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Water hyacinth systems are very efficient in pollutant removal from waste water. Efficiency of nitrogen removal ranges from 10 to 90% . Results from Iron Bridge water hyacinth system in Florida, USA demonstrated that phosphorus removal was from 35 to 80%. The same facility successfully removed about 60% of BODs and 43% of suspended materials from waste water. These systems can also remove heavy metals like chlorine, cadmium, copper and other effectively. In an experiment 72% of cadmium was removed from waste water by water hyacinth. Aquatic plants remove pollutants by Directly assimilating them into their tissue and by providing a suitable environment for microorganisms to transform pollutants and reduce their concentrations. Such biochemical/ physio-chemical processes functioning in these systems include nitrification/ denitrification and ammonia volatization. Accumulated nutrients and heavy metals are removed from aquatic systems by plant harvesting and sediment dredging. Thus water hyacinth effectively removes nutrient waste water.

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• Full title: Utilization of Eichhornia crasspies in Purification of Sewage Water
• Author: Bhanu Rajita Kujur, Eugenia P. Lal
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 76
• EAN: 9783659972935
• ID: 16758046
• Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Weight: 131 g
• Dimensions: 220 × 150 × 5 mm
• Published: 2017

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