Vacuum distillation residue upgrading by an indigenous Bacillus cereus.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Biological processing of heavy fractions of crude oils offers less severe process conditions and higher selectivity for refining. Biochemical Processes are expected to be low demand energy processes and certainly ecofriendly.

Results

A strain of biosurfactant producing bacterium was isolated from an oil contaminated soil at Tehran refinery distillation unit. Based on selected phenotypic and genotypic characteristic including morphology, biochemical proprety, and 16 SrRNA sequencing identified as a novel strain of Bacillus cereus (JQ178332). This bacterium endures a wide range of pH, salinity and temperature. This specific strain utilizes both paraffin and anthracene as samples of aliphatic and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. The ability of this bacterium to acqu

SUBMITTER: Tabatabaee MS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3776292 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature