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Effect of gamma-irradiated textile effluent on plant growth

  • Fahmida Parvin
  • Zannatul Ferdaus
  • Shafi M. Tareq
  • Tasrina R. Choudhury
  • Jahid M. M. Islam
  • Mubarak A. Khan
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Abstract

Introduction

Textile industry produces large quantities of highly colored effluents, which are generally toxic and resistant to biodegradation. The present study was carried out to find out the efficiency of using gamma radiation to degrade or decontaminate combined textile effluent and its potential application as irrigation water on spleen amaranth.

Results

The change of absorption spectra, physicochemical parameters of gamma-irradiated textile effluent revealed that all these properties have improved after irradiation at (10–15) kGy. Analysis of ammonium and total nitrogen concentration of the effluent also showed that both of them are increased after irradiation and can be used for irrigation purposes. Application of irradiated textile effluents on spleen amaranth have increased dry mass (10.77 g), plant height (10.53/week), root length (19.00 cm), number of leaves (6/week) compared to the plants which were nourished with raw textile effluent and only water. Elemental analysis showed trace amount of heavy metal uptake by the plant. Moreover, the plants contain mineral nutrients essential for plant growth.

Conclusions

The treatment of textile effluents by gamma irradiation (10–15 kGy) is a promising tool as it produces zero waste and has the possibility of alternative use for irrigation water with fertilizing properties.

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Keywords

Textile effluent Gamma radiation Plant Irrigation water Fertilizing effect 

Introduction

Textile effluents contain substantial pollution loads in terms of high alkalinity, high biological oxygen demand (BOD), high chemical oxygen demand (COD) and high suspended solids (SS). It also contains dye particle at a high concentration (Selambakkannu et al. 2011) and most of these are non-biodegradable. Existing conventional treatment using physical and chemical treatment is not capable of decomposing the recalcitrant and toxic organic pollutants rather it transfers the pollutants from a liquid medium to a solid medium via coagulation/chemical process (Rabby 2011). A number of research have been going on adsorption processes (Panda et al. 2009; Islam et al. 2013), but those are costly, time consuming and cannot produce zero waste. Biological methods are simple in applications, generally cheap and often used to remove organics and color of textile effluent. However, dye containing effluent cannot be readily degraded by conventional biological processes, e.g., activated sludge process, because the structure of most commercial dye compounds are generally complex and many dyes are non-biodegradable due to the chemical nature and molecular size (Kim et al. 2002). And this process is also time consuming. So it is required to look for a most effective, less time consuming, zero waste producing wastewater treatment technology.

Ionizing radiation (known as electron beam and gamma radiation) is promising for the treatment of textile dye solution because the effect of radiation can be intensified in aqueous solution, in which the dye molecules may be degraded effectively by the primary products formed through radiolysis of water (Dahlan 2001; Wang et al. 2006; Takács et al. 2007; Selambakkannu et al. 2011). However, to the best of our knowledge, radiation-induced decoloration and degradation of the true textile mill effluent has not performed yet.

Industrial textile effluent contains azo dyes. So after irradiation it may convert into amide, which can be converted into ammonium by hydrolysis (Bagyo et al. 1997). So, this decontaminated wastewater containing nitrogen compound could be used for irrigation. Spleen amaranth is rejuvenator (rasayana) and useful in the treatment of fevers, cough, rheumatism, paralysis, tremors, kapha and vata disorders (Grubben and Denton 2004). Because of this importance, spleen amaranth was chosen to evaluate the fertilizing effect of irradiated textile effluent. Keeping in view the above-cited facts, the present study was carried out to find out the efficiency of using gamma radiation to degrade or decontaminate combined textile effluent and its potential application as irrigation water on spleen amaranth.

Experimental

Sampling and irradiation

Effluents used in this research were obtained from a textile industry which is located at Ganda, Savar, Bangladesh. The sample was a mixture of wastewater produced from several processes such as washing, dying, waxing and rinsing. The samples were irradiated by gamma rays from the cobalt-60 gamma radiation source. The dose was determined by Amber Perpex dosimeter; type 3042F. In this study 10–25 kGy dose have been chosen for irradiation as lower doses were not sufficient for complete mineralization of textile effluent (Takács et al. 2007).

