1st Edition
Hydrocarbon Biotechnology Challenges and Future Trends
This volume offers environmentally friendly technical solutions that can be implemented to solve problems throughout the value chain of the fossil fuel industry. This new book presents an up-to date view of hydrocarbon microbiology and biotechnology, presented by experts around the world with interest in how our expanding understanding of hydrocarbonoclast ecology and physiology can translate to better tools for bioremediation, oil recovery, bio-upgrading of unconventional crudes, the development of biorefining technologies, and the production of hydrogen and electricity from hydrocarbon wastes. The common theme across the chapters in this book is an interest in how developing hydrocarbon biotechnologies may reduce our impact on the global environment.
Written by eminent scientists from both academia and industry, the book starts with a historical perspective on hydrocarbon chemistry and formation, petroleum microbiology, and biotechnology. This is followed by a review of recent research developments in bioremediation and other biotechnologies for hydrocarbons, the principal constituents of petroleum and natural gas.
1. Petroleum Chemistry
Dawoud Bahzad and Mohan S. Rana
2. Biotechnology in the Refinery
Nour Sh. El-Gendy and James G. Speight
3. Novel Insights into Bioremediation of Petroleum-Polluted Environments and Bacterial Catabolic Pathways
Laura Rodríguez-Castro, Roberto E. Durán, Constanza C. Macaya, Flavia Dorochesi, Lisette Hernández, Felipe Salazar-Tapia, Vanessa Ayala-Espinoza, Patricio Santis-Cortés, Ximena Báez-Matus, and Michael Seeger
4. Microbial Degradation of Spilled Oil in Aqueous Environments: Beyond C15 Hydrocarbons
Fernanda Lopes Motta, Nayereh Saborimanesh, and Heather D. Dettman
5. Functional Diversity of Microbial Communities in Hydrocarbon-Polluted Ecosystems
R. M. M. Abed, H. Mahmoud, and N. Sivakumar
6. Bacterial Chemotaxis, Current Knowledge, and Future Need for Application in Hydrocarbon Remediation Technologies
Nisenbaum Melina, Georgina Corti- Monzón, and Silvia E. Murialdo
7. Biosurfactants-Mediated Remediation of Hydrocarbon Pollution
Punniyakotti Parthipan, Pattanathu K. S. M. Rahman, Matthew L. Smith, Kadarkarai Murugan, Yen-Peng Ting, Subramania Angaiah, and Aruliah Rajasekar
8. Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery
Geetha. S. J., Yahya Al-Wahaibi, Saif Al-Bahry, Abdulkadir Elshafie, Ali Al-Bemani, and Sanket J. Joshi
9. Biocatalytic Upgrading of Opportunity Crudes
M. M. Ramírez-Corredores
10. Hydrogen and Electricity Production from Oil and Gas Wastes
Scott J. Satinover and Abhijeet P. Borole
Biography
Wael Ahmed Ismail is a Professor of Microbiology and Environmental Biotechnology and the former director of the Biotechnology Program at the Arabian Gulf University. Having more than 25 years of research experience in the field of microbial biodegradation of hydrocarbons, Dr. Ismail focuses his research on biodegradation of crude oil and steroids, biosurfactants production and applications, biodesulfurization of diesel fuel, as well as biocatalytic upgrading of heavy oil and refinery residues. He works in close association with the oil and gas authorities and research institutes in Bahrain and Kuwait. He serves on the editorial and review boards of several international journals and was a guest associate editor for a special issue on petroleum biotechnology in the journal Frontiers in Microbiology.
Jonathan Van Hamme is Professor of Microbiology at Thompson Rivers University, British Columbia, Canada, and founding Director of the TRUGen Applied Genomics Laboratory, a high-throughput sequencing facility. He is an applied environmental microbiologist with over 25 years of experience in petroleum microbiology, industrial waste treatment, contaminant biotransformation, phytoremediation, analytical chemistry, proteomics and genomics. Dr. Van Hamme is currently focused on uncovering the biochemical basis of bacterial per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substance (PFAS) metabolism, as well as tracking SARS-CoV-2 in sewage. He was formerly an editor for Biodegradation and is currently an editor for the Canadian Journal of Microbiology.
