Biosurfactants in microbial enhanced oil recovery

Sunita J. Varjani

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-49197-4_23

Biosurfactants in microbial enhanced oil recovery

Sunita J. Varjani^*

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Abstract

Industrial sustainability has pushed biosurfactants as a tool for many companies. Biosurfactants offer possibility of replacing chemical surfactants, produced from nonrenewable resources and/or cheap renewable feedstocks. Biosurfactants are also attractive as they are ecofriendly. The most promising biosurfactants nowadays are glycolipids, lipopeptides, phospholipids, fatty acids/natural lipids, polymeric surfactants, and particulate biosurfactants. Biosurfactants find utility in various industrial sectors such as petroleum, food, beverage, cosmetics, detergents, pharmaceuticals, and environmental protection and management. This chapter highlights prospects for commercial exploration of a new generation microbial biosurfactants as a tool in bioremediation and microbial enhanced oil recovery (MEOR). © 2017 Springer International Publishing AG.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Modern Tools and Techniques to Understand Microbes
Editors	Ajit Varma, Arun Kumar Sharma
Publisher	Springer, Cham
Chapter	23
Pages	369-379
Number of pages	11
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-319-49197-4
ISBN (Print)	978-3-319-49195-0, 978-3-319-84101-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49197-4_23
Publication status	Published - 2017
Externally published	Yes

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