Bioremediation uses microbial metabolism in the presence of optimum environmental
conditions and sufficient nutrients to breakdown contaminants notably petroleum …

Over the past two decades, various eco-friendly approaches utilizing microbial species to
clean up contaminated environments have surfaced. In this aspect, actinobacteria have …

This study aimed to carry out the bioaugmentation of crude oil/motor oil contaminated soil.
The mixture of novel strains Pseudomonas aeruginosa PP3 and Pseudomonas aeruginosa …

Petroleum hydrocarbons contamination of soil, sediments and marine environment
associated with the inadvertent discharges of petroleum–derived chemical wastes and …

As the world is heading towards rapid urbanization and technological advancements, more
undesirable and unwanted activities by human is raising major environmental issues like …

The collection of essays in Microbes in Agriculture and Environmental Development
explores the applications of microbes for the improvement of environmental quality and …

Aerobic fixed bed bioreactors were used to study and compare biostimulation and
bioaugmentation for remediation of soil contaminated with spent motor oil. Bioaugmentation …

A potent phenanthrene and pyrene degrading bacterial strain P2 was isolated from soil
sample collected from the Chirimiri coal mines in central India. As determined through …

Indigenous micro-organisms often possess the ability to degrade petroleum hydrocarbon
(PHC) in polluted soil. However, this process can be improved by supplementing with …

Used motor oil is the brown-to-black oily liquid removed from a motor vehicle, when the oil is
changed. Used motor oil is similar to unused oil, except that it contains additional chemicals …