TITLE:
Influence of Groundwater Hypothetical Salts on Electrical Conductivity Total Dissolved Solids
AUTHORS:
S. A. M. Al Dahaan, Nadhir Al-Ansari, Sven Knutsson
KEYWORDS:
Electrical Conductivity, A Computer Model, Artificial Salts, Groundwater, Total Dissolved Solids
JOURNAL NAME:
Engineering,
Vol.8 No.11,
November
29,
2016
ABSTRACT: A relationship between electrical conductivity (EC) and total dissolved solids (TDS) was tested for solutions of same salinity levels with respect to different artificial salts with their combinations. Results showed remarkable jumping at the order of the artificial salt sequence specially that of the magnesium type. A computer model is designed with an input of EC and TDS. The output will be the possible prevailing artificial salts. The accuracy of the model was tested by using the groundwater data of Safwan-Zubair area south of Iraq and it proved to be significant at 95% matching. The 5% unmatched results are due to the possibility of having more than one type of prevailing salt.