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Geoscience ›› 2018, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (05): 1053-1062.DOI: 10.19657/j.geoscience.1000-8527.2018.05.18

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Ecological and Environmental Effects of Raw Coal and Coal Combustion Pollution in Xuanhua, Hebei Province

LIU Yu1(), XIANG Wu1(), ZHANG Yanxi2, XING Xudong3, ZHU Jie1, YANG Weilin1   

  1. 1. School of Earth Science, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, Hubei 430074, China
    2. Hebei Institute of Geological Survey,Shijiazhuang, Hebei 050081, China
    3. Hunan Key Laboratory of Land Resources Evaluation and Utilization, Changsha, Hunan 410007, China
  • Received:2018-04-10 Revised:2018-08-14 Online:2018-10-10 Published:2018-11-04

Abstract:

Geochemical distribution characteristics of 16 PAHs and 13 kinds of heavy metal elements,including Hg, Cd, V, Zn, Mn, Cr, Mo, U,etc., were investigated in the topsoil and near surface dust of the raw coal and coal combustion polluted area in Xuanhua, Hebei Province. The results showed that Hg and Cd are the dominant pollutant within about 100 meters in raw coal polluted area. While, Hg,V, and Cd were the dominant pollutants within 2, 000 meters in coal combustion area, where being downwind from coal burning enterprises. And the accumulation of Hg, Cd, Zn, Mo, U, PAHs in topsoil of the raw coal polluted area and Hg, V, Mo, U, Mn, Cr,PAHs of the coal combustion polluted area were mainly from atmospheric deposition. Enzyme activities of the urease, alkaline phosphatase and β-glucosidase in the soil were all restrained to varying degrees with the greatest of β-glucosidase in polluted areas. In addition, the inhibition of soil enzyme activities by coal combustion polluted is more significant than that of raw coal, implying the negative effect of coal pollution on soil carbon cycling.

Key words: coal pollution, surface soil, near surface dust, ecological effect, Xuanhua, Hebei Province

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