Biosurfactant: A new frontier for greener technology and environmental sustainability

AA Jimoh, J Lin - Ecotoxicology and Environmental safety, 2019 - Elsevier
Petroleum hydrocarbons, oil, heavy metals pollution is becoming additional severe problem
due to the growing call for crude oil and crude oil products related products in several fields …

Critical review of the science and sustainability of persulphate advanced oxidation processes

IA Ike, KG Linden, JD Orbell, M Duke - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2018 - Elsevier
Persulphate advanced oxidation processes (PS-AOPs) constitute an important development
in the field of wastewater treatment and subsurface contamination remediation within the last …

Biosurfactants: multifunctional biomolecules of the 21st century

DKF Santos, RD Rufino, JM Luna, VA Santos… - International journal of …, 2016 - mdpi.com
In the era of global industrialisation, the exploration of natural resources has served as a
source of experimentation for science and advanced technologies, giving rise to the …

Recent advances in phyto-combined remediation of heavy metal pollution in soil

S Deng, X Zhang, Y Zhu, R Zhuo - Biotechnology Advances, 2024 - Elsevier
The global industrialization and modernization have witnessed a rapid progress made in
agricultural production, along with the issue of soil heavy metal (HM) pollution, which has …

Microbial biosurfactants production, applications and future potential

IM Banat, A Franzetti, I Gandolfi, G Bestetti… - Applied microbiology …, 2010 - Springer
Microorganisms synthesise a wide range of surface-active compounds (SAC), generally
called biosurfactants. These compounds are mainly classified according to their molecular …

Contributions of biosurfactants to natural or induced bioremediation

Ł Ławniczak, R Marecik, Ł Chrzanowski - Applied microbiology and …, 2013 - Springer
The number of studies dedicated to evaluating the influence of biosurfactants on
bioremediation efficiency is constantly growing. Although significant progress regarding the …

Some aspects of heavy metals contamination remediation and role of biosurfactants

LA Sarubbo, RB Rocha Jr, JM Luna… - Chemistry and …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Contamination by heavy metals is the result of different industrial activities. The presence of
heavy metals in soil and water causes serious problems, as these materials are not …

Biosurfactant from Candida sphaerica UCP0995 exhibiting heavy metal remediation properties

JM Luna, RD Rufino, LA Sarubbo - Process Safety and Environmental …, 2016 - Elsevier
The performance of an anionic biosurfactant from Candida sphaerica in the removal of
heavy metals from soil collected from an automotive battery industry and from aqueous …

[HTML][HTML] Basic principles for biosurfactant-assisted (bio) remediation of soils contaminated by heavy metals and petroleum hydrocarbons–A critical evaluation of the …

A Parus, T Ciesielski, M Woźniak-Karczewska… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2023 - Elsevier
Despite the fact that rhamnolipids are among the most studied biosurfactants, there are still
several gaps which must be filled. The aim of this review is to emphasize and to indicate …

Comparison of the feasibility of different washing solutions for combined soil washing and phytoremediation for the detoxification of cadmium (Cd) and zinc (Zn) in …

R Xiao, A Ali, P Wang, R Li, X Tian, Z Zhang - Chemosphere, 2019 - Elsevier
Soil heavy metal contamination is a serious environmental problem needed to be addressed
due to the toxicities of metals to both humans and living organisms. In this study, the …