Potential commercial applications of microbial surfactants

By I. Banat, R. Makkar, S. Cameotra. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 2000

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Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Pollution

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Potential of halotolerant and halophilic microorganisms for biotechnology (2001, background): “Encouraging results have been obtained in hydrocarbon pollution control in marine biotopes in closed systems, such as oil storage tanks, and several studies indicated potential for pollution treatment in marine environments or coastal areas (Banat et al. 2000).”
Selection of microorganisms for biosurfactant production using agroindustrial wastes (2004, background): “These compounds find applications in an extremely wide variety of industrial processes involving emulsification, foaming, detergency, wetting, dispersing or solubilization (1,6).”
Production and characterization of a bioemulsifier from Yarrowia lipolytica (2006, background): “Their potential industrial applications include enhanced oil recovery, crude oil drilling, food processing and cosmetic formulations [2].”
Evaluation of Screening Methods for the Isolation of Biosurfactant Producing Marine Bacteria (2013, background): “There are many types of biosurfactants based on their chemical nature such as glycolipids, lipopolysaccharides, oligosaccharides and lipopeptides that have been reported to be produced by diverse bacterial genera [2-4].”
Production and Roles of Biosurfactants and Bioemulsifiers in Accessing Hydrophobic Substrates. (2010, background): “This is the prerequisite for a broad range of surface activities to take place including emulsiﬁcation, dispersion, dissolution, solubilization, wetting and foaming (Banat et al., 2000; Desai and Banat, 1997 (See > Chapter 27 and > 28, Vol. 5, Part 2)).”
Biodegradation of Crude Oil by Individual Bacterial Strains and a Mixed Bacterial Consortium Isolated from Hydrocarbon Contaminated Areas (2008, neutral): “sidered to be a superior technology [39].”
Diesel degradation and biosurfactant production by Gram-positive isolates (2009, neutral): “Only B. subtilis and B. pumilus have been confirmed as surfactin producers (Banat et al., 2000).”
Yarrowia lipolytica: an industrial workhorse (2010, background): “They are used in textile manufacture, leather processing, in bioremediation, agriculture, and in the food and beverage industry [127].”
Optimization and characterization of biosurfactant production by Bacillus subtilis isolates towards microbial enhanced oil recovery applications (2013, background): “Surface-active agents or surfactants are an important class of chemical compounds used in different sectors of modern industry, such as food, pharmaceutical, cosmetics and petroleum industries [1,2].”
Biosurfactants: A General Overview (2011, background): “Since these surfactants must be both effective and environmentally compatible, it is natural to turn to the microbial world to try to meet this demand ( Banat et al. 2000; Mukherjee et al. 2006).”
Recent Advances in Petroleum Microbiology (2003, background): “enhanced oil recovery (42, 153), oil and fuel upgrading through”