Ecological assessment of heavy metals in soil around a coal-fired thermal power plant in Turkey

Turhan, Şeref; Garad, A. M. K.; Hançerlioğulları, Aybaba; Kurnaz, Aslı; Gören, E.; Duran, Celalettin; Karataşlı, Muhammet; Altıkulaç, Aydan; Savacı, Gamze; Aydın, Ali

doi:10.1007/s12665-020-8864-1

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“…This figure confirms that domestic oil production in Turkey is not enough to meet the country's energy needs. Although the 2023 vision aims to increase the use of renewable-energy sources to 30%, Turkey plans to construct 85 new "coal-fired power" stations over the period from 2020 to 2030, which could increase carbon emissions by 50% over this period [5]. In this regard, it is highly important for Turkey to adopt policies to reduce CO 2 emissions, and to also invest in energy transmission and distribution channels to improve the country's energy efficiency [6].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In this regard, [7][8][9] have indicated that the effect of oil prices on economic indexes in developed and developing economies can be different; these different findings can be attributed to various economic factors such as oilimporting countries vs. oil-exporting countries. In this regard, increases in oil prices can be Although the 2023 vision aims to increase the use of renewable-energy sources to 30%, Turkey plans to construct 85 new "coal-fired power" stations over the period from 2020 to 2030, which could increase carbon emissions by 50% over this period [5]. In this regard, it is highly important for Turkey to adopt policies to reduce CO 2 emissions, and to also invest in energy transmission and distribution channels to improve the country's energy efficiency [6].…”

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Oil Price, Energy Consumption, and CO2 Emissions in Turkey. New Evidence from a Bootstrap ARDL Test

Abumunshar

Ağa

Samour³

2020

Energies

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The main objective of this research was to test the effect of oil prices, renewable and non-renewable energy consumption, and economic growth on Turkey’s carbon emissions by using three co-integration tests, namely, the newly-developed bootstrap autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) testing technique as proposed by (McNown et al., 2018); the new approach involving the Bayer–Hanck (2013) combined co-integration test; and the H-J (2008) co-integration technique, which induces two dates of structural breaks. The autoregressive distributed lag model (ARDL), dynamic ordinary least squares (DOLS), canonical cointegrating regression (CCR), and fully modified ordinary least square (FMOLS) approaches were utilized to test the long-run interaction between the examined variables. The Granger causality (GC) analysis was utilized to investigate the direction of causality among the variables. The long-run coefficients of ARDL, DOLS, CCR, and FMOLS showed that the oil prices had a negative influence on CO2 emissions in Turkey in the long run. Furthermore, the findings demonstrate that non-renewable energy, which includes oil, natural gas, and coal, increased CO2 emissions. In contrast, renewable energy can decrease the environmental pollution. These empirical findings can be attributed to the fact that Turkey is heavily dependent on imported oil; more than 50% of the energy requirement has been supplied by imports. Hence, oil price fluctuations have severe effects on the economic performance in Turkey, which in turn affects energy consumption and the level of carbon emissions. The study suggests that the rate of imported oil in Turkey must be decreased by finding more renewable energy sources for the energy supply formula to avoid any undesirable effects of oil price fluctuations on the CO2 emissions, and also to achieve sustainable development.

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Oil Price, Energy Consumption, and CO2 Emissions in Turkey. New Evidence from a Bootstrap ARDL Test

Abumunshar

Ağa

Samour³

2020

Energies

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“…1). Similary, Turhan et al (2020) noted that the average of Ni concentration in the agricultural ultrabasic soils were about ten times higher than the earth's crust average of 58 mg kg −1 . Cobalt (Co) concentrations were an average value of 29.37 mg kg -1 (Tab.…”

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“…The results in this study were in agreement with the study by Adelekan & Alawode (2011) who found Ni concentration ranging between 18 mg kg -1 and 335 mg kg -1 . Turhan et al (2020) reported that the Ni concentrations under the agricultural surface soil samples in Kangal varied from 89.5 mg kg −1 to 971.0 mg kg −1 with an average value of 610.1 mg kg −1 .…”

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“…The soils from the far, middle and adjacent distances showed similar values (128.2±8.56 mg kg -1 , 126.1±8.34 mg kg -1 and 126.3±7.99 mg kg -1 respectively), but higher values than the soils from the very adjacent (121.4±15.13 mg kg -1 ) and the very far distances (111.6±0.21 mg kg -1 ). Turhan et al (2020) noted that Cr concentrations under soil varied from 125.3 mg kg −1 to 1327.0 mg kg −1 with an average value of 713.2 mg kg −1 . Sulaiman et al (2018) found the lower Cr concentration in one dumpsite A (1.65 mg kg -1 ) than the other dumpsite B (2.16 mg kg -1 ).…”

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Kastamonu İli̇ Vahşi̇ Depolama Alani Topraklarinda Ağir Metal Konsantrasyonlarinin İncelenmesi̇

Savacı

Öksüz

2020

Turkish Journal of Forest Science

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The aim of this study was to reveal the effects of domestic dumpsite on the some soil chemical properties in the surface soils in Kastamonu city. The soil samples were collected from the 5 different distances namely; Very adjacent (VA), Adjacent (A), Middle (M), Far (F) and Very far (VF). The results showed that the accumulation of heavy metal in the soil varied significantly with the distances. Among the heavy metals, the concentrations of Co, Cr, Cu (only A and VA), Zn (only A and VA), Ni (except for M) exceeded the Maximum Allowable Limit (MAL) for Turkey values. However, the concentrations of Mo, Pb and Cd were below the MAL limit values. When all results are considered, it can be stated that the waste dumpsites can negatively affect the environment. Therefore, we make sure that the dumped materials should be concentrated and recycled in order to decrease the amount of heavy metals in the dumpsites and in the soils around the dumpsites. In addition, phytoremediation, which is all the remediation technique available for metal contaminated soils, is the most costly, environmentally friendly and easy to apply. Phytoremediation can be used to remove, displace or reduce contaminants from soil by using plants that hyperaccumulate these contaminants.

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Characteristics and pollution risks of potentially toxic elements and nematode community structure on farm soil near coal mines

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Wang

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Environ Geochem Health

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Ecological assessment of heavy metals in soil around a coal-fired thermal power plant in Turkey

Cited by 47 publications

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Oil Price, Energy Consumption, and CO2 Emissions in Turkey. New Evidence from a Bootstrap ARDL Test

Oil Price, Energy Consumption, and CO2 Emissions in Turkey. New Evidence from a Bootstrap ARDL Test

Kastamonu İli̇ Vahşi̇ Depolama Alani Topraklarinda Ağir Metal Konsantrasyonlarinin İncelenmesi̇

Characteristics and pollution risks of potentially toxic elements and nematode community structure on farm soil near coal mines

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