg kg À1 in edible plants and cereals grown in agricultural elds near an active zinc smelter, Rajasthan and (b) the depth-prole distributions of Cr, Pb and other metals in the sediment core samples from the Sundarban wetland, West Bengal, associated with waste discharges from tanneries and other industries. The extent of contamination in sediments in the Balanagar industrial area, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India was studied by Machender et al, 238 who analysed sediment samples by XRF spectrometry.…”

Cladding Modified Fiber Bragg Grating for Copper Ions Detection

“…Hence, detecting heavy metals in a liquid medium is important research which saves lives and avoids increase in poisoning ration which should not exceed 15 ppb [2] . Detection of heavy metals has been studied in the literature and several methods have been industrialized like atomic absorption spectroscopy (AAS) [3] , inductive coupled plasma mass spectrometry(ICPMS) [4] , X-ray, anodic stripping voltammetry instrument (ASV) [5] , fluorescence spectrometry (XRF) [6] , instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA) [7] .…”