Determining the complete molecular composition of petroleum and its refined products is not feasible with current analytical techniques because of the astronomical number of molecular components. Modeling the composition and behavior of such complex mixtures in refinery processes has accordingly evolved along a simplifying concept called lumping. Lumping reduces the complexity of the problem to...

Chad Johnson,† Brandon Long,† Joseph G. Nguyen,‡ Victor W. Day,‡ A. S. Borovik,§ Bala Subramaniam,† and Javier Guzman*,† Center for EnVironmentally Beneficial Catalysis and Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, UniVersity of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, Department of Chemistry, UniVersity of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, and Department of Chemistry, UniVersity of California, Ir...

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 ...

Depletion of fossil resources, global warming, and increasing world's population represent major Damocles' sword for humanity to ensure its future against famine, climate change, the end petroleum era. Solutions will come from production plant-based chemicals, which is not new, nor a historical artifact. On earth, 99% biomass alive composed plants microorganisms. Because this biodiversity, it c...

Department of Chemistry, University of Cal AB, T2N-1N4, Canada. E-mail: vthangad@u Department of Materials Science and Engin Singapore Department of Chemical and Petroleum E University Drive NW, Calgary, AB, T2N-1N4 Instituto de Qúımica F́ısica “Rocasolano Cienticas, Serrano 119, 28006 Madrid, Sp School of Chemistry, The University of Birm † Electronic supplementary informa 10.1039/c6ta10285a C...