scholarly journals Phytoremediation of Aluminum and Iron from Industrial Wastewater Using Ipomoea aquatica and Centella asiatica

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 3064 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marlia Mohd Hanafiah ◽  
Muhamad F. Zainuddin ◽  
Nurul Umairah Mohd Nizam ◽  
Azhar Abdul Halim ◽  
Akhtar Rasool
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Metal Concentration ◽  
Industrial Wastewater ◽  
Translocation Factor ◽  
Centella Asiatica ◽  
Good Relationship ◽  
Ipomoea Aquatica ◽  
Heavy Metals Accumulation ◽  
Low Concentrations

Heavy metals accumulation from industrial wastewater even at low concentrations can cause long term cumulative health effects. To overcome this problem, phytoremediation is an alternative method to treat industrial wastewater. In this study, Ipomoea aquatica and Centella asiatica were used as phytoremediation plants for removing aluminum (Al) and iron (Fe) from industrial wastewater. The results showed that the regression value (R2) for all metal concentrations (mg/L) over treatment day is positive and similar to R2 = 1. This result indicated that the metal concentration exhibits a good relationship for reflecting the decrease in the metal concentration with the proportion of treatment day. It was found that I. aquatica accumulates higher Al and Fe contents than C. asiatica. The translocation factor of both plants was found to be greater than 1, implying that both plants can accumulate and extract heavy metals from industrial wastewater.

scholarly journals Characterization of heavy metal in soils as affected by long-term irrigation with industrial wastewater

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bushra Haroon ◽  
An Ping ◽  
Arshid Pervez ◽  
Faridullah ◽  
Muhammad Irshad
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Industrial Wastewater ◽  
Industrial Effluent ◽  
Contamination Level ◽  
Ph Values ◽  
Exchangeable Fraction ◽  
Irrigated Soils ◽  
Exchangeable Form

AbstractInvestigation of heavy metals (HM) fractions in soils irrigated with wastewater (WW) would ascertain their bioavailability and contamination level in soils. This study investigated HM fractions in soils after long-term WW irrigation. WW irrigation profoundly affected HM fractions in soil. The ranges of HM concentrations in soils irrigated with WW were apparently wide. All fractions were significantly higher in the fields irrigated with industrial WW than rain-fed fields. HM concentrations varied in the soils as Pb > Cu > Ni > Zn > Fe > Cd > Mn after WW irrigation. In rainfed fields, HM concentrations differed in soils as Fe > Zn > Mn > Pb > Cd > Cu > Ni. The HM fractions were dominant in the residual form followed by oxides bound and carbonate associated fractions in WW-irrigated soils. Lower contents of HM in the soil were obtained in the exchangeable fraction. WW irrigation resulted in the transformation of HM into different fractions as residual > oxide associated > carbonate associated > organically bound > exchangeable form. Repeated WW irrigation increased pH values of the soils. The higher EC of soil indicated an accumulation of salts in the soils due to WW irrigation. Mitigation of HM contamination in Hattar industrial effluent is required before irrigation.

scholarly journals Rhizofiltration for Removal of Inorganic and Organic Pollutants in Groundwater: a Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 12326-12347
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Groundwater Contamination ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Organic Pollutant ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Low Concentrations ◽  
Water Recharge ◽  
By Products

Groundwater serves as the water recharge of surface water and provides clean water for domestic, industrial, and agricultural usage for human life. However, rapid developments resulted in groundwater contamination by heavy metals, pesticides, waste by-products, cosmetics, pharmaceutics, and biological agents. Groundwater contamination by the percolation of heavy metals (HM) is focused on in this review. Heavy metals known for their persistence, bioaccumulation, and biomagnification properties are hazardous to live organisms. Long-term exposure to heavy metals brings adverse effects on respiratory diseases, cardiovascular disorders, cancer, etc. They are considered toxins, carcinogens, mutagens, and teratogens for humans in low concentrations. Hence, technologies to remediate heavy metals and organic pollutant in groundwater is vital to prevent environmental and health issues. However, current conventional remediation technologies that are expensive, utilize hazardous materials, and produce toxic by-products in effluents are insufficient to alleviate heavy metals' effects in groundwater. Thus, an eco-friendly and cost-effective rhizofiltration method that adsorb, concentrate, and precipitate contaminants in or on plants' rhizosphere is introduced. This review portrays the mechanisms involved in rhizofiltration to remediate heavy metals-contaminated groundwater and describes the gaps for rhizofiltration to be a commercially viable technology.

