Assessment of an Evaluation Approach for Malodorous Rivers

DOI

10.2991/aeece-15.2015.83How to use a DOI?

Keywords

River monitoring, polluted rivers, water quality, malodorous rivers, assessment approach.

Abstract

Urban river systems have increasingly become polluted in China due to rapid industrialization and urbanization. Although there are standards for classification of surface water in terms of water quality, no classification exists for malodorous rivers. In this study we used a combined approach of quantitative index and sensory evaluation for assessing heavily polluted river water. Two urban rivers in Ningbo, China were selected to test the proposed approach. Results showed that the quantitative index based on the measured concentration of chemical oxygen demand, ammonia nitrogen and dissolved oxygen agreed well the sensory evaluation, indicating that the proposed approach could effectively be used for evaluating malodorous rivers.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Huixia Jin
AU  - Dongxia Zhang
AU  - Lifei Ye
AU  - Qing Yang
AU  - Kefeng Zhang
PY  - 2015/09
DA  - 2015/09
TI  - Assessment of an Evaluation Approach for Malodorous Rivers
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Energy, Environment and Chemical Engineering
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 407
EP  - 410
SN  - 2352-5401
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/aeece-15.2015.83
DO  - 10.2991/aeece-15.2015.83
ID  - Jin2015/09
ER  -