TY - JOUR ID - TI - Spatial analysis of air pollution in suspended particles and heavy elements in urban centers in Wasit Governorate التحليل المكاني لتلوث اهلواء بالدقائق العالقة والعناصر الثقيلة في المراكزالحضرية في محافظة واسط AU - Dr. Abdul Reda Matar Abdul Reda AU - Ali Kareem Hameed Al-Shammari PY - 2020 VL - 23 IS - 3 SP - 29 EP - 69 JO - for humanities sciences al qadisiya القادسية للعلوم الانسانية SN - 19917805 25203541 AB - The research aims to assess air pollution in suspended particles and heavy elements in urban centers(qada'a centers) in Wasit Governorate and to indicate their environmental impacts, since the district centersinclude more than (82.8%) of the urban population and (49.8%) of the total population of the governorate aswell. For the concentration of most human activities and administrative institutions in it. Where (40) siteswere identified to measure the concentrations of air pollutants, which varied in their characteristics and theuses of the land in them, as they were classified between sites or stations (residential, industrial, commercial,traffic, mixed, agricultural) distributed in urban centers and on their outskirts, which are (11) sites in Al Kutheadquarters, (7) sites in the neighborhood headquarters, (7) sites in the square in Essaouira, (6) sites in theheadquarters of Al Numaniya, (5) sites in the headquarters of Al Azizia, and (4) sites in M. Badra. Theresearch included measuring the concentrations of suspended particles TSP and some of the associated heavyelements (Pb, Cd, Cr, Ni, Zn, Cu, and Fe) as well as the secondary pollutants represented by (NO3, SO4 andtheir spatial and temporal variation and comparing them with the permissible local and global environmentaldeterminants. And that is during January and July of 2019.Accordingly, the measurement results showed a rise in the concentrations of these pollutantsexceeding the environmental determinants in most of the measurement sites, especially during the summerseason, as the research revealed the high concentrations of suspended particles TSP and the heavy elementsassociated with them above the standard limits at all sites, due to the high temperatures and wind speed,which helps to raise the dust. . In addition, the research revealed that the highest concentrations wererecorded in industrial and traffic sites. As for the level of urban centers, the study showed highconcentrations of pollutants from suspended particles and heavy elements associated with them in general inthe district of Kut, as it represents the center of the governorate and its population weight, in addition to theconcentration of most of the pollutant activities in it

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