Journal of Chemistry / 2022 / Article / Tab 2 / Research Article
Physicochemical Characterization and Evaluation of Seasonal Variations of Landfill Leachate and Groundwater Quality around Tanjaro Open Dump Area of Sulaymaniyah City, Kurdistan, Iraq Table 2 Details of parameters monitored, methods of analysis, and instrument used.
Parameter Method adopted Apparatus/instrument used Temperature Electrometric method Thermometer, electronic pH meter, and conductivity meter, (medidor multiparâmetro milwaukee MW804) pH Electrometric method Electrical conductivity (EC) Electrometric method Total dissolved solid (TDS) Gravimetric method Total alkalinity as CaCO3 (TA) Titrimetric method Total hardness as CaCO3 (TH) EDTA titrimetric method Biological oxygen demand (BOD5 ), and chemical oxygen demand (COD) Winkler’s method Portable dissolved oxygen meter (oakton DO 110 portable dissolved oxygen meter) Anions UV-visible spectrophotometer (ultraviolet_visible shimadzu 1800 spectrophotometer screening method) Chloride (Cl− ) Argentometric method Nitrate (NO3 − ) UV-vis. spectrophotometric screening method Sulphate (SO4 2− ) Turbidimetric method Phosphate (PO4 3− ) Ascorbic acid method Cations Flame photometer (jenway 500801 PFP7/C clinical flame photometer) Calcium (Ca) EDTA titrimetric method Magnesium (Mg) Sodium (Na) Flame emission photometric method Potassium (K) Flame photometric method Heavy metals Atomic emission spectrometric method Inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometric instrument ICP-MS: Agilent 7500 ICP-MS, equipped with Asx-520 autosampler (England) Arsenic (As) Cadmium (Cd) Chromium (Cr) Mercury (Hg) Lead (Pb) Zinc (Zn) Copper (Cu) Manganese (Mn) Iron (Fe) Cobalt (Co) Nickel (Ni) Selenium (Se)