Exhaust gases from an internal combustion engine, alternatively powered by gasoline or by liquefied petroleum gas, were analysed for polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons. The engine operated a lift truck for the handling of warehouse goods. A combined condensation-filtration apparatus was constructed for sampling of the exhausts. The basic steps of the analytical procedure are summarized here. Sev...

ABSTRACT Marine oil spill incidents create concerns about human health risks, particularly in nearshore locations such as beaches used for recreation. To improve the timeliness of risk estimates during an spill, we need to expand modelling capacity chemicals (OSCs) from predictions chemical bulk measurements Total Petroleum Hydrocarbons (TPH) individual concentrations more toxic Polycyclic Arom...

Despite large-scale development on the North Slope, no recent studies examining Alaskan arctic marine sediment microbial communities and their ability to metabolize petroleum compounds have been published. Microbial degradation of spilled petroleum hydrocarbons is a major mechanism of removal of these compounds from the environment. In this study we initiated a survey of marine sediment microbi...

Rhizoremediation is increasingly becoming a green and sustainable alternative to physico-chemical methods for remediation of contaminated environments through the utilization symbiotic relationship between plants their associated soil microorganisms in root zone. The overall efficiency can be enhanced by identifying suitable plant-microbe combinations specific contaminants supporting process wi...

INTRODUCTION 180 CHEMISTRY OF PETROLEUM BIODEGRADATION . 180 Degradation of Individual Hydrocarbons ...... 180 Degradation of Hydrocarbons Within Petroleum Mixtures ..... 182 TAXONOMIC RELATIONSHIPS OF HYDROCARBON-UTILIZING MICROORGANISMS .............................. ... .. 184 DISTRIBUTION OF HYDROCARBON-UTILIZING MICROORGANISMS ...... 186 ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS INFLUENCING BIODEGRADATION OF ...

This work reports on the immobilization and performance of a hydrocarbon-degrading microorganism on polyurethane foam (PUF) in the bioremediation of petroleum hydrocarbons. The ability of four different microorganisms to immobilize on PUF and to degrade various petroleum products (Arabian light crude (ALC), Al-Shaheen crude (ASC), diesel and oil slops) was assessed by measuring the n-alkane fra...

Petroleum hydrocarbons are important energy resources used by industry and in our daily life, whose production contributes highly to environmental pollution. To control such risk, bioremediation constitutes an environmentally friendly alternative technology that has been established and applied. It constitutes the primary mechanism for the elimination of hydrocarbons from contaminated sites by ...

 The effectiveness of hydrocarbon bioremediation strategies approaches is depending on various issues such as type and volume of pollution, nutrient accessibility in the target ecosystem, time, biodiversity of microorganisms, pollutant bioavailability and many others. In the present research, laboratory studies were carried out on the bioremediation of coastal sediment samples ...