Water hyacinths are aquatic plants that indicate a capability for pollutants uptake. Recently, further efforts have been made to increase the capacity of the plant to remediate the pollutants. Water hyacinth roots and shoots were analyzed using FTIR spectroscopy, XRF, and electrical investigations. Results of XRF analyses indicate that except for Sr, CaO, Na2O, and K2O, the level of metals as w...

Phytoremediat ion techniques for the treatment of different types of wastewater have been used by several researchers. These techniques are reported to be cost effective compared to other methods. Various contaminants like total suspended solids, dissolved solids, electrical conductivity, hardness, biochemical oxygen demand, chemical oxygen demand, dissolved oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorous, heavy...

The Eichhornia crassipes macrophyte, also known as water hyacinth, is considered an invasive species due to its adaptability to a wide variety of ecosystems, affecting the natural balance of lagoons, lakes and so on Vankar & Vásquez [1,2]. An example of this is their strong presence in contaminated wetlands such as the yellow Juan of the city of Bogotá, where they removed almost 30 tons in 2016...

Most of the world energy consumption comes from non-renewable sources, which are being depleted, so alternative sources necessary. The purpose this work was to evaluate thermal potential macrophytes Eichhornia crassipes (water hyacinth) and Pistia stratiotes lettuce). These were evaluated by gravimetric analysis, growth temporal determination, immediate determination calorific value, under Cfb ...

Outdoor tanks containing the floating aquatic macrophyte water hyacinth [Eichhornia crassipes (Mart) Solms] were provided with diffuse aeration to evaluate its effect on wastewater treatment efficiency and plant growth. Light aeration (0.003 and 0.021 L nr min ') had no effect on the treatment of primary domestic effluent in the batch-fed water hyacinth tanks. Heavy aeration (1.03 and 3.53 L nr...