Fuzzy Assessment of Heavy Metal Pollution

Subject Areas : International Journal of Industrial Mathematics

غلامرضا حسامیان ¹ , محمد قاسم اکبری ² , مهدی شمس ³

1 - Department of Statistics, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran.
2 - Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Birjand, Birjand, Iran.
3 - Department of Statistics, Faculty of Mathematical Sciences, University of Kashan, Kashan, Iran.

Received: 2020-04-11 Accepted : 2020-09-13 Published : 2021-10-01

Keywords: Fuzzy contamination, Triangular fuzzy number, Degree of ‎belonging, Fuzzy pollution criterion,

Abstract :

The present work is aimed to extend the common pollution indices into the fuzzy environment. For this purpose, a method was developed for converting the heavy metal contamination in soil by fuzzy numbers. Then, the most commonly used pollution indices are defined as fuzzy numbers by applying the alpha-cuts approach. To evaluate the degree of heavy metal contamination in a specific level, a degree of belonging was also suggested.

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