Environmental impact assessment of industrial activities on heavy metals distribution in street dust and soil

Khademi, Hossein; Gabarrón, María; Abbaspour, Ali; Martínez-Martínez, Silvia; Faz, Ángel; Acosta, José A.

doi:10.1016/j.chemosphere.2018.11.045

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“…Before re-purposing an abandoned industrial site, it should be inspected to determine whether there is any pollution originating from the previous activities. In such cases, the pollutants that are often a problem are heavy metals (Wcisło et al, 2016;Harvey et al, 2017;Khademi et al, 2019). The contamination of industrial soils is predominantly dependent on the type of industrial activity (Liang et al, 2017;Spahić et al, 2019;Li et al, 2020), but, the soil characteristics and other influences, such as urbanization (Xie et al, 2019), traffic (Chen et al, 2020), geographical factors (Dragović et al, 2014), should also be taken into account.…”

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“…Recently, numerous studies on heavy metal contamination of urban and industrial soils have been carried out (Khademi et al, 2019;Roy et al, 2019;Xie et al, 2019;Yadav et al, 2019;Adimalla et al, 2020;Chen et al, 2020;Egbueri et al, 2020;Li et al, 2020). Khademi et al (2019) demonstrated that concentrations of heavy metals in soils of urban areas are higher than the background values, due to industrial activities; however, industrialization does not appear to significantly affect the level of most soil elements. Heavy metals in soils near factories generally enter the soil from industrial activities (Li et al, 2020), and the type of heavy metal contamination depends on the type of industry.…”

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Ecological Risk Assessment of Heavy Metals in the Soil at a Former Painting Industry Facility

Radomirović

Cirovic

Maksin

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Front. Environ. Sci.

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Soil samples from the site of the former largest paint and varnish factory in ex-Yugoslavia were analyzed for arsenic and eight heavy metals (Pb, Cd, Zn, Cr, Ni, Cu, Fe, and Hg). Several additional soil properties (pH, sulfur, nitrogen, phosphorus, and water content) were also measured. Multivariate analysis showed strong correlations between Pb and Zn; and a moderate correlation between Cu and Ni. There was no correlation between heavy metals and any of the analyzed soil properties parameters. A factor analysis grouped most heavy metals, except Cd, which showed different behavior, and Fe and As, which associated with soil properties. The soil samples were clustered into two distinctive groups. Positive matrix factorization receptor modeling clearly identified Zn and Pb as belonging to the traffic vehicle factor. The second factor dominating arsenic was industrial chemical emissions, while the third factor containing most of the heavy metals was attributed to natural background variation. The last non-metallic factor, dominated by sulfur, was the result of past activities in the paint facility. The average enrichment factor values were for the metals analyzed were: 0.73; 0.71; 2.4; 0.58; 2.3; 0.87; 1.6; and 0.76; for Cr, Cd, Pb, Ni, Zn, Cu, As, and Hg, respectively. Only moderate soil enrichment by Pb and Zn was found. The geoaccumulation index values showed a moderately polluted soil with Pb and Zn, but most contributing to the ecological risk were Cd with 63% and Hg with 19%. These two metals are of major concern in this case study due to their high toxicity, even though they are present at very low concentrations. Generally, a moderate ecological risk was estimated for most soil samples, except for a small number of high-risk samples. Spatial distribution mapped three severely polluted sub-areas. In general, the paint and varnish industry moderately contributes to the contamination of soil. The main ecological risk from metal contamination is not related to the paint technological production process itself, but from other activities at the site that deposit of heavy metals into the soil.

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Ecological Risk Assessment of Heavy Metals in the Soil at a Former Painting Industry Facility

Radomirović

Cirovic

Maksin

et al. 2020

Front. Environ. Sci.

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“…Originally used with bottom sediments [29], the geoaccumulation index (I geo ) could also be applied to the assessment of soil contamination [30][31][32]. I geo is computed using the following equation:…”

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Distribution Characteristics and Pollution Assessment of Soil Heavy Metals under Different Land-Use Types in Xuzhou City, China

