Ludwigia stolonifera for accumulation of toxic metals from wastewater simulate

Joint Event on 17^th International Conference on Environmental Toxicology and Ecological Risk Assessment & 36^th International Conference on Environmental Chemistry & Water Resource Management

September 24-25, 2018 | Chicago, USA

H M Saleh, R F Aglan and H H Mahmoud

Nuclear Research Center, Egypt
Hot Laboratories Center, Egypt

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: J Environ Anal Toxicol

Abstract :

Phytoremediation of wastewater generated from industrial applications contains a significant amount of heavy metal ions which are harmful to the ecosystem and living organisms. Aquatic macrophytes are playing a successful role in this manner. During the present investigation, the wetland plant, Ludwigia stolonifera, was followed to study its efficiency at removing three toxic metals (Pb, Cd and Cr). The survival at different concentrations in single-metal or mixture solutions of the three metals and accumulation of these toxic metals during extended time in a laboratory condition was investigated. This plant performed extremely well at removing the cadmium, chromium and lead from their single solutions of up to 65%, 97% and 99% respectively after four days. Moreover, the performance of uptake revealed neglected weakness at the different mass of plant and various pHs. The experimental study indicated that the living Ludwigia stolonifera is capable to remove different toxic pollutants from the aquatic environment. Further investigations on remediation of different hazardous pollutants like radionuclides will provide insight into the role of the nominated plant in the phytoremediation and be helpful to clarify the efficiency of this technology.

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