T. Shangameshwaran

From brownfields to biorefineries: A field scale ecological and techno economic review of commercial phytoextraction

Heavy metal contamination of industrial brownfields poses a serious threat to ecosystem and human life. Phytoextraction is the use of hyperaccumulating plants to remove toxic metals from soil into harvestable above-ground biomass represents a promising low disturbance alternative to conventional excavation-based remedi...