Heavy metals in street and house dust in Bahrain

Akhter, Mohammad Salim; Madany, Ismail M.

doi:10.1007/bf00477063

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“…Compared with indoor dust from other cities, Darus et al, (2012), reported that the content of Cr in indoor dust samples collected from Shah Alam, Malaysia with an average of 16.88 were lower than the MPC (7). Also Akhter and Madany (1993) reported that against the current study, the Cr content in the house dust collected from Bahrain with an average of 144.7 mg/kg was much higher than the MPC (42). A comparison of the obtained results with other studies is shown in Table 2.…”

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confidence: 63%

Analysis of Selected Heavy Metals in Indoor Dust in Khorramabad City, Iran: A Case Study

Sabzevari

Sobhanardakani

2018

Jundishapur J Health Sci

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Background: Indoor dust as a significant source of pollution in the urban environment can cause serious ecological and health problems. Therefore, the current study has been conducted to determine the Cadmium, Chromium, Lead, and Nickel contamination in house dust in the city of Khorramabad in 2017. Methods: A total of 80 samples of indoor dust were collected from 20 regions of the study area. After sample digestion, the content of metals was determined using the inductively coupled plasma-optical emission spectrometer (ICP-OES).

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Section: Chromiumsupporting

confidence: 63%

Analysis of Selected Heavy Metals in Indoor Dust in Khorramabad City, Iran: A Case Study

Sabzevari

Sobhanardakani

2018

Jundishapur J Health Sci

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“…3). In these results, metal levels in urban road dust were much higher than those in urban soil (Akhter and Madany, 1993;De Miguel et al, 1997;De Miguel et al, 1998;Li et al, 2001;Imperato et al, 2003;Biasioli et al, 2006;Shi et al, 2011;Zhang et al, 2013). The levels of Pb were comparatively low, especially compared with samples from such old or large industrial cities as New York, London, Madrid, Seoul, and Hamilton (Fergusson and Ryan, 1984;Harrison et al, 1981;Chon et al, 1995;De Miguel et al, 1997;Droppo et al, 1998).…”

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Heavy Metal Contamination and Assessment of Roadside and Foliar Dust along the Outer-Ring Highway of Shanghai, China

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Foliar and roadside dust samples were collected from five sites along the outer-ring highway of Shanghai, one of the biggest metropolitan areas of China, to assess heavy/toxic metal contamination. Concentrations of Zn, Cu, Ni, As, and Hg in foliar dust were higher than in roadside dust, whereas concentrations of Pb and Cd were higher in roadside dust. In the roadside dust, average concentrations of all metals except As in foliar and roadside dust samples were significantly above the background values of soil in Shanghai: the ratios between the average of samples and background values of Shanghai were in the order: Cd (25.1) > Zn (12.2) > Cu (6.16) > Pb (5.74) > Ni (5.50) > Hg (5.18) > As (1.05). By using the geo-accumulation index, the pollution grades of seven heavy metals at five sampling sites were calculated. Roadside dust was heavily to extremely contaminated with Cd; moderately to heavily contaminated with Zn; and moderately contaminated with Cu, Hg, Pb, and Ni. Foliar dust was heavily contaminated with Cd; moderately to heavily contaminated with Zn and Cu; and moderately contaminated with Hg, Pb, and Ni. The contamination level of heavy metals in the Puxi area was greater than that in the Pudong area, which might be related to the industrial distribution and land use. Combined with correlation analysis, hierarchical cluster analysis indicated that atmospheric deposition is the main source of Cd, Hg, As, and Pb in dust and that Cu and Zn in dust are mainly from heavy traffic on the highway. A portion of Ni in dust also comes from the parent soil.

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“…Developed countries could combat or minimize traffic pollution impacts by using different advanced technologies and recourses because they have substantial economic parameters as compared to developing countries [18]. Anthropogenic activities, paints, petrol, aerosols are the major sources of traffic pollution [3].…”

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Measurement of Different Heavy Metals Concentration in Roadside Dust in the Vicinity of Gujrat, Pakistan

Bashir¹,

Farid²,

Saeed³

et al. 2017

SJC

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Due to rapid urbanization and industrialization in many countries of the world, heavy metals are continuously emitted into the terrestrial environment and posing great threat to human health. The present study was conducted to measure the concentration of six heavy metals, chromium (Cr), nickel (Ni), cobalt (Co), zinc (Zn), cadmium (Cd) and lead (Pb) in roadside dust of five major roads in Gujrat city. The dust samples were collected from five different locations in the vicinity of Gujrat. The results showed that the average concentrations of Cr, Ni, Co, Zn, Cd, and Pb in the dust samples were higher than their permissible limits. The concentrations of Cu, Zn, Cd and Pb were much higher than those in the background value of Gujrat soil. Results clearly concluded that the heavy traffic and transportation is the major responsible source of these heavy metals in the road dust of Gujrat city along with the transportation of sewage sludge, surface runoff from agricultural land and discharge of sewage water from drains.

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Heavy metals in street and house dust in Bahrain

Cited by 207 publications

References 33 publications

Analysis of Selected Heavy Metals in Indoor Dust in Khorramabad City, Iran: A Case Study

Analysis of Selected Heavy Metals in Indoor Dust in Khorramabad City, Iran: A Case Study

Heavy Metal Contamination and Assessment of Roadside and Foliar Dust along the Outer-Ring Highway of Shanghai, China

Measurement of Different Heavy Metals Concentration in Roadside Dust in the Vicinity of Gujrat, Pakistan

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