Journal of People, Plants, and Environment (인간식물환경학회지)

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Efficiency of Removal of Indoor Pollutants by Pistia stratiotes, Eichhornia crassipes and Hydrocotyle umbellata

  • Park, Hye-Min (Environmental Horticulture, Dankook University) ;
  • Lee, Ae-Kyung (Department of Environmental Horticulture, Dankook University)
  • Received : 2019.11.06
  • Accepted : 2020.01.10
  • Published : 2020.02.28
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Abstract

In this study, we compared efficiency of different aquatic plants in removing indoor pollutants and examined their potential to purify indoor air. Two liter of water in chamber was used as the control, while the other chambers containing water lettuce (Pistia stratiotes), water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes), and water coin (Hydrocotyle umbellata) were used as treatment groups. Temperatures inside all the chambers were maintained between 20 ℃ and 23 ℃. Humidity in the chambers with aquatic plants increased by 30% and 50% control respectively. The removal of formaldehyde per unit leaf area was examined in each aquatic plant. It turned out that water hyacinth removed the highest amount of formaldehyde, followed by water lettuce and water coin. Both water hyacinth and water lettuce increased the amount of removal of formaldehyde until the end of the experiment. In the case of airborne dust (PM 10) and fine dust (PM 2.5), water coin, which had the highest number of leaves, removed more PM 10 and PM 2.5 than the other aquatic plants, with statistically significant difference. In addition, both water coin and water hyacinth smoothly opened and closed stomata before and after the experiment. Consequently, as the aquatic plants were effective in controlling humidity and removing pollutants, they can be used as air purifying plants.

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