Journal of Research in Environmental Health
Year:2018 | Volume:3 | Issue:4 (12) |Papers Count:7

Background& Objective: One of the reuses of wastewater in industries is irrigation of green space. Therefore, with proper treatment and reduction of environmental pollution of wastewater and in compliance with environmental standards, it can be used for irrigation purposes. The present study was aimed to evaluate the performance of Noosh Azar Wastewater Treatment Plant by the online monitoring station in 2016.Materials and Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study was performed at Noosh AzarWaste Water Treatment Plant (WWTP) in Tehran. The effluent outlet parameters include COD, BOD, TSS, TOC, Turbidity, pH and temperature which were measured 12times/day by the online monitoring station of the refinery according to the standard methods (the Examinations of Water and Wastewater), and reported at the end of each month. Data were entered into SPSS software and analyzed using statistical indices including mean and standard deviation.Results: The average total of BOD/COD ratio in the wastewater was 0.8. The results of the study showed that the average concentration of COD, BOD and TSS of the wastewater was 1624.91±134.85, 1310±75.38 and 283.58±39.76 mg/L, respectively. The average of total outlet parameters of turbidity, COD, BOD, TSS and TOC were 12.78±2.21, 83.73±12.90, 41.26±6.65, 6.70±2.14, 46.03±7.08 mg/L, and pH=7.80±0.35. The total average of removal efficiencies of COD, BOD and TSS were 93.92±3.62, 96.57±1.002 and 97.57±0.936, respectively.Conclusion: Rega rding the proper performance of the activated sludge system of Noosh Azar Company, the effluent parameters such as COD, BOD, TSS, TOC, turbidity and pH, were in accordance with the standard of the Iranian Environmental Protection Agency for irrigation use. However in order to ensure the quality of the wastewater for reuse, the microbial parameters should also be considered.

Background and Objectives: PHenol is one of most common organic pollutants in aqueous environments. PHenol presenCe in the environment can make some health problems such as carcinogenesis, abnormality of heartbeat, etc for humans and poisonous problems for other organisms. Therefore, this pollutant must be removed from polluted effluents to prevent water pollution. Using nanoparticles in adsorption proCesses is considered as an effective method for contaminants removal. The aim of this study was to investigate the efficiency of magnesium oxide nanoparticles in pHenol removal from aqueous solutions.Materials and Methods: In this research, nanoparticles of magnesium oxide were used with size of 43 nm. After the prEPAration of pHenol stock solution, effects of pH, (3- 5- 7- 9- 11), contact time (10, 30, 60, 90, and 120 min), MgO dosage ( 20, 40, 60, 80 and 100 mg/L) and initial conCentration of pHenol (25, 50, 75 and 100 mg/L) Were investigated.Results: Results indicated that the removal efficiency increased with increasing pH, contacttime, MgO dosage to a Certain range and decreasing initial conCentration. Such that the maximum efficiency was equal to 81% in the pH of about 11, initial conCentration of 50 mg/L, MgO dosage of 80 mg/L and contact time of 60 min. It was found that adsorption kinetics and equilibrium data follow a pseudo-second-order kinetics model and a Langmuir isotherm model respectively.Conclusion: This study showed that the magnesium oxide nanoparticles have the ability to remove the pHenol and can be used effectively in removing pHenol from aqueous solution Document Type: Research article

Background & objective: Cutaneous leech is one of the six major diseases and an example of epidemic diseases in tropical regions. Prevalence and spread of this disease is affected by environmental factors and climatic conditions as well as economic, social and cultural issues. In this research, Analytic Hierarchy PROCess and network analyzes are used to prepare susceptible cutaneous leeches map. Considering high incidence of cutaneous leech in Khuzestan province, Izeh city was selected as a case study.Materials & Methods: For this purpose, the number of patients affected by this disease in Izeh was obtained from the Provincial Health Center from 2009 to 2014. Information layers of elevation, rainfall, temperature, humidity, distance from river, distance from rural areas and land use were identified as effective parameter and their maps were prepared in GIS environment. Parameters were compared in pairs by using AHP and ANP and weight of each factors determining their impacts was calculated in Expert Choice and Super Decision software. Then these parameters were combined based on their obtained weights in ArcGIS software and the final cutaneous leech map was prepared. Evaluation of these methods was performed using relative operation curve (ROC) and 16 points related to leech disease.Result: The results of weighting effective parameters using AHP and ANP showed that the highest weight is related to elevation, temperature and rainfall parameters, respectively. The results of ROC assessment showed that in preparing the map, ANP had an accuracy of 87.8% and AHP had an accuracy of 68.9%.Conclusion: The results of ANP showed that this model had suitable accuracy in preparing susceptible cutaneous leech map and AHP had moderate accuracy in preparing susceptible cutaneous leech map.

