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Promising Egyptian soil bacterial isolates for hydrocarbon waste biodegradation: petroleum wax

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Environmental chemistry

Abstract

In terms of the environmentally friendly processing of organic waste, biodegradation is one of the most promising waste management techniques to have recently emerged. One of the byproducts generated by the methods used to refine crude oil that poses a significant issue is light slack wax. Our effort was to isolate microorganisms from nearby soil that had been contaminated by light slack wax. Then, these microbes were elevated to test their ability to break down hydrocarbon waste. The most effective isolates were physically and biologically analyzed. The screening approach revealed that strains H4 and H6 exhibited the best biodegradation efficiencies for light slack wax, with rates of 88.23% and 84.76%, respectively after 14 days of treatments. After the treatment with H4 and H6 for 2 weeks, hydrocarbons like; aromatics, naphthene, and iso-alkanes were degraded rather than saturated n-paraffins according to the gas chromatographic analyses of the samples. The bacterial isolates were further described using 16s rRNA analysis and showed that two strains were from the genus Bacillus. These remarkable results are due to the bacteria's ability to produce biosurfactants and enzymes that facilitate the breakdown of hydrocarbon waste. Further research and development in this area may lead to implementing effective bioremediation methods for managing hydrocarbon waste and lowering pollution issues.

DOI

10.21608/ejchem.2023.227936.8392

Keywords

biodegradation, Hydrocarbons, Light slack wax, Petroleum wax, waste management

Authors

First Name

Hind

Last Name

Gebily

MiddleName

Ahmed

Affiliation

Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Cairo University,16213, Giza, Egypt

Email

hindgebily@gmail.com

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-

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First Name

Nermen

Last Name

Mohamed

MiddleName

Hefiney

Affiliation

Petroleum Refining Division, Egyptian Petroleum Research Institute, Egypt

Email

nermenhefiny@yahoo.com

City

Cairo

Orcid

0000-0002-2983-8654

First Name

dina

Last Name

Abd El-Aty

MiddleName

mohamed

Affiliation

chemistry,science,ain shams egyptian petroleum research institute, science, cairo

Email

dina3032012@gmail.com

City

naser city

Orcid

0000-0002-9352-8634

First Name

Mahmoud

Last Name

Saleh

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Faculty of Science, Cairo University

Email

msaleh@sci.cu.edu.eg

City

-

Orcid

0000-0003-2218-3947

First Name

Gehad

Last Name

Mohamed

MiddleName

G

Affiliation

Chemistry department, Faculty of science, Cairo university.Giza, Egypt

Email

ggenidymohamed@sci.cu.edu.eg

City

Giza

Orcid

0000-0002-1525-5271

First Name

Ahmad

Last Name

Hegazy

MiddleName

K.

Affiliation

Department of Botany and Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt.

Email

hegazy@sci.cu.edu.eg

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-

Orcid

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Volume

67

Article Issue

5

Related Issue

46682

Issue Date

2024-05-01

Receive Date

2023-08-08

Publish Date

2024-05-01

Page Start

385

Page End

394

Print ISSN

0449-2285

Online ISSN

2357-0245

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https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/article_325222.html

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297

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Publication Title

Egyptian Journal of Chemistry

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https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/

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Promising Egyptian soil bacterial isolates for hydrocarbon waste biodegradation: petroleum wax

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Created At

30 Dec 2024