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Monitoring and physico-chemical assessment of ex-mining pools in Perak, Malaysia

Monitoring and Physico-chemical characterization of ex-mining pools was carried out for 9 months at 15 days interval. Physico-chemical parameters such as pH, electrical conductivity, total suspended solids (TSS), total dissolved solids (TDS), chemical oxygen demand (COD), hardness as well as anions...

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Main Authors: Qadir, D., Mukhtar, H., Keong, L.K.
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Published: Malaysian Abstracting and Indexing System 2017
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spelling my.utp.eprints.195282019-02-26T01:58:12Z Monitoring and physico-chemical assessment of ex-mining pools in Perak, Malaysia Qadir, D. Mukhtar, H. Keong, L.K. Monitoring and Physico-chemical characterization of ex-mining pools was carried out for 9 months at 15 days interval. Physico-chemical parameters such as pH, electrical conductivity, total suspended solids (TSS), total dissolved solids (TDS), chemical oxygen demand (COD), hardness as well as anions including chloride, nitrate, phosphate, sulfate and cations such as calcium, magnesium, tin, lead, iron, nickel, chromium, zinc were investigated. A comparison was also made to National Drinking Water Quality Standards Malaysia (NDWQSM). It was determined that only turbidity, COD and cations exceeded the standard limits set for drinking water. Other parameters such as pH, electrical conductivity, anions and hardness remained within the allowable limits during the sampling period. It is revealed that COD values (up to 180 mg/L) were found above the permissible limits (10 mg/L). Moreover, among all cations investigated here, lead (up to 0.19 mg/L), nickel (up to 0.05 mg/L) and iron (up to 1.286 mg/L) were present in hazardous amount whereas tin was noted to be 25 mg/L. It was deduced that these ex-mining pools could be a potential fresh water resource only after suitable treatment such as membrane filtration and adsorption could be applied to remove the contaminants and heavy metals. Malaysian Abstracting and Indexing System 2017 Article PeerReviewed https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85032221792&partnerID=40&md5=b31e986f5ba0ee2e70f37ec0cacb9d20 Qadir, D. and Mukhtar, H. and Keong, L.K. (2017) Monitoring and physico-chemical assessment of ex-mining pools in Perak, Malaysia. Malaysian Journal of Science, 36 (1). pp. 32-46. http://eprints.utp.edu.my/19528/
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description Monitoring and Physico-chemical characterization of ex-mining pools was carried out for 9 months at 15 days interval. Physico-chemical parameters such as pH, electrical conductivity, total suspended solids (TSS), total dissolved solids (TDS), chemical oxygen demand (COD), hardness as well as anions including chloride, nitrate, phosphate, sulfate and cations such as calcium, magnesium, tin, lead, iron, nickel, chromium, zinc were investigated. A comparison was also made to National Drinking Water Quality Standards Malaysia (NDWQSM). It was determined that only turbidity, COD and cations exceeded the standard limits set for drinking water. Other parameters such as pH, electrical conductivity, anions and hardness remained within the allowable limits during the sampling period. It is revealed that COD values (up to 180 mg/L) were found above the permissible limits (10 mg/L). Moreover, among all cations investigated here, lead (up to 0.19 mg/L), nickel (up to 0.05 mg/L) and iron (up to 1.286 mg/L) were present in hazardous amount whereas tin was noted to be 25 mg/L. It was deduced that these ex-mining pools could be a potential fresh water resource only after suitable treatment such as membrane filtration and adsorption could be applied to remove the contaminants and heavy metals.
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author Qadir, D.
Mukhtar, H.
Keong, L.K.
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Keong, L.K.
Monitoring and physico-chemical assessment of ex-mining pools in Perak, Malaysia
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Keong, L.K.
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title Monitoring and physico-chemical assessment of ex-mining pools in Perak, Malaysia
title_short Monitoring and physico-chemical assessment of ex-mining pools in Perak, Malaysia
title_full Monitoring and physico-chemical assessment of ex-mining pools in Perak, Malaysia
title_fullStr Monitoring and physico-chemical assessment of ex-mining pools in Perak, Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Monitoring and physico-chemical assessment of ex-mining pools in Perak, Malaysia
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