Background & Objective: Emission of Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has an important role in increasing temperatures and, its higher concentration can effect on human health. Due to this issue, this study is aimed to measure the amount of the released carbon dioxide into the atmosphere in different part of Yadavaran Oilfield and compare with international standards in 2017.Material & Methods: The present investigation was accomplished in Yadavaran oilfield of Khuzestan province of Iran in 2017. In this study measurement of parameters including carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, oxygen, relative humidity and temperature was done in 64 stations with 3 replications using ALTAIR 4X and Trotec BZ30. Data was analyzed by one-way ANOVA and Kolmogorov– Smirnov tests. Moreover, Correlation analysis was performed using Pearson and Spearman coefficients.Results: The results showed that concentration range of carbon dioxide and oxygen was 490-590 and 19-208ppm respectively. Also, the highest and lowest levels of carbon dioxide were 584.56±6.36 and 453.94±77.7 ppm in wet water camp and S10 wells (P<0.05) correspndingly. The highest oxygen content was 20.92±0.041 ppm in S7 and F12 wells, but the lowest oxygen content was 19±0.059 and 19±0.042 in S10 and F17 wells (P>0.05) in the same order.Conclusion: Pearson and Spearman coefficient analysis showed no significant correlation between temperature, humidity, oxygen and carbon dioxide. According to the results, the concentration of carbon dioxide in different areas of the oilfield of Yadavaran was acceptable.

Background and aim: water oil contamination has occurred in Iran since the previous century and environmental oil accumulation threatens the country water resources’ health. There are several methods to remove oil and its derivatives contamination. In the present study, mineral wool waste was used as low price adsorbent for wastewater oil contamination (kerosene) removal.Materials and Methods: first, XRF and XRD analyses were used to determine chemical composition. Then, adsorption tests were conducted discontinuously using laboratory solutions containing oil to determine optimum adsorption conditions by adjustment of effective factors such as pH, initial concentration, exposuretime and adsorbent concentration. Thereafter, application of adsorbent for laboratory wastewater was studied.Results: after 15 min exposure, the adsorbent (mineral wool wastes) efficacy was significantly higher than the other times (76.01 % adsorption; P<0.05); whereas, the lowest efficacy was observed after 3 min (63.82 %; P<0.05). Among the tested pH, the highest and lowest adsorption were observed at pH =3 (70.59 %; P<0.05) and 9 (57.69 %; P<0.05), respectively. There was no significant difference in adsorption between the adsorbent concentrations of 0.5 and 1 g (76.80 and 75.30 %); however, both were significantly (P<0.05) higher than the other concentrations. the lowest adsorption was observed at the concentration of 0.25 g adsorbent (67.78 %). Isothermfitting of surface adsorption showed that oil adsorption by mineral wool wastes follows Langmuir model (R2=0.99).Conclusion: it is concluded that mineral wool waste has high efficiency to adsorb oil from wastewater and could be used for oil contamination removal.

Introduction: One of the most important factors in maintenance and promotion of public health is sanitary disposal of waste. At present, the use of educational models to determine the causes of non-acceptance of health-related behaviors is growing. This study aims to evaluate the factors associated with behavior of garbage disposal based on health belief model in Urmia city health center staff.Materials and Method: This descriptive-analytic study was took place on 300 employees in 2016 in Urmia city health center. Samples were collected using simple random sampling method. Also, data gathering was done in accordance with a questionnaire containing demographic questions and the health belief model structures. the validity and reliability of the used questionnaire was confirmed by the researchers. Statistical data analysis was performed using software spss-16 through chi-square tests and logistic regression analysis.Results: According to the obtained results there was a significant relation among dependent variable (sanitary garbage disposal) and surveyed independent variables including gender, marital status, employment category, socioeconomic status (P<0.05). Perceived intensity was recognized as the most effective factor for sanitary garbage disposal among all of the factors of health belief model. Perceived self-efficacy, perceived benefits, perceived susceptibility, awareness and perceived barriers occupied next ranks in this regard.Conclusion: It is suggested that the design and implementation of waste management programs should be based on the health belief model with emphasis on perceived intensity as well as self-efficacy.

Introduction: Waste leachate contains hazardous organic compounds such as nitrogen compounds and high concentrations of poisonous compounds; the remediation of these pollutants from the environment is considered as a global problem. These pollutants make serious environmental problems through their penetration into groundwater and bioaccumulation. Therefore, leachate treatment is essential with suitable and appropriate methods. Anaerobic digestion is considered as one of the most cost-effective methods for this mean. This study aimed to evaluate the efficiency of an anaerobic digester in simultaneous removal of chemical oxygen demand (COD) and TKN from landfill leachate during the process of anaerobic co-digestion for landfill leachate and fresh cow dung.Materials and Methods: In this study, landfill leachate of Mashhad and cow dung was mixed in 3/1, 1/1 and 1/3 ratios. These treatments were exposed under anaerobic digestion with same conditions such as environmental temperature. COD and TKN were measured at the beginning and the end of the process.Results: In the control treatment, COD decreased about 5% and the reduction of TKN was 9.09%. Whilst COD reduction was about 65%, 75%, and 70% in the treatments of 3/1, 1/1 and 1/3 Ratio respectively. Also, TKN decreased 33.26, 82.16 and 84.73% in the 3/1, 1/1 and 1/3 Ratio correspondingly.Conclusion: The results of this study indicated that the applied method is an efficient and economical approach for elimination of COD and TKN from waste leachate. Because it not only is considered as an environmentally friendly method for this regard, but also it will also make economic benefits from methane production.