Control of Gaseous Pollution via the Leaves of Non-Edible Trees

Abstract

The accelerated increase of the use of various transportation means, industrial machinery and other power consuming technologies has led to tremendous degradation of outdoor air quality all around the world. Green solution was tested here as an innovative gas control mean via non edible Myrtus communis green leaves as natural sorption media. Statistical analyses was applied in order to examine the correlation between various parameters of this study. The tests of  gas records around the tree that was targeted by  a gas stream of 5 KW power generator  have demonstrated an excellent gas control role of the green leaves, with average efficiencies of about 75% and 82% for the removal of Nitrogen Dioxide and Carbon Monoxide, respectively. An interesting finding of this research was that the sorption role of green leaves has promoted their sizes and Chlorophyll Content Index.

Keywords: Chlorophyll Index, Green gas control, Myrtus communis, Leaf size, Outdoor pollution, Sorption.