Characterization of groundwater contamination using factor analysis
@article{Subbarao1996CharacterizationOG, title={Characterization of groundwater contamination using factor analysis}, author={Chillara Subbarao and N. Subbarao and Suresh Chandu}, journal={Environmental Geology}, year={1996}, volume={28}, pages={175-180} }
Abstract The effluent contamination of groundwater at two industrial sites at Visakhapatnam, India, was studied using factor analysis. Thirty groundwater samples near a zinc smelter plant and 19 from the polymers plant were analyzed for specific conductance, chloride, bicarbonate, sulfate, calcium, magnesium, sodium, and potassium. The data were subjected to R-mode factor analysis and the factor scores transferred to areal maps. While magnesium and sulfate are the dominant contaminants at the…
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