CONSTRUCTED WETLANDS: GREEN PLANT-BASED REMEDIATION TECHNOLOGY

ISBN 978-629-486-264-7

MYR40.00

 

 

Book Details

Author/Editor: Osama Abrahiem Muhamed Al-Falahi, Siti Rozaimah Sheikh Abdullah & Nur ‘Izzati Ismail

Pages: 194

Year of Publication: 2024

Description:

Remediation technology includes techniques for remediating contaminated environmental areas. Existing techniques involved are physical, chemical and biological. Plant-based remediation is categorized under biological technique. Utilization of green plants in a man-made and man-operated wetland to clean up contaminants referred to constructed wetlands. Pharmaceuticals that are excreted by consumers are incompletely eliminated in wastewater treatment plants and considered as a major source of pharmaceutical contamination in aquatic environments. Current wastewater treatment plants are not specifically designed to eliminate and remove pharmaceutical compounds. Therefore, the writing of this book sheds light on constructed wetlands (CWs) as a stand-in approach to remove them from contaminated water. This book specifically discusses the performance of native plant species in removing emerging pharmaceutical compounds. The techniques recommended in this book have disclosed that the plants employed in CWs is an efficient treatment to degrade pharmaceutical compounds in order to confront the worrying evidence for these compounds in the environment.

 

BISAC Subject Code(s): NAT011000

Prelims

Category: Environmental science