TRACE ELEMENTS DISTRIBUTION IN SOIL IN AREAS OF LIGNITE POWER PLANTS OF WESTERN MACEDONIA

• Published in: Journal of trace and microprobe techniques Vol. 20; no. 2; pp. 269 - 282
• Main Authors: Tsikritzis, Lazaros I., Ganatsios, Stergios S., Duliu, Octavian G., Kavouridis, Costas V., Sawidis, Thomas D.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Monticello, NY Taylor & Francis Group 20.05.2002; Dekker
• Subjects: Analysis methods; Analytical chemistry; Applied sciences; Chemistry; Exact sciences and technology; Greece; Lignite; Pollution; Power plant; Soil and sediments pollution; Spectrometric and optical methods; Trace elements; Europe; Macedonia; Trace analysis; Chemical analysis; Thermal power plant; Soil pollution; Inductive coupling plasma spectrometry; Inorganic element; Environmental control; Chemical pollution; Soils; Emission spectrometry; Multicomponent analysis; Thermoelectric atomization; Environmental monitoring; Quantitative analysis; Atomic absorption spectrometry
• ISSN: 0733-4680; 1532-2270
• DOI: 10.1081/TMA-120003729

The concentration of 16 trace elements (V, Cr, Mn, Co, Ni, Cu, Mo, As, Cd, Hg, Sn, Se, Sb, Ba, Ag and Pb) has been determined in 39 points distributed over the 2300 km 2 of the Kozani-Ptolemaïda-Amynteon basin (Western Macedonia). In this area there are four lignite power plants, with an installed power of 4048 MW, which discharged into atmosphere around 69500 tons/year of fly ash. Seventy soil samples, 0 to 20 cm depths, from both uncultivated and cultivated soils have been investigated. Except for Cr, Mn, Ni and Co in three uncultivated soil samples, no statistically significant increased concentrations could be evidenced in the considered area.