Research progress in bioremediation of petroleum pollution

Y Yang, ZW Zhang, RX Liu, HY Ju, XK Bian… - … Science and Pollution …, 2021 - Springer
With the enhancement of environmental protection awareness, research on the
bioremediation of petroleum hydrocarbon environmental pollution has intensified …

Crude oil as a microbial seed bank with unexpected functional potentials

M Cai, Y Nie, CQ Chi, YQ Tang, Y Li, XB Wang… - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
It was widely believed that oil is a harsh habitat for microbes because of its high toxicity and
hydrophobicity. However, accumulating evidence has revealed the presence of live …

[HTML][HTML] Microbial communities in petroleum refinery effluents and their complex functions

HH Almutairi - Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences, 2024 - Elsevier
Petroleum refinery effluents (PRE) are a significant cause of pollution. It contains toxic
compounds such as total petroleum hydrocarbons (TPH), and polycyclic aromatic …

[HTML][HTML] Petroleum spill bioremediation by an indigenous constructed bacterial consortium in marine environments

S Liu, R Sun, M Cai, Y Kong, Y Gao, T Zhang… - Ecotoxicology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
In the process of marine oil spill remediation, adding highly efficient oil degrading
microorganisms can effectively promote oil degradation. However, in practice, the effect is …

Microbial degradation influences on heavy oil characters and MEOR test

Z Tingshan, C Xiaohei, L Guangzhi… - World Petroleum …, 2005 - onepetro.org
Degradation of oil is a most important part of the MEOR. This procedure can reduce the oil's
viscidity and freezing point and improve the oil's fluxion in-situ. This paper shows the …

Oil biodegradation and bioremediation in cold marine environment

J Truu - Microorganisms, 2023 - mdpi.com
Petroleum hydrocarbons pose a substantial threat to marine ecosystems. Their release into
the ocean due to human activities, such as drilling, manufacturing, storage, and the …

Microbial Biodegradation and Biotransformation of Petroleum Hydrocarbons: Progress, Prospects, and Challenges

K Gouthami, AMM Mallikarjunaswamy… - … Tools, and Emerging …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Petroleum hydrocarbons are known to be a major pollutant. The removal of such pollutants
from the environment is a real‐life issue. Bioremediation is a process that makes use of …

In depth metagenomic analysis in contrasting oil wells reveals syntrophic bacterial and archaeal associations for oil biodegradation in petroleum reservoirs

IN Sierra-Garcia, DRB Belgini… - Science of the total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Microbial biodegradation of hydrocarbons in petroleum reservoirs has major consequences
in the petroleum value and quality. The identification of microorganisms capable of in-situ …

Corexit 9500 enhances oil biodegradation and changes active bacterial community structure of oil-enriched microcosms

SM Techtmann, M Zhuang, P Campo… - Applied and …, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
To better understand the impacts of Corexit 9500 on the structure and activity levels of
hydrocarbon-degrading microbial communities, we analyzed next-generation 16S rRNA …

Differential degradation of petroleum hydrocarbons by Shewanella putrefaciens under aerobic and anaerobic conditions

Y Li, Y Liu, D Guo, H Dong - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2024 - frontiersin.org
The complexity of crude oil composition, combined with the fluctuating oxygen level in
contaminated environments, poses challenges for the bioremediation of oil pollutants …