Physicochemical analysis

Samples were analyzed before and after irradiation. pH, EC, TDS and DO of both irradiated and raw samples were measured using portable multiparameter (Model no-sension™ 156, Supplier-Hach Company USA, 2000) within half an hour of the collection of sample. The turbidity of the samples is also measured by turbidity meter HANNA H193703 microprocessor turbidity meter, range (0.00–1000) FTU (Formazin Turbidity Unit). The BOD of the samples was determined by 5-day BOD test at 20 °C temperature of over an elapsed period of 5 days in the dark. The COD of the samples was determined by closed reflux, titrimetric method. The concentration of nitrogen and ammonium was determined by the Kjeldahl and Kjeldahl distillation methods, respectively (Mulvaney 1996). UV–Visible spectra of irradiated and raw textile effluent were obtained by T-60 UV–visible spectrophotometer using quartz cell (size 10 × 10 mm) in UV-win 5 software.

Analysis of fertilizing effects

The irradiated and raw textile effluents were irrigated into spleen amaranth to observe the fertility effect of gamma ray-irradiated textile effluents using pot experiments. Six pots of spleen amaranth (three replications) have prepared by adding garden soil with the appropriate moisture content where they were successively nourished by water, raw and the irradiated (10–25) kGy textile effluent. In every week, the plants were monitored prior to measuring the plant height, maximum leaf area, number of leaves to compare the effect of irradiated textile effluent with the raw and control one.

The plant heights were measured from the border of the pot to the top of the main plant stem. It was not measured from the top of the soil; as the soil was condense with watering over time. To measure the number of leaves, every visible leaf of each plant was counted including the tips of new leaves just beginning to emerge. For measuring the leaf area, the leaves were traced on graph paper and the squares covered were counted to get an estimate of the surface area for each leaf (Parvin et al. 2013). At 55 DAS (days after sown) the plants were harvested and lengths of roots were measured. The plants were dried in oven at 105 °C for 12 h (Mollah et al. 2009) and after half an hour interval the weight was taken to measure the dry mass.

Elemental analysis of samples

After irradiation the textile effluent was analyzed by atomic absorption spectrophotometer (AAS) prior to determine the changes in metal concentration. Cu, Cd, Zn, Co, Cr, Mn, Ni, Pb, Na, K, Cu, Fe, Zn, Mg and Mn were analyzed using flame AAS (Varian AA240FS), As by hydride generation AAS (Varian AA240) and Hg by cold vapor AAS (novAA350, Analytik jena). The calibration curves were prepared for each element individually applying linear correlation by least square method.

The samples of spleen amaranth and the soil that was used for the planting of spleen amaranth were also analyzed to determine the concentration of trace metals. Dried samples of soil and vegetable were ground into a fine powder (80 mesh size) using a mortar and duplicate samples (0.3 g) of each vegetable and soil samples were weighted in digestion flask and treated with 3 ml of concentrated HNO3. Digestions of solid sample (soil and plant) were carried out in microwave-accelerated reaction system (MARS); model no—MARS 5.

Results and discussions

Changes of physicochemical parameter of the textile effluent after irradiation

The pH of the textile wastewater which was collected from the industry was 10.33. But after irradiation, at 10 kGy the pH of the effluent is reduced to 8.14 which comply with the limit of Bangladesh industrial effluent standards for discharge in irrigated land (Table 1). It may be deduced that the oxidation of aromatic compounds induced by ionizing radiation gives some lower molecular weight aliphatic compounds such as aldehyde and organic acids and that further oxidation of the organic acid formed leads to the formation of carbon dioxide (Spinks and Woods 1964; Suzuki et al. 1975) and lowering of the pH of the water. But with the augment of absorbed doses the pH remains almost similar. 10 kGy may be enough to oxidize all the aromatic compounds that remain in wastewater and no more aromatic compound remain to oxidize in elevated absorbed doses.
Table 1

