ASSESSMENT OF TOBACCO COMPANY EFFLUENT FOR RADIOACTIVITY AND OTHER PARAMETERS FOR GROUNDWATER AROUND THE COMPANY IN CHIKAJI, ZARIA, KADUNA, NIGERIA

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dc.contributor.authorOLAKUNLE, MIKHAIL
dc.date.accessioned2018-08-30T15:05:15Z
dc.date.available2018-08-30T15:05:15Z
dc.date.issued2017-04
dc.descriptionA THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE SCHOOL OF POSTGRADUATE STUDIES, AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF MASTERS DEGREE IN RADIATION BIOPHYSICS DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS, FACULTY OF PHYSICAL SCIENCE, AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA, NIGERIAen_US
dc.description.abstractTwenty (20) groundwater samples, four of which are control samples, comprising of ten (10) borehole and ten (10) locally hand-dug wells were drawn randomly around British America Tobacco Company, Zaria. Some physical parameters: temperature, pH, conductivity and total dissolved solids were measured usingthermometer, pH meter and conductivity meter. The samples were analysed for gross alpha and gross beta radiations using MPC-2000-DP (01872140) single channel analyser, a low background alpha and beta detector. The meantemperature, pH, conductivity and total dissolved solids in the water samples were found to be 27.8 °C, 5.1, 393μS/cm and 244.8 mg/l respectively.For practical screening purposes in the case of drinking water, the recommended guideline activity concentrations are 0.1 Bq/l for gross alpha and 1.0 Bq/l for gross beta activity (WHO, 1993; 2003). The gross alpha and beta radioactivity concentrations in the samples showed that the alpha activity varied from (0.007 -- 0.133) Bq/l with a mean value of 0.046 Bq/l for borehole samples and (0.002 -- 0.285) Bq/l with a mean value of 0.056 Bq/l for well water samples. The beta activity varied from (0.113 -- 3.789) with a mean value of 1.627 Bq/l for borehole water samples and (0.001-3.810) with a mean value of 0.887 Bq/l for well water samples respectively. The mean for gross alpha activity and gross beta activity in the sample waters are 0.051±0.003 Bq/l and 1.251±0.091 Bq/l respectively.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/10164
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectASSESSMENT,en_US
dc.subjectTOBACCO COMPANY EFFLUENT,en_US
dc.subjectRADIOACTIVITY,en_US
dc.subjectPARAMETERS,en_US
dc.subjectGROUNDWATER,en_US
dc.subjectCOMPANY,en_US
dc.subjectCHIKAJI,en_US
dc.subjectZARIA,en_US
dc.subjectKADUNA,en_US
dc.subjectNIGERIAen_US
dc.titleASSESSMENT OF TOBACCO COMPANY EFFLUENT FOR RADIOACTIVITY AND OTHER PARAMETERS FOR GROUNDWATER AROUND THE COMPANY IN CHIKAJI, ZARIA, KADUNA, NIGERIAen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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