Vol. 6, Issue 4 (2018)
Prospection on water pollution by crude oil at Ajdabiya Libya
Author(s): Aboubaker Mohamed Alzwi Saad, Farid Hamdaoui, Ayoub EL Atmani and Ali Alemad
Abstract: Among water pollution sources, the petrochemicals wastes and pollutants, are dumped without treatment in the sea, lakes and ground in Libya. The objective of our present research, is to study the impact of waste from crude oil extraction on the environment of the Libyan region of Ajdabiya. The monitored physicochemical indicators are: Temperature (°C), pH, electrical conductivity (CE), TDS, CL-, NO3-, SO42-, HCO3-, Na+, Mg2+, K+, Ca2+, Salinity, Total Hardness (TH). The mineralization faithfully follows the rates of dissolved salts. The electrical conductivity varies from 7880 to 46700 μs/cm and far exceeds the Libyan irrigation standards (>2700μs/cm). Concerning the nitrate their contents range from 230 to 1210 mg/L and clearly reflect the crude oil pollution origin. The Piper diagram and Wilcox-Riverside projections shows that the waters associated with crude oil have a chloride-sodium and potassium or sulphated sodic and slightly bicarbonated sodium or potassium facies. Moreover, the hydro physicochemical plot shows that the quality of the water associated with the oil of Ajdabiya Libya is poor and above all a degraded quality.
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Aboubaker Mohamed Alzwi Saad, Farid Hamdaoui, Ayoub EL Atmani, Ali Alemad. Prospection on water pollution by crude oil at Ajdabiya Libya. Int J Chem Stud 2018;6(4):203-210.