Physicochemical parameters of the irradiated and raw sample of textile effluent

Parameter

Unit

Raw effluent

10 kGy

15 kGy

20 kGy

25 kGy

TSS

mg/L

440

210

240

230

235

TDS

mg/L

3,410

1,620

1,410

1,850

1,730

Turbidity

FTU

161.65

120.95

101.22

95.65

93.12

DO

mg/L

0.5

5.50

6.0

6.5

6.5

pH

–

10.33

8.14

8.13

8.17

8.16

EC

µS/cm

4,140

2,210

1,900

2,700

2,890

BOD

mg/L

135

55

40

45

35

COD

mg/L

670

255

262

210

222

High BOD5 (135 ppm) and COD (670 ppm) value of the textile wastewater has been decreased dramatically by irradiation and the rate of reduction has increased with increasing absorbed dose. The reduction of BOD5 and COD implies that oxidizable materials found in the sample have been reduced due to complete decomposition of organic pollutants by ionizing radiation (Tchobanoglous and Schroeder 1985; Miyata 1993).

When the textile effluent was exposed to gamma irradiation, the water molecule undergoes radiolysis process to produce ionized and excited water molecules and free electrons (reactive species). Reactions between pollutants and primary products of water radiolysis (·OH, e aq − , H+) and secondary short-lived species formed from the pollutants causes the removal of pollutants from the wastewater (Anbar and Neta 1967; Buxton et al. 1988 ). And these reduced values of BOD5 and COD comply with the limit of Bangladesh industrial effluent standards for discharge in irrigated land (BOD5 100 and COD 400 ppm) (GoB, ECR 1997). After gamma irradiation, the DO value of the effluent becomes improved and approaches to the standard value (4.5–8 ppm) for irrigation water (GoB, ECR 1997). This occurs because of decreasing the BOD level, increasing of transparency of the textile effluent and owing to the presence of hydrolysis product of water (O2, H2O2, etc.,) by the effect of gamma radiation (Miyata 1993).

At 10 kGy irradiation, the turbidity of the effluent is reduced from 161.65–120.95 FTU. The turbidity values decreased with increasing absorbed dose that indicates the reduction of suspended particulate matter and the breaking down of organic particles by the action of gamma radiation. This process also revealed by the reduction of COD (Soutsas et al. 2010; Selambakkannu et al. 2011). Total suspended solids of the textile effluent were also reduced from 440–210 ppm at 10 kGy of gamma irradiation, as they were converted to precipitates resulting from the degradation of organic substances and suspended matter in wastewater (Compton 1971).

TDS value (3,410 mg/L) of the raw effluent (Table 1) exceeded the standard value of water quality for irrigation (GoB, ECR 1997). But after gamma ray irradiation it becomes lower to 1,410 at the absorbed dose of 15 kGy which indicates the degradation of pollutant in the textile wastewater. There are two probable cause of TDS reduction; one is degradation of dye molecules induced by the reaction with oxidative species from water hydrolysis (Somasiri et al. 2006) and the other reason is the breakdown of larger organic chain into smaller chain adjacent to the main azo or anthraquinone groups (N=N bonds) due to radiation (Nickelsen et al. 1992), the TDS value shows an increasing trend at 20 and 25 kGy absorbed doses, but it still remains lower than the standard value of water quality for irrigation. EC is correlated closely with TDS (Rouse 1979) and similar trend of reduction also found in case of EC.

Changes of total nitrogen and ammonium concentration in textile effluent after gamma irradiation

