Impact of thermal pollution on life: its sources, destructive effects and preventive measures
Subject Areas : The Application of Chemistry in Environment
1 - Department of Physics, Naragh Branch, Islamic Azad University, Naragh, Iran
Keywords: Water, environment, Industrial waste, Thermal pollution,
Abstract :
Thermal pollution is a rapid change in temperature in a natural body of water. This pollution is often caused by the discharge of heated water from an industrial facility or other human activities into the water. Thermal pollution is one of the most widespread and important pollutions and depends on various factors such as soil erosion, deforestation, flowing water and natural factors. Among the effects of warming waters and thermal pollution can be a decrease in the amount of dissolved oxygen in water, disruption of natural systems and stress in aquatic life, damage to larvae and fish eggs in rivers, increase in disease in aquatic life or even the death of damaged organisms that They have limited tolerance towards it, bleaching of corals, migration of living organisms from their environment and other environmental changes. The main causes of thermal pollution are thermal or nuclear power plants, industrial effluents such as oil refineries, pulp and paper factories, chemical factories, steel and smelting factories, sewage effluents and biochemical activities. Heat pollution is a global phenomenon that has become a major concern of people around the world because of its severe long-term consequences. However, heat pollution is a real and persistent problem in modern industrial society.
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