An Investigation of the Levels and Distribution of Selected Heavy Metals in Sediments and Plant Species within the Vicinity of Ex-Iron Mine in Bukit Besi

Kutty, Ahmad Abas; Al-Mahaqeri, Sarah A.

doi:10.1155/2016/2096147

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“…a : Mac Donald et al (2000)b :Smith and Huyck (1999) Fe and Al are the main metals found at higher concentrations in the soil and sediment compared to other metals. Mn is known as the third metal with a lower but generally high concentration compared to Fe and Al(Diami et al 2016;Kutty and Al-Mahaqeri 2016;Kusin et al 2018). In this study, the highest Fe and Mn concentration (14082.50 mg/kg -274.40 mg/kg, respectively) was observed in the Akkiraz stream, and the highest Al concentration was observed at the Şabanoğlu sampling point.…”

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Environmental, ecological and human health risk assessment of heavy metals in sediments at Samsun-Tekkeköy, North of Turkey

Şimşek

Özkoç

Bakan

2021

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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A detailed study was conducted in order to evaluate the effects of heavy metal pollution in the sediments in terms of environmental, ecological and human health. Sediment samples were collected from 5 different points in two seasons, namely summer (August 2017) and winter (December 2017), to determine the distribution of heavy metals, potential pollutants, toxic and ecological risks in the river sediments in Samsun -Tekkeköy district located in the Mid-Black Sea Region of Turkey and to evaluate the human health risk. The distribution of heavy metals at the sampling points was Fe > Al > Mn > Zn > Cu > Cr > Ni > Pb > Cd based on their averages. According to the toxic risk index (TRI) results, sampling point OIZ (Organized Industrial Zone) Channel (T3) was also found to have a moderate risk, and it was determined that the highest contribution was from Cu > Ni > Cd > Cr, respectively. Potential ecological risk (PERI) results revealed a low risk except for Cd metal at all sampling points. While the sediment enrichment factor (EF) did not show much metallization at many points, the highest enrichment was observed in Cd, Cu, and Zn metals and at sampling point T3. According to the geoaccumulation index (I geo ) and contamination factor (C F ), sampling point T3 showed contamination with Cd, Cu, Cr, and Zn. Evaluation of human health risk showed that the hazard index (HI) results of carcinogenic and non-carcinogenic risks were higher among children than adults. The total lifetime cancer risks (TLCR) of heavy metals were within the limits determined by USEPA. However, the risk was ranked as Cr > Cd > Pb. Sediment Quality Guidelines (SQG) and pollution index results showed that heavy metal contamination was due to anthropogenic and industrial activities since the region was an industrial zone. It was determined that heavy metals posed ecological risks and that Samsun-Tekkeköy region was moderately and signi cantly contaminated.

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Environmental, ecological and human health risk assessment of heavy metals in sediments at Samsun-Tekkeköy, North of Turkey

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Bakan

2021

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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“…Cattail (Typha latifolia), bulrush (Scirpus spp. ), common reed (Phragmites) and smartweed (Polygonumhydropiperoides) are the best emergent aquatic plant that can effectively be used for the phytoremediation of several HMs like Cd, Fe, Pb, Cr, Zn, Ni, Cu [160,167,168].…”

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Application of Floating Aquatic Plants in Phytoremediation of Heavy Metals Polluted Water: A Review

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Heavy-metal (HM) pollution is considered a leading source of environmental contamination. Heavy-metal pollution in ground water poses a serious threat to human health and the aquatic ecosystem. Conventional treatment technologies to remove the pollutants from wastewater are usually costly, time-consuming, environmentally destructive, and mostly inefficient. Phytoremediation is a cost-effective green emerging technology with long-lasting applicability. The selection of plant species is the most significant aspect for successful phytoremediation. Aquatic plants hold steep efficiency for the removal of organic and inorganic pollutants. Water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes), water lettuce (Pistia stratiotes) and Duck weed (Lemna minor) along with some other aquatic plants are prominent metal accumulator plants for the remediation of heavy-metal polluted water. The phytoremediation potential of the aquatic plant can be further enhanced by the application of innovative approaches in phytoremediation. A summarizing review regarding the use of aquatic plants in phytoremediation is gathered in order to present the broad applicability of phytoremediation.

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“…The enrichment factor is calculated as the ratio of the plant shoot concentration to the soil concentration ([Metal] shoot / [Metal] soil ), while the translocation factor is the ratio of the metal concentration in the shoot to that in the root ([Metal] shoot / [Metal] root ). A hyperaccumulator plant should possess an EF or TF > 1 (Kutty and Al-Mahaqeri, 2016).…”

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The Evaluation of Alkali Grass (Puccinellia ciliata Bor) Populations in Aydin Province of Turkey

Yavaş

Ünay

2017

Turkish JAF Sci.Tech.

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Alkali grass grows in waterlogged, saline and alaline soils. The main problem in these soils is minerals at toxic level. The toxic ions are chloride, sodium and boron. A number of techniques have been investigated for removing toxic metals from the soil. Today, the cost-effective and environmentally technique is phytoremediation, using hyperaccumulator plants. Alkali grass (Puccinellia ciliata Bor) is suggested as a hyperaccumulator plant by the combination of more favourable characteristics with salt and waterlogging tolerance, high biomass value and convincing nutritive value for adverse environmental conditions. For this reason, we collected alkali grass and soil samples from five different locations in Aydın-Muğla highway, Turanlar and Sınırteke villages in Germencik-Aydın. In the soil analysis, we observed that K accumulation varies between root, shoot and panicle at least whereas Na and B shows more variation on whole plant portions among locations. Intense aerenchyma development on the root tips of Puccinellia plant was observed and it is determined as radial lysogenic aerenchyma formation. Average plant height and dry matter values were between 47.2-74.4 cm and 15.61-80.85 g/plant according to locations. The highest plant height value was obtained from the first location whereas the highest dry matter yield was detected in the fifth location. In conclusion, plants from fifth location can be regarded as fodder plants in these areas. Our results indicated that alkali grass can be effective for phytoextraction of sodium and boron from contaminated sites.

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An Investigation of the Levels and Distribution of Selected Heavy Metals in Sediments and Plant Species within the Vicinity of Ex-Iron Mine in Bukit Besi

Cited by 28 publications

References 27 publications

Environmental, ecological and human health risk assessment of heavy metals in sediments at Samsun-Tekkeköy, North of Turkey

Environmental, ecological and human health risk assessment of heavy metals in sediments at Samsun-Tekkeköy, North of Turkey

Application of Floating Aquatic Plants in Phytoremediation of Heavy Metals Polluted Water: A Review

The Evaluation of Alkali Grass (Puccinellia ciliata Bor) Populations in Aydin Province of Turkey

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