After gamma irradiation both the nitrogen (N) and ammonia content of the textile effluent has increased. Figure 1 shows that raw textile effluent contains 28.5 mg/L total N but after irradiation at 10 kGy the total N content increased to more than double and amounts to 68 mg/L. Owing to applying radiation, the refractory fractions of the azo dyes have broken down easily and nitrogen molecules come out into the solution rapidly after digestion. Nickelsen et al. (1992) and Somasiri et al. (2006) also revealed that radiation causes the degradation of azo dyes and releases the nitrogen (N2) into effluent. Besides this, textile effluent contains azo dye, so after gamma irradiation it was converted into amide, which then converted into ammonium by hydrolysis (Bagyo et al. 1997) and maximum concentration of ammonium (39.50 mg/L) was found when the effluent is irradiated at 15 kGy. One reason is the degradation of dye molecules induced by the reaction with oxidative species from water hydrolysis (Somasiri et al. 2006) and the other reason is the breakdown of larger organic chain into smaller chain adjacent to the main azo or anthraquinone groups (N=N bonds) due to radiation (Nickelsen et al. 1992).
Fig. 1

Comparison of total N and ammonium content in both irradiated and raw (unirradiated) textile effluent

Analysis of absorption spectra for irradiated and raw textile effluent

The raw textile effluent has very strong absorption bands in visible region at (400–430) and (550–600) nm (Fig. 2). After gamma irradiation the intensity of the main absorption decreased gradually as the dose increased. The changes in absorbance are found in these two regions are due to the presence of green (visible range band 550–650 nm) and blue (visible range band 300–400 nm) dyes present in the combined raw effluent collected from the textile industry. These intensity decreases reflects the destruction of conjugated system of the dye molecules by the attack of hydroxyl radicals (·OH) formed by the water hydrolysis with the action of gamma ray radiation. Solphan in (2001) and Sumartono in (2006) has also found that commercial azo dyes and commercial anthraquinone dyes show the sharp changes of absorption peak after irradiation in oxygen-saturated condition.
Fig. 2

Changes of absorption spectra for irradiated and raw (0 kGy) textile effluent

Elemental analysis of the irradiated and raw textile effluent

The analytical data of various elements concentration in textile effluents and their standard are represented in Table 2. Among the heavy metals lead, chromium, mercury, cobalt, nickel and cadmium have prime importance because they are subject to bioaccumulation and may pose a risk to human health when transferred to the food chain (Itanna 2002). But, analytical results revealed that the concentration of lead, chromium, mercury, arsenic, cobalt, nickel and cadmium in effluents of textile industry for both raw and gamma-irradiated remains within the acceptable limit for the drinking water set by the World Health Organization (WHO 2000) and irrigation water set by DoE (GoB, ECR 1997).
Table 2

Elements concentration (in mg/L) for raw and gamma-irradiated textile effluent

Metal name

Raw effluent

10 kGy

15 kGy

20 kGy

25 kGy

WHO standard for drinking water

DoE standard for irrigation water

Chromium (Cr)

0.003

0.008

0.008

0.003

0.003

0.05

1

Lead (Pb)

<0.02

0.038

0.038

0.027

0.027

0.01

0.1

Cadmium (Cd)

<0.004

<0.004

<0.004

<0.004

<0.004

0.003

0.05

Cobalt (Co)

<0.004

0.013

0.013

0.013

0.013

–

 

Nickel (Ni)

<0.004

0.015

0.016

0.015

0.013

0.02

1

Copper (Cu)

<0.002

0.092

0.056

0.072

0.057

2

3

Zinc (Zn)

0.038

0.013

0.024

0.010

0.013

3

10

Arsenic (As)

<0.0003

<0.0003

<0.0003

<0.0003

<0.0003

0.01

0.2

Mercury (Hg)

0.001

0.001

<0.0003

<0.0003

<0.0003

0.001

0.01

Iron (Fe)

<0.004

0.212

0.326

0.218

0.313

0.3

2

Manganese (Mn)

0.140

0.326

0.224

0.238

0.295

0.1

5

Magnesium (Mg)

0.004

0.004

0.004

0.004

0.004

–

 

Sodium (Na)

0.123

0.723

0.775

0.718

0.686

200

 

Calcium (Ca)

0.024

0.033

0.035

0.033

0.034

–

 

Potassium (K)

0.001

0.02

0.022

0.019

0.019

–

 

On the contrary, Table 2 also revealed that the nutrient contents like Na, K, Cu, Fe, Zn, Mg and Mn are considerably higher in irradiated effluents. These are essential micro and macroelements for supporting the plant growth when it will apply in the purpose of irrigation. So these gamma ray-irradiated textile effluent containing Na, K, Cu, Fe, Zn, Mg and Mn has the potentiality as the plant fertilizer sources.

