A base line study of determination and distribution of Total petroleum hydrocarbon in Euphrates river in Nasiriya city | ||
| journal of al-qadisiyah for pure science(quarterly) | ||
| Article 1, Volume 12, Issue 2, June 2012, Pages 111-115 PDF (0 K) | ||
| Author | ||
| Saher A.Ali | ||
| Abstract | ||
| A base line study of the distribution of total petroleum hydrocarbon in Euphrates river in Nasiriyah city have been determined spectrofluorometrically. the present work entitled sampling water from Euphrates river between AL Btha and Sug AL Shuik. Their concentration were found to vary between ( 0.08-1.26 µ g/l) ( Basra oil equivalents).the results suggest that the total petroleum hydrocarbon present in this area originated from low diverse sources. The hydrocarbon amounts tend to be highest in January (1.26 µ g/l) a lowest in July (0.08 µ g/l). Introduction: Water pollution is considered as the most complex problem because of its wide defects and its close relationship to human and its diffusion(1). Hydrocarbon are one of the main subject of pollutants for water, have several sources which can classified either as anthropogenic or biogenic. Major sources of petroleum hydrocarbon enter into water by many routs of various activities such as oil refineries offshore oil production , transportation and tanker accidents(2).Moreover, river runoff, urban runoff , municipal wastes and inland industrial wastes were also found signification input of petroleum hydrocarbon and derivative entering the environment. Euphrates is the most important river and sources of fresh water in the arid surrounding of Nasiriya city. The objective of the present study are to determine the original distribution of total petroleum hydrocarbon in Euphrates river and to evaluate the role Euphrates river as a sources of oil pollution for the shatt Al-Arab river. In order to accomplish these aims, four sampling sites were selected to represent different region of Euphrates river. A reference stations was chosen at the Euphrates river Al Batha areas included in the present survey and their positions are show (figure 1) . The sampling program carried out over seven month ( July 2002 – January | ||
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