Biosurfactant: A new frontier for greener technology and environmental sustainability

AA Jimoh, J Lin - Ecotoxicology and Environmental safety, 2019 - Elsevier
Petroleum hydrocarbons, oil, heavy metals pollution is becoming additional severe problem
due to the growing call for crude oil and crude oil products related products in several fields …

Critical review on biosurfactant analysis, purification and characterization using rhamnolipid as a model biosurfactant

SJ Varjani, VN Upasani - Bioresource technology, 2017 - Elsevier
Surfactants are one of the most versatile group of chemicals used in various industrial
processes. Their market is competitive, and manufacturers will have to expand surfactant …

A review on natural surfactants

S De, S Malik, A Ghosh, R Saha, B Saha - RSC advances, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Natural surfactants or biosurfactants are amphiphilic biological compounds, usually
extracellular, produced by a variety of microorganisms from various substances including …

Microbial biosurfactants production, applications and future potential

IM Banat, A Franzetti, I Gandolfi, G Bestetti… - Applied microbiology …, 2010 - Springer
Microorganisms synthesise a wide range of surface-active compounds (SAC), generally
called biosurfactants. These compounds are mainly classified according to their molecular …

[HTML][HTML] Environmental applications of biosurfactants: recent advances

M Pacwa-Płociniczak, GA Płaza… - International journal of …, 2011 - mdpi.com
Increasing public awareness of environmental pollution influences the search and
development of technologies that help in clean up of organic and inorganic contaminants …

Review on microbial enhanced oil recovery: Mechanisms, modeling and field trials

J Niu, Q Liu, J Lv, B Peng - Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
After conventional oil recovery operations, abundant residual oil is still trapped in pore
space of complex capillary network in the reservoir. As a promising method of tertiary oil …

Optimization and characterization of a new lipopeptide biosurfactant produced by marine Brevibacterium aureum MSA13 in solid state culture

GS Kiran, TA Thomas, J Selvin, B Sabarathnam… - Bioresource …, 2010 - Elsevier
The biosurfactant production of a marine actinobacterium Brevibacterium aureum MSA13
was optimized using industrial and agro-industrial solid waste residues as substrates in …

[HTML][HTML] Bacillus licheniformis: the unexplored alternative for the anaerobic production of lipopeptide biosurfactants?

EJ Gudiña, JA Teixeira - Biotechnology Advances, 2022 - Elsevier
Microbial biosurfactants have attracted the attention of researchers and companies for the
last decades, as they are considered promising candidates to replace chemical surfactants …

Isolation and study of microorganisms from oil samples for application in microbial enhanced oil recovery

EJ Gudiña, JFB Pereira, LR Rodrigues… - International …, 2012 - Elsevier
Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery (MEOR) is potentially useful to increment oil recovery from
a reservoir beyond primary and secondary recovery operations using microorganisms and …

Core flood study for enhanced oil recovery through ex-situ bioaugmentation with thermo-and halo-tolerant rhamnolipid produced by Pseudomonas aeruginosa NCIM …

SJ Varjani, VN Upasani - Bioresource technology, 2016 - Elsevier
The aim of this work was to study the Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery (MEOR) employing
core field model ex-situ bioaugmenting a thermo-and halo-tolerant rhamnolipid produced by …