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Risk assessment of mercury contamination in surface sediment of the Klang River, Malaysia


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Naji, Abolfazl and Ismail, Ahmad (2011) Risk assessment of mercury contamination in surface sediment of the Klang River, Malaysia. Australian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences, 5 (7). pp. 215-221. ISSN 1991-8178

Abstract

Total mercury contamination in 21 stations in Klang River. T-Hg concentrations were ranged from 0.02 to 0.45 μg g-1 dry weight surface sediments. Enrichment factor (EF), and sediment quality guidelines of threshold effect level (TEL) and probable effect level (PEL) were applied to calculate the degrees of sediment contamination. The mercury EF showed the significant role of the anthropogenic inputs in sediments of Klang River. The result also determined that none of T-Hg concentrations in the sediments were as high as the PEL value, whereas mercury concentrations in some stations exceeded the TEL value.


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Item Type: Article
Divisions: Faculty of Science
Publisher: American-Eurasian Network for Scientific Information
Keywords: Contamination assessment; Malaysia; Mercury; Organic carbon; Surface sediment
Depositing User: Nabilah Mustapa
Date Deposited: 06 Apr 2016 08:33
Last Modified: 06 Apr 2016 08:33
URI: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/15471
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