Leaching of Heavy Metals Using TCLP and SPLP Method from Fired Clay Brick Incorporating with Mosaic Sludge

2016 ◽  
Vol 857 ◽  
pp. 352-357
Author(s):  
Aeslina binti Abdul Kadir ◽  
Nur Athirah Ideris ◽  
Ahmad Shayuti Abdul Rahim
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Heavy Metal ◽  
Compressive Strength ◽  
Metal Concentration ◽  
Drainage System ◽  
Heavy Metal Concentration ◽  
Clay Brick ◽  
Adequate Quality

Mosaic sludge is sewerage from mosaic industrial activities such as cutting, polishing and grinding. This sludge mostly will be disposed directly to landfill and some of it was discharged in drainage system without proper treatment. Therefore, in this study, mosaic sludge from the mosaic industry were reused and incorporated into fired clay brick in order to provide alternative disposal method, producing adequate quality of brick as well as minimizing the heavy metal leachability to the environment. First, X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) was conducted to determine the heavy metal concentration from two types of mosaic sludge. The results indicate that the highest element concentration in mosaic sludge (BS and PS) shows that Barium is the highest with 3253ppm and 3260ppm. On the raw sludge, the lowest obtained in BS and PS is Cesium with 14ppm and 17ppm. SPLP and TCLP also conducted in this study and the results show that, even though the element such as ferum (Fe) and cadmium (Cd) was not detected in XRF but in SPLP and TCLP, it shows that these two elements exist in clay, BS and PS with low concentration. In term of properties, compressive strength was conducted by incorporating 0%, 1%, 5%, 10%, 20% and 30% bodymill and polishing sludge into fired clay brick. The results show that compressive strength of BS brick was stronger than PS brick. Lastly, Static Leachate Test (SLT) was conducted to measure the long term leachability of heavy metals from different percentages of mosaic sludge brick. In SLT result, ferum (Fe) shows the highest value of heavy metal concentration among other elements. The results for control brick, BS brick and PS brick show the same pattern and far from the limit set by USEPA.

scholarly journals Heavy Metals Accumulation in Rhazya stricta L. Plant Growing on Industrial Wastewater of Riyadh City, Saudi Arabia

2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (17) ◽  
pp. 2007-2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adel M. Ghoneim ◽  
Soud S. Al-Zahr ◽  
Sallem E. El-Magh ◽  
Abdullah S. Al-Farr
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Industrial Wastewater ◽  
Heavy Metals Accumulation ◽  
Rhazya Stricta ◽  
Riyadh City ◽  
Metals Accumulation

Factorial Analysis of Heavy Metal Concentration in Roadside Farmland Plants around Kathmandu, Nepal

2012 ◽  
Vol 178-181 ◽  
pp. 1016-1021
Author(s):  
Man Zhang ◽  
Xue Dong Yan ◽  
Fan Zhang ◽  
Chen Zeng ◽  
Lo Chan Prasad Devkota
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Heavy Metal ◽  
Metal Concentration ◽  
Heavy Metal Concentration ◽  
Roadside Soil ◽  
The Road ◽  
Tree Protection ◽  
Zn And Cu In ◽  
Roadside Plants

Traffic activities are one of major sources leading to roadside soil contamination due to their long-term accumulation effect. The typical elements of Cd, Pb, Zn, and Cu in the roadside soil can transport through food chain to human body and result in a strong toxicity to people. In agricultural area, intake of heavy metals through the soil-crop system could play a predominant role on human exposure to environmental heavy metals. The study investigates concentrations and distributions of the four heavy metals’ in herbaceous plants growing in the roadside farmland around Kathmandu, Nepal. Totally, 60 plant samples including 26 samples from rural mountainous farmland and 34 samples from suburban farmland were collected from April 2011 to May 2011. The sampling distances to the road edge are 0 m, 10 m, 30 m, 50 m, and 100 m. The samples are classified into tree protection or no tree protection. It is found that the heavy metals’ distributions are not consistently decreasing as roadside distance; the heavy metal concentration in rural area is significantly lower than those in suburban area; and tree has a significant protection effect on roadside plants from the Cu contamination.

scholarly journals Phytoremediation Perspectives of Seven Aquatic Macrophytes for Removal of Heavy Metals from Polluted Drains in the Nile Delta of Egypt

Biology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 560
Author(s):  
Mohamed Abdelaal ◽  
Ibrahim A. Mashaly ◽  
Dina S. Srour ◽  
Mohammed A. Dakhil ◽  
Mohamed Azab El-Liethy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Eichhornia Crassipes ◽  
Aquatic Macrophytes ◽  
Nile Delta ◽  
Translocation Factor ◽  
Bioaccumulation Factor ◽  
Heavy Metals Accumulation ◽  
Removal Of Heavy Metals ◽  
Safe Limits ◽  
Nile Delta Of Egypt

