Biosurfactants are surface-active biomolecules produced by microbes (bacteria, fungi, and
yeast) and have several advantages over the chemical surfactants, such as lower toxicity …

Surfactants are surface-active compounds capable of reducing surface and interfacial
tension at the interfaces between liquids, solids and gases, thereby allowing them to mix or …

In this work, the biodegradation of the crude oil by the potential biosurfactant producing
Bacillus subtilis A1 was investigated. The isolate had the ability to synthesize degradative …

Recent advances in molecular biology have extended our understanding of the metabolic
processes related to microbial transformation of petroleum hydrocarbons. The physiological …

Three methods to detect biosurfactant production, drop collapse, oil spreading, and blood
agar lysis, were compared for their ease of use and reliability in relation to the ability of the …

Surfactants are amphiphilic compounds which can reduce surface and interfacial tensions
by accumulating at the interface of immiscible fluids and increase the solubility, mobility …

The efficiency of Bacillus subtilis DM-04 and Pseudomonas aeruginosa M and NM strains
isolated from a petroleum contaminated soil sample from North-East India was compared for …

Microorganisms produce biosurfactant (BS)/bioemulsifier (BE) with wide structural and
functional diversity which consequently results in the adoption of different techniques to …

Biotechnology has played a significant role in enhancing crude oil recovery from the
depleted oil reservoirs to solve stagnant petroleum production, after a three-stage recovery …

Biosurfactants are amphiphilic molecules that have both hydrophilic and hydrophobic
moieties which partition preferentially at the interfaces such as liquid/liquid, gas/liquid or …