Fertilizing effect of textile effluent

Application of irradiated textile effluent showed a marked effect on the plant morphology. Plants nourished with textile effluent irradiated at 10 and 15 kGy showed best performance (Table 3) among the plants nourished by effluent irradiated at four different radiation doses, raw textile effluent and control sample, in case of these three-growth parameters (highest plant height, maximum leaf area and number of leaf average).
Table 3

Morphological characters of spleen amaranth

Sample ID

Plant height average (cm)

No. of leaf average

Maximum leaf area (cm2)

20 DAS

27 DAS

34 DAS

41 DAS

48 DAS

55 DAS

20 DAS

27 DAS

34 DAS

41 DAS

48 DAS

55 DAS

20 DAS

27 DAS

34 DAS

41 DAS

48 DAS

55 DAS

Controlled

12

21.3

22

27.2

35.5

43.7

7

11

16

22

25

29

14

22

36

48

62

80

0 KGy

12.5

16.9

19.5

21.6

27.2

32.9

8

10

13

16

20

24

15

18

26

38

51

65

10 KGy

11.6

25.2

34.3

46

59.4

74.8

7

13

20

29

34

42

14

25

47

68

89

110

15 KGy

12

23

32.3

44.2

53

68.3

7

12

18

23

28

35

15

24

42

56

79

98

20 KGy

11.3

22.6

29

40.2

49

66.6

7

12

19

22

26

33

13

24

40

52

73

93

25 KGy

11.8

21.1

25.5

31.5

39

52.4

8

11

17

20

24

31

14

22

41

48

67

88

Increase of root length indicates the growth of plant. Gamma-irradiated textile effluent has increased the root length of spleen amaranth compared to the controlled sample and sample nourished by raw textile effluent (Fig. 3). Highest root length at 55 DAS was found 19.00 cm with the treatment of textile effluent irradiated at 10 kGy, whereas 14.00 cm found for controlled sample and 10.33 cm for raw textile effluent. This indicates that gamma ray-irradiated textile effluent has marked effect on root length. Similar results are also found in case of dry weight. The results suggest that the application of irradiated textile effluent containing the higher concentration of ammonium and nitrogen causes an increase in the biochemical and physiological functions of plants that lead to an increase in dry matter. So for the best production of vegetables total dose of (10–15) kGy at dose rate of 13.0 kGy/h of gamma radiation is required and the gamma ray-irradiated textile effluent should be applied at three times per week to get the optimal growth results.
Fig. 3

Comparison of root length and dry mass of spleen amaranth after irrigation with raw (unirradiated) and gamma-irradiated textile effluent at different absorbed doses

Bioaccumulation of elements in spleen amaranth

Heavy metal content as well as the micro and macronutrient content were analyzed for plant irrigated by gamma ray-irradiated textile effluent. The results of metal analysis (Table 4) demonstrate that the concentrations of heavy metal in the plant sample are present in an acceptable limit, excepting Pb and Cd (Itanna 2002; Naser et al. 2011). But their concentrations remain in slightly higher concentration than the acceptable limit.
Table 4

Elements concentration (mg/kg) in spleen amaranth nourished by gamma-irradiated and raw textile effluent

Metal name

Raw effluent

Control

10 kGy

15 kGy

20 kGy

25 kGy

Chromium (Cr)

0.76

0.55

0.60

0.40

0.48

0.63

Lead (Pb)

3.96

1.86

2.9

1.6

1.6

2.1

Cadmium (Cd)

0.12

0.12

0.44

0.5

0.6

0.3

Cobalt (Co)

1.86

1.56

1.63

1.53

1.6

2.03

Nickel (Ni)

1.01

<0.004

<0.004

<0.004

<0.004

<0.004

Copper (Cu)

20.59

15.64

30.76

25.72

32.66

23.80

Zinc (Zn)

56.62

55.2

66.35

62.56

59.93

69.94

Arsenic (As)

<0.1

0.24

0.15

0.19

0.15

0.22

Mercury (Hg)

<0.3

<0.3

<0.3

<0.3

<0.3

<0.3

Iron (Fe)

365

456.9

422.9

522.6

380.7

407

Manganese (Mn)

0.33

0.48

0.56

0.43

0.47

0.36

Magnesium (Mg)

183

184

244

217

204

194

Sodium (Na)

4.24

14.02

62.9

6.98

8.7

11.2

Calcium (Ca)

101

98

287

119

141

163

Potassium (K)

130

111

182

183

182

156

Elemental analysis of the soil in which the plants were grown were also performed (Table 5). And by analyzing the metal concentration in irradiated textile effluent (Table 2) and soil (Table 5), it has been found that the source of heavy metal in the plant largely come from the soil, not from the effluent.
Table 5

Metal concentration (mg/kg) in soil used for plantation

Metal

Concentration

Chromium (Cr)

59.94 ± 1.1

Lead (Pb)

33.96 ± 2.42

Cadmium (Cd)

0.76 ± 0.01

Cobalt (Co)

10.9 ± 0.8

Nickel (Ni)

34.05 ± 2.4

Copper (Cu)

8.84 ± 0.4

Mercury (Hg)

<0.003

Zinc (Zn)

122.2 ± 0.1

Arsenic (As)

1.12 ± 0.08

Potassium (K)

45 ± 0.1

Iron (Fe)

80 ± 1.4

Manganese (Mn)

124 ± 1.6

Magnesium (Mg)

139 ± 2.42

Sodium (Na)

223 ± 2.8

The concentration of Cu, Na, Ca, K and Mg is comparatively higher in the plants nourished by gamma ray-irradiated textile effluent than the plants nourished with raw textile effluent and only water. This is due to the bioavailability of the nutrient from the textile effluent after gamma ray irradiation. In the raw effluent the nutrient element remains as a ligand that binds to the central metal atom in a complex form. But after irradiation the complex form has broken down and the nutrient element becomes available as a free element. And plants are then able to uptake the nutrient from water. Depending upon the exposure route, all these elements (Cu, Na, Ca, K and Mg) are least toxic trace elements if ingested (USEPA 1995). Finally it can be easily concluded that the hazardous and toxic elements in the plant are present in negligible amounts but the nutrients essential for plant growth and human health are found in higher rate. So the gamma ray-irradiated textile effluents have proved as the fertilizer-containing irrigation water.

Conclusions

Decoloration and degradation of textile dyes and organic waste in aqueous solutions by gamma irradiation has been accomplished successfully. All the physicochemical properties were improved after irradiation and optimum result was found at (10–15) kGy gamma-radiation doses. Total nitrogen and ammonium content in the textile effluent has been increased after irradiation, which indicated the possibility of the textile effluent to be used as fertilizer-containing irrigation water. And it is also proved by the enhanced growth rate of spleen amaranth irrigated by gamma ray-irradiated textile effluent compared to that of the plant nourished with the raw textile effluent and only water. The elemental analysis revealed that the plants uptake trace amount of heavy metal and moreover contain satisfactory amount of mineral nutrients. At the dose rate of (10–15) kGy the psychochemical parameter as well as the plant production is satisfactory. All the results indentified that the treatment of textile effluents by gamma irradiation (10–15 kGy) is a promising tool as it produces zero waste and has the possibility of alternative use for irrigation water with fertilizing properties.

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Fahmida Parvin
    • 1
  • Zannatul Ferdaus
    • 1
  • Shafi M. Tareq
    • 2
  • Tasrina R. Choudhury
    • 3
  • Jahid M. M. Islam
    • 3
  • Mubarak A. Khan
    • 3
  1. 1.Department of Environmental SciencesJahangirnagar UniversityDhakaBangladesh
  2. 2.School of BiosciencesThe University of NottinghamSemenyihMalaysia
  3. 3.Institute of Radiation and Polymer TechnologyBangladesh Atomic Energy CommissionDhakaBangladesh

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