Journal
WATER
Volume 13, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/w13010066
Keywords
autochthonous bacteria; oil spills; bioaugmentation; biostimulation; petroleum; bioremediation; beach sediments
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Funding
- project BIOREM-Bioremediation of hydrocarbon pollutants by autochthonous microorganisms in aquatic environment - Fundo Europeu de Desenvolvimento Regional through COMPETE2020-Programa Operacional de Competitividade e Internacionalizacao (POCI) [PTDC/BTA-GES/32186/2017, POCI-01-0145-FEDER-032186]
- national funds through FCT-Foundation for Science and Technology [UIDB/04423/2020, UIDP/04423/2020]
- FCT/MCTES
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [PTDC/BTA-GES/32186/2017] Funding Source: FCT
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This study aims to develop an autochthonous hydrocarbon-degrading consortium and optimize growth conditions for effective hydrocarbon bioremediation. Results showed that bioaugmentation with inoculum pre-grown in acetate demonstrated the highest hydrocarbons degradation efficiency of 66%, highlighting the potential for using alternative carbon sources for bacterial biomass growth in response to oil spills.
Oil spill pollution remains a serious concern in marine environments and the development of effective oil bioremediation techniques are vital. This work is aimed at developing an autochthonous hydrocarbon-degrading consortium with bacterial strains with high potential for hydrocarbons degradation, optimizing first the growth conditions for the consortium, and then testing its hydrocarbon-degrading performance in microcosm bioremediation experiments. Bacterial strains, previously isolated from a sediment and cryopreserved in a georeferenced microbial bank, belonged to the genera Pseudomonas, Rhodococcus and Acinetobacter. Microcosms were assembled with natural seawater and petroleum, for testing: natural attenuation (NA); biostimulation (BS) (nutrients addition); bioaugmentation with inoculum pre-grown in petroleum (BA/P) and bioaugmentation with inoculum pre-grown in acetate (BA/A). After 15 days, a clear blending of petroleum with seawater was observed in BS, BA/P and BA/A but not in NA. Acetate was the best substrate for consortium growth. BA/A showed the highest hydrocarbons degradation (66%). All bacterial strains added as inoculum were recovered at the end of the experiment. This study provides an insight into the capacity of autochthonous communities to degrade hydrocarbons and on the use of alternative carbon sources for bacterial biomass growth for the development of bioremediation products to respond to oil spills.
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