This review aims to summarise recent studies on in-situ microbial remediation of heavy
metals from industrial wastewater. The major environmental issue of heavy metal (s) …

In nature, selenium is actively cycled between oxic and anoxic habitats, and this cycle plays
an important role in carbon and nitrogen mineralization through bacterial anaerobic …

Microorganisms are present in oil reservoirs around the world where they degrade oil and
lead to changes in oil quality. Unfortunately, our knowledge about processes in deep oil …

Syntrophy is a tightly coupled mutualistic interaction between hydrogen-/formate-producing
and hydrogen-/formate-using microorganisms that occurs throughout the microbial world …

A general review of the sub-seafloor biosphere is presented. This includes an update and
assessment of prokaryotic cell distributions within marine sediments, current deepest 1922 …

Highlights•Syntrophic processes are required for hydrocarbon mineralization to CH
4.•Syntrophic hydrocarbon metabolism can occur in the presence of electron acceptors.•SIP …

Background Anaerobic digestion (AD) is a globally important technology for effective waste
and wastewater management. In AD, microorganisms interact in a complex food web for the …

Petroleum is produced by thermal decay of buried organic material over millions of years.
Petroleum oilfield ecosystems represent resource of reduced carbon which favours …

Saturated hydrocarbons are quantitatively the most abundant fraction among all petroleum
hydrocarbons. Significant advances have been made in the understanding of the anaerobic …

This study examined a two-stage dynamic membrane bioreactor (DMBR) system for
biohydrogen and biomethane production from food waste (FW) in mesophilic condition. The …