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A Study of the Short Range Pollution Around a Power Plant Using Heavy Fuel Oil by Analysing Vanadium in Lichens

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2007

S. Nygård  and
L. Harju
S. Nygård
Affiliation:
Department of Analytical Chemistry, Åbo Akademi, 20500 Åbo 50, Finland
L. Harju
Affiliation:
Department of Analytical Chemistry, Åbo Akademi, 20500 Åbo 50, Finland
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Abstract

The vanadium content of the lichen Hypogymnia physodes was determined in the vicinity of a power plant using heavy oil as fuel. For the chemical analysis a DC plasma emission spectrometer was used. Air dried samplesof the lichen contained between 1–4 and 57 parts per million (ppm) of vanadium. The highest concentrations were found in specimens collected less than 1 km from the power plant. Lichens collected 50 km from the plant contained less than 2 ppm of vanadium.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Lichenologist , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , February 1983 , pp. 89 - 93
Copyright
Copyright © British Lichen Society 1983

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