Crude oil contamination in soils, freshwater, seawater and sediments may occur during petroleum extraction, transport and processing. Ecosystems are negatively impacted by hydrocarbon pollution. Bioremediation represents an environmentally…
This work aims to investigate the enhancement of the efficiency of phytoremediation (phytoR) by electrokinetic remediation (ER) by using graphite electrodes to depollute soil contaminated with petroleum. It was focused on the effects of electric…
Oil pollution does great harm to ecological environment and human health. The oil contamination in the soil mainly comes from the leakage in the process of exploitation, refining, transportation and the storage of oil. Now, global situation of soil…
The petrochemical industry has received considerable attention from many sectors in our society. Petroleum spill has been frequently reported due to the lack of appropriate protocols during exploration, refining, transportation, and storage. An…
Petroleum contamination of environmental matrices is a pervasive, global problem. Crude oil exploration, processing, handling and transport release significant amounts of petroleum hydrocarbons into the environment. Many petroleum compounds are known…
Petroleum hydrocarbons (PHC) enter the environment due to exploration, transportation, usage and spills. PHC contamination is of major concern worldwide due to the damage they cause to the environment. Clean up of hydrocarbon-contaminated sites is…
Nowadays, petroleum hydrocarbon pollutants keep on being a genuine natural worry because of the managed development of petroleum oil extraction, related generation which ends up noticeably with ecological issue. The expanding in industrial…
Leakage accidents occur frequently during the process of oil exploitation, storage and transportation. Effective management of the soil contaminated by it has become the focus of social attention. This paper introduces the oil pollution problem and…
Oil spills in the subarctic marine environment off the coast of Labrador, Canada, are increasingly likely due to potential oil production and increases in ship traffic in the region. To understand the microbiome response and how nutrient…
Sustainable treatment of petroleum oil sludge still remains as a major challenge to petroleum refineries. Bioremediation is the promising technology involving bacteria for simultaneous production of biosurfactant and followed by degradation of…
Freshwater systems are vulnerable to contamination by oil extraction and transportation. Thus, it is critical to understand how large freshwater ecosystems such as the Great Lakes will respond to released oil. In this study, we investigated…
Bengkalis waters is relatively busy traffic area due to regional and international marine transportation which is very vulnerable to oil pollution. Cleaning of oil spill could be attempted by the use microorganisms (bioremediation). Bioremediation is…
Due to the extended oil extraction and transportation in Russia and other oil-producing countries, many lands remain contaminated because of accidental spills. This situation requires the cost-effective and efficient remediation of…
Low energy-input alternatives based on locally available products are needed for treating petroleum-hydrocarbon spills in northern regions. We tested the efficacy of three local biological components (municipal compost, white-rot fungus: Pleurotus…
Fungal bioremediation is a promising technique for the cleanup of sites contaminated with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). However, due to limited understanding of the composition and dynamics of the native PAH-degrading microorganisms in…
The purpose of this study was to investigate the potential of defined co-culture of indigenous bacterial consortium and exogenous fungus Scedosporium boydii for biodegradation of crude oil. After 7 days of incubation, residual oil, n-alkanes and…
Microbial community shifts of a freshwater wetland with crude oil pressure were investigated fully as a function of cultivation time, using the enrichment procedure and high-throughput sequencing. Bacterial structures and biodegradation capabilities…
This research documents the effects of Tween 80 as a nonionic surfactant and sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) as an anionic surfactant on the bioremediation of oily sludge. An oily sludge batch with TPH (total petroleum hydrocarbon) content of 6.8% was…
Crude oil-degrading microbial consortia were enriched from three oil-contaminated sites to achieve the efficient biodegradation of crude oil, especially its refractory residues. The gravimetric method was used to analyze the degradation efficiency of…
BACKGROUND One of the major parts of global environmental pollution is petroleum-derived products. The purpose of this study was the biodegradation of total petroleum hydrocarbons (TPH) in oily sludge using biostimulation and bioaugmentation methods.…
Due to the negative environmental impacts of fossil fuels and the increasing global energy demands, biofuels are receiving increasing attention as the best short-term substitute for petroleum. Recently, thermochemical conversion of seaweeds is in…
A bacterial consortium, constructed from the oil contaminated soil, mainly consisting of Pseudomonas sp., together with fertilizing, rice husk application, and plowing, was used for the field in situ bioremediation of oil contaminated site in…
Soils contaminated with crude oil are rich sources of enzymes suitable for both degradation of hydrocarbons through bioremediation processes and improvement of crude oil during its refining steps. Due to the long term selection, crude oil fields are…
An electrokinetics (EK)-enhanced phytoremediation system with ryegrass was constructed to remediate crude oil-polluted soil. The four treatments employed in this study included (1)without EK or ryegrass (CK-NR), (2)EK only (EK-NR), (3)ryegrass only…
