Biosurfactants: Production and potential applications in microbial enhanced oil recovery (MEOR)

SJ Geetha, IM Banat, SJ Joshi - Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology, 2018 - Elsevier
Microbial enhanced oil recovery (MEOR) is a type of enhanced oil recovery (EOR)
technology, generally employed as a tertiary stage where oil recovery using primary and …

Microbial surfactants: the next generation multifunctional biomolecules for applications in the petroleum industry and its associated environmental remediation

EO Fenibo, GN Ijoma, R Selvarajan, CB Chikere - Microorganisms, 2019 - mdpi.com
Surfactants are a broad category of tensio-active biomolecules with multifunctional
properties applications in diverse industrial sectors and processes. Surfactants are …

Sophorolipids: A comprehensive review on properties and applications

S Pal, N Chatterjee, AK Das, DJ McClements… - Advances in Colloid and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Sophorolipids are surface-active glycolipids produced by several non-pathogenic yeast
species and are widely used as biosurfactants in several industrial applications …

Biosurfactants and their applications in the oil and gas industry: current state of knowledge and future perspectives

C Nikolova, T Gutierrez - Frontiers in Bioengineering and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Surfactants are a group of amphiphilic chemical compounds (ie, having both hydrophobic
and hydrophilic domains) that form an indispensable component in almost every sector of …

[HTML][HTML] Biosurfactants—a new frontier for social and environmental safety: a mini review

S Akbari, NH Abdurahman, RM Yunus, F Fayaz… - Biotechnology Research …, 2018 - Elsevier
Biosurfactants are amphiphilic compounds synthesized from plants and microorganisms.
These compounds are well known to be promising alternative molecules for industrial and …

Review of surfactant-assisted chemical enhanced oil recovery for carbonate reservoirs: challenges and future perspectives

S Pal, M Mushtaq, F Banat, AM Al Sumaiti - Petroleum Science, 2018 - Springer
A significant fraction of the conventional oil reserves globally is in carbonate formations
which contain a substantial amount of residual oil. Since primary and secondary recovery …

Microbial degradation of petroleum hydrocarbon contaminants: an overview

N Das, P Chandran - Biotechnology research international, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
One of the major environmental problems today is hydrocarbon contamination resulting from
the activities related to the petrochemical industry. Accidental releases of petroleum …

Biosurfactant producing microbes and their potential applications: a review

S Shekhar, A Sundaramanickam… - Critical Reviews in …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Biosurfactants are surface-active biomolecules produced by microbes (bacteria, fungi, and
yeast) and have several advantages over the chemical surfactants, such as lower toxicity …

Recent advances in microbial engineering approaches for wastewater treatment: a review

M Sharma, S Agarwal, R Agarwal Malik, G Kumar… - …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
In the present era of global climate change, the scarcity of potable water is increasing both
due to natural and anthropogenic causes. Water is the elixir of life, and its usage has risen …

Natural functions of lipopeptides from Bacillus and Pseudomonas: more than surfactants and antibiotics

JM Raaijmakers, I De Bruijn, O Nybroe… - FEMS microbiology …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Lipopeptides constitute a structurally diverse group of metabolites produced by various
bacterial and fungal genera. In the past decades, research on lipopeptides has been fueled …