Modelo de biorremediación de plomo con lirio acuático

Background: Water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) is one of the plants with better reproduction and adaptability to polluted environments, studies have shown that water lily is a collector of heavy metals in the water; taking advantage of its fast growth and ease of collection. Objective: To evaluate the elimination of lead (Pb) using the water lily as a bioaccumulator in a bioremediation process. Methodology: Analyzes were performed for the characterization of water lily and water. Water lily was collected, the requirement was sometimes a period of pre-adaptation, subsequently, it was placed in different tests with the water collected from an oxidation lagoon and lead as a contaminant. The duration of the trials was 15 days, in which the water lily was in direct contact with the contaminated water, during this period the behavior of the lily was monitored. Results: the tap water does not have lead, the lagoon water had a concentration of 0.025 mg/L lead, and control water had a concentration of 3.14 mg/L lead, having a final removal of 13.05% in the water in bioaccumulation samples. The lily already contained a significant value of lead at the start of the 0.127 mg/kg test, with the addition of lead at the beginning of the experiment it gives us a value of 0.169 mg/kg, obtaining a value end of the experiment of 0.284 mg/kg which indicates a 91.84% increase in lead content in 15 day; which confirms the bioabsorption power of metals for this plant with the capacity to absorb more than 90 times its weight in water.