Oil spills in the subarctic marine environment off the coast of Labrador, Canada, are increasingly likely due to potential oil production and increases in ship traffic in the region. To understand the microbiome response and how nutrient…
Crude oil contamination greatly influence soil bacterial community. Proliferative microbes in the crude oil-contaminated soil are closely related to the living conditions. Oil wells in the Yellow River Delta Natural Reserve (YRDNR) region is an ideal…
In the present study, the biosurfactant production dynamics of Pseudomonas sp. IITISM 19, an indigenous bacterium was investigated and, the strain was evaluated for its crude oil biodegradation potential. The biosurfactant produced during…
Biogeochemical gradient forms in vadose zone, yet little is known about the assembly processes of microbial communities in this zone under petroleum disturbance. This study collected vadose zone soils at three sites with 0, 5, and 30 years of…
Bioremediation is a low-cost approach for crude oil spill remediation, but it is often limited by electron acceptor availability. In addition, the biodegradation products of crude oil contaminants are complex, and transformation pathways are…
Aqueous film forming foams (AFFFs) containing perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) are commonly deployed to extinguish hydrocarbon fuel fires, resulting in petroleum hydrocarbons coexisting with PFASs in contaminated soil.…
Singapore is a highly industrialised country with an important oil industry resulting in a significant environmental impact, creating vast amounts of hydrocarbon waste that needs to be remediated. Here we report on the commercial scale bioremediation…
This study examined the effect of voltage variation, the distance between electrodes and the application of a biosurfactant on the bio-electrokinetic remediation of soil contaminated with petrochemicals. The study was meant to correlate the…
As typical pollutants, petroleum hydrocarbons that are widely present in various environmental media such as soil, water, sediments, and air, seriously endanger living organisms and human health. In the meantime, as a green environmental technology…
In recent years, there have been advances in bioremediation of pollutants with the goal of effective clean-up of environments in an eco-friendly and cost-effective approach. For contamination removal at cold climate sites, bioremediation approaches…
Mycoremediation, an aspect of bioremediation, has been investigated for some decades. However, there seems to be little progress on its commercial application to petroleum-contaminated soils despite some promising outcomes. In this review,…
In order to reduce the cost of phytoremediators selection in phytoremediation on petroleum-contaminated soils, long-term experiments and in-situ trials included, an evaluation system for plant selection in phytroremediaiton was conducted in…
This study investigated changes in soil ion content and soil water-holding capacity during electro-bioremediation (EK-Bio) of petroleum contaminated saline soil (ion content of 3.92 g/kg). The results indicated that the soil ions surrounded the…
The removal of total petroleum hydrocarbons (TPHs) from contaminated mining soil was carried out under in vitro conditions. The aerobic consumption of TPH in the slow bioremediation stage via biostimulation with native microorganisms and…
Bioremediation is among the most basic and reliable way to eliminate pollutants by transforming the toxic petroleum components into less toxic metabolites. In order to compare the change of bacterial community during oil-biodegradation process, two…
Increasing soil petroleum hydrocarbons (PHs) pollution have caused world-wide concerns. The removal of PHs from soils mainly involves physical, chemical, biological processes and their combinations. To date, most reviews in this field based on…
Petroleum degrading enzymes can be used as an alternative way to improve petroleum bioremediation approaches. Alcanivorax borkumensis is an alkane-degrading bacteria that can produce petroleum degrading enzymes such as alkane hydroxylase and lipase.…
ABSTRACT Soil degradation through salinization and pollution by toxic compounds such as petroleum hydrocarbons (PHCs) in the coastal wetlands has become a significant threat to ecosystem health, biodiversity, and food security. However, traditional…
During the last few decades, environmental issues from the contamination of water are the major concerns for society and various industries. And it is necessary to regain the chemically and biologically safe condition of wastewater. So, for the…
Increasing soil petroleum hydrocarbons (PHs) pollution have caused world-wide concerns. The removal of PHs from soils mainly involves physical, chemical, biological processes and their combinations. To date, most reviews in this field based on…
ABSTRACT Soil degradation through salinization and pollution by toxic compounds such as petroleum hydrocarbons (PHCs) in the coastal wetlands has become a significant threat to ecosystem health, biodiversity, and food security. However, traditional…
The influence of the concentration of total petroleum hydrocarbons (TPHs) on competition between isolated oil-degrading bacteria (ODB) and finished compost microorganisms (FCM) was investigated in composting bioreactors over 12 weeks period. First,…
A sequential process of electrokinetic soil flushing (EKSF) and landfarming treatment was demonstrated to remove hydrocarbons from clay soil. Surfactant concentration was the independent variable with a concentration of 2×, 4×, 6×, and 8× of critical…
Petroleum degrading enzymes can be used as an alternative way to improve petroleum bioremediation approaches. Alcanivorax borkumensis is an alkane-degrading bacteria that can produce petroleum degrading enzymes such as alkane hydroxylase and lipase.…
Crude oil contamination greatly influence soil bacterial community. Proliferative microbes in the crude oil-contaminated soil are closely related to the living conditions. Oil wells in the Yellow River Delta Natural Reserve (YRDNR) region is an ideal…