Heavy Metal Emission from Thermal Power Plant: Effect on Environment

In the modern developing world, electricity is the indispensable factor across the globe for speeding up the industrialization and urbanization. Strains exerted by Thermal Power Plants (TPPs) on environment have certainly become a pivotal point of research worldwide. Vegetative environment around TPPs is continuously exposed to perpetual emissions. Any stress caused to plant life may in turn cause serious consequences to complete ecosystem. Unlike previous related publications, this book describes the pollution potential of thermal power plants with specific reference to air borne heavy metals and their effect on different deciduous plant species and soil in the vicinity. It explicates the plant-pollutant interaction in a manner that defines not only the drastic effects of pollutants on plants but concomitantly highlights the effects of heavy metals on soil. Ionic impulsions of different toxic heavy metals of the plants and soil were used to categorize the tolerance level of different plant species under study. The book shall interest both students and researchers of environmental sciences and related disciplines as well as persons/organisations engaged in environmental management.