The current study addressed the heavy metals accumulation potentials of seven perennial aquatic macrophytes (Cyperus alopecuroides, Echinochloa stagnina, Eichhornia crassipes, Ludwigia stolonifera, Phragmites australis, Ranunculus sceleratus and Typha domingensis) and the pollution status of three drains (Amar, El-Westany and Omar-Beck) in the Nile Delta of Egypt. Nine sites at each drain were sampled for sediment and plant analyses. Concentrations of eight metals (Fe, Cu, Zn, Mn, Co, Cd, Ni, and Pb) were determined in the sediment and the aboveground and belowground tissues of the selected macrophytes. Bioaccumulation factor (BF) and translocation factor (TF) were computed for each species. The sediment heavy metals concentrations of the three drains occurred in the following order: El-Westany > Amar > Omar-Beck. The concentrations of sediment heavy metals in the three drains were ordered as follows: Fe (438.45–615.17 mg kg−1) > Mn (341.22–481.09 mg kg−1) > Zn (245.08–383.19 mg kg−1) > Cu (205.41–289.56 mg kg−1) > Pb (31.49–97.73 mg kg−1) > Cd (13.97–55.99 mg kg−1) > Ni (14.36–39.34 mg kg−1) > Co (1.25–3.51 mg kg−1). The sediment exceeded the worldwide permissible ranges of Cu, Zn and Pb, but ranged within safe limits for Mn, Cd, Ni and Co. P. australis accumulated the highest concentrations of Fe, Co, Cd and Ni, while E. crassipes contained the highest concentrations of Cu, Zn, Mn, and Pb. Except for C. alopecuroides and Cu metal, the studied species had BF values greater than one for the investigated heavy metals. Nevertheless, the TFs of all species (except Cd in L. stolonifera) were less than one. Hence, the studied species are appropriate for accumulation, biomonitoring, and phytostabilization of the investigated metals.

scholarly journals Benthic foraminifera distribution in high polluted sediments from Niterói Harbor (Guanabara Bay), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2004 ◽  
Vol 76 (1) ◽  
pp. 161-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia G. Vilela ◽  
Daniele S. Batista ◽  
José A. Batista-Neto ◽  
Mirian Crapez ◽  
John J. Mcallister
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Environmental Risk ◽  
Benthic Foraminifera ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Coastal Region ◽  
Guanabara Bay ◽  
Aquatic Life ◽  
Low Concentrations

Dockyards and harbors are recognized as being important locations where sediment-associated pollutants can accumulate, which constitutes an environmental risk to aquatic life due to potential uptake and accumulation of heavy metals in the biota. The aim of this paper is to assess the concentrations and the effects of some heavy metals in the benthic foraminifera assemblage in Niterói Harbor. Low concentrations in the benthic foraminifera as well as the dominance of indicative species such as Ammonia tepida, Buliminella elegantissima and Bolivina lowmani can be associated with an environment under stress. In addition, the occurrence of test abnormalities among foraminifera may represent a useful biomarker for evaluating long-term environmental impacts in a coastal region.

scholarly journals Evaluating Toxicological Properties of Claydite Gravel, Containing Ferrovanadium Production Sludge, by Method of Biotesting with the of Higher Plants

2019 ◽  
Vol 126 ◽  
pp. 00068
Author(s):  
Irina Starostina ◽  
Tatyana Vasilenko ◽  
Michael Simonov ◽  
Eugene Pendurin
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Avena Sativa ◽  
Industrial Wastewater ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
Higher Plants ◽  
Water Media ◽  
Phytotoxic Effect ◽  
Test Objects

Recycling of sludge wastes, generated at industrial wastewater treatment and containing heavy metals, is a relevant and long-term task in building materials production. At that, the possibility of toxicants emission to the environment should be taken into account. This paper presents the findings of evaluating toxicological properties of artificial porous aggregates (claydite gravel), containing ferrovanadium production sludge, by means of using higher plants (Avena Sativa and Allium cepa) as test objects. It is demonstrated that adding sludge to the raw charge in amount up to 15% in the process of baking intensifies the melt formation with clay minerals, which contributes to the safe binding of heavy metals, reducing their diffusion to water media. Water extracts of the obtained claydite have no phytotoxic effect on higher plants.

Heavy metals accumulation and spatial distribution in long term wastewater irrigated soils

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 925-933 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamer A. Elbana ◽  
Malak A. Ramadan ◽  
Hesham M. Gaber ◽  
Mohamed H. Bahnassy ◽  
Fawzy M. Kishk ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Spatial Distribution ◽  
Heavy Metals Accumulation ◽  
Metals Accumulation ◽  
Irrigated Soils
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