Bacterial Biosurfactants
Isolation, Purification, Characterization, and Industrial Applications
- 268 pages
- English
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Bacterial Biosurfactants
Isolation, Purification, Characterization, and Industrial Applications
About this book
This new volume offers comprehensive coverage of bacterial biosurfactants, the competitive new area of research that has exciting potential application in agriculture and petroleum exploration. The book helps readers to understand the synthesis of biosurfactants by some specific bacteria, their culture, and extraction toward use in bioremediation and enhanced crude oil recovery.
The volume covers the gamut of topics in bacterial biosurfactants in nanostructure, including their comparison to synthetic surfactants, their interaction with microorganisms, and their biochemistry, characterization, genetics of production, bioremedial effects, and more. The volume also explores the myriad uses of bacterial biosurfactants, including in laundry detergents, cosmetics, food production, petroleum, agriculture, medicine and therapeutics, environment, metallurgy, etc.
Attention to biosurfactants has been gradually increasing in recent years due to the possibility of their production through fermentation technology and their potential applications in environmental protection. Despite their numerous advantages over synthetic chemical surfactants, biosurfactants have been unable to compete with chemically synthesized surfactants due to high production costs in relation to the inefficient bioprocessing techniques, poor strain productivity, and use of costly substrates. This volume helps to identify the factors that need to be addressed to reduce the cost of production of biosurfactants.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- About the Authors
- Table of Contents
- Abbreviations
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Classification of Biosurfactants
- 3. Interaction of Microorganisms with Hydrophobic Water-Insoluble Substrates
- 4. Biochemistry of Biosurfactants
- 5. Biosurfactant Genetics
- 6. Screening for Biosurfactant Producing Microorganisms
- 7. Application of Biosurfactants
- 8. Role of Biosurfactant in Producing Bacteria
- 9. Biosurfactant Producing Bacteria Utilizing Hydrocarbon from the Environment
- 10. Physical Characterization of Biosurfactant
- 11. Characterization of Potential Biosurfactant-Producing Bacteria
- 12. Application of Bacterial Strains and Biosurfactants in Bioremediation
- 13. Separation of Crude Oil by Biosurfactant from Contaminated Sand and Petroleum Sludge
- 14. Bioremediation with Bacterial Biosurfactant and Its Biological Activity
- 15. Biosurfactant in Nanostructures
- 16. Industrial Applications of Biosurfactant-Producing Bacteria
- 17. Conclusions
- Index