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ArticleEnvironmental science and pollution research international2018

Ecotoxicity tests with Allium cepa to determine the efficiency of rice husk ash in the treatment of groundwater contaminated with benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylene.

Marcelo Oliveira Caetano, Amanda Gonçalves Kieling, Rafael Luis Raimondi, Luciana Paulo Gomes, Ivo André Homrich Schneider

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Article in Environmental science and pollution research international, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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3 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Efficiency of rice husk ash to adsorb chromium(VI) using the Allium cepa toxicity test.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2019
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Marcelo Oliveira CaetanoCivil Engineering Graduate Program-UNISINOS, University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos, São Leopoldo, Brazil. mocaetano@unisinos.br.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0920-1971
Amanda Gonçalves KielingCivil Engineering Graduate Program-UNISINOS, University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos, São Leopoldo, Brazil.
Rafael Luis RaimondiCivil Engineering Graduate Program-UNISINOS, University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos, São Leopoldo, Brazil.
Luciana Paulo GomesCivil Engineering Graduate Program-UNISINOS, University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos, São Leopoldo, Brazil.
Ivo André Homrich SchneiderMines, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Graduate Program - UFRGS, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos · BRUniversidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul · BR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The validation of adsorption treatment based on toxicity assays aims to assess the actual environmental impact caused by effluents after treatment. This study describes the use of rice husk ash as adsorbent and evaluates the efficiency of adsorption treatment to remediate groundwater contaminated with benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylene (BTEX). The synthetic effluent was prepared with standard benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylene solutions. Adsorption was assessed at treatment times 0, 60, 120, and 240 min. Compounds were quantified by gas chromatography with flame ionization detector. The treatment was validated based on ecotoxicity assays using Allium cepa as indicator organism. For the treatment times stipulated, samples containing 25, 50, and 100% of BTEX were used. The dilutions were carried out with drinking water according to Fiskesjö (1985). The relative growth index (RGI), root inhibition index (Ii), and germination index (GI) confirmed the efficiency of the treatment approach tested. The best adsorption time for an initial BTEX concentration of 3.378 mg/L was 60 min. Critical level (EC50) and critical concentration that induced phytotoxic effect on A. cepa germination was observed only for the undiluted effluent.

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AdsorptionBenzeneBenzene DerivativesDose-Response Relationship, DrugEcotoxicologyGroundwaterOnionsOryzaSurface PropertiesTolueneWater Pollutants, ChemicalWater PurificationXylenesBenzeneBenzene DerivativesethylbenzeneTolueneWater Pollutants, ChemicalXylenesAdsorptionAllium cepaBTEXGroundwaterRice husk ash

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PMID29476372
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