The present study has used soil samples from Nigeria, contaminated with Brass crude-oil, to determine its biodegradation through enhanced biostimulation with cow dung and periodic aeration. Over a period of twenty-eight days, the hydrocarbon-utilizing bacteria (HUB) and hydrocarbon-utilizing fungi (HUF) have been counted and identified. Results from biodegradation of the brass crude-oil over th...

Use of chemical criteria in assessing the potential for adverse toxic effects in contaminated sites can under or overestimate the necessary level of site cleanup required. The use of ecotoxicity testing provides a more direct assessment of adverse environmental impact. A multi-trophic level soil ecotoxicity assessment was done on soil contaminated with crude oil distilled into five different fr...

Due to the high volume of crude oil released by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the salt marshes along the gulf coast were contaminated with crude oil. Biodegradation of crude oil in salt marshes is primarily limited by oxygen availability due to the high organic carbon content of the soil, high flux rate of S(2-), and saturated conditions. Chlorate, nitrate, and perchlorate were evaluated for...

soil pollution has become one of the main concerns which because of containing chemical and hazardous materials, alerts the whole environment, and finding solutions to overcome this problem would be very important. many ways have been discovered and examined for soil treatment and one of the most applicable methods is soil washing. in this research, the effect of saponin biosurfactant in crude-...

Oil pollution is a worldwide threat to the environment and the remediation of oil-contaminated soils, sediments and water is a major challenge for environmental research. Bioremediation is a useful method for soil remediation, if pollutant concentrations are moderate and non-biological techniques are not economical. The bioremediation consists strategy of actively aerating the soils and adding ...

Environmental pollution is becoming an issue of concern due to its negative impact on the living and non-living components environment. Crude oil products are major sources environmental that renders soil mineral microorganism. This study was thus carried out determine effect crude physicochemical properties, bacterial fungal population. The experiment lasted for 42 days analysis were at 0, 14,...