Heavy metal phytoremediation from aquatic ecosystems with special reference to macrophytes

PK Rai - Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and …, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
The rapid pace of industrialization and urbanization has given birth to heavy metal pollution.
Heavy metals are one of the most hazardous contaminants that may be present in the …

[PDF][PDF] Biogas generation through anaerobic digestion process-an overview

B Deepanraj, V Sivasubramanian… - Research Journal of …, 2014 - researchgate.net
Depleting petroleum resources, ever increasing petroleum price and the rapid addition of
greenhouse gases into the atmosphere rekindle the researchers to develop new techniques …

Biogas production from locally available aquatic weeds of Santiniketan through anaerobic digestion

AK Mathew, I Bhui, SN Banerjee, R Goswami… - Clean Technologies and …, 2015 - Springer
The current study focused on anaerobic digestion (AD) of aquatic weeds such as water
hyacinth and salvinia available in Santiniketan, West Bengal, India. The physico-chemical …

Strategies for the management of aggressive invasive plant species

P Lorenzo, MC Morais - Plants, 2023 - mdpi.com
Current control methods for invasive alien plants (IAPs) have acceptable short-term
outcomes but have proven to be unfeasible or unaffordable in the long-term or for large …

Modeling phytoremediation of nitrogen-polluted water using water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes)

AW Mayo, EE Hanai - Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts a/b/c, 2017 - Elsevier
Water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) has a great potential for purification of wastewater
through physical, chemical and biological mechanisms. In an attempt to improve the quality …

Heavy metals in water, sediments and wetland plants in an aquatic ecosystem of tropical industrial region, India

PK Rai - Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2009 - Springer
Concentrations of heavy metals (Cu, Cr, Fe, Pb, Zn, Hg, Ni, and Cd) and macronutrients (Mn)
were measured in industrial effluents, water, bottom sediments, and wetland plants from a …

Energy balance of biofuel production from biological conversion of crude glycerol

X Zhang, S Yan, RD Tyagi, RY Surampalli… - Journal of environmental …, 2016 - Elsevier
Crude glycerol, a by-product of biodiesel production, has gained significant attention as a
carbon source for biofuel production. This study evaluated the energy balance of biodiesel …

[HTML][HTML] Biogas and biomass pellet production from water hyacinth

T Hudakorn, N Sritrakul - Energy Reports, 2020 - Elsevier
The prime objective of this paper was to produce the biogas and biomass pellets from water
hyacinth. The leaf and petiole were chopped, grind, squeezed and then separated into two …

Water hyacinth as a green and sustainable material for carbon aerogel electrodes utilized in membrane capacitive deionization

NT Nguyen, TTT Duong, TVT Phan… - CLEAN–Soil, Air …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Water hyacinth is a substantial and quick‐growing plant that can strongly invade and
negatively affect the aquatic ecosystem, causing many problems to the water environment …

Sequential valorization strategies for dairy wastewater and water hyacinth to produce fuel and fertilizer

B Arutselvy, G Rajeswari… - Journal of Food Process …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
To overcome the obstacles of treatment of dairy wastewater (DW) under anaerobic mono‐
digestion and sustainable disposal of harvested water hyacinth (WH) a novel sequential …