eng
Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences
Journal of Advances in Environmental Health Research
2676-3478
2345-3990
2016-11-01
4
4
182
189
10.22102/jaehr.2016.45370
45370
مقاله پژوهشی
Locating industrial landfill using analytical hierarchy process (AHP)(Case study: Natanz-Isfahan industrial suburbs)
Majid Hashemi
mhashemi120@gmail.com
1
Hamid Reza Pourzamani
pourzamani@hlth.mui.ac.ir
2
Saeed Fadaei
saed_fadaei@hlth.mui.ac.ir
3
Faezeh Heidari
faezeh.heydari97@yahoo.com
4
Golnaz Safa
golnaz.safa@yahoo.com
5
Iman Parseh
iparseh97@gmail.com
6
Hamed Mohammadi
7
Saeed Parastar
saeed.parastar31@yahoo.com
8
Ph.D Student, Environment Research Committee, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran, and Student Research Committee and Department of Environmental Health Engineering, School of Health, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
Associate Professor, Environment Research Center, Research Institute for Primordial Prevention of Non communicable Disease, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran, and Department of Environmental Health Engineering, School of Health, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
Ph.D Student, Environment Research Committee, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran, and Student Research Committee and Department of Environmental Health Engineering, School of Health, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
BS of Environmental Health Engineering, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, Iran
MSc of Environmental Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology/ Environmental Expert, Zendeh Rood Research Center, Isfahan, Iran
Ph.D Student, Environment Research Committee, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran, and Student Research Committee and Department of Environmental Health Engineering, School of Health, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
Ph.D Student, Environment Research Committee, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran, and Student Research Committee and Department of Environmental Health Engineering, School of Health, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
Ph.D Student, Environment Research Committee, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran, and Student Research Committee and Department of Environmental Health Engineering, School of Health, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
Locating landfills in urban areas is one of the most important issues in urban planning because of the effect on economy, ecology, and environment, therefore the right management and principled landfilling of solid waste is the major concern all over the world especially in the developed countries. In locating landfills, different criteria should be considered. In the present study, locating sites for solid landfill of two industrial suburbs in Natanz using Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) was investigated so as to present optimal solutions. Three places were investigated as suggested sites and seven factors like distance from the industrial suburb, ease of access, cost of site preparation, access to covering soil, wind direction, soil penetration, and groundwater direction were considered in the decision-making process. Super Decisions software was mployed to create hierarchy network, compare criteria and sub criteria, and finally choose better choice. Based on the results, the third choice located in northeast of Shojaabad suburb and southeast of Ooreh suburb (almost between two suburbs) was selected as the best choice to bury the industrial wastes of these suburbs with score of 0.618 based on the software results. The incompatibility rate was 0.069.
https://jaehr.muk.ac.ir/article_45370_498e270a34f158db84e05841434f1466.pdf
Landfill siting
Analytical Hierarchy Process
Industrial Waste
eng
Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences
Journal of Advances in Environmental Health Research
2676-3478
2345-3990
2016-11-01
4
4
190
198
10.22102/jaehr.2016.45371
45371
مقاله پژوهشی
Feasibility study of coagulation system to greywater treatment and economical comparison with electrocoagulation in mining areas
Seyed Morteza Moosavirad
s.m.moosavirad@kgut.ac.ir
1
Department of Mining Engineering, Higher education complex of Zarand, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran
Coagulants exert a significant influence on removing turbidity, TSS and COD. This study has examined the effects of poly-aluminium chloride (PAC), aluminium sulphate (alum) and ferric chloride on removal of turbidity, TSS, COD from greywater in residential complexes of miners working in decorative stone mines. Also, a comparison was undertaken with the electrocoagulation system to find out whether it was economical. Samples were collected over three days from the outlet pipes of greywater in the downstream of a village. The samples were sent to the laboratory to measure their organic materials. However, the Jar test was implemented by using all three coagulants, at concentrations of 100 to 1200 ppm. The results illustrate that the highest percentage of turbidity, COD and TSS removal were 98.24%, 94% and 77.25% respectively, which are related to PAC coagulant. The lowest cost to remove the organic materials in the coagulation method was harvested US $ 0.09/m3 for alum and howbeit. The cost for electrocoagulation method yielded US $ 0.05/m3 water.
