Microbial Action on Hydrocarbons

Front Matter ....Pages i-xii
 Microbial Consortia and Biodegradation of Petroleum Hydrocarbons in Marine Environments  (J. Paniagua-Michel, Babu Z. Fathepure)....Pages 1-20
 Biosurfactants in Improving Bioremediation Effectiveness in Environmental Contamination by Hydrocarbons  (Paulo Renato Matos Lopes, Renato Nallin Montagnolli, Jaqueline Matos Cruz, Elis Marina Turini Claro, Ederio Dino Bidoia)....Pages 21-34
 Bioremediation of Petroleum Hydrocarbons in Seawater: Oil Spill Plume Modelling Approaches  (Laurencia Debbie Benard, Piakong Mohd Tuah)....Pages 35-62
 Hydrocarbon Degradation Assessment: Biotechnical Approaches Involved  (Arezoo Dadrasnia, Mohammed Maikudi Usman, Tahereh Alinejad, Babak Motesharezadeh, Seyed Majid Mousavi)....Pages 63-95
 Microbes and Petroleum Bioremediation  (Bruna Martins Dellagnezze, Milene Barbosa Gomes, Valéria Maia de Oliveira)....Pages 97-123
 Microbial Degradation of Petroleum Hydrocarbons: Technology and Mechanism  (Elis Marina Turini Claro, Jaqueline Matos Cruz, Renato Nallin Montagnolli, Paulo Renato Matos Lopes, José Rubens Moraes Júnior, Ederio Dino Bidoia)....Pages 125-141
 Biosurfactant-Enhanced Petroleum Oil Bioremediation  (Agus Jatnika Effendi, Edwan Kardena, Qomarudin Helmy)....Pages 143-179
 Modeling Applications in Bioremediation of Hydrocarbon Pollutants  (Mahmoud Nasr)....Pages 181-197
 Biodegradation of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) by Microbes Isolated from the Marine Sponge Biemna fortis (Topsent 1897)  (Mahesh Pattabhiramaiah, M. Shanthala, S. Rajashekara, Farhan Sheikh, Sweta Naik)....Pages 199-222
 A Comprehensive Review on the Bioremediation of Oil Spills  (Mahsa Baniasadi, Seyyed Mohammad Mousavi)....Pages 223-254
 The Small-Scale Microbial Processes for Remediation of Sediments Contaminated with Hydrocarbons  (Danusia Ferreira Lima, Antônio Fernando de Souza Queiroz, Camila Paim Dantas, Jessyca Beatriz Alves Palmeira, Cibele Rodrigues Costa, Olívia Maria Cordeiro de Oliveira)....Pages 255-297
 Microbial Degradation of Petroleum Hydrocarbons  (Ghada Abd-Elmonsef Mahmoud, Magdy Mohmed Khalil Bagy)....Pages 299-320
 Microbial Bioremediation of Petroleum Hydrocarbon: An Overview  (Debajit Borah)....Pages 321-341
 Microbial Degradation of Hydrocarbons in the Ecosystem  (Anupreet Kaur)....Pages 343-351
 Microbial Degradation of Hydrocarbons in the Environment: An Overview  (Hussein I. Abdel-Shafy, Mona S. M. Mansour)....Pages 353-386
 Plant-Microbe Association for Bioremediation of Hydrocarbon Substrates  (Aneela Iqbal, Muhammad Arshad, Iftikhar Ahmed)....Pages 387-414
 Bioaugmentation of Petroleum Hydrocarbon in Contaminated Soil: A Review  (Z. Nur Zaida, M. T. Piakong)....Pages 415-439
 Petroleum Microbiology Under Extreme Conditions  (Oluwadara Oluwaseun Alegbeleye)....Pages 441-484
 Microbial Degradation of Petroleum Hydrocarbons: An Overview  (A. Deborah Gnana Selvam, A. Joseph Thatheyus)....Pages 485-503
 Oil Spill Removal by Mycoremediation  (Rajeev Kumar, Ashpreet Kaur)....Pages 505-526
 Treatment of Oily Wastewater Using Hydrogels  (Zizi Abdeen)....Pages 527-541
 Novel and Cost-Effective Technologies for Hydrocarbon Bioremediation  (Rajeev Kumar, Pooja Yadav)....Pages 543-565
 Role of Filamentous Fungi to Remove Petroleum Hydrocarbons from the Environment  (Ihsan Flayyih Hasan, AI-Jawhari)....Pages 567-580
 Petroleum Biodegrading Property of Microbial Consortia from a Contaminated Site  (Arup Kumar Mitra, Arpan Chatterjee, Ujjyani Ghosh, Ishani Banerjee, Sreeja Saha, Monalisa Barman et al.)....Pages 581-595
 The Role of Microbes Toward Biodegradation of Hydrocarbons  (Varsha Dogra, Rajeev Kumar, Sandeep Kumar, Gurpreet Kaur)....Pages 597-613
 Hydrocarbon Degradation  (Samina Siddiqui, Asghari Bano)....Pages 615-641
 A Review on the Bioremediation of Petroleum Hydrocarbons: Current State of the Art  (Leadin S. Khudur, Esmaeil Shahsavari, Arturo Aburto-Medina, Andrew S. Ball)....Pages 643-667