Production of added value bacterial lipids through valorisation of hydrocarbon-contaminated cork waste

This work demonstrates that cork used as oil-spill sorbents, contaminated with liquid hydrocarbons, herein demonstrated with hexadecane, can be biologically treated by Rhodococcus opacus B4 with concomitant lipids production. R. opacus B4 consumed up to 96% of hexadecane (C16) impregnated in natural...

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Main Author: Castro, Rita (author)
Other Authors: Guimarães, Maura Francisca Silva (author), Oliveira, João Vítor (author), Pereira, M. Alcina (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2017
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1822/47747
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/47747