Biodegradation of slop oil from a petroc
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H. Dave; C. Ramakrishna; B. D. Bhatt; J. D. Desai
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Article
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1994
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Springer
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English
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Slop oil, i.e. waste oil from a petrochemical complex, contains at least 240 hydrocarbon components, of which 54% are from C5 to C11 and the rest from C12 to C23. Of 22 isolated bacterial cultures that were able to degrade slop oil, seven could each degrade about 40% of the slop oil, and a mixture o