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Fluoride Concentration in Ground Water Around an Aluminium Smelter Plant (A Case Study) in Angul–Talcher Industrial Belt, Odisha, India

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Abstract

Fluoride is the naturally-occurring stable form of the gaseous element fluorine (F). Fluoride is among the top 15 most abundant components on the Earth’s crust [21] and is naturally found in very small amounts in most aquifers in India [23]. An aquifer is an underground unit of saturated earth materials that can provide usable quantities of ground water to a well [5]. This paper gives the result of fluoride measurement in ground water around a major Aluminium smelter plant in India. The concentration of different water quality parameters like pH, electrical conductivity, total alkalinity, bicarbonate, chloride, nitrate, sulfate, total hardness, total dissolved salts, calcium and magnesium are estimated along with fluoride in ground water. Over 216 water samples are taken for analysis for a period of 12 months. The paper also reports the result of correlation coefficient between different water quality parameters.

Published in International Journal of Environmental Monitoring and Analysis (Volume 4, Issue 1)
DOI 10.11648/j.ijema.20160401.11
Page(s) 1-5
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Keywords

Fluoride Concentration, Al-smelter Plant, Ground Water, Physicochemical Parameters, Correlation

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  • Department of Chemistry, Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology, Denkanal, Odisha, India

  • Department of Chemistry, Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology, Denkanal, Odisha, India

  • Department of Chemistry, Gandhi Institute of Technological Advancement, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

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