Secondly, our study is the first paper to have reported phytoremediation using the water hyacinth plant at three different levels bench, bankside and inriver. Tao ruan, a rong zeng, b, xiaoyan yin, a senxiang zhang, a and zhonghua yang a, c, water hyacinth eichhornia crassipes is an invasive floating plant that has caused many environmental problems in asia. Polii1,4, soemarno1,5 1evironmental science and technology graduate program, brawijaya university, indonesia. Water hyacinth eichhornia crassipus belongs to the family pontederiaceae with axillary leaves, appearing to develop in rosettes, with long or short petioles. The pollution of crude oil contaminated water has been a major problem in oil producing communities and the use of plant to clean such water bodies has been on investigation.
Water hyacinth is one of the ancient technology that has been still used in the modern era. Phytoremediation, cleaning the soil with plants daves garden. Bioremediation of a crude oil contaminated soil using. Recovery of mercury pollution by using water hyacinth plant eichhornia crassipes for water quality of irrigation.
Pdf phytoremediation efficiency of water hyacinth e. Ting and others published application of water hyacinth eichhornia crassipes for phytoremediation of ammoniacal nitrogen. Water hyacinth bioremediation for ceramic industry. It was dried and ground into powder using a grinding mill. Removal of nitrogen and phosphorus from industrial. The plants were grown for 7 days each in phytoremediation tanks containing a solution of 100 ppm concentration of either potassium k, sodium na, zinc zn, lead pb, iron fe, cadmium cd, magnesium mg, copper cu or calcium ca. A modified hoagland solution was added to ponds containing water hyacinths which were rated and measured weekly for 4 weeks. As for the chromium removal, water hyacinth showed promising results as a hyperaccumulator. Phytoremediation potential of some heavy metals by water hyacinth.
Efficiently removing and utilizing this biomass has become an urgent issue. Water hyacinth have brought the ph of the water to neutral and within 9 days of treatment water was converted to alkaline state. Solms, was examined in two independent studies under nitrogen n rates of 0, 40, 80, 100, 150, 200, and 300 ppm. Bhutiani and others published phytoremediation efficiency of water hyacinth e. Plants were collected from local area of jamshedpur, india. Removal of lead from water by using aquatic plants and. The decomposition of the plants if large biomass of the plants were killed at once, can use up. Available and renewable resource article pdf available in electronic journal of environmental, agricultural and food chemistry 911. Lemna is a genus of freesocial issues and environmental problems,vol. While the benefits of using phytoremediation to restore balance to a stressed environment seem to far outweigh the cost, the largest barrier to the advancement of phytoremediation could be the public opposition. This process is aided by the buoyant leaf bases, with leaves also acting as sails.
The water hyacinth appeared to be a good choice for removing table 2. Phytoremediation, water hyacinth, aquatic macrophytes, municipal wastewater, bod, effluent 1. 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. Another benefit is that it covers the site with an attractive layer of plants that prevents wind and water from carrying the pollution to other places.
Experimental studies of furfural production from water hyacinth. This study was carried out to investigate the ability of water hyacinth eichhornia crassipes mart. Studies on the release of n from water hyacinth incorporated. Abstractscarcity of water has become a major issue. Compared with the situation in 1960, few people now use water hyacinth plants to feed pigs or ducks, or to make fertilisers. Ecological and socioeconomic utilization n jafari believed to be carcinogenic in concentrations 10,000 times that in the surrounding water. It is one of the most widespread water plants in ivorian waters. Materials and methods this research was conducted on june until august 2015 on the ability of water hyacinth plants eichhornia crassipes with a variety of flow rates by using mechanism as a continuing flow. It is a free floating except when stranded in mud aquatic plant 10. The hyacinths accounted for 6085% of the n removed from solution. Although the process is efficient, it consumes more time and requires higher land area. Water hyacinth causes problems in many regions of the world by disturbing human activities such as fishing, irrigation and navigation. This paper elucidates the phytoremediation potential of water hyacinth eichhornia crassipes mart.
Jan 02, 2017 phytoremediation of industrial mines wastewater using water hyacinth. 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. Treatment of grey water using technique of phytoremediation. Water hyacinth is a distinctive, freefloating plant known for its. Phytoremediation of arsenic from geothermal power plant waste water using monochoria vaginalis, salvinia molesta and colocasia esculenta hariyadi1,2, b. Uptake of heavy metals by natural zeolite during agitated. Phytoremediation of iron fe and copper cu by water. Nov 01, 2015 water hyacinth is one of the ancient technology that has been still used in the modern era. Water hyacinth bioremediation for ceramic industry wastewater.
Water hyacinth eichhornia crassipes biomass as a biofuel. Phytoremediation of industrial mines wastewater using water hyacinth article pdf available in international journal of phytoremediation 191 august 2016 with 557 reads how we measure reads. A mass balance was conducted to evaluate the phytoremediation. The following is a brief summary of several studies on the use of plants in the phytoremediation of petroleum hydrocarbons.