Fang

Jiang

2019

Sustainability

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Xuzhou, as a mining city in China, has been experiencing 130 years of coal mining and processing. To explore the spatial distribution characteristics and pollution status of soil heavy metals (Cr, Cd, As, Hg, Zn, and Pb) under different land-use types, a total of 2697 topsoil samples were collected in all of the areas (except for water) of Xuzhou in 2016. Overall, the mean concentrations of Cr (70.266 mg/kg), Cd (0.141 mg/kg), As (10.375 mg/kg), Hg (0.036 mg/kg), Zn (64.788 mg/kg), and Pb (24.84 mg/kg) in Xuzhou soils were lower than the environmental quality standard for soils (GB15618-1995). However, the mean concentrations of Cr, Hg, and Pb exceeded their corresponding background values, with the mean concentration of Hg being almost three times its background value. For different land-use types, the highest mean concentration of Cr was concentrated in grassland soils. The mean concentrations of Cd, As, Zn, and Pb in mining area soils were higher than those in the other soils. The mean concentration of Hg was the highest in the built-up area soils. Based on the potential ecological risk assessment, the forestland, garden land, grassland, and others were at low and moderate risk levels, the farmland and mining area were at low, moderate, and high risk levels, and the built-up area was at various risk levels in Xuzhou. There was a significant positive correlation between Cr, Pb, and Hg concentrations and the corresponding organic carbon contents in the farmland, built-up area, garden land, forestland, and other soils ( p < 0.01 ). A high degree of correlation was found between Cr and Hg concentrations, as well as organic carbon contents in grassland soils, with values of p < 0.05 and p < 0.01 , respectively. An obvious correlation could be seen between Hg concentrations and organic carbon contents in mining area soils ( p < 0.01 ).

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“…The studies that have been conducted to determine heavy metals in different particle size fractions mainly focus on urban or roadside soil, road/urban dust and sediment (Sutherland 2003;Ljung et al 2006;Ajmone-Marsan et al 2008;Acosta et al 2009;Vlasov et al 2015;Khademi et al 2019;Zhang et al 2019), while very little data are available on the distribution of heavy metals in various particle size fractions from agricultural (Qian et al 1996;Gong et al 2014 The majority of the studies have shown that fine soil particles tend to concentrate and retain higher amounts of metals and have a stronger ability to carry potentially hazardous substances due to their high specific area, more organic matter and Fe/Mn/Al oxides content (Förstner 1982;Hardy and Cornu 2006;Gong et al 2014;Liu et al 2018). In coarser particle size fractions, with a lower sorption capacity, the concentrations of metals fully depend on the mineralogical composition, in particular the proportion of heavy minerals and neoformations (Protasova 2003).…”

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“…The coarser fractions in urban soils are relatively depleted in metals, however in some European cities they reveal high contents of certain metals, in particular geogenic Cr and Ni, due to their additions from specific parent lithologies (Ajmone-Marsan et al 2008). Urban dust and aerosol are characterized by higher total concentrations of trace metals (Pb, Zn, Cu, Cd, and Cr) than urban soil (Banerjee 2003;Khademi et al 2019) because they mostly consist of fine particles. The study of roadside dust in Moscow (Vlasov et al 2015) showed that heavy metals accumulate in the medium and fine silt and also in the clay fraction.…”

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Particle size partitioning of metals in humus horizons of two small erosional landforms in the middle Protva basin – a comparative study

Samonova

Aseyeva

2020

GES

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Partitioning of metals in soil particles of various size classes has been receiving greater significance due to the necessity to predict the behaviour and pathways of the potentially toxic elements in the environment. In this study the analysis of metals’ distribution in various particle size fractions was performed to characterize and compare geochemical features of the topsoil horizons of two small erosional landforms located in uncontaminated area of the central part of European Russia (the Middle Protva basin, mixed forest zone). The landforms represent two typical lithological types of gullies in the study area. Soil samples were fractionated and the concentrations of Fe, Mn, Ti, Zr, Ni, Co, Cr, Zn, Cu, Pb were determined in five particle size fractions: 1–0.25, 0.25-0.05, 0.05−0.01, 0.01–0.001 and <0.001 mm. The metals’ concentrations and their distribution in various particle sizes were found to be related to gully litho-type. The contribution of the clay to the total amount of metals was the greatest for Mn, Zn, Ni and Co in both systems. The highest mass loading for Ti, Zr and Cr came from the coarse silt, while for Cu and Pb it was made by different particle size fractions: the medium and fine silt or the coarse silt. The highest contribution of Fe also came from different fractions, either from the coarse sand or the clay depending on the system.

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Environmental impact assessment of industrial activities on heavy metals distribution in street dust and soil

Cited by 136 publications

References 52 publications

Ecological Risk Assessment of Heavy Metals in the Soil at a Former Painting Industry Facility

Ecological Risk Assessment of Heavy Metals in the Soil at a Former Painting Industry Facility

Distribution Characteristics and Pollution Assessment of Soil Heavy Metals under Different Land-Use Types in Xuzhou City, China

Particle size partitioning of metals in humus horizons of two small erosional landforms in the middle Protva basin – a comparative study

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