Phytoremediation potentials of water Hyacinth. Eichhornia crassipes (mart.) Solms in crude oil polluted water
2013
The pollution of crude oil contaminated water has been a major problem
in oil producing communities and the use of plant to clean such water
bodies has been on investigation. In order to identify plants that can
enhance the remediation of crude oil contaminated water, the effect of
the growth of Eichhornia crassipes on the physico - chemistry and
crude oil content of water contaminated with different concentrations
of crude oil was investigated in this study. The containers were filled
with water and the treatments used were 0ml, 10ml, 20ml, 30ml and 40ml
of crude oil respectively. The control 0ml had no crude oil in it. This
was replicated four times to give an observation of twenty. The
phytoremediating plant Eichhornia crassipes was introduced into the
containers two weeks after pollution. Morphological parameters were
taken and the physico-chemical analysis of all the water bodies such as
Dissolved Oxygen (DO), Conductivity, Temperature, Total Dissolved Solid
(TDS), Turbidity, Salinity, Total Petroleum Hydrocarbon (TPH) and pH
were determined. Results from this study shows that Eichhornia
crassipes is a phytoremediating plant.©JASEM
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