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BioPetroClean: Bacteria That Lick Up Crude Oil

by Karin Kloosterman, Jerusalem, Israel on 04.23.07
Science & Technology (science)

treehugger%20oil%20rig.jpgAn oil spill on the beach. Rigs at sea that have no choice but to dump tar-like waste into the water. Bilges from ships after they have dropped off a load of crude oil. What all these things have in common is that they are excellent candidates for a new environmentally-friendly oil-licker-upper company: BioPetroClean. Cleaning up oil spills and cleaning oil from water remains a costly and challenging procedure, but one that oil refineries and shipyards must handle on daily basis- usually to the detriment of nature. Light years ahead of his time and featured in Time Magazine already a couple of decades ago for his oil-munching bacteria, the life’s work of Prof. Eugene Rosenberg from Tel Aviv University has finally come to fruition through a new start-up company BioPetroClean. Rosenberg found that some bacteria occurring in nature have an affinity to and play a role in digesting crude oil. Working with the bacteria in the lab, Rosenberg isolated a particular strain and found that in high quantities can be introduced into a closed system with proper nutrients to clean up unwanted oil. What’s left is clear water. A couple of pilot sites are now using the technology in Israel. Says BioPetroClean CEO David Amir, “Israel won't be bacteria incubators for the universe - we would rather link to service providers across the universe. This would give better service and more oil contamination clean-up possibilities." ::ISRAEL21c

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A french company has had such a product for years. It is sold in the US under separate brand (s) and termed a "bio-remediation accelerator".

See this link:http://www.ahs.dep.state.pa.us/Clearinghouse/Content/TechnologyRecord.asp?Technology_ID=%7B62B96CDE-6447-4053-A9B8-409437D715BF%7D


Or this one: http://www.epa.gov/oilspill/ncp/s200.htm

jump to top JL says:

This sounds a lot like the sci fi book: Ill Wind:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/product-description/0765357763/sr=1-2/qid=1177378857/ref=dp_proddesc_0/103-3195437-1904629?ie=UTF8&n=283155&s=books&qid=1177378857&sr=1-2

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