Abstracto

Bioremediation of Crude Oil in Synthetic Mineral Salts Medium Enriched With Aerobic Bacterial Consortium

Prabhakaran. P, Sureshbabu. A, Rajakumar. S and Ayyasamy. P.M

Soil contamination with oil spills is the major global concern today. It has a serious hazard to human health, causes organic pollution of ground water which limits its use, causes economic loss, environmental problems and decreases the agricultural productivity of the soil. To enhance removing crude oil in contaminated soil and water in laboratory scale several types of assays were performed. We assessed remediation by using bacterial consortium through improving environmental parameters and absorption studies through coir waste. Total petroleum hydrocarbons (TPH)-contaminated soil samples were collected from oil polluted areas in Namakkal and Salem districts. Based on the first assessed suitable environmental parameters improve the remediation process up to 78%. The second evaluated the absorption of oil with coirpith also increases the remediation up to 98% compare to remediation through effective bacterial consortium (54%).