ORALS

SESSION: MineralTuePM1-R7	5th Intl. Symp. on Sustainable Mineral Processing
Tue Nov, 6 2018 / Room: Pontal (50/2nd)
Session Chairs: Francisco Souza; Paul Slatter; Session Monitor: TBA

15:15: [MineralTuePM108]
Quantitative Assessment of Heavy Metals in Tannery Waste by the Exposure of Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy
Muhammad Pervaiz Bhatti¹ ; Asima Munawar¹ ; Zohaib Saeed¹ ; Muhammad Yousaf² ; Ahmad Adnan¹ ; ¹Government College University Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan; ²Government College University Faisalabad, Faisalabad, Pakistan;
Paper Id: 166 [Abstract]

Atomic absorption spectrophotometer technique was employed to measure the contents of the heavy metals in the effluents directly released from tannery industries. These effluent samples were first subjected through wet acid digestion process for decomposition of organic substances and concentration of the metals being measured in the samples. The measured concentration of the heavy transition metals by AAS technique was analyzed and it was concluded that this spectrophotometer method can analyze a remarkable concentration of the effluents metals. Therefore, the quantitative measurement of most of the metals in tannery waste is preferable by AAS method. These results overall give a picture that the environments are greatly being contaminated due to high Cr, Fe, Pb concentrations as well as other toxic chemicals found in the discharged effluents from tanneries

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