https://jaehr.muk.ac.ir/article_45371_d748eae273690ed5cc65c225fbed80aa.pdf
Electrocoagulation
Coagulation
Greywater treatment
Mining areas
eng
Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences
Journal of Advances in Environmental Health Research
2676-3478
2345-3990
2016-11-01
4
4
199
205
10.22102/jaehr.2016.45369
45369
مقاله پژوهشی
Modeling of CO dispersion from the Stack of an Iranian cement industry
Gholamreza Goudarzi
gholam_goudarzi@yahoo.com
1
Rajab Rashidi
r_rachidi@yahoo.com
2
Mohammad Javad Mohammadi
javad.sam200@gmail.com
3
Shahram Sadeghi
shahram.s@yahoo.com
4
Mehdi Amidnia
mehdi.sam@gmail.com
5
Yusef Omidi
yusef_omidi@yahoo.com
6
Environmental Technologies Research Center (ETRC), Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran
Department of Occupational Health Engineering, School of Health, Lorestan University of Medical Sciences, Khorramabad, Iran
Abadan School of Medical Sciences, Abadan, Iran
Environmental Health Research Center, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran
Health Center of Andimeshk, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran
Health Care System of Karoon, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran
The objective of our study was to simulation of carbon monoxide (CO) dispersion exited from the stacks of a cement industry of Doroud, Iran by Gaussian Model (GM). Four sampling period was conducted to measurement of CO from the factory's three-stack flow during one year. The input parameters for were the rate of CO emission, meteorological data, factors of related to the stack, and factors of related to the receptor. Parameters were corporate and the dispersion of CO during four season was modeled. The southwesterly winds were dominated during recently five years. The highest and the lowest CO levels were estimated at spring and fall seasons with maximum amounts of 842.06 and 88.31 µg/m3 within distances of 526 and 960 m away from the cement plant, respectively. Although, the maximum predicted CO concentration at four seasons were lower than the NAAQS standard, the simulation results can be used as a base for reduction of CO emissions rate, because the long-term exposure to emissions of cement plant imposes potentially significant health and environmental impacts.
https://jaehr.muk.ac.ir/article_45369_f50c815cfa72e871f13a53f7f8bd497c.pdf
Gaussian Model
Modeling
Carbon monoxide
Cement Plant
eng
Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences
Journal of Advances in Environmental Health Research
2676-3478
2345-3990
2016-11-01
4
4
206
212
10.22102/jaehr.2016.45969
45969
مقاله پژوهشی
Evaluation of noise pollution in Parks of Sanandaj City and zoning with Geographic Information System
Asad Nouri
asadeblis@gmail.com
1
Behzad Shahmoradi
bshahmorady@gmail.com
2
Ebrahim Darvishi
darvishi.hse@gmail.com
3
Mostafa Gholami
m_gh_367@yahoo.com
4
Sahar Hajimirzaie
mirzayseher@yahoo.com
5
Omid Nasri
o.naseri@yahoo.com
6
Omid Khoshsoorat
omid_khoshsoorat@yahoo.com
7
Rizan Ghaderi
ghaderir@gmail.com
8
Student Research Committee, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran
Environmental Health Research Center, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran
PhD student in Occupational Health, Hamedan University of Medical Sciences, Hamedan, Iran
Department of Urban Planning, School of Technology, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Iran
Student Research Committee, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran
Student Research Committee, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran
Student Research Committee, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran
Student Research Committee, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran
It is accepted that noise pollution has a major impact on health, such as physical, physiological, psychological and performance related effects, all over the world. This study aims to evaluate noise pollution in four urban parks located in Sanandaj City, Iran and to zone it in GIS environment. Sound pressure level (SPL) and maximum sound level (Lmax) were measured at 45 points (each point was measured in a duration of 1 min) spread throughout the parks. The measurement of SPL alongside Lmax was performed using a sound-level-meter TES-1351A. Location of measuring points was recorded using GPS. The noise pollution was found to be more than 50 dB (A) during the day and 40 dB (A) at night, which are within the prescribed standard level for commercial-residential-recreational zones by Iran National Environmental Standards. The Lmax of Amirieh, Koodak, IT, and Maolavi parks were 73.3, 74.31, 74.88, and74.79 dB (A), respectively. Moreover, the SPL of Amirieh, Koodak, IT, and Maolavi parks were 56.99, 60.27, 59.47, and 60.93 dB (A), respectively. Amirieh Park had the lowest Lmax and SPL due to high cover vegetation and lack of high road traffic, whereas the other three parks showed the maximum amount of Lmax and SPL due to the surrounding traffic routes. Improving the parks acoustic conditions through noise insulation using green barriers decorated with plant material can be considered as effective method in order to decrease noise to acceptable level in all the parks.
