A Study of the Growth of Lemon Grass on the Overburden of W.C.L. Mines by using Sludge from Activated Sludge Process of Ballarpur Paper Mill, Ltd. Chandrapur (Maharashtra)
Mohammad Tawkir¹* and S. A. Iqbal2¹Arts, Commerce and Science College, Tukum, Chandrapur India.
2Department of Chemistry, Saifia College of Science, Bhopal India.
Abstract: Growth of lemon grass on overburden of W.C.L. Mines Chandrapur was studied from January 2006 to December 2007. Overburden samples were brought from heap of W.C.L. Mines Chandrapur. Experimental species of Lemon grass were procured from Anandwan Agriculture College, Warora, Chandrapur. A pilot plant was set up in college premises. Lemon grass was planted in 3 pots having different composition of activated sludge & overburden material. Physical chemical analysis of leachates from each pot were performed up to part per million level. Quality control procedure for collection and Physical – Chemical analysis of leachates including heavy, metals, sludge from ASP of BILT, were performed, the result of which showed high accuracy of the sampling. The recorded values of pH, alkalinity, chloride, sulphite, phosphate, silica were within permissible limit except Total Hardness (400 ppm). Heavy metal viz. Arsenic (2.083 ppm), Iron (0.764 ppm), Lead (0.235 ppm) and zinc (0.983 ppm) concentration were found above the permissible limit.
Keywords: Lemon grass; overburden; leachates; activated sludge; process; heavy metals; coal mining Back to TOC