Volume : IV, Issue : IX, September - 2014

Bioremediation of Oil Spill An Invasion by Bacteria to A Safe Environment

M. Ashwini Ramesh, Pratibha Somashekar

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During an Oil spill, liquid petroleum is released into the environment and the black sticky substance covers everything it touches: soil, water and wildlife. Between 1970 to 2007 nearly 6,062,712 tonnes of oil were spilled in incidents around the world. The costs associated with each clean–up are very expensive and sometimes it is out of maintenance. An Oil spill from a tanker, the fallout has been environmental damage. Heralding an environmentally friendly technique, bioremediation treats pollutants with bacteria bioengineered to eak down contaminants . A bacteria that degrade oil and other environmental pollutants seeping from pipes or storage tanks into water or soil. Bacteria has shown its ability to clean up oil spills more rapidly than traditional techniques and reduce damage to ecosystems in the process. The purpose of this Research work is how rapidly & eco–friendly a Bacteria clean up the Oil and in what duration of time and also the Biodegradation capacity of the Bacteria. Hydrocarbon utilizing Microorganism are ubiquitously disturbed in the marine environment following Oil Spill. These Microorganisms are naturally degrade numerous contaminating petroleum hydrocarbon & cleansing the Oceans of Oil pollutants. Bioremediation, which is accomplished by adding exogenous microbial populations or stimulating indigenous ones, attempt to raise the rates of degradation found naturally to significantly higher rates. Here we carried out the experiment by using Pure culture of the bacteria Alcanivorax borkumensis grown on ONR7a medium. Here by determining the amount of Oil in oil spill water by Ultraviolet Spectrophotometer method, we are estimating the Biodegrading capacity of this Bacterium. This approach is quite economic and eco–friendly.

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M.Ashwini Ramesh, Pratibha Somashekar Bioremediation of Oil Spill an Invasion by Bacteria to a Safe Environment Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.4, Issue.9 September 2014

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