Atomic Spectroscopy Technique Employed to Detect the Heavy Metals from Iraqi Waterbodies Using Natural Bio-Filter (Eichhornia crassipes): Thera Dejla as a Case Study

Water pollution has become one of the most serious intractable issues of this era. The use of aquatic plants is considered as one of the suitable routes to remove pollutants from industrial wastewater, to protect the environment and restore resources for reuse, especially water hyacinth plant. Multi studies have shown that the water hyacinth plant has an ability to recover heavy metals from different water bodies. This paper aims to study the efficiency of the different parts of water hyacinth plant to remove many ions of heavy metals, namely chromium (Cr), cobalt (Co), iron (Fe), manganese (Mn), lead (Pb) and zinc (Zn) from polluted water bodies in Iraq, Thera Dejla channel in the northwest of Baghdad as a case study. The results obtained showed the ability of water hyacinth plant roots to adsorb lead, manganese and zinc metals with concentrations of 3.668, 3.1297 ppm and 1.1057 ppm, respectively and the rafts to adsorb 10.1545 ppm of iron while cobalt and chromium were adsorbed by stem with 0.2652 and 0.0852 ppm respectively. However, the leafs of water hyacinth were the lowest ability to adsorb the heavy metals than other parts. On the other hand, the concentrations of these heavy metals were close to zero in the water near this plant. Therefore, this plant can be used as a cheap and low-cost bio-filter to purify polluted water in rivers, lakes and ponds despite the harmful effects caused by its excessive spread.How to Cite this ArticlePubmed StyleAli GAA, Abbas MN. Spectroscopy Technique Employed to Detect the Heavy Metals from Iraqi Waterbodies Using Natural Bio-Filter (Eichhornia crassipes): Thera Dejla as a Case Study. SRP. 2020; 11(9): 264-271. doi:10.31838/srp.2020.9.43Web StyleAli GAA, Abbas MN. Spectroscopy Technique Employed to Detect the Heavy Metals from Iraqi Waterbodies Using Natural Bio-Filter (Eichhornia crassipes): Thera Dejla as a Case Study. http://www.sysrevpharm.org/?mno=7012 [Access: March 30, 2021]. doi:10.31838/srp.2020.9.43AMA (American Medical Association) StyleAli GAA, Abbas MN. Spectroscopy Technique Employed to Detect the Heavy Metals from Iraqi Waterbodies Using Natural Bio-Filter (Eichhornia crassipes): Thera Dejla as a Case Study. SRP. 2020; 11(9): 264-271. doi:10.31838/srp.2020.9.43Vancouver/ICMJE StyleAli GAA, Abbas MN. Spectroscopy Technique Employed to Detect the Heavy Metals from Iraqi Waterbodies Using Natural Bio-Filter (Eichhornia crassipes): Thera Dejla as a Case Study. SRP. (2020), [cited March 30, 2021]; 11(9): 264-271. doi:10.31838/srp.2020.9.43Harvard StyleAli, G. A. A. & Abbas, . M. N. (2020) Spectroscopy Technique Employed to Detect the Heavy Metals from Iraqi Waterbodies Using Natural Bio-Filter (Eichhornia crassipes): Thera Dejla as a Case Study. SRP, 11 (9), 264-271. doi:10.31838/srp.2020.9.43Turabian StyleAli, Ghalib Adrees Atiya, and Mohammed Nsaif Abbas. 2020. Spectroscopy Technique Employed to Detect the Heavy Metals from Iraqi Waterbodies Using Natural Bio-Filter (Eichhornia crassipes): Thera Dejla as a Case Reviews in Pharmacy, 11 (9), 264-271. doi:10.31838/srp.2020.9.43Chicago StyleAli, Ghalib Adrees Atiya, and Mohammed Nsaif Abbas. Atomic Spectroscopy Technique Employed to Detect the Heavy Metals from Iraqi Waterbodies Using Natural Bio-Filter (Eichhornia crassipes): Thera Dejla as a Case Study. Systematic Reviews in Pharmacy 11 (2020), 264-271. doi:10.31838/srp.2020.9.43MLA (The Modern Language Association) StyleAli, Ghalib Adrees Atiya, and Mohammed Nsaif Abbas. Atomic Spectroscopy Technique Employed to Detect the Heavy Metals from Iraqi Waterbodies Using Natural Bio-Filter (Eichhornia crassipes): Thera Dejla as a Case Study. Systematic Reviews in Pharmacy 11.9 (2020), 264-271. Print. doi:10.31838/srp.2020.9.43APA (American Psychological Association) StyleAli, G. A. A. & Abbas, . M. N. (2020) Spectroscopy Technique Employed to Detect the Heavy Metals from Iraqi Waterbodies Using Natural Bio-Filter (Eichhornia crassipes): Thera Dejla as a Case Reviews in Pharmacy, 11 (9), 264-271. doi:10.31838/srp.2020.9.43