Survey the Amount of Heavy Metals in species leaf around cement production industries (Case study: Payvand Golestan cement factory)

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Keivan Saeb ¹ , Solaiman Ghorbanzadeh ² , Saeed Kardar ³ , Robabeh Khadami ⁴

1 - Associate of Professor, Department of Environmental, Islamic Azad University, Tonekabon Branch, Tonekabon- Iran
2 - Assistance of Professor, Department of Environmental, Islamic Azad University, Tonekabon Branch, Tonekabon- Iran
3 - Assistance of professor,Department of Environmental Engineering - Water and Wastewater and Water Resources, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch of Tehran,Iran.
4 - M.Sc Environmental pollution, Department of Environmental, Islamic Azad University, Tonekabon Branch, Tonekabon- Iran

Received: 2014-06-28 Accepted : 2014-12-11 Published : 2015-02-20

Keywords: Heavy metal, air pollution, Cement industry, plants leaves,

Abstract :

Air pollution is one of the most serious environmental problems in Golestan. Each day, a tremendous amount of toxic and fatal gases, different kinds of pollutants, perilous floating particles produced by cars, factories, industrial workshops, power plants and residential buildings are added to the air. Largely due to the increasing demand for cement, cement production industries around Golestan have increased their daily production. Toxic gases and hazardous particulates that release into environment from cement factories have considered as the environmental problems. Cement factory emissions into air cause serious air pollution and affect the plant and animal life in the environment. This  study characterized the levels of heavy metals of the leaves near a cement factory. The concentration of eight se lected heavy metals(Ag, As, Cd, Co, Cr, Cs, Bi, Ba) were measured on 24 leaves from Quercus and Paliurus  spina and Phragmitesaus tralis samples (1-2 m) collected near a cement plant via inductively coupled plasma/mass spectroscopy (ICP-MS). SPSS whit 0.05 was used for statistically data analyzing. Results showed The average concentration of heavy metals from Quercus and Paliurus spina and Phragmitesaustralis samples Were not statistically significant in other words, the absorption is the same. There is a significant difference in the cd with Paliurus spina. In other words, Paliurus spina absorb cadmium from others. The concentration of toxic metals in the leaves of plants studied area of heavy metals in the air and leaves the adsorption