A study of the Effect of Electric Power Stations on Vegetative Growth of Schanginia Aegyptiaca from some Heavy Elements (Ni, Pb, Cu, Cd, Zn, Mn, Fe)

Abstract

In order to evaluate the state of pollution in the plant and study the behaviour of heavy elements, our current study aimed to choose some plants that grow naturally and do not constitute a food source for humans and animals and to demonstrate their ability to treat soils affected and contaminated with heavy elements. The province of (Babylon, Qadisiyah, Karbala and Najaf) affected by the fumes resulting from the combustion of fuel for some electric power stations, where the results showed a significant increase in the concentrations of iron, manganese and lead, which were high in the affected location of the two electric power stations, Abu Gharq and Al-Khairat, only within the root system of the plant. schanginia aegyptiaca, which grows naturally in those location, and that it has exceeded the permissible limits according to the World Health Organization. Through our study of plant pollution standards, the results showed that all BCF values for all plant samples did not exceed the value of one except for copper, where it was higher than one in all locations except for the soil of the Abu Gharq power station, and this indicates the inefficiency of the schanginia aegyptiaca plant. to extract all the studied elements from the soil to the root system, except for copper. The results also showed that all the values of the BAF bioaccumulation factor did not exceed the values of one, and thus we find that the schanginia aegyptiaca plant does not have the ability in biological treatment because the values for all the elements of the study did not exceed the values of one, which indicates the non-movement of the elements in the root system to the vegetative growth and its accumulation in Cautions, except for zinc and copper. We also notice that all the values of the transfer coefficient TF of the studied elements of the sapiens plant exceeded the value of one, which indicates the ability of the plant to transfer the elements of the study from the root system to the vegetative growth of Schanginia aegyptiaca, whether the elements were slow or easy to move.