With the present climate change and increasing world population, there is an urgent need to
discover creative, efficient, and cost-effective natural products for the benefit of humanity …

Petroleum hydrocarbon pollutants are recalcitrant compounds and are classified as priority
pollutants. Cleaning up of these pollutants from environment is a real world problem …

The difficulties associated with transportation and refining of crude oil emulsions and
produced water discharge limitations are among the conspicuous clues that have led the …

Surfactants are one of the most versatile group of chemicals used in various industrial
processes. Their market is competitive, and manufacturers will have to expand surfactant …

Microbial enhanced oil recovery (MEOR) is a type of enhanced oil recovery (EOR)
technology, generally employed as a tertiary stage where oil recovery using primary and …

Surfactants are a group of amphiphilic chemical compounds (ie, having both hydrophobic
and hydrophilic domains) that form an indispensable component in almost every sector of …

Biosurfactants are amphiphilic compounds synthesized from plants and microorganisms.
These compounds are well known to be promising alternative molecules for industrial and …

Natural surfactants or biosurfactants are amphiphilic biological compounds, usually
extracellular, produced by a variety of microorganisms from various substances including …

In recent years, heavy metals pollution is found to be a serious environmental issue and
various technologies are being discovered for their cleanup from environment. The use of …

A significant fraction of the conventional oil reserves globally is in carbonate formations
which contain a substantial amount of residual oil. Since primary and secondary recovery …