| 摘要: | 台灣位處環太平洋地震帶上，地層活動頻繁，造就高密度之溫泉與地熱的區域產生。然而台灣溫泉資源利用多侷限以觀光休閒遊憩為主的活動，社會大眾對於溫泉的使用即缺乏保育與珍惜使用的基本觀念，相對於國外，如日本等早已廣泛溫泉上的應用，不僅讓該國民眾充分享受溫泉健康促進效益，其溫泉衍生產品的利潤，也為當地經濟創造成長。
本研究調查台灣五十六處溫泉露頭之現況，以現有泉泉質命名認定規則標準作為基本資料，建立科學化泉質分類，可讓台灣溫泉可與世界上其他國家的溫泉進行比對，使國內溫泉多元應用方向有所參考依據；另外，水質檢測資料則有pH 值、溫度、TDS等、化學性分析有 Mg2+、Ca2+、Cu+、Fe2++Fe3+、Cr3+、K+、Na+、Cl-、SO42-、HCO3-，藉由上述資料去作為溫泉命名的分類、符合溫泉法標準、探討溫泉泉質之地域性和溫泉應用方向評估。
經過本研究將台灣溫泉露頭的泉質更有系統性的整理，有完整台灣溫泉種類的現況資料，未來影響到溫泉露頭變化有人為、自然等因素，所以溫泉產業發展的環境建構之過程中，溫泉泉質之檢測與資料庫的建置更是不可或缺的工作。
ABSTRACT
This study focused on the assessment of Hot Spring and its water quality in Taiwan. In statistics, there is around a hundred hot springs all over the country. In this research, around fifty hot springs were subjected to monitoring. In assessing the water quality, pH, temperature, conductivity, mineral content, total dissolved solids, and ORP were monitored. Samples were brought into the laboratory for analysis. The plants surrounding the hot spring have also been surveyed. This is to contribute for further assessment of the hot spring.
Mineral content like Mg2+, Ca2+, Cu+, Fe2+, Fe3+, Cr3+, K+, Na+, HCO3-, HCO3- ,and major cations and anions like Cl- and SO42- were analyzed using and Inductively Coupled Plasma – Optical Emission Spectra (ICP-OES) and Ion Chromatography (IC), respectively. Hot springs are also classified into five categories. They are (1) According to pH Ranges, which is related to the major cations or anions present in the water, (2) Cationic, (3) Anionic, (4) Abundant Mineral Content, and (5) Others. It has also been found out that certain hot springs are abundant of specific minerals like Mg, Na, etc., and their combinations. The abundance of the minerals is related to the topography of the area.
With the above classification, hot springs were given names. The mineral, to which it is abundant, will be its name. Also, based from these classifications, specific applications of each hot spring can now be known. With this knowledge of hot spring, the use of it can now be optimized.
Keyword: hot Spring, assessment, hot spring quality |
