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Development of Three Bacteria Consortium for the Bioremediation of Crude Petroleum-oil in Contaminated Water

Abdualdaim Mohammed Mukred1, Aidil Abd Hamid1, Ainon Hamzah1 and Wan Mohtar Wan Yusoff1
  • 1 Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia

Abstract

We have to developed active microbial consortium that could be of higher degradation of crude oil contaminated groundwater, wastewater aeration pond and biopond at the oil refinery Terengganu Malaysia. Among four isolates that showed good growth only three different isolates (Acinetobacter faecalis WD2, Staphylococcus. sp DD3 and Neisseria elongate TDA4.) were selected based on the growth ability and degradation. Significant growth and effectiveness of hydrocarbon biodegradation of the bacterial consortium examined bacterial strains and their mixtures in both were observed after 5, 10 and 15 days of degradation. Gas chromatography showed that more than 96 and 98% degradation of total hydrocarbon by consortia sp respectively.

OnLine Journal of Biological Sciences
Volume 8 No. 4, 2008, 73-79

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3844/ojbsci.2008.73.79

Submitted On: 18 November 2008 Published On: 31 December 2008

How to Cite: Mukred, A. M., Hamid, A. A., Hamzah, A. & Yusoff, W. M. W. (2008). Development of Three Bacteria Consortium for the Bioremediation of Crude Petroleum-oil in Contaminated Water. OnLine Journal of Biological Sciences, 8(4), 73-79. https://doi.org/10.3844/ojbsci.2008.73.79

Open AccessCopyright: © 2008 Abdualdaim Mohammed Mukred, Aidil Abd Hamid, Ainon Hamzah and Wan Mohtar Wan Yusoff. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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Keywords

  • Biodegradation
  • crude oil contaminated water