摘要: As landfills have become more and more scarce and cost prohibitive, interest in biological methods to treat organic wastes, and in particular petroleum contamination, has increased and received more attention. Petroleum fuel spills which resulted from damage, stress, and corrosion of pipelines, transportation accidents, leakage of storage tanks and various other industrial and mining activities are classified as hazardous waste (Bartha and Bossert 1984) and are considered as the most frequent organic pollutants of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems (Bossert et al. 1984, Margesin and Schinnur 1997). It is estimated that 1.7-6.8 million tonnes of oil, with a best estimate of 3.2 million tonnes per annum, are released from all sources into the environment. The majority of this is not due to the oil industry and tanker operations, which only account for approximately 14% of the input, but to other industrial and general …
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