An assessment of surface water quality and heavy metals involving the rare earth elements in Sungai Tunggak and Sungai Balok, Gebeng, Kuantan, Pahang

An assessment of surface water quality and heavy metals involving the rare earth elements in Sungai Tunggak and Sungai Balok, Gebeng, Kuantan, Pahang

Water pollution caused by rare earth elements (REEs) and heavy metals have become serious threats to the survival of aquatic organisms, human, and environment especially in Pahang. This alarming circumstance has inspired the study to measure water quality parameters and concentration of REEs and hea...

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Main Authors: Ab Wahab, Siti Umikalthum, Shaibullah, Siti Hajar, Abu Samah, Mohd Armi, Mohd. Aris, Mohd Shukri
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Language:English
Published: Penerbit Universiti Malaysia Pahang 2016
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GE Environmental Sciences
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spelling iium-542192017-07-18T00:27:57Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/54219/ An assessment of surface water quality and heavy metals involving the rare earth elements in Sungai Tunggak and Sungai Balok, Gebeng, Kuantan, Pahang Ab Wahab, Siti Umikalthum Shaibullah, Siti Hajar Abu Samah, Mohd Armi Mohd. Aris, Mohd Shukri GE Environmental Sciences Water pollution caused by rare earth elements (REEs) and heavy metals have become serious threats to the survival of aquatic organisms, human, and environment especially in Pahang. This alarming circumstance has inspired the study to measure water quality parameters and concentration of REEs and heavy metals in the rivers within an industrial area. For achieving these objectives, collected data was done in dry seasons (April – June) in year 2014 and 2015. Both data were compared and analyzed based on different locations at the selected river in Gebeng industrial area, Pahang. The physical parameters such as temperature, specific conductivity, pH, turbidity, dissolved oxygen (DO), and biological oxygen demand (BOD) were measured by using hydrolab. The water samples were then collected for tracing the REEs and heavy metals by using Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS). Malaysian Interim National Water Quality Standard (INWQS) was used as reference. Water quality parameters were all within the permissible limit except for turbidity in both year 2014 and 2015. Besides, REEs elements investigated in this study showed that the concentration of one of the investigated elements was thorium exceeded the permissible limit at the upstream area which recorded 2.54 ppb in year 2014. The current study progress is not fully investigated, but as the whole, the study outcomes envisaged the pollutants presence may be reflected with river water flow from upstream, middle stream and downstream. Penerbit Universiti Malaysia Pahang 2016 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/54219/1/An_Assessment_of_Surface_Water_Quality_and-Heavy-Metals_Involving_The_Rare_Earth_Elements-in_Sungai-Tunggak_and_Sungai_Balok_Gebeng_Kuantan_Pahang.pdf Ab Wahab, Siti Umikalthum and Shaibullah, Siti Hajar and Abu Samah, Mohd Armi and Mohd. Aris, Mohd Shukri (2016) An assessment of surface water quality and heavy metals involving the rare earth elements in Sungai Tunggak and Sungai Balok, Gebeng, Kuantan, Pahang. Journal of Malaysian Critical Metals, 1. pp. 11-23. ISSN 0128-2557 http://mycm.ump.edu.my/images/Vol12016/An_Assessment_of_Surface_Water_Quality_and-Heavy-Metals_Involving_The_Rare_Earth_Elements-in_Sungai-Tunggak_and_Sungai_Balok_Gebeng_Kuantan_Pahang.pdf
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Ab Wahab, Siti Umikalthum
Shaibullah, Siti Hajar
Abu Samah, Mohd Armi
Mohd. Aris, Mohd Shukri
An assessment of surface water quality and heavy metals involving the rare earth elements in Sungai Tunggak and Sungai Balok, Gebeng, Kuantan, Pahang
description Water pollution caused by rare earth elements (REEs) and heavy metals have become serious threats to the survival of aquatic organisms, human, and environment especially in Pahang. This alarming circumstance has inspired the study to measure water quality parameters and concentration of REEs and heavy metals in the rivers within an industrial area. For achieving these objectives, collected data was done in dry seasons (April – June) in year 2014 and 2015. Both data were compared and analyzed based on different locations at the selected river in Gebeng industrial area, Pahang. The physical parameters such as temperature, specific conductivity, pH, turbidity, dissolved oxygen (DO), and biological oxygen demand (BOD) were measured by using hydrolab. The water samples were then collected for tracing the REEs and heavy metals by using Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS). Malaysian Interim National Water Quality Standard (INWQS) was used as reference. Water quality parameters were all within the permissible limit except for turbidity in both year 2014 and 2015. Besides, REEs elements investigated in this study showed that the concentration of one of the investigated elements was thorium exceeded the permissible limit at the upstream area which recorded 2.54 ppb in year 2014. The current study progress is not fully investigated, but as the whole, the study outcomes envisaged the pollutants presence may be reflected with river water flow from upstream, middle stream and downstream.
format Article
author Ab Wahab, Siti Umikalthum
Shaibullah, Siti Hajar
Abu Samah, Mohd Armi
Mohd. Aris, Mohd Shukri
author_facet Ab Wahab, Siti Umikalthum
Shaibullah, Siti Hajar
Abu Samah, Mohd Armi
Mohd. Aris, Mohd Shukri
author_sort Ab Wahab, Siti Umikalthum
title An assessment of surface water quality and heavy metals involving the rare earth elements in Sungai Tunggak and Sungai Balok, Gebeng, Kuantan, Pahang
title_short An assessment of surface water quality and heavy metals involving the rare earth elements in Sungai Tunggak and Sungai Balok, Gebeng, Kuantan, Pahang
title_full An assessment of surface water quality and heavy metals involving the rare earth elements in Sungai Tunggak and Sungai Balok, Gebeng, Kuantan, Pahang
title_fullStr An assessment of surface water quality and heavy metals involving the rare earth elements in Sungai Tunggak and Sungai Balok, Gebeng, Kuantan, Pahang
title_full_unstemmed An assessment of surface water quality and heavy metals involving the rare earth elements in Sungai Tunggak and Sungai Balok, Gebeng, Kuantan, Pahang
title_sort assessment of surface water quality and heavy metals involving the rare earth elements in sungai tunggak and sungai balok, gebeng, kuantan, pahang
publisher Penerbit Universiti Malaysia Pahang
publishDate 2016
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/54219/
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http://irep.iium.edu.my/54219/1/An_Assessment_of_Surface_Water_Quality_and-Heavy-Metals_Involving_The_Rare_Earth_Elements-in_Sungai-Tunggak_and_Sungai_Balok_Gebeng_Kuantan_Pahang.pdf
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