Beta
216660

Human Health Risk Assessment of Heavy Metals Contaminated Soil at Al-Nasiriyah City, Iraq

Article

Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

Subjects

-

Tags

Environmental chemistry

Abstract

This study assesses the health risks on exposed populations caused by heavy metals near Al-Nasiriyah Thermal Electricity Station. In this study, soil samples from seven sites were collected and analyzed for nickel (Ni), lead (Pb), cadmium (Cd), zinc (Zn), Copper (Cu), and Cobalt (Co), using atomic absorption spectrophotometer. Measured concentrations of these heavy metals were then used to estimate the health risk for adults and children. The total Hazard Index values for all pathways were less than 1 indicated no carcinogenic risk except at sites 4 and 5. It found that equal to 2.2744 and 1.6341 respectively. (child) mainly driven by Pb in these sites, making non-carcinogenic effects significant to the child population. The maximum total carcinogenic risk values were found at site 4 which is equal to 0.000133 for adults and 0.000204 for children. This value attributed to the risk value from ingestion of Ni which was 0.000119729 for adults and 0.000191567 for a child. These values were higher than 0.0001 indicated unacceptable carcinogenic risks in these sites. The order of pathways that caused human health risk assessment was ingestion>dermal>inhalation for both adults and Childs.

DOI

10.21608/ejchem.2022.113170.5141

Keywords

RfD, SF, HI, Risk, Carcinogenic

Authors

First Name

Sabreen

Last Name

Kareem

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Hydraulic structure department, college of Engineering, Al Qasim Green University , Hilla, Iraq

Email

sabreenl.kareem@wrec.uoqasim.edu.iq

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Abbas

Last Name

Muheisen Al Mrayan

MiddleName

Zgher

Affiliation

College of Arts, University of Thi-Qar,AL-Nasiriyah city,Iraq

Email

lec_ch@mail.ru

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Rasha

Last Name

Al-husseiny

MiddleName

A.

Affiliation

College of Engineering, Al-Qasim Green University,Hilla city , Iraq

Email

aranru79@gmail.com

City

-

Orcid

-

Volume

65

Article Issue

9

Related Issue

31876

Issue Date

2022-09-01

Receive Date

2021-12-26

Publish Date

2022-09-01

Page Start

369

Page End

378

Print ISSN

0449-2285

Online ISSN

2357-0245

Link

https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/article_216660.html

Detail API

https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/service?article_code=216660

Order

35

Type

Original Article

Type Code

297

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

Egyptian Journal of Chemistry

Publication Link

https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/

MainTitle

Human Health Risk Assessment of Heavy Metals Contaminated Soil at Al-Nasiriyah City, Iraq

Details

Type

Article

Created At

22 Jan 2023