Avaliação da Alocasia macrorhiza como Fitorremediadora dos metais Cd, Cr, Cu, Ni, Pb, Zn.

Abstract

For more then three centuries plants has been used for decontaminating soils and water with quimical products. However, recently this practice is being intensificated, due to low costs and mainly for the facilities that these plants may be used in situ. The phytoremediation technique reached worldwide importance due to the technology which extract and/or immobilize organic and inorganic contaminates. The main objective of this Thesis is to study for the first time the absorption capacity of heavy metals such as Cd, Pb, Cr, Ni, Zn and Cu by specie Alocasia macrorhiza arranged in the ciliate diversity rain forest located in the Amazon region and in the Industrial District, which the contamination is considered to be high and test concentrations of 3, 6, 9, 12 and 15 mmol Kg-1 of EDTA on bioavailability of these metals on soils. In this study, were collected plants in six different places in Manaus, capital city of the State of Amazonas-Brazil and after these plants have been collected, they were separated in root, stalk and leaf. The heavy metals concentrations were determined by flame atomic absorption spectrophotometry. For the statistical analysis were used the non-parametric for Kruskal-Wallis and Mann-Whitney tests. The test demonstrated that all metals were absorpt the same way independently the region were the plant was collected. Pb presented the highest concentration absorbed by the plant following Cr > Cd> Cu> Ni> Zn metals. Are findings also revealed that the absorption metals sequence levels repeated in other parts of the plant. Cr was the only metal that not presented significant variation in parts of the plant, neither in the collected area. EDTA concentrations that had better assimilation of Pb extracted by the in situ plant were between 3 and 15 g Kg-1.