The present work aims to investigate the effects of the addition of waste cooking oil (WCO) on heavy crude oil biodegradation and microbial enhanced oil recovery (MEOR) using Pseudomonas sp. SWP-4. Growth kinetics show Pseudomonas sp. SWP-4 had a maximum dry cell weight of 1.73 g/L and cell-surface hydrophobicity of 62.4% against n-hexadecane when degraded the crude oil with the addition of WCO...

Techniques for the enumeration and the determination of the potential activity of disturbed sediment mixed populations at control sites and sites within the Athabasca oil sands formation were applied to August and December samples. These techniques included the determination of general heterotrophic potential for the assimilation and respiration of glutamate, which indicated no oil sand-related...

Solubilization of n-decane, dodecane, tetradecane and hexadecane by monorhamnolipid biosurfactant (monoRL) at concentrations near the critical micelle concentration (CMC) was investigated. The apparent solubility of all the four alkanes increases linearly with increasing monoRL concentration either below or above CMC. The capacity of solubilization presented by the molar solubilization ratio (M...

Bovine serum albumin (BSA) was employed as a model protein emulsifier to conjugate with aldohexose (D-glucose (Glc) or D-allose (All)) and sugar fatty acid ester (6-O-octanoyl-D-glucose (GlcC8)) through the Maillard reaction. It was found during the reaction that rate of decrease of free amino groups in BSA was almost the same for the BSA-sugar mixtures whereas browning and protein aggregation ...

We report an experimental and simulation study of binary mixtures of oand m-nitrotoluene with decane and hexadecane. Mixtures of o-nitrotoluene with alkanes form a classical critical mixtures, but m-nitrotoluene / n – alkane mixtures show an apparent critical point, which lies in a metastable, experimentally inaccessible state, below the melting point, affecting physical and chemical properties...

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BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to evaluate the ability of 15 serotypes of Salmonella to form biofilm on polystyrene, polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and glass surfaces. . METHODS Initially slime production was assessed on CRA agar and hydrophobicity of 20 Salmonella strains isolated from poultry and human and two Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium references strains was achieved by microb...

The Mn and Fe complexes of the cross-bridged tetraazamacrocyclic ligands, 4,11-dibenzyl-1,4,8,11-tetraazabicyclo[6.6.2]hexadecane (1), 4,10-dibenzyl-1,4,7,10-tetraazabicyclo[5.5.2]tetradecane (2), 1,4,8,11-tetraazabicyclo[6.6.2]hexadecane (3), and 1,4,7,10-tetraazabicyclo[5.5.2]tetradecane (4) provide new compounds of these elements for fundamental studies and applications. These unsubstituted ...