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Phytoremediation-biorefinery tandem for effective clean-up of metal contaminated soil and biomass valorisation

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Sotenko, Maria V., Coles, Stuart R., Barker, Guy C., Song, Lijiang, Jiang, Ying, Longhurst, Philip, Romanova, Tamara, Shuvaeva, Olga and Kirwan, Kerry (2017) Phytoremediation-biorefinery tandem for effective clean-up of metal contaminated soil and biomass valorisation. International Journal of Phytoremediation, 19 (11). pp. 965-975. doi:10.1080/15226514.2016.1267705

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Abstract

During the last few decades, phytoremediation process has attracted much attention because of the growing concerns about the deteriorating quality of soil caused by anthropogenic activities. Here, a tandem phytoremediation/biorefinery process was proposed as a way to turn phytoremediation into a viable commercial method by producing valuable chemicals in addition to cleaned soil. Two agricultural plants (Sinapis alba and Helianthus annuus) were grown in moderately contaminated soil with ca. 100 ppm of Ni and further degraded by a fungal lignin degrader - Phanerochaete chrysosporium. Several parameters have been studied: the viability of plants, biomass yield and their accumulating and remediating potentials. Further down-stream processing showed that up to 80% of Ni can be easily extracted from contaminated biomass by aqueous extraction at mild conditions. Finally, it was demonstrated that the grown onto contaminated soil plants can be degraded by Phanerochaete chrysosporium and the effect of nickel and biomass pre-treatment on the solid state fermentation was studied. The proposed and studied in this work methodology can pave the way to successful commercialization of the phytoremediation process in the near future.

Item Type: Journal Article
Divisions: Faculty of Science > Chemistry
Faculty of Science > Life Sciences (2010- )
Faculty of Science > WMG (Formerly the Warwick Manufacturing Group)
Journal or Publication Title: International Journal of Phytoremediation
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc.
ISSN: 1522-6514
Official Date: 12 December 2017
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DateEvent
12 December 2017Published
12 December 2016Available
17 November 2016Accepted
Volume: 19
Number: 11
Page Range: pp. 965-975
DOI: 10.1080/15226514.2016.1267705
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access

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