Lithological and land-use based assessment of heavy metal pollution in soils surrounding a cement plant in SW Europe

Cutillas-Barreiro, Laura; Pérez‐Rodríguez, Paula; Gómez-Armesto, Antía; Fernández‐Sanjurjo, María J.; Álvarez‐Rodríguez, Esperanza; Núñez‐Delgado, Avelino; Arias‐Estévez, Manuel; Nóvoa-Muñoz, Juan Carlos

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.03.198

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“…Heavy metals released into air from natural or anthropogenic sources can transport over long distance. Therefore, enhanced levels of heavy metal have been commonly described in atmosphere [19,20], soil [21][22][23][24], crop [25][26][27][28] and water reservoirs [29][30][31] near urban areas or sites adjacent to industrial units. Exposure to persistent and toxic heavy metals adsorbed onto atmospheric dust particles can be a severe possible human health risk [32].…”

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Foliar heavy metal uptake, toxicity and detoxification in plants: A comparison of foliar and root metal uptake

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Dumat

Khalid

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Journal of Hazardous Materials

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Anthropologic activities have transformed global biogeochemical cycling of heavy metals by emitting considerable quantities of these metals into the atmosphere from diverse sources. In spite of substantial and progressive developments in industrial processes and techniques to reduce environmental emissions, atmospheric contamination by toxic heavy metals and associated ecological and health risks are still newsworthy. Atmospheric heavy metals may be absorbed via foliar organs of plants after wet or dry deposition of atmospheric fallouts on plant canopy. Unlike root metal transfer, which has been largely studied, little is known about heavy metal uptake by plant leaves from the atmosphere. To the best of our understanding, significant research gaps exist regarding foliar heavy metal uptake. This is the first review regarding biogeochemical behaviour of heavy metals in atmosphere-plant system. The review summarizes the mechanisms involved in foliar heavy metal uptake, transfer, compartmentation, toxicity and in plant detoxification. We have described the biological and environmental factors that affect foliar uptake of heavy metals and compared the biogeochemical behaviour (uptake, translocation, compartmentation, toxicity and detoxification) of heavy metals for root and foliar uptake. The possible health risks associated with the consumption of heavy metal-laced food are also discussed.

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Foliar heavy metal uptake, toxicity and detoxification in plants: A comparison of foliar and root metal uptake

Shahid

Dumat

Khalid

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“… 17 , 18 Furthermore, the estimation of atmospheric emissions of Pb and Cd from CPs would be vital to assess the environmental impacts of this industry. 4 , 19 − 21 …”

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“…Pb or Cd accumulated inside the clinker production system daily input of Pb or Cd into the clinker production system total Pb or Cd in the raw meal daily input of Pb or Cd from different raw materials and coal(4) …”

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Fate of Lead and Cadmium in Precalciner Cement Plants and Their Atmospheric Releases

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Disclosing the fate of lead (Pb) and cadmium (Cd) during the cement production process is the key to control their atmospheric emissions, which have not attracted much attention yet. In this study, three precalciner cement plants (CPs) using different raw materials in Guizhou Province in Southwest China were investigated. It showed that the concentrations of Pb and Cd in different raw materials and the associated total metal input of these materials were different among CPs; the behavior of Pb and Cd were almost the same during the clinker production process that there has been no accumulation of these two elements inside the system, and nearly all input of Pb and Cd were discharged by the clinker. Although the temperature of clinkerization was pretty high of 1450 °C, the atmospheric emission ratio of both metals was negligible (<0.006% for Pb and <0.002% for Cd of the total output, respectively); the main reason might be that the two elements were incorporated into the minerals of clinker, either as silicate or sulfate. The long-term environmental impacts of some high Pb-and Cd-laden clinkers and cement need to be monitored and evaluated.

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“…Many practices have been performed in dealing with this management depending on the type and level of pollution. Recently, many best management practices in dealing with soil pollution have been published including these issues, the outdoor shooting ranges (Fayiga and Saha 2016;Rodríguez-Seijo et al 2016), pesticides (Ouyang et al 2016), cement plant wastes (Cutillas-Barreiro et al 2016), mining and smelting (Lei et al 2016), heavy metals (Cutillas-Barreiro et al 2016;Liao et al 2016a) and agricultural pollution (Babin et al 2016;Domínguez et al 2016). Therefore, it could be sustained soil in general through recycling of nutrients, the cleaning of air and water, as well as climatic cycles, where these previous issues represent the fundamental factors in the management of the natural resources as well (Akhtar et al 2016).…”

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Environmental Nanoremediation under Changing Climate

El-Ramady

Alshaal

El-Henawy

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MANY global problems threaten our life on the Planet including climate changes, environmental pollution, food and soil security, energy crisis, etc. This environmental pollution has not only mainly serious risks and stress involving the human health and safety of the entire ecosystem but also the quantity and quality of crops productivity worldwide. Due to the great gap between the global food production and the global consumption, there is a crucial need to cultivate these contaminated lands sooner or later. Therefore, the removing of pollutants from soils and waters should be performed in frame of sustainable remediation and sustainable energy production accordingly. Depending on many factors (source and kind of pollutants, land use and the economics of water and soil resources, etc) many strategies should be addressed for the sustainable and integrated management of polluted lands. Nanoremediation is a promising strategy in controlling pollution and management. Three major applications of nanoremediation could be characterized including detection of pollution using nanosensors, prevention of pollution, purification and remediation of contamination. Further studies also concerning the impact of changing climate on the nanoremediation process in the agroecosystems should be considered. Thus, this review will focus on the evaluation of environmental nanoremediation and its strategy in polluted lands under climate changes. Using of nanotechnology in pollution control as well as the environmental pollution and its sustainable management also will be highlighted.Keywords: Environmental nanoremediation, Climate change, Pollution, Crop production, Environmental stress. IntroductionClimate changes are a great challenge facing the human kind as well as other living things. The production of crops and other agricultural features are extremely susceptible to changes in climate. So, these global changes will be caused major shifts in crop distribution due to climate changes in the future. Moreover, it has been estimated that climate changes are likely to reduce yields and/or damage crops in the 21 Removing of pollutants from soils and waters could be linked with both the sustainable remediation as well as sustainable energy production (Kovacs and Szemmelveisz 2017; Zheng and Shi 2017). Many strategies for the sustainable and integrated management of polluted lands should be addressed depending on several factors e.g., type of pollutants and their level, the purpose of land use after remediation, soil characterization and its topography, climate , cropping patterns and the availability of resources and their economics (El-Ramady et al. 2017;Saha et al. 2017a). Furthermore, a great debate concerning using of lands for crop food production (under growing global population) or energy crop production was and still for ages (Paschalidou et al. 2016). Therefore, a global and holistic strategy in facing the main three threats including hunger, lack of energy and pollution of environment as well as climate changes should be esta...

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Lithological and land-use based assessment of heavy metal pollution in soils surrounding a cement plant in SW Europe

Cited by 33 publications

References 60 publications

Foliar heavy metal uptake, toxicity and detoxification in plants: A comparison of foliar and root metal uptake

Foliar heavy metal uptake, toxicity and detoxification in plants: A comparison of foliar and root metal uptake

Fate of Lead and Cadmium in Precalciner Cement Plants and Their Atmospheric Releases

Environmental Nanoremediation under Changing Climate

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