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Trends in Applied Sciences Research

Year: 2014 | Volume: 9 | Issue: 9 | Page No.: 540-544
DOI: 10.17311/tasr.2014.540.544
Effects of Dispersed Bonny Light Crude Oil on Water Quality Parameters in Tanks Containing Oreochromis niloticus (Linneaus, 1757)
K.E. Lelei, F.D. Sikoki and O.I. Enodiana

Abstract: The physico-chemical water variables of water samples contaminated with a mixture of the Water Accomodated Fractions (WAF) of dispersed and undispersed phases of Bonny Light crude oil at sub-lethal concentrations of 0.2, 0.4, 0.8 and 1.6 mL L-1 were analysed to assess the effects of these mixtures on the water quality of the test media containing a fish, Oreochromis niloticus. These were measured against a control. The temperature, pH, DO, TDS, conductivity and redox potential of the test media were significantly affected (p<0.05) by the presence of the mixture especially by the dispersed phase at the different concentrations and these were positively correlated.

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K.E. Lelei, F.D. Sikoki and O.I. Enodiana, 2014. Effects of Dispersed Bonny Light Crude Oil on Water Quality Parameters in Tanks Containing Oreochromis niloticus (Linneaus, 1757). Trends in Applied Sciences Research, 9: 540-544.

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