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Microorganisms Metabolism during Bioremediation of Oil Contaminated Soils
| Xenia ME1 and Refugio RV2* | |
| 1Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa, Departamento de Ingeniería de Procesos e Hidráulica, San Rafael Atlixco No. 186, Colonia Vicentina, Delegación Iztapalapa, C.P. 09340, México City, Mexico | |
| 2Departamento de Biotecnología y Bioingeniería, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional. Av. IPN No. 2508 Col. San Pedro Zacatenco, Cd. de México, CP. 07360, Mexico | |
| *Corresponding Author : | Refugio RV Departamento de Biotecnología y Bioingeniería Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional. Av. IPN No. 2508 Col. San Pedro Zacatenco Cd. de México, CP. 07360, Mexico Tel: +52(55)57473316 Fax: +52(55)50613313 E-mail: rrodrig@cinvestav.mx |
| Received: January 27, 2016 Accepted: March 04, 2016 Published: March 11, 2016 | |
| Citation: Xenia ME, Refugio RV (2016) Microorganisms Metabolism during Bioremediation of Oil Contaminated Soils. J Bioremed Biodeg 7:340. doi: 10.4172/2155-6199.1000340 | |
| Copyright: © 2016 Xenia ME, et al. This is an open-a ccess 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. | |
Abstract
The development of some industrial processes, such as extraction, refining and oil transportation has been the cause of environmental degradation caused by oil spills and their extraction processes involved. In order to reduce these contaminants, among others, physicochemical technologies have been applied, which haven't solved the contamination problem because in many of these processes, new toxic compounds are generated. Technologies based in the use of microorganisms, plants and other biological species are called bioremediation. This is an alternative to the physical and chemical processes of treatment that, although slower in response, are more sustainable. Therefore, in this review, bioremediation technologies to treat oil contaminated soils are analyzed as a convenient alternative for the restoration of impacted soils, against progressive deterioration of environmental quality. Additionally, the microorganisms as well as the required conditions for which bioremediation is considered a sustainable process to undertake will also be presented.
