Biosorption of Aluminium by the Aquatic Plant Ipomea aquatica

Author(s)	Dr. N. S. Gopkar
Country	India
Abstract	Environmental contamination due to heavy metals is a critical problem in environmental and public health as they tend to accumulate in food chain and are not biodegradable creating everlasting burden on ecosystems. Aquatic ecosystems are more prone to the heavy metal contamination and are predominantly susceptible and becoming final receptor of heavy metals. These ecosystems supposed to be more sensitive to contaminants because of small biomass in different trophic levels. Therefore, many aquatic plants are considered as first link with respect to the heavy metal content in an aquatic ecosystem. Present study planned to suggest role of aquatic plant Ipomea aquatica in Al (III)ions removal by biosorption process. The biosorption characteristics of Al (III)ions from aqueous solution using Ipomea aquatica dead biomass (stem) were investigated as function of pH, temperature, quantity of biosorbent, contact time and initial metal ion concentration. The optimize values for all these parameters were found to be pH 6, temperature 30°C, biosorbent quantity 16.8 mg/g, contact time 120 min.
Keywords	Heavy metals, Aluminium (III) ion; Ipomea aquatica; Biosorption.
Field	Biology > Agriculture / Botany
Published In	Volume 12, Issue 4, October-December 2021
Published On	2021-10-05
Cite This	Biosorption of Aluminium by the Aquatic Plant Ipomea aquatica - Dr. N. S. Gopkar - IJSAT Volume 12, Issue 4, October-December 2021.

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