نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
نویسندگان
گروه مهندسی عمران دانشگاه اصفهان، دانشگاه اصفهان، اصفهان، ایران.
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کلیدواژهها
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عنوان مقاله [English]
نویسندگان [English]
Aquaculture activity and discharge of pollutants in the upstream of the rivers bring various environmental impacts such as ecosystem toxicity and eutrophication. Thus, it requires an integrated method for evaluating the cumulative environmental impacts. This research presented a developed method for analyzing the environmental impacts based on the analysis of the inlet and outlet water quality of fish farms and used the coefficients of the ReCiPe as a life cycle impact assessment (LCIA). In this framework, water consumption was also included based on grey water footprint, along with eutrophication and toxicity for 5 trout farming in various regions of Iran. The results showed that total suspended solids was the leading water quality parameter, water consumption had the highest impact in LCIA, human health was relatively more vulnerable than the ecosystem, and total damages increased 95 percent on average from inlet to outlet. Nevertheless, factors like the inflow, ReCiPe background, and the weighting coefficients were effective on results uncertainties. The sensitivity analysis showed that changing ReCiPe background from hierarchic to egalitarian had the greatest impact on the results of LCIA with 35 percent damage reduction, while the increase in the pollution load caused by the increase in flow or concentration of the dominant pollutant in the grey water footprint can linearly increase the equivalent damages. Therefore, it was suggested to use wastewater pretreatment systems to control the spread of pollution beside managing and optimally using feed in farms.
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