The Determination of Lead in Gasoline Vehicle Exhaust Using Microwave Plasma Atomic Emission Spectroscopy (Mp-Aes)
| dc.contributor.advisor | Tessema, Merid (PhD) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Mitiku, Amare | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-09-04T09:04:31Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-09T14:11:53Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-09-04T09:04:31Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-09T14:11:53Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020-01-01 | |
| dc.description.abstract | In recent times, the skyrocketing vehicular population has been accompanied by a decreasing level of vehicle maintenance, aging of vehicle, and increasing inclusion of metal-based additives in fuel. Lead has deleterious health implications ascribed to their tendency to displace the functional groups of enzymes there by modifying physiological and biochemical processes within the body. With the aid of a plastic spatula, accumulated soot particles were scrapped and collected from the inner surface of the tailpipe of vehicles located at Piyasa and Megenagna garage sites in Addis Ababa Ethiopia. Samples were analyzed for the presence of Pb via microwave plasma atomic emission spectroscopy. The results showed that Pb occurred in concentrations of 444.89±33.69 mg/kg for (corolla), 587.55±10.07 mg/kg for (lada taxi) and for minibus 700.4±5.83 mg/kg. The results from the three soot samples which found are leaded. It is therefore inferred that soot’s from the exhaust tail pipes of gasoline vehicles are a major source of toxic lead metal which are capable of affecting physiological health conditions. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://10.90.10.223:4000/handle/123456789/22262 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa University | en_US |
| dc.subject | Heavy Metals | en_US |
| dc.subject | Physiology | en_US |
| dc.subject | Vehicle Exhaust and Gasoline Soot | en_US |
| dc.title | The Determination of Lead in Gasoline Vehicle Exhaust Using Microwave Plasma Atomic Emission Spectroscopy (Mp-Aes) | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |