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Phytoremediation Impact Factor

Phytoremediation is the active use of green plants and their related micro-organisms to restore or minimize soil, sludge, mud, surface water, or groundwater pollution. Sites with low contaminant concentrations over large cleanup areas and at shallow depths present particularly favorable phytoremediation conditions. It is an emerging technology that can be used along with or instead of traditional mechanical clean-up technologies, which often require high inputs of capital and are energy-intensive. Phytoremediation offers an opportunity to improve the financial efficiency of phytoremediation systems and the the risk of disposal by using metal enriched plant biomass in energy and metal recovery with the burnt process. Some essential metals such as Ni, Se, Zn , and Fe can be recovered from the phytoremediation phase of phytomining and biofortification. Phytomining is defined as the recovery of metals from polluted metal sites, using plants containing high biomass. The concept of Biofortification is to increase the nutritional quality of edible grains and vegetables. An significant aspect of the modern field of ecological engineering is phytoremediation, the use of green plants to manage and monitor pollution in water, soil, and air. Applications in situ and ex situ are controlled by soil and water features on the ground, abundance of nutrients, meteorology, hydrology, feasible habitats, and contaminant characteristics. 

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