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Environmental Profile of a Rubber Industry


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1 Kinnaird College for Women, 93 Jail Road, 54000, Lahore, Pakistan
2 College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan
 

Rubber manufacturing industry is associated with emissions to the environment. The emission of the rubber industry has been linked to various diseases and diverse impacts on human health. Data are available which correlate the adverse health impacts with occupational hazards to the pollutants in the rubber industry. In order to characterize and quantify the pollutants being generated and discharged from various industrial outlets and their impacts on relevant air, water and noise quality, monitoring is required. The study highlights the environmental hazards due to air, wastewater and noise pollution in selected rubber manufacturing industry, located at Wazirabad. Monitoring of selected parameters was carried out for three months. Substantial concentration of volatile organic matter and particulate matter are present in the air in the unit place and the facility which poses a number of health and environmental hazards. Also, different chemicals used during manufacturing processes are discharged in effluent as wastewater. The determination of VOCs and PM in the air was carried out through VOC meter and HAZ-Scanner respectively. Parameters for wastewater analysis included pH, TSS, TDS, COD, cadmium, chlorine and iron. The noise level was also monitored. The results showed that the VOCs and PM concentration in the air were above the standard value limit. The concentration of VOCs ranged from 25.3-28.8 mg/m3 while that for PM varied from 588.5-593.6 ppm respectively. The noise quality from two of the sources exceeded the limit value, while all the wastewater parameters were within the limit.

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Rubber Industry, Volatile Organic Matter, Particulate Matter, Wastewater, Noise Level.
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Authors

Almas Hamid
Kinnaird College for Women, 93 Jail Road, 54000, Lahore, Pakistan
Iqra Saeed
Kinnaird College for Women, 93 Jail Road, 54000, Lahore, Pakistan
Sana Akhtar
Kinnaird College for Women, 93 Jail Road, 54000, Lahore, Pakistan
Sajid Rashid Ahmad
College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan

Abstract


Rubber manufacturing industry is associated with emissions to the environment. The emission of the rubber industry has been linked to various diseases and diverse impacts on human health. Data are available which correlate the adverse health impacts with occupational hazards to the pollutants in the rubber industry. In order to characterize and quantify the pollutants being generated and discharged from various industrial outlets and their impacts on relevant air, water and noise quality, monitoring is required. The study highlights the environmental hazards due to air, wastewater and noise pollution in selected rubber manufacturing industry, located at Wazirabad. Monitoring of selected parameters was carried out for three months. Substantial concentration of volatile organic matter and particulate matter are present in the air in the unit place and the facility which poses a number of health and environmental hazards. Also, different chemicals used during manufacturing processes are discharged in effluent as wastewater. The determination of VOCs and PM in the air was carried out through VOC meter and HAZ-Scanner respectively. Parameters for wastewater analysis included pH, TSS, TDS, COD, cadmium, chlorine and iron. The noise level was also monitored. The results showed that the VOCs and PM concentration in the air were above the standard value limit. The concentration of VOCs ranged from 25.3-28.8 mg/m3 while that for PM varied from 588.5-593.6 ppm respectively. The noise quality from two of the sources exceeded the limit value, while all the wastewater parameters were within the limit.

Keywords


Rubber Industry, Volatile Organic Matter, Particulate Matter, Wastewater, Noise Level.

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