Treatment of petroleum industry oil sludge byRhodotorula sp.

✍ Scribed by K. Shailubhai; N. N. Rao; V. V. Modi

• Book ID: 104779681
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1984
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 166 KB
• Volume: 19
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1432-0614
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00454385

✦ Synopsis

A Rhodotorula sp., isolated from soil~ which showed a versatile capacity to degrade various aromatic and aliphatic hydrocarbons, was used to treat oil sludge. As a result of treatment, there was significant deck. ease in BO[5~ COD ;rod cunte:~L~ of v~.rlou~ petroleum fractions.

The susceptibility to degradation was in the foliowing order ~ saturate fraction> aromatic fraction) asphaltic fraction.