Main description:

The book discusses ways to overcome the side effects of using hydrocarbon-based products as energy sources. Hydrocarbons produce raw crude oil waste of around 600,000 metric tons per annum, with a range of uncertainty of 200,000 metric tons per year. The various chapters in this book focus on approaches to reduce these wastes through the application of potential microbes, in a process called bioremediation. The book is a one-stop reference resource on the methods, mechanisms and application of the bio-composites, in the laboratory and field. Focusing on resolving a very pressing environmental issue, it not only provides details of existing challenges, but also offers deeper insights into the possibility of solving problems using hydrocarbon bioremediation.

Contents:

I. Bioremediation- a step ahead

1. 1. Mechanism of hydrocarbon bioremediation

2. 2. Bioremediation of lubricant oil contaminated soils using enhanced land farming system

3. 3. Metagenomic analysis of the bioremediation of diesel contaminated soils

4. 4. Study on the bioremediation of diesel oil contaminated soil from a gas station

5. 5. Plant-microbe association for bioremediation of hydrocarbon substrates

6. 6. Bioremediation of oil contaminated soil with composting

7. 7. Bioremediation of oil contaminated soil: Effect of non-ionic surfactants and selected bacterial strains

8. 8. Small scale in-situ bioremediation of diesel contaminated soil

9. 9. Bioremediation of petroleum hydrocarbons in contaminated soil with the earthworm

10. 10. Ex situ bioremediation of a tropical soil contaminated with petroleum products

11. 11. Bioremediation of hexadecane enhanced by photosynthetically produced marine biosurfactants

II. Microbes in bioremediation

12. 12. Microbial bioremediation of petroleum hydrocarbon: An overview

13. 13. Role of filamentous fungi to remove petroleum hydrocarbons from environment

14. 14. Petroleum microbiology under extreme environments

15. 15. Microbes and petroleum bioremediation

16. 16. Bioremediation of hydrocarbon contaminated soil by microbes immobilized in polyvinyl alcohol

17. 17. Bioremediation of diesel fuel contaminated soil by novel microbes

18. 18. Bioremediation of diesel-contaminated soils by natural occurring microbes

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III. Degradation assessment

20. 19. Hydrocarbon degradation assessment: Biotechnical approaches involved