Abstract: Phycoremediation” is one of pollution control technologies that use physical and biological systems to remove the pollutants and biodegradation or transformation of various toxic chemicals to less harmful forms. Industrial pollution is the major cause for degradation of environment around us affecting the water we use, the air we breathe and the soil we live on. The exponential increase in industrialization is not only effecting large areas of agricultural lands, but simultaneously causing serious environmental degradation of soil as well. Water pollution causes loss to soil, plants, human and animals and spread epidemic and chronic diseases. As a part of study effluent samples were collected from a highly polluted region of Gayathri Sugars Pvt. Ltd. situated at Adloor yellareddy village, Sadashivanagar mandal of Nizamabad district in Telangana for analysis of physico-chemical and biological parameters. The Objective of the present work is to evaluate the efficiency of algae for removal of heavy metals. The present study aimed at a comparative study of phycoremediation before and after treatment of industrial effluent. As algae is used as source of food it is necessary to remove the heavy metals present in industrial effluent ,which is possible using not only higher plants but also employing some genera of algae. In the present experimental work BGA and green algae like Chlorella, Scenedesmus ,Spirogyra, Cladophora and Oedogonium, Spirulina, Anabaena, Lyngbya, Oscillatoria were employed in removal of heavy metals from industrial effluent.
Keywords: Effect of algae, removal of heavy metals, industrial effluent.
Title: APPLICATION OF PHYCOREMEDIATION TECHNOLOGY IN THE TREATMENT OF INDUSTRIAL EFFLUENT
Author: RAMESH .B, Dr. ARUNA . M
International Journal of Life Sciences Research
ISSN 2348-313X (Print), ISSN 2348-3148 (online)
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