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Soil Contamination

The study by Lartiges and Ouaini (2011) investigates the environmental impact of emissions from a phosphate fertilizer plant on local soil contamination. It finds significant enrichments of potentially toxic trace elements and radionuclides in soil samples, particularly due to airborne pollutants and dry deposition. The research highlights phosphorus species as key carriers of these trace elements in the affected soils.

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Soil Contamination

The study by Lartiges and Ouaini (2011) investigates the environmental impact of emissions from a phosphate fertilizer plant on local soil contamination. It finds significant enrichments of potentially toxic trace elements and radionuclides in soil samples, particularly due to airborne pollutants and dry deposition. The research highlights phosphorus species as key carriers of these trace elements in the affected soils.

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Lartiges B. Ouaini N. (2011).

Effects of fertilizer industry emissions on local soil contamination:


a case study of a phosphate plant on the east Mediterranean coast
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Fugitive dust emission, transport and deposition from phosphate fertilizer industries may pose an
environmental hazard to the surrounding environment, particularly to soil (Lartiges & Ouaini,
2011). The goal of this study is to investigate such as hazard in the fate of airborne pollutants,
their transfer from atmosphere to soil surface, and their contamination potential. Concentrations
of elements was tested in soil samples. Elemental analyses were carried out using ICP-AES and
ICP-MS. Analysis of speciation of trace elements, using a sequential extraction method, was
performed on the plant's raw material (apatite), product and waste (phosphate fertilizer and
phosphogypsum). Statistical analyses do a sample data that was measured phosphorus
accumulated substantial to north-east of the plant due to the prevailing wind and associated dry
deposition. Results exhibited considerably above-threshold enrichments in potentially toxic, bio-
available trace elements (Cd, Zn) (2.5–6.9, 295–506 mg kg−1) and radionuclide (U, 20–98.69
mg kg−1) within a major deposition area. Dry deposition calculation showed extensive input
fluxes of Sr, Zn, Cr, U, Ni and Cd. Significant correlation was established between measured
trace elements concentrations and their calculated deposition fluxes. Phosphorus species were the
principal carriers of trace elements in soils.

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