Lead concentration in dust fall in Zahedan, Sistan and Baluchistan Province, Iran

Sara Abdollahi; Akram Karimi; Meysam Madadi; Saeid Eslamian; Kaveh Ostad-Ali-Askari; Vijay P. Singh

doi:10.24294/jgc.v4i2.601

Lead concentration in dust fall in Zahedan, Sistan and Baluchistan Province, Iran

Sara Abdollahi, Akram Karimi, Meysam Madadi, Saeid Eslamian, Kaveh Ostad-Ali-Askari, Vijay P. Singh

Article ID: 601
Vol 4, Issue 2, 2021

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Abstract

Dust is one of the atmospheric pollutants that have adverse environmental effects and consequences. Dust fall contains particles of 100 microns or even smaller ones, which fall from the atmosphere onto the earth surface. The aim of this study is to determine the concentration of lead in dust fall samples in order to study the pollution level of this element in Zahedan, Sistan and Baluchistan Province, Iran. Therefore, sampling was carried out using 30 marble dust collectors (MDCO) for 3 months in the spring of 2015 to investigate the quantitative variation and spatial analysis of lead content in dust fall. These dust collectors were placed at 30 stations on the building roofs with a height of approximately 1.5 meters across the city. According to the results, the mean lead concentration in the spring was 90.16 mg/kg. In addition, the zoning map of lead content shows that the lowest level of lead was measured at Imam Khomeini station while the highest amount of lead appeared in Mostafa Khomeini station.

Keywords

Dust Fall; Lead Content; Pollution; Zahedan

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.24294/jgc.v4i2.601