Biosurfactants in industry

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Biosurfactants in industry

Biosurfactants (Microbial Surface Active Agents) have become recently an important product of biotechnology for industrial and medical applications. Thereason for their popularity, as high value microbial products, is primarily in their specific action, low toxicity, relative ease of preparation and widespread applicaility. They can be used as emulsifiers, de-emulsifiers, wetting agents, spread...

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Possibilities and challenges for biosurfactants use in petroleum industry.

Biosurfactants are a group of microbial molecules identified by their unique capabilities to interact with hydrocarbons. Emulsification and de-emulsification, dispersion, foaming, wetting and coating are some of the numerous surface activities that biosurfactants can achieve when applied within systems such as immiscible liquid/liquid (e.g., oil/water), solid/ liquid (e.g., rock/oil and rock/wa...

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Applications of Biosurfactants in the Petroleum Industry and the Remediation of Oil Spills

Petroleum hydrocarbons are important energy resources. However, petroleum is also a major pollutant of the environment. Contamination by oil and oil products has caused serious harm, and increasing attention has been paid to the development and implementation of innovative technologies for the removal of these contaminants. Biosurfactants have been extensively used in the remediation of water a...

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Biosurfactants: potential applications in medicine.

The use and potential commercial application of biosurfactants in the medical field has increased during the past decade. Their antibacterial, antifungal and antiviral activities make them relevant molecules for applications in combating many diseases and as therapeutic agents. In addition, their role as anti-adhesive agents against several pathogens indicates their utility as suitable anti-adh...

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Biosurfactants and bioemulsifiers

Global biosurfactants market http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/11/ prweb10158903.htm While the full report is available only for a fee, this page hints at the importance of biosurfactants commercially. Biosurfactant-producing bacteria http://www.ideaconnection.com/crowdfunding/ isolation-and-characterization-of-biosurfactant-produ -00041.html This page on the IdeaConnection website proposes re...

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عنوان ژورنال: Pure and Applied Chemistry

سال: 1992

ISSN: 1365-3075,0033-4545

DOI: 10.1351/pac199264111731