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SPECIAL ISSUE «DUST IN THE ENVIRONMENT: A HAZARD TO HUMAN HEALTH AND SOCIETY»

Monitoring For Elemental Composition Of Particulate Matter Deposited In Snow Cover Around Coal-Fired Thermal Power Plant (Karaganda, Central Kazakhstan).

Talovskaya

A. V.

30 Lenin Ave., 634050, Tomsk

talovskaj@yandex.ru

Adil’bayeva

T. E.

30 Lenin Ave., 634050, Tomsk

Yazikov

E. G.

30 Lenin Ave., 634050, Tomsk

National Research Tomsk Polytechnic UniversityRussian Federation

2023

12012024

164180192

2024

Talovskaya A.V., Adil’bayeva T.E., Yazikov E.G.

Данная работа распространяется под лицензией Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://ges.rgo.ru/jour/article/view/3201

Studies on thermal power plant areas with respect to chemical composition of particulate matter deposited in snow cover are limited. This study aims to monitor (2014–2022) particulate load and trace elements associated with the particulate matter distributed around (0.5-4.5 km) the coal-fired thermal power plant in Karaganda. In this study, snow cover was used as an effective scavenger of atmospheric pollutants. Using instrumental neutron activation analysis and atomic absorption spectrometry, the content of 26 elements and Hg, respectively, was determined in the particulate phase of snow. The results showed that particulate load varied from 26 to 1751, with mean of 427 and a background of 47 mg m-2 d-1. Anthropogenic impact caused a significant increase in content of U, Hg, Ta, Zn, Na, Cr, Co, Sr, Rb, Cs, Sc, Ca, Fe, Nd, Ba (2–30 times) in the samples compared to the background. Metal-bearing phases of Zn, Ba, As, U-Ta-Nb were detected through scanning electron microscope. The highest levels of particulate load (169–1032 mg m-2 d-1) and element contents in the samples were localized up to 0.7 km from the thermal power plant. The changes of particulate load and element composition of snow deposits during the monitoring period were connected with temperature, modernization of dust-collecting equipment, composition of coal and fly ash, long-range transport of emissions from other industries. The element content and metal-bearing phases in the particulate phase of snow can be used as markers for identifying emission sources from coal combustion.

urban snow pollutionrare elementsheavy metalsmetal-bearing phasesatmospheric depositioncoal combustion

The experimental procedures were carried out at Tomsk Polytechnic University within the framework of Tomsk Polytechnic University Competitiveness Enhancement Program Grant in the Group of Top Level World Research and Academic Institutions. This work was performed on the unique scientific IRT-T equipment. The authors thank Alexander Sudyko and Larisa Bagydskaya for the performing of instrumental neutron activation analysis, Ekaterina Filimonenko and Nina Osipova for their help in Hg measurements in the Uranium Geology International Centre (Tomsk Polytechnic University), Natalia Savelyevna for her assistance in SEM-EDX analysis (Karaganda State Technical University).

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