https://jaehr.muk.ac.ir/article_45969_33f872cea58eccc5c4140bc38d5a73ee.pdf
Noise
parks
sound pressure level
GIS
Sanandaj
eng
Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences
Journal of Advances in Environmental Health Research
2676-3478
2345-3990
2016-11-01
4
4
213
218
10.22102/jaehr.2016.45962
45962
مقاله پژوهشی
Application of artificial intelligent approaches for the efficiency and energy consumption of a novel sonocatalyst
Yahya Zandsalimi
yzandsalimi@gmail.com
1
Anoushiravan Mohseni-Bandpei
2
Hiua Daraei
hiua.daraei@gmail.com
3
Loghman Alaei
4
Sang W. Joo
5
Environmental Health Research Center, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran
Department of Environmental Health, Faculty of Health, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Lecturer, Environmental Health Research Center, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran
Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
School of Mechanical Engineering, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan, Republic of Korea
The sonocatalytic activity of nano-sized ZnO powder was studied via the degradation of the Direct Blue 71 azo dye. The nano-sized ZnO powder that was selected was the same as that which was synthesized and characterized in our previous study. The influences of six operational parameters including the initial pH, the initial concentration, the dose of sonocatalyst, the ultrasound frequency, the ultrasound power, and the process time were investigated on the basis of process efficiency and energy consumption. The design of experiments was applied and the experiments were conducted according to the design. The experiments were carried out in a batch reactor. The experimentally obtained dye removal percent (DR%) and the energy consumption per mass ranged from 0.03–100 and 0.19–1273 (wh/g), respectively. The data were used for modelling by using reduced quadratic multiple regression models and the artificial neural network (ANN). Multi-objective optimization of DR% and EPM was applied by using the genetic algorithm (GA) over the outperformed ANN models. The mineralization was studied using total organic carbon analysis. The study indicated promising results in the application of both the novel sonocatalyst and the Artificial Intelligent Approaches.
https://jaehr.muk.ac.ir/article_45962_7fc443f6a33f051968deafa85c3dd7ac.pdf
Sonocatalytic Degradation
Nano-ZnO
Direct Blue 71
Dye removal
Design of experiments
Artificial Neural Network
Genetic Algorithm
eng
Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences
Journal of Advances in Environmental Health Research
2676-3478
2345-3990
2016-11-01
4
4
219
226
10.22102/jaehr.2016.45840
45840
مقاله پژوهشی
Assessment of aquatic environmental quality using gyrodactylus sp. as a living probe: parasitic biomonitoring of ecosystem health
Jayanta Biswas
biswajoy2000@yahoo.com
1
Sasanka Pramanik
pramanik.sasanka2@gmail.com
2
University of Kalyani
Sreegopal Banerjee College, Bagati, Mogra, Hooghly- 712148, West Bengal, India
Biological indicators are species that can be employed to monitor environmental quality and ecosystem health. Different groups of organisms such as plants, animals, bacteria and parasites regularly produce certain molecular signal in response to changes in their environmental milieu. Parasites are important tools for providing wealth of information on physicochemical quality, environmental stressors, trophic interactions, population structure, biodiversity, etc. Given that environmental degradation impacts occurrence frequency and intensity of fish parasites, they may serve as sensitive living probes to monitor environmental factors and ecological status of the water body. Population dynamics of parasites of fresh water fish have been studied involving several host species infected by monogenetic parasite, Gyrodactylus sp. The parasitological parameters such as prevalence, mean intensity, mean abundance of parasite were used for such aquatic biomonitoring purpose. There appeared to be distinct variation on parasitization and relationship between host and prevalence of infection. The present study indicates significant interaction between water quality variables and parasitism. Temperature seems to be the most important abiotic parameter that affected parasitic prevalence and load of infection. Under the pH range and dissolved oxygen level as encountered in the polluted sites, fish became stressed and vulnerable to be affected with parasitic infection. The present study presents a comprehensible view on how Gyrodactylus sp. can be championed as a sensitive and meaningful model for aquatic environmental study and an effective management tool for aquatic biomonitoring.