Water hyacinth eichhornia crassipes many proposals have been put forward to explain the possible mechanism involved in the water hyacinthbased treatment systems 4346. The study was conducted with three concentration gradients of fe and cu at 10, 15, 20 mg l1 and control no metal. The nutritive value of water hyacinth wichhornia crassipes. Solms for tn and tp rich industrial wastewaters determined for 15 weeks under different setups of 2fold 56 tn mgl and 15. Water hyacinth a potential phytoremediator and biofertilizer. Duckweed, eichhornia crassipes water hyacinth and hydrilla verticillata hydrilla etc. The aquatic saprophytes such as water hyacinth, duck weed and butterfly ferns are hyper accumulator and produce greater biomass and can be used for water treatment. The prospect of using water hyacinth as substrate for biogas production is auspicious. The presence of such minerals as carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus in the ground water hyacinth was determined to confirm the remediating properties of the water hyacinth grass. May 31, 2012 water hyacinth naturally absorbs pollutants from water, including cadmium, chromium, mercury, lead, zinc, cesium, strontium90, uranium, and pesticides.
It also form micro habitat for some aquatic animals, birds and disease vectors. Water hyacinth plant was harvested from a river in bayelsa state. Solid tds, salinity and turbidity using a multiparameter water checker hanna h19828 were determined. Phytoremediation, cleaning the soil with plants daves. The phytoremediation potential of water hyacinth plant eichhornia crassipes was investigated on some metals. Textile waste water treatment by using phytoremediation. The wastewater at sukinda chromite mines scm area of orissa india showed high levels of toxic hexavalent chromium cr vi. Characterized waste water parameters before and after treatment fig. Analytical methods water samples were collected in plastic bottles that had been previously soaked in 10% nitric acid for 48 hours and thoroughly rinsed with deionizeddistilled water.
Nitrogen phytoremediation by water hyacinth eichhornia. Phytoremediation is the natural ability of certain plants to bioaccumulate, degrade, or render harmless contaminants in soils, water, or air. Pdf phytoremediation of industrial mines wastewater using. This was done by rinsing the electrode of the multiparameter water checker with distilled water, after which it was dipped into the water sample, allowed to stabilize and the readings determined. Didik wisnu widjajanto, kozo matsushita, terumasa honmura and nobufumi miyauchi keywords. Water hyacinth root compost has nevertheless been used with good results as a propagation medium for house plants trivedy and gudekar, 1987.
Phytoremediation potential of some heavy metals by water. Response of water hyacinth manure on growth attributes. Phytoremediation of metals contaminated distillery effluent. The phytoremediation potential of water hyacinth, eichhornia crassipes mart. Phytoremediation, water hyacinth, crude oil, concentrations and physicochemical abstract. After 7 days of adaptation, the water hyacinth plants which were grown were collected, excess water was removed and the weight of the plant was taken. Similarly, efficient treatment performance of cod 95% and nh 3n 85% in treating domestic wastewater by water hyacinth was reported by rezania et al. Performance of aquatic plant species for phytoremediation of. Phosphorus uptake rates for water hyacinth have been estimated to be as high as 243 mg m2 day1 reddy and debusk, 1985. Phytoremediation of nitrogenpolluted water using water hyacinth. Response of water hyacinth manure on growth attributes and yield in works 21, 10, 31. Keywords phytoremediation, constructed wetlands, waste water treatment, water hyacinth, water lettuce, vetiver grass. Water hyacinth eichhornia crassipes biomass as a biofuel feedstock by enzymatic hydrolysis.
The technique of phytoremediation is an engineered natural way. The analyzed water hyacinth contained appreciable amounts of crude protein 10. The presence of aquatic macrophytes in water body alters. Phytoremediation of industrial mines wastewater using. Phytoremediation of textile process effluent by the use of water hyacinth is effective and efficient for the reduction of cod and metals present in the effluent. Water hyacinth compost total plant, however, presents a problem because the fiber is not degraded. With the increasing population water demand also increases.
The need to test for the efficacy of a floating aquatic macrophyte like water hyacinth is important because most of the oil spills occur on water bodies and would need a floating aquatic plant to absorb the oil. Phytoremediation of arsenic from geothermal power plant. Aquatic plants show an enormous potential as feedstock since they do not compete for land use, and they require minimal water consumption in a. Phytoremediation of nitrogenpolluted water using water hyacinth article in journal of plant nutrition 3011. This high solid removal is attributed to the ability. Water hyacinth is already being used to clean up waste water in small scale.
Phytoremediation of textile waste water using potential. This study investigates the effectiveness of aquatic macrophyte and microphyte for phytoremediation of water bodies contaminated with high arsenic concentration. The longterm implication of green plant technology in removing or sequestering environmental. Water samples contaminated with heavy metals zn, cu and pb were subjected to phytoremediation method using water hyacinth e. Phytoremediation of lead from wastewater using aquatic plants. Water hyacinth for phytoremediation of radioactive waste. Water hyacinth have brought the ph of the water to neutral and within 9 days of. Phytoremediation of heavy metals from industrial effluent. Water hyacinth has been found to be an effective agent for reduction of metals present in distillery effluent, because of its high efficiency of removing pollutants from industrial waste water, especially organic pollutants and heavy metals which is in agreement with the results of present study. Water hyacinths grow over a wide variety of wetland types from lakes, streams, ponds, waterways, ditches, and backwater areas.
