Assessment of total petroleum hydrocarbons in Persian Gulf ´s water and sediment, Bahregan, costal area
Subject Areas : Marine BiologyE. Hatami 1 , S. M. T. Sadatipour 2 , B. Shahabi 3
1 - Faculty of Marine Science and Technology , Islamic Azad University, North Tehran Branch
2 - Faculty of Marine Science and Technology , Islamic Azad University, North Tehran Branch
3 - Fallat-e-Ghareh Co., National Iranian Oil Company
Keywords: environment, Persian Gulf, FT-IR, Bahragan, petroleum hydrocarbons,
Abstract :
This research has been carried out on the effect of the sewage of Bahregan oil industries, to evaluate it’s effecting the marine environment which is in the proxy of the site. Bahregan oil industries are located in the coastal area of Bushehr with latitudinal of 29° 50' and longitudinal of 50° 17'. From this site 235.000 barrels of oil are exported daily. Therefore our first assumption was that there should have pollution effect in the area. In this research we zoomed on TPH pollution in the water and sediments of area which is in proxy of Bahregan oil industries. For this aim we selected 13 sampling stations in offshore and 3 stations in shore. To analyze TPH in water and sediments of the area the 3 inshore stations were selected from the channel of which area collecting Bahregan surface water and leads that to marine environment. All the samples were analyzed based on MOOPAM(1999) methodology. Using FT-IR, analyses were done with the help of SPSS. From the data we noticed that there is a high position correlation between TPH concentration in water and sediments of the area. We can conclude that the source of TPH are the same in water and sediment.