Abstract phytoremediation under greenhouse condition was investigated as an alternative to clean up an industriallymulticontaminated soil with both petroleum hydrocarbons and heavy metals. Tomato and mustard plants were able to extract different concentrations of each heavy metal from the soils. Introduction heavy metals are the major environmental contaminants and pose a severe threat to human and animal health by their longterm persistence in the environment 1. Introduction soil is the fundamental foundation of our agricultural resources, food security, global economy and environmental quality 1. The use of plants for the removal of toxic metals from contaminated soil mitch m. Today, many institutions and companies are funding scientific. City atlas youarethecity, in new york, is experimenting with indian mustard, mugwort, basket willow and sunflowers to remediate a contaminated garden. Phytoremediation of heavy metal contaminated soil by psoralea. Unlike organic compounds, metals cannot degrade, andtherefore effective cleanup requires their immobilization to reduce or remove toxicity. Mar 16, 2006 rhizosphere, as an important interface of soil and plant, plays a significant role in phytoremediation of contaminated soil by heavy metals, in which, microbial populations are known to affect heavy metal mobility and availability to the plant through release of chelating agents, acidification, phosphate solubilization and redox changes, and.
This technology has been receiving attention lately as an innovative, costeffective alternative to the more established treatment methods used. Several species of plants, including radish and mustard, were genetically engineered to express a protein called metallothionein. The sources of various heavy metals are listed in table table1. The entire mechanism of phytoextraction of heavy metals has five basic aspects. Cadmium is usually less adsorbed by soil and organic matter than several other heavy metals e. Potential of rape seed for removal of heavy metals from the soil phytoremediation is regarded as a nonintrusive, inexpensive approach for remediating environmental media, and is being pursued as a new approach for the cleanup of contaminated soils, water and ambient air 4. In addition to the polluters, in the northern part of kosovo and metohija, they represent a good indicator of the effects of the production processes and the existing passive and active ore dumps of the trepca mine. Heavy metal pollution of soil is a significant environmental problem and has its negative impact on human health and agriculture. Phytoremediation is a better option for cleanup of metalcontaminated sites. Introduction in flanders belgium, europe largesurface areas.
Phytoremediation is a technology which can be applied in situ without moving or excavating large amounts of contaminated soil and leaves the topsoil in an undisturbed and usable condition 239. To use plants to remediate heavy metal pollution would be an effective technique in pollution control. A number of metals including chromium, iron, arsenic, zinc, cadmium, mercury and copper are known to significantly compromise. Phytoremediation is the natural ability of certain plants to bioaccumulate, degrade, or render harmless contaminants in soils, water, or air. Five aquatic plant species, lepironia articulata, pandanus helicopus, scirpus grossus, cabomba furcata, and nelumbo nuciferaaquatic. In the present study, an attempt to have a comparative assessment of the efficiency of aquatic weeds like typha latifolia, eichhornia crassipes, salvinia molesta and pistia stratiotes to treat the effluents under laboratory conditions. The use of water plants in biomonitoring and phytoremediation. Phytoremediation of heavy metals contaminated mafiadoc. Phytoremediation has been studied extensively in research and smallscale demonstrations, but fullscale applications are currently limited in number. Role of soil rhizobacteria in phytoremediation of heavy metal. Heavy metal, soils, contamination, phytoremediation 1. Phytoremediation of heavy metals is considered as an inexpensive and practical technique for purifying contaminated soil, especially when ecofriendly native pasture plants of the contaminated area are used. Different physical and chemical methods used for this purpose suffer from serious limitations like. Extensive activity of mankind has been introducing hazardous compounds into the environment at an alarming rate.
Heavy metals that have been identified in the polluted environment include as, cu, cd, pb, cr, ni, hg and zn. It is best applied at sites with shallow contamination of organic, nutrient or metal pollutants that are amenable to one of the five applications. The remediation of soils contaminated by heavy metals is a costintensive and technically complex procedure 25. Phytoremediation is an emerging technology that uses various plants to degrade, extract, contain, or immobilize contaminants from soil and water. Study on application of phytoremediation technology in. The use of plants for the removal of toxic metals from. Phytoremediation of heavy metal contaminated soil by. The highest concentration of heavy metals among the aquatic plants and plant parts was found in the roots of s.
Pdf on jan 1, 2012, p ahmadpour and others published phytoremediation of heavy metals. Phytoextraction of cadmium and zinc from a contaminated soil. Phytoremediation is an emerging technology that employs the use of higher plants for the. The plant is then harvested and disposed of and the site replanted until heavy metals in the soil is lowered to acceptable levels. The current remediation technique of heavy metal from contaminated soilwater are expensive, time consuming and environmentally destructive. The aim of this work was to study the ability of three sunflower helianthus annuus cultivars m, h2, and p to absorbdegrade v, ni, cu, pb, benzoa. The phytoremediation of metalcontaminated soils offers a lowcost method for soil remediation and some extracted metals may be recycled for value. The soil 3kg each was contaminated with 2g of the metals as feso 4, cdco 3 and zn, mn, pb, and cr powder, adapting experimental method of abdel naby 2002.
