Time Series Analysis of Heavy Metal Concentrations along the Watershed Gradient in Cameron Highlands: Geospatial Approaches

International Conference on Advances in Renewable Energy and Technologies 2016

Haron, S.H.^1 ; Ismail, B.S.^1 ; Mispan, M.R.^2 ; Rahman, N.F. Abd^3 ; Khalid, K.^4 ; Abdul Rasid, M.Z.^5 ; Sidek, L.M.^6

Faculty of Science and Technology, Universit Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia^1

Malaysian Agricultural Research and Development Institute (MARDI), Malaysia, Malaysia^2

Faculty of Civil Engineering, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam, Malaysia^3

Faculty of Civil Engineering, Universiti Teknologi MARA Jengka, Pahang, Malaysia^4

Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia^5

Centre for Sustainable Technology and Environment (CSTEN), Department of Civil Engineering, Universiti Tenaga Nasional, Malaysia^6

关键词: Agricultural areas;    Heavy metal concentration;    Inductively coupled plasma (ICP);    Inverse distance weighting;    Metal concentrations;    Sample concentration;    Spatial interpolation;    Toxic heavy metals;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/32/1/012064/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1755-1315/32/1/012064

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

Heavy metal, particularly cadmium, lead, and arsenic, constitute a significant potential threat to human health. Some metals are extremely toxic to humans and the toxic heavy metals of greatest concern include cadmium, lead, and arsenic. The objective of the study conducted was to determine the accumulation and distribution status of heavy metal cadmium (Cd) in the sediment of Bertam River from September 2014 to February 2015 in the agricultural areas of Cameron Highlands, Malaysia. The sediment samples were collected randomly in three replicates from ten sampling points in the agricultural areas of Cameron Highlands. The heavy metals in the sediment were extracted using the wet acid method and the sample concentrations are then tested for metal concentrations by the spectrography method using Inductively Coupled Plasma (ICP) spectrography. Inverse distance weighting (IDW) was used to create a map of metal concentrations for a point on the polygon dataset spatial interpolation. There is an increasing trend of Cd from the upstream to downstream stations along Bertam River during the rainy season. The activity range of Cd is 0.07 to 2.83 μg/g during the rainy season, whereas, during the dry season, Cd activity ranged from 0.26-0.83μg/g.