scholarly journals Plants Bravely Fighting Metals

No Limits ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 18-21
Author(s):  
Maria Sztuka ◽  
Monika Jędrzejczyk-Korycińska
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Soil Water ◽  
Plant Species ◽  
Mine Waste ◽  
Waste Dumps ◽  
Harmful Substances ◽  
Post Production ◽  
Housing Estates ◽  
Industrial Center

Silesia, i.e. the region of Poland which roughly dozen years ago was the most powerful industrial center in the country, is still struggling with residues of heavy metals, which are still present in the soil, water, mine waste dumps, and in the air – despite the fact that the number of polluting plants has been reduced and the use of appropriate filters, measures that have admittedly limited the emission of harmful substances into the environment, has been made obligatory. Metals will not disappear on their own; they are assimilated by plants, which animals feed on, and thus the “uninvited guests” are passed on. Humans are not spared by metals as well. The bare post-mining and post-production landfills around which housing estates are erected “endow” their residents with toxic dust. It turns out, however, that there are plant species which attach themselves to polluted areas and only exist where the concentration of heavy metals is high.

scholarly journals Assessment of Rosa Majalis Herrm-Fruits Contamination with Heavy Metals in Open-Pit Coal Mine Waste Dumps

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Irina Nikolaevna Egorova ◽  
Olga Alexandrovna Neverova ◽  
Lyubov Sergeevna Dyshlyuk
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Coal Mine ◽  
Mine Waste ◽  
Open Pit ◽  
Coal Mine Waste ◽  
Waste Dumps

scholarly journals Post-mining tourism in Upper Silesia and Czech-Moravian country

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marzena Lamparska
Keyword(s):  
Mine Waste ◽  
Coal Mines ◽  
Industrial Heritage ◽  
Industrial Plants ◽  
Material Resources ◽  
Waste Dumps ◽  
Traditional Industry ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Housing Estates

Europe experiences the development of post-industrial tourism documenting the time of growth of traditional coal basins. Contemporarily, the processes of deindustrialization take place. The material resources of traditional industry are being liquidated – which is expensive, or are adapted for the needs of tourism, which gives a new chance of development for these regions which are by rule in a difficult economic situation. Polish coal basin where many industrial plants and coal mines were closed as a result of restructurizing may serve as an example. Similar processes, although in smaller a scope, occur in the Czech Republic. Some of the industrial objects and coal mines concentrate certain values that predestine them to be included in the group of post-industrial heritage: the Czech and Polish coal mines from the 19th century, or coking plants and steel plants – as Hlubina in Ostrava Vitkovce. The idea of this article is to connect some Czech and Polish objects with one tourist route. The proposed tourist area starts in Czerwionka-Leszczyny and runs to Ostrava, and includes former industrial objects, old mines equipped with steam engines, patronage housing estates, coking plants, as well as mine waste dumps subjected to natural succession of vegetation. Creation of such route will allow to popularize the landmarks of post-industrial heritage for tourists of both countries, as well as will contribute to the development of services based on tourism. The route could become a common training ground for students of polytechnic departments of mining and environment protection, as it illustrates both the former mining technological processes and the processes of renaturalization of dumping grounds. The visiting sites were selected on the basis of unified criteria such as their age, suitability for tourism and education, as well as because of their originality, authenticity and uniqueness. The proposed tourist route will also connect the Polish Industrial Monuments Route with the monuments and mining museums in Ostrava.

Analysis of Heavy Metals Content in the Soil and in the Macromycetes Species Growing on Mine Waste Dumps

2008 ◽  
Vol 59 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Catalin Tanase ◽  
Aurel Pui ◽  
Romeo Olariu ◽  
Danut-Gabriel Cozma
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Metal Content ◽  
Statistical Study ◽  
Mine Waste ◽  
Atomic Spectrometry ◽  
Mining Activities ◽  
Microsoft Excel ◽  
Waste Dumps ◽  
Metal Contents ◽  
Ecological Reconstruction

This study aims at an ecological reconstruction, by means of macromycetes species, of the soils degraded by mining activities. To this end, samples of both soils and macromycetes from altitude mining waste dumps- resulted from the exploitation of iron and sulphur ores - have been collected and analyzed. The metal contents were determined by atomic spectrometry and the results were performed with Microsoft Excel, Origin and SPSS programs. The statistical study of the distribution of the metal content data among soil, substrate and macromycetes indicates an adequate correlation.

scholarly journals CНИЖЕНИЕ ТЕХНОГЕННОГО ПРЕСИНГА ПОЛИЭЛЕМЕНТНЫХ АНОМАЛИЙ ДЕВАСТИРОВАННЫХ ЛАНДШАФТОВ ПУТЕМ ФИТОМЕЛИОРАТИВНОГО ВОССТАНОВЛЕНИЯ

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (01) ◽  
pp. 94-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
V.V. Popovich
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Background Radiation ◽  
Mine Waste ◽  
Coal Mines ◽  
High Capacity ◽  
Chemical Properties ◽  
Ecological Condition ◽  
Individual Plant ◽  
Transition Elements ◽  
Waste Dumps

