Title :

Assessment of metal along a contamination gradient in soils collected from industrial areas in Northern Tunisia

Author(s) :

Ouni, Ahmed [Auteur]
Ghemari, Chedliya [Auteur]
Ben-Said, Amina [Auteur]
Pruvot, Christelle [Auteur]
JUNIA [JUNIA]
Laboratoire de Génie Civil et Géo-Environnement (LGCgE) - ULR 4515 [LGCgE]
Douay, Francis [Auteur]
JUNIA [JUNIA]
Laboratoire de Génie Civil et Géo-Environnement (LGCgE) - ULR 4515 [LGCgE]
Nasri-Ammar, Karima [Auteur]

Conference title :

1st Conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences (CAJG), 12-15 November 2018, Hammamet (Tunisia)

City :

Hammamet

Country :

Tunisie

Start date of the conference :

2018

Publication date :

2018

English abstract : [en]

Many studies were interested in the assessment and the monitoring of soil contamination with heavy metals. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of emissions from the Tunisian Steel Company El Fouladh in Bizerte ...
Show more >Many studies were interested in the assessment and the monitoring of soil contamination with heavy metals. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of emissions from the Tunisian Steel Company El Fouladh in Bizerte (Tunisia). In this context, we measured Zinc (Zn), Copper (Cu), Lead (Pb) and Cadmium (Cd) soil’s concentrations from 8 sites along a contamination gradient. Besides, physicochemical parameters, pH, organic carbon, CEC and CaCO3 were measured. Heavy metals were determined using an atomic absorption spectrome-try. The results revealed a high concentration of heavy metals in soils collected from several sites. The contamination factor (CF) was determined to estimate soil contamination of the sam-pling sites, and revealed that the level of contamination varied along a contamination gradient, which may be due to the mobility of pollution.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Peer reviewed article :

Oui

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

Comment :

COM

Collections :

• Laboratoire Génie Civil et géo-Environnement (LGCgE) - ULR 4515

Source :

Harvested from HAL

Submission date :

2025-02-26T12:08:14Z