Bacterial consortium; A porous bio-carrier for enhancement of biodegradation of crude oil contaminated soil

3^rd International conference on Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering

September 14-15, 2015 Baltimore, USA

Syed Farman Ali Shah1, Aziza Aftab2, Hafeez Ur Rehman Memon2 and Muhammad Umer Dahot1

1University California Riverside, USA 2Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Pakistan

Posters-Accepted Abstracts: J Bioproces Biotechniq

Abstract :

Ex-situ experiment was conducted for the bioremediation dealt with the soil contamination through wild indigenous strains of Bacilli and Cocci. Removal of aromatic and aliphatic hydrocarbons was observed and the soil reclamation was achieved during the study. An energy source optimization and enhancement and cell building blocks were multiple objectives achieved during the course of study at laboratory scale. Isolation, screening, characterization and identification indigenous microorganisms and their application for bioremediation is presented in this piece of work. The organisms were isolated from a crude oil contaminated soil from the Lower Indus Basin fields of Oil and Gas Development Company Limited (OGDCL), Pakistan. The species showed their exponential growth in crude oil as carbon source and were found as dominanthydrocarbon degraders. Six isolates were finally selected found effective and applied to the contaminated soil for 30 days bio-augmentation in aerobic environmental conditions with time interval of 3 days to each sample. Bacillus sphaericus (2), Bacillus megaterium (A4) and Micrococcus luteus (3d) proved their efficiency as 97, 90 and 84 % respectively.

Biography :

Email: farman.shah@faculty.muet.edu.pk