<p>Formation of soil anomalies in the operation area and the mine waste dumps results in an accumulation of heavy metals in plants, particularly if the physic-chemical properties of soil to facilitate the transition elements available to form them. We have proved that the individual organs of plants have a high capacity for accumulation of heavy metals, which allows us to recommend them for landscaping of dumps and heaps like plants, is actively contributing to the stabilization of technologically impaired environment under conditions of significant contamination.</p><p>It should be noted that an embodiment of the ecological stabilization of anthropogenic disturbed territory, on which the landfills and waste dumps of coal mines, is the introduction of individual plant micro associations that will be investigated in more detail in our further work on the technologically impaired phytomelioration territory.</p><p>Despite the fact that the overgrowth of dumps and heaps helps to improve the environmental situation, the number of pollutants, including heavy metals, hydrosphere and lithosphere remains high. This is due to the fact that the soil is able to deposit the contaminants and can be long-term source of secondary pollution.</p><p>We proved that that dumps and heaps of coal mines led to an increase of industrial hazard in the region based on the research of background radiation, heavy metals contamination in edaphotopes and vegetation. We also studied the species diversity, the stage of overgrowing, distribution of individuals in the vegetation communities in devastated landscapes. Analysis of our research results testified the necessity of protective trees shield within devastated landscapes to improve the ecological condition of industrial congested region and increasing the productivity of disturbed lands.</p>

Air Quality Improvement by Reduction of Gas Turbines Emissions

2013 ◽  
Vol 308 ◽  
pp. 159-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jozef Žarnovský ◽  
Viera Petková ◽  
Róbert Drlička ◽  
Jozef Dobránsky
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Natural Gas ◽  
Gas Turbines ◽  
Electric Energy ◽  
Recent Time ◽  
Transit System ◽  
Effective Power ◽  
Air Quality Improvement ◽  
Harmful Substances ◽  
Transit Performance

The most serious sources of the air pollution are the studied company compressor stations of the transit system equipped with the number of gas turbine. [1] Pipeline parts have smaller degree of importance and gas boiler and emergency resources of thermal and electric energy have minimum influence. These sources emit into atmosphere mainly nitrogen oxide, carbon monoxide, paraffine with the exception of the methane and unburned rest of the fuel. In comparison with these emissions are emissions of sulfur dioxide and the solid contaminations substances minimal, insignificant. Along with reduction of transit performance deploys the company in recent time significantly more energy effective power units for transit of natural gas. These drive units are mainly gas turbines burning part of transported natural gas. [2] Russian natural gas is used as a fuel which in comparison with the others kinds of fuels contains only little amount of sulfur and contain almost no As, Na and heavy metals. The main parts of combustions are CO2, CO, NOx which are products of burning and N2, O2, untouched atmosphere elements. CO and NOx are considered to be harmful substances.

scholarly journals Ecological Features of Spontaneous Vascular Flora of Serpentine Post-Mining Sites in Lower Silesia

2014 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 33-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorota Kasowska ◽  
Anna Koszelnik-Leszek
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Seed Dispersal ◽  
Vascular Plants ◽  
Mining Waste ◽  
Soil Reaction ◽  
Ecological Features ◽  
Waste Dumps ◽  
Trophic Preferences ◽  
Study Sites ◽  
Lower Silesia

Abstract The aim of this study was to determine the ecological characteristics of vascular plants colonizing serpentine mining waste dumps and quarries in Lower Silesia. The investigated flora was analyzed with regard to species composition, geographical-historical status, life forms, as well as selected ecological factors, such as light and trophic preferences, soil moisture and reaction, value of resistance to increased heavy metals content in the soil, seed dispersal modes and occurrence of mycorrhiza. There were 113 species of vascular plants, belonging to 28 families, found on seven sites in the study. The most numerous families were Asteraceae, Poaceae, Fabaceae and Caryophyllaceae. Only 13% of all plants recorded occurred on at least five of the study sites. The most numerous were species related to dry grassland communities, particularly of the Festuco-Brometea class, which included taxa endangered in the region of Lower Silesia: Avenula pratensis, Salvia pratensis, Festuca valesiaca. Apophytes dominated in the flora of the investigated communities. Hemicryptophytes were the most numerous group and therophytes were also abundant. The serpentine mining waste dumps and querries hosted heliophilous species which prefer mesic or dry habitats moderately poor in nutrients, featuring neutral soil reaction. On two study sites 30% of the flora composition consisted of species that tolerate an increased content of heavy metals in the soil. Anemochoric species were the most numerous with regard to types of seed dispersal. Species with an arbuscular type of mycorrhiza were definitely dominant in the flora of all the study sites, however, the number of nonmycorrhizal species was also relatively high. It was suggested that both the specific characteristics of the habitats from serpentine mining and the vegetation of adjacent areas had a major impact on the flora composition of the communities in the investigated sites.

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