Waste treatment system primary distillation using microbial consortia
Keywords:
Microbial consortia, Pseudomonas stutzeri, biodegradation, waste of primary distillation, bio surfactants, bio-emulsifiers, bio cracking.Abstract
In the present study we report the bio treatment of the waste generated in the primary distillation of crude oil using a microbial consortium and a strain of Pseudomonas stutzeri. The sample for this study was the residual from La Pampilla refinery, which was donated by the company Repsol under our request. In fact, it was possible to fluidize the residual by mean of the action of the bacterial consortium and a strain of Pseudomonas stutzeri. The process may be explained as a bio cracking of heavy residuals taking place at room temperature. Prior to this process we proceeded to the spread of microbial consortium on the substrate (residual) to serve as inoculum in the phase of enrichment. The process was carried out at laboratory scale and the results obtained indicate that the microbial consortium may be used to give added value to an environmentally undesirable industrial waste.
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