TY - JOUR
T1 - Assessment of total mercury content in water of the Balkyldak Lake-reservoir, Pavlodar, Kazakhstan
AU - Korobeinyk, A. V.
AU - Yapyiev, V. R.
AU - Azat, S.
AU - Inglezakis, V. J.
N1 - Funding Information:
The financial assistance of Nazarbayev University (project ORAU “HyperActiv”), Kazakhstan, European Commission, Horizon 2020 MSCA-RISE-2016 project ‘NanoMed’, and the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK), projects IAPP/1516/46 and IAPP/1516/3 research grants towards this research is hereby acknowledged.
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PY - 2018/7/23
Y1 - 2018/7/23
N2 - This study aimed at determining the levels of total mercury in water samples collected in the vicinity of the Lake-reservoir Balkyldak in Pavlodar, Kazakhstan. Legacy of the chloralkali process in Pavlodar which involved the mercury cell method while producing a chlorine-free sodium hydroxide leads to serious environmental problems. At the time of the unit continuous operation in between 1971-1993 approximately 1000 metric tons of metallic mercury has been released into the wastewater holding pond at the chemical plant. For many years, mercury collected in the wastewater pond was a subject of the Kazakhstan sharply continental climate fluctuation and overflow to the Balkyldak Lake-reservoir, creating a significant mercury contamination issue for the whole region. Mercury emitted from industrial eluents in environment carries predominantly anthropogenic pollutants. Due to its natural cycle through atmosphere, water and soil in different forms prompts the widespread global mercury pollution. In present investigation, samples collected in a close proximity of the Balkyldak Lake were analyzed in respect to the geological location of collection.
AB - This study aimed at determining the levels of total mercury in water samples collected in the vicinity of the Lake-reservoir Balkyldak in Pavlodar, Kazakhstan. Legacy of the chloralkali process in Pavlodar which involved the mercury cell method while producing a chlorine-free sodium hydroxide leads to serious environmental problems. At the time of the unit continuous operation in between 1971-1993 approximately 1000 metric tons of metallic mercury has been released into the wastewater holding pond at the chemical plant. For many years, mercury collected in the wastewater pond was a subject of the Kazakhstan sharply continental climate fluctuation and overflow to the Balkyldak Lake-reservoir, creating a significant mercury contamination issue for the whole region. Mercury emitted from industrial eluents in environment carries predominantly anthropogenic pollutants. Due to its natural cycle through atmosphere, water and soil in different forms prompts the widespread global mercury pollution. In present investigation, samples collected in a close proximity of the Balkyldak Lake were analyzed in respect to the geological location of collection.
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U2 - 10.1088/1755-1315/167/1/012006
DO - 10.1088/1755-1315/167/1/012006
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85051319834
SN - 1755-1307
VL - 167
JO - IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science
JF - IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science
IS - 1
M1 - 012006
T2 - 2018 8th International Conference on Environment Science and Engineering, ICESE 2018
Y2 - 11 March 2018 through 13 March 2018
ER -