Response of water hyacinth manure on growth attributes and. Phytoremediation of industrial mines wastewater using water hyacinth. Phytoremediation of industrial mines wastewater using water. Approximately 490 to 500 g of water hyacinth plants were put into each.
Fox thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of doctor. The development of ecofriendly and efficient technologies for treating wastewater is one of the attractive research area. Water hyacinth eichhornia crassipes, plant and graphic eichhornia crassipes water hyacinth is a member of pickerelweed family pontederiaceae. Water hyacinth treatment systems in agricultural watersheds. Pdf phytoremediation of industrial mines wastewater. The study involved the preparation of the heavy metals solutions in different concentrations their ph values supplemented into eight 40l plastic. Performance of aquatic plant species for phytoremediation. Perspectives of phytoremediation using water hyacinth for. Their results were specified in class iia inwqs operating in stable mode with. Water hyacinth has been found to be an effective agent for reduction of metals present in distillery effluent, because of its high efficiency of removing pollutants from industrial waste water, especially organic pollutants and heavy metals which is. The act requires everyone to take all reasonable and practical steps to minimise the risks associated with invasive plants and animals under their control. Phytoremediation is considered to be a possible method for the removal of pollutants present in wastewater and recognized as a. The study was conducted with three concentration gradients of fe and cu at 10, 15, 20 mg l 1 and control no metal.
Kalamdhad 2012a, 20a suggested that mixture of 90 kg water hyacinth, 45 kg cattle manure and 15 kg sawdust was best combination for reduction of bioavailability of heavy metals during water hyacinth composting, therefore in this study same combination was. Bioremediation of a crude oil contaminated soil using water. Alkubaisi college of science for women, university of baghdad, iraq corresponding author abstract introduction water contamination by heavy metals in some area is practically inevitable due to. Utilization of water hyacinth eichhorniacrassipes for. Phytoremediation of metals contaminated distillery. The study was conducted by using water hyacinth weeds eichhornia crassipes which served as tool of phytoremediation. Their results were specified in class iia inwqs operating in stable mode with optimum growth rate of 18 days for water hyacinth. Water hyacinth eichhornia crassipes is a fast growing, perennial aquatic weed. Growth from a single plant can cover 60 m2 in one season. It is extremely fast growing and has lovely blossoms, mostly lavender to pink. The efficient role of aquatic plant water hyacinth in.
Water hyacinth eichhornia crassipes and two algae chlorodesmis sp. Water hyacinths grow over a wide variety of wetland types from lakes, streams, ponds. Phytoremediation is the name given to a set of technologies that use different plants as a containment, destruction, or an extraction technique. Treatment of water using water hyacinth, water lettuce and. Water hyacinth is an aquatic plant which can live and reproduce floating freely on the surface of. Phytoremediation of nitrogenpolluted water using water. Water hyacinth have been found to reduce phosphorus levels in treatment systems by as much as 93% reddy and debusk, 1985. In order to identify plants that can enhance the remediation of crude oil. Under a mandate of national environmental laws, the agency strives to formulate and implement actions leading to a compatible balance between human. This report initiates natural method for grey water treatment called phytoremediation. Some of these water sources are used for domestic water needs and they pose public health problems.
These can accumulate as, ni, cu, pb, zn, hg and cr and can be used to accumulate, detoxify and immobilize pollutants from waste water. This result signifies the rapid use of nitrate by the test plant. Phytoremediation of nutrient polluted stormwater runoff. Sep 01, 2004 this paper elucidates the phytoremediation potential of water hyacinth eichhornia crassipes mart.
Removal of lead from water by using aquatic plants ceratophyllum demersum and eichhorina crassipes ansam s. The major problems caused by aquatic weed infestation have been identified as. High solid removal was recorded in waste water collected from all point. In favorable environmental conditions, an individual water hyacinth can produce 140 million daughter plants annually. Utilization of water hyacinth relevant in water treatment and. Keywords phytoremediation, constructed wetlands, wastewater treatment, water hyacinth, water lettuce, vetiver grass. Phytoremediation is one of the biological wastewater treatment methods1, and is the concept of using plants based systems and microbiological processes to eliminate contaminants in nature. The whole setup was carried out in triplicate and the experiment lasted for 12 weeks. Ecological and socioeconomic utilization of water hyacinth. Water hyacinth naturally absorbs pollutants from water, including cadmium, chromium, mercury, lead, zinc, cesium, strontium90, uranium, and pesticides. Jun 17, 2015 the effectiveness of water hyacinth eichhornia crassipes and two locally available algae, chlorodesmis sp. Studies on the release of n from water hyacinth incorporated into soilcrop systems using 15nlabeling techniques author. International journal of health sciences and research. Extending the geographic reach of the water hyacinth plant.
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