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Bioremediation of Oil-Spills from ShoreLine Environment

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In the present day society, we are in great need of petroleum hydrocarbons for our energy need. In spite of recent advance technologies, crude oil accidental spill occurs at constant rate during its extraction, transportation, storage, refining, and distribution. Marine shorelines are essential ecological and human resources that serve as a home of a variety of wildlife habitat. Marine oil spill causes extensive damage to coastal marine environments. Unlike, higher organisms that are adversely affected by oil spill, specific microorganisms are capable of degrading these hydrocarbons into the non-toxic compound and mineralize them. They play an essential role in the bioremediation of oil spill and reduce the overall impact of the oil spill disaster. Microbial bioremediation of petroleum hydrocarbons is a useful approach and have been used practically in recent years. In this chapter, we studied various factors responsible for the oil spill disaster, its ill effect and ways to overcome these effects. We also explored the importance of bioremediation technique over the traditional methods.

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  1. Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India

    Ranju Sharma

  2. University of Delhi to Department of Zoology, Dr. SRK Government Arts College, Yanam, Puducherry (UT), India

    Ngangbam Sarat Singh

  3. Department of Zoology, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India

    Neha Dhingra

  4. Department of Bioscience, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India

    Talat Parween

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  2. Center of Nanotechnology, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

    Mohammad Omaish Ansari

  3. Section of Industrial Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India

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    Iqbal M.I. Ismail

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Sharma, R., Singh, N.S., Dhingra, N., Parween, T. (2020). Bioremediation of Oil-Spills from ShoreLine Environment. In: Oves, M., Ansari, M., Zain Khan, M., Shahadat, M., M.I. Ismail, I. (eds) Modern Age Waste Water Problems . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-08283-3_13

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