Decontamination of Nickel Toxicity of Soil by Chelate Assisted Remediation using Brachiaria Mutica (FORSSK.) STAPF
Atia Arzoo1 , Kunja Bihari Satpathy2
1Atia Arzoo, Department of Environmental Science, School of Applied Sciences, Centurion University of Technology and Management, Odisha- 752050.
2Kunja Bihari Satpathy, Department of Botany, School of Applied Sciences, Centurion University of Technology and Management, Odisha- 752050
Manuscript received on 07 August 2019. | Revised Manuscript received on 14 August 2019. | Manuscript published on 30 September 2019. | PP: 8199-8203 | Volume-8 Issue-3 September 2019 | Retrieval Number: C6667098319/19©BEIESP | DOI: 10.35940/ijrte.C6667.098319
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Abstract: Phytoremediation is an environment friendly and cost effective method for remediation of heavy metals from contaminated soils by using plants. Chelate assisted metal uptake by plant has only been discovered in the sector of phytoremediation. It is a potential technology for accumulation of heavy metal by plants after application of chelating agents to soil which enhances the level of metal uptake in phytoremediation processes. Chelating agents are commonly used to form complexes with different metal contaminants within the natural environment. The novelty of this work is to reduce the pollution load by ecofriendly method. The research gap adresses in this study is the reduction of nickel pollution by using chelating agent. In this study two chelating agents namely EDTA (Ethylene diamine tetra acetic acid) and DTPA (Diethylene triamine penta acetic acid) were used along with the nickel treated soil and also with soil without containing nickel to determine the efficiency of decontamination by a wild plant “Para grass” [Brachiaria mutica (Forssk.) Stapf] towards phytoremediation of nickel. In this experiment it was observed that the plant which were subjected to grow in EDTA with nickel treated soil accumulated more nickel than the other two sets which were subjected to grow in nickel treated soil with DTPA and also without chelating agent.
Key words: Nickel, Chelating Agent, Para Grass, Phytoremediation
Scope of the Article: Soil-Structure Interaction