Phytoremediation of heavy metalcontaminated soil by. In some cases, soil, water and food are heavily polluted by heavy metals in china. For heavy metal phytoremediation and phytoextraction in pa r ticular, bioavailability of metals in contaminated soils, is a crucial factor regulating heavy metal uptake by plant roots 5052. One promising strategy is phytoremediation, the use of plants to uptake heavy metals. Finally, the result shows that the plant species was good accumulator of these heavy metals. Cadmium and zinc, using alpine pennycress, a hyperaccumulator of these metals at levels that would be toxic to many plants. The plant is then harvested and disposed of and the site replanted until heavy metals in the. Research is in progress to screen plants for hyperaccumulation of heavy metals. Phytoremediation for heavy metal environmental issues. The widespread accumulation of heavy metals in soils is becoming a serious problem, as a consequence of industrial activity worldwide.
Heavy metals are among the most important sorts of contaminant in the environment. Bioaccumulation of heavy metals by aquatic macrophytes around wroclaw, poland. This gives an overview of phytoremediation and the strategies associated with it, the factors that affect heavy metal tolerance, translocation and sequestration and the advantages and limitations of phytoremediation, followed by a brief background of the current knowledge regarding the different metals used in this study. We would like to remind the reader that studies on heavy metal pollution are focused on as, cd, cr, hg and pb as they are toxic, nonessential heavy metals, and on cu, ni and zn which, although.
Removal of metals by phytoremediation free download as powerpoint presentation. Present phytoremediation system characteristics that site managers and others might find useful in assessing the potential applicability of phytoremediation to a specific site. Download advances in bioremediation and phytoremediation ebook pdf or read online books in pdf, epub. The plant protein binds heavy metals and removes them so that plant toxicity does not occur.
Alternatively, they can be burned for energy, which allows metals to be recovered and recycled. Phytoremediation of soils contaminated with heavy metals. Currently, phytoremediation is an effective and affordable technological solution used to extract or remove inactive metals and metal pollutants from. Dec 29, 2011 as willow has some specific characteristics like high transport capacity of heavy metals from root to shoot,huge amount of biomass production, can use also for production of bio energy in the biomass energy power plant. These plants can be disposed of as hazardous waste. Phytoremediation 4 phytoremediation consists of mitigating pollutant concentrations in contaminated soils, water, or air, with plants able to contain, degrade, or eliminate metals, pesticides, solvents,explosives, crude oil and its derivatives, and various other contaminants from the media that contain them. Thus remediation of heavy metal pollution deserves due attention. Index termschromium, iron, phytoextraction, psoralea pinnata. The results show that essential heavy metals fe, zn and mn at day 14 were high with values. Heavy metals, phytoremediation, bioconcentration factor, translocation factor, catharanthus. Introduction the growth of industrial activity in the last century has. Heavy metals total accumulations in root, stem and leaf was calculated and bioconcentration factor, translocation factor values was also calculated. Phytoremediation offers owners and managers of metalcontaminated sites an innovative and costeffective option to address recalcitrant environmental contaminants.
Heavy metals in aquatic macrophytes from two small rivers polluted by urban, agricultural and textile industry sewages sw poland. The concentrations of cd in the leaves and stems of submerged aquatic plant, c. Cadmium and zinc, using alpine pennycress, a hyperaccumulator of these metals at levels that would. Phytoremediation for heavy metal removal plants, so called hyperaccumulators are usually used, they take up 100 times the concentration of metals over other plants. On the one hand, they can directly influence the aforementioned parameters. The length of time that the soils were exposed to the contaminants affected the levels of heavy metals accumulation. An extensive area of the world is contaminated with organic and inorganic pollutants including heavy metal pollutants. Titled phytoremediation of metals, the patent disclosed a method to remove metal ions from soil using plants. Phytoremediation is still poorly developed, particularly the phytoextraction of heavy metals. Fulekar environmental biotechnology laboratory, department of life sciences, university of mumbai, santacruz e, mumbai 400 098, india. Soils contamination by heavy metals and metalloids has become a serious environmental issue today. Due to the production method, toxicity, plant adoption and inclusion in the food chain, heavy metals increasingly appear as dominant carriers of environmental pollution 2,3.
