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Microbial biosurfactants: challenges and opportunities for future exploitation.
Roger Marchant,Ibrahim M. Banat +1 more
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This review highlights remaining problems and indicates the prospects for imminent commercial exploitation of a new generation of microbial biosurfactants.About:
This article is published in Trends in Biotechnology.The article was published on 2012-11-01. It has received 432 citations till now.read more
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Cost effective technologies and renewable substrates for biosurfactants' production.
Ibrahim M. Banat,Surekha K. Satpute,Swaranjit Singh Cameotra,Rajendra Patil,Narendra V. Nyayanit +4 more
TL;DR: Low cost, renewable raw substrates, and fermentation technology in BS/BE production processes and their role in reducing the production cost are discussed.
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Applications of Biosurfactants in the Petroleum Industry and the Remediation of Oil Spills
Rita de Cássia Freire Soares da Silva,Darne Germano de Almeida,Raquel D. Rufino,Juliana M. Luna,Valdemir Alexandre dos Santos,Leonie Asfora Sarubbo +5 more
TL;DR: The present review describes the potential applications of biosurfactants in the oil industry and the remediation of environmental pollution caused by oil spills.
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Potential therapeutic applications of biosurfactants
TL;DR: The current state-of-the-art in biosurfactant research for therapeutic purposes is covered, providing new directions towards the discovery and development of molecules with novel structures and diverse functions for advanced applications.
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Biosurfactants, natural alternatives to synthetic surfactants: Physicochemical properties and applications
TL;DR: This review highlights the relationships between biosurfactant molecular composition, structure, and their interfacial behavior and describes how environmental factors such as temperature, pH, and ionic strength can impact physicochemical properties and self-assembly behavior of biosurFactant-containing solutions and dispersions.
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Biosurfactants: Promising Molecules for Petroleum Biotechnology Advances.
Darne Germano de Almeida,Rita de Cássia Freire Soares da Silva,Juliana M. Luna,Raquel D. Rufino,Valdemir Alexandre dos Santos,Ibrahim M. Banat,Leonie Asfora Sarubbo,Leonie Asfora Sarubbo +7 more
TL;DR: Biosurfactants are going to have a significant role in many future applications in the oil industries and in this review, recent important relevant applications, patents disclosures and potential future applications for biosurfactant in petroleum and related industries are highlighted.
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Microbial production of surfactants and their commercial potential.
JD Desai,Ibrahim M. Banat +1 more
TL;DR: Biosurfactants are more effective, selective, environmentally friendly, and stable than many synthetic surfactants, and the most promising applications are cleaning of oil-contaminated tankers, oil spill management, transportation of heavy crude oil, enhanced oil recovery, recovery of crude oil from sludge, and bioremediation of sites contaminated with hydrocarbons, heavy metals, and other pollutants.
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Potential commercial applications of microbial surfactants.
TL;DR: Biosurfactants are amphiphilic compounds of microbial origin with considerable potential in commercial applications within various industries and have advantages over their chemical counterparts in biodegradability and effectiveness at extreme temperature or pH and in having lower toxicity.
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Microbial biosurfactants production, applications and future potential
Ibrahim M. Banat,Andrea Franzetti,Isabella Gandolfi,Giuseppina Bestetti,Maria Giovanna Martinotti,Letizia Fracchia,Thomas J. Smyth,Roger Marchant +7 more
TL;DR: The current knowledge and the latest advances in biosurfactant applications and the biotechnological strategies being developed for improving production processes and future potential are reviewed.
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Enhanced Oil Recovery: An Update Review
TL;DR: In this article, a comprehensive review of EOR status and opportunities to increase final recovery factors in reservoirs ranging from extra heavy oil to gas condensate is presented, including risk and rewards of various EOR methods including CO2 injection, high pressure air injection, and chemical flooding.