https://jaehr.muk.ac.ir/article_45840_55fb59007189cf33f8dcd2e4bfba1412.pdf
Biomonitoring
monogenean parasite
Gyrodactylus sp
fish
Health
parasitisation
environmental degradation
Water Quality
eng
Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences
Journal of Advances in Environmental Health Research
2676-3478
2345-3990
2016-11-01
4
4
227
233
10.22102/jaehr.2016.46242
46242
مقاله پژوهشی
Bioaccumulation of metals in silver carp and stone moroko from Zarivar Wetland in Kurdistan Province, Iran
Borhan Mansouri
borhanmansouri@yahoo.com
1
Behroz Davari
davaribehroz@gmail.com
2
Namamali Azadi
a.azadi@hotmail.com
3
Mohammad amin Pordel
pordel.amin543@gmail.com
4
Student Research Committee, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran
Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences
Department of Entomology, School of Medicine, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran
Biostatistics Department, School of Public Health, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
This research aims to monitor the trace elements content (Cr, Cu, Pb, Cd, Ag, Al, Mn, Mg, Zn and Fe) in the tissues of the muscle and liver of silver carp (H. molitrix ) and stone moroko (P. parva) from Zarivar Wetland in western Iran. This research was cross-sectional. The research specimen was fish caught from Zarivar Wetland. Metal concentration analysis was carried out utilizing an ICP. Findings indicate presence of Fe and Pb in the liver, Zn and Cd in the muscle hadthe highest and lowest metal concentration accumulated, respectively. The trace elements content in the liver tissue was higher than those in the muscle tissue of H. molitrix and P. parva. Moreover, the Hazard Quotients for an adult with mean of 71.5 kg was below 1 based on trace elements levels. Though, the mean concentrations of trace elements in the muscle of H. molitrix and P. parva was lower than international standards. according to the uptake and distribution, these elements require periodic monitoring in the human body.
https://jaehr.muk.ac.ir/article_46242_054c39d8361aeea2625031bcabb93a73.pdf
Liver
Muscles
Carps
trace elements
Lead
eng
Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences
Journal of Advances in Environmental Health Research
2676-3478
2345-3990
2016-11-01
4
4
234
239
10.22102/jaehr.2016.45965
45965
مقاله پژوهشی
Ability of some crops for phytoremediation of nickel and zinc heavy metals from contaminated soils
Hamdollah Eskandari
ehamdollah@gmail.com
1
Ashraf Alizadeh-Amraie
aalizadehamraee@gmail.com
2
Department of Agriculture, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran
Department of Agriculture, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran
The present study was aimed at comparing the ability of three crop plants for phytoremediation of zinc (Zn) and nickel (Zn) from soils. A factorial (3×2×3) experiment based on RCBD was used to compare the treatments, and was repeated three times. The first factor was crop type (wheat, clover and rapeseed), the second factor was heavy metal types (zinc (Zn) and nickel (Ni)) and the third factor was heavy metal concentration in soil (0.0, 50 and 100 mg.kg-1). With regard to plant type and heavy metal, the highest uptake was recorded in wheat for nickel (Ni) uptake. The lowest uptake of heavy metal was seen in clover crop and nickel (Ni) heavy metal. The highest Ni uptake was observed in wheat at the concentration of 100mg.kg-1. Nickel (Ni) was more absorbed in its higher concentration where the uptake of nickel (Ni) at the concentration of 100.0mg.kg-1 was 182% more than 50.0 mg.kg-1. Generally, the results of this experiment showed that it is possible to use phytoremediation as a suitable means for eliminating the excess concentration of zinc (Zn) and nickel (Ni). In this case, wheat was the superior crop and its mechanisms for removal of heavy metal require further investigation.
https://jaehr.muk.ac.ir/article_45965_e875dee4eb484c201fe8affc766cec5c.pdf
bioaccumulation
heavy metal pollution
toxic effect