The pollutants are then transferred into the stems and leaves of the plant. Pb, cu, which makes it more available to plants and more. Phytoremediation applications for removing heavy metal. Rhizosphere, as an important interface of soil and plant, plays a significant role in phytoremediation of contaminated soil by heavy metals, in which, microbial populations are known to affect heavy metal mobility and availability to the plant through release of. Heavy metals can create stressful conditions to the plants and their growth becomes limited or impossible and this can influence the phytoremediation. Pistia stratiotes was examined in the presence of several distinct heavy metals separately, in order to determine the ability of the plant to tolerate and accumulate the metals tested and for eventual use for phytoremediation of waste water or natural water bodies polluted. Phytoremediation is an emerging technology for cleaning up contaminated sites, which is cost effective, and has aesthetic advantages and long term applicability. The term comes from the greek word for plants phyto that can detoxify, or remediate, soil or water contaminated with heavy metals or excess minerals. Phytoremediation is a technology which can be applied in situ without moving or excavating large amounts of contaminated soil and leaves. The concentrations of cd in the leaves and stems of submerged. Phytoremediation mechanisms of heavy metal contaminated.
In recent years, scientists and engineers have started to generate cost effective technologies that include use. However, combining this technology with the production of saleable products may render the extra time needed for cleanup relatively unimportant. As willow has some specific characteristics like high transport capacity of heavy metals from root to shoot,huge amount of biomass production, can use also for production of bio energy in the biomass energy power plant. In the present study, an attempt to have a comparative assessment of the efficiency of aquatic weeds like typha latifolia, eichhornia crassipes, salvinia molesta and pistia stratiotes to treat the effluents under. Besides the chemical forms of heavy metals and their bioavailability within the polluted site, the role of plantassociated rhizosphere bacteria and fungi in phytoremediation can in many cases be of special importance. Advancement in molecular studies will improve efficiency of phytoremediation. Phytoremediation of heavy metalsconcepts and applications. Accepted 19 december, 2008 the current remediation technique of heavy metal from contaminated soilwater are expensive, time. Use of phytoremediation and biochar to remediate heavy. Highlights heavy metal pollution is a serious environmental problem. May 30, 2019 titled phytoremediation of metals, the patent disclosed a method to remove metal ions from soil using plants. One of phytoremediation categories, phytoextraction, can be used to remove heavy metals from soil using its ability to uptake metals which are essential for plant growth fe, mn, zn, cu, mg, mo, and ni. With the development of urbanization and industrialization, soils have become increasingly polluted by heavy metals and organic pollutants, which threaten. Use of phytoremediation and biochar to remediate heavy metal.
Phytoremediation of heavy metals from industrial effluent. In this study, heavy metals in soil including cr, zn, cd, pb. Phytoremediation of heavy metal polluted soils and water. Phytoremediation mechanisms of heavy metal contaminated soils. So, in our study we tried to enhance the phytoremediation capacity of eichhornia crassipes to treat heavy metals by using electric current. Jun 29, 2015 phytoremediation 4 phytoremediation consists of mitigating pollutant concentrations in contaminated soils, water, or air, with plants able to contain, degrade, or eliminate metals, pesticides, solvents,explosives, crude oil and its derivatives, and various other contaminants from the media that contain them. The results are promising with some metals down 50% in a year. The focus of researchers on the phytoremediation of toxic metals in the environment has been considered an area of major scientific and technological progress and is a subject of contemporary relevance. Phytoremediation of soil multi contaminated with hydrocarbons.
Alternatively, they can be burned for energy, which allows metals to be recovered and. A green technology find, read and cite all the research you need. Heavy metals in plants and phytoremediation springerlink. Phytoremediation can be used to clean up metals, pesticides, solvents, explosives, crude oil, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, and landfill leachates.
The soil has been contaminated with toxic materials which is jeopardising its fertility. Dec 24, 2007 heavy metals that have been identified in the polluted environment include as, cu, cd, pb, cr, ni, hg and zn. Pdf phytoremediation of heavy metals assisted by plant. As plants grow, they collect and store metals in stems and or leaves. Phytoremediation of soil contaminated with heavy metals core. Phytoremediation of heavy metals from soils springerlink. Watson environmental, agricultural and analytical chemistry section, chemistry department, university of glasgow, glasgow g12 8qq, uk received 20 august 2002. Heavy metals are removed from soil by moving up into plant roots, stems, and leaves. Apr 20, 2020 the use of plants for the removal of heavy metals from soil and water offers a wide range of advantages. Adamu chemistry programme, abubakar tafawa balewa university, bauchi abstract this paper shows result obtained from analysis done on some selected heavy metals accumulated in maize planted in contaminated soil for forty two days.
Several methods already used to clean up the environment from these kinds of contaminants, but most of them are costly and difficult to get optimum results. Pdf phytoremediation of heavy metalsconcepts and applications. The harvestable biomass can be disposed of and the site can be replanted to achieve a significant clean up and to insure that the concentration of the heavy metals in soil is lowered to acceptable levels. Phytoremediation is a green technology with good public perception. Recent techniques article pdf available in african journal of biotechnology 86.
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