Practical Considerations and Challenges Involved in Surfactant Enhanced Bioremediation of Oil

Table 1

Studies on surfactant aided bioremediation of petroleum hydrocarbons, PAHs, oil, and model NAPLs by various microbial cultures.

Surfactant	Surfactant type	Substrate	Cultures	Reference
Hexadecyl; trimethyl ammonium bromide (CTAB)	Cationic	Phenanthrene	In situ mixed culture	Chang et al. [49]
Sodium Dodecyl Sulphate (SDS)	Anionic	Diesel	Cold-adapted microorganisms	Margesin and Schinner [50]
Tween 80,; Rhamnolipid (JBR)	Nonionic	Fluoranthene	Pseudomonas alcaligenes PA-10	Hickey et al. [51]
Triton X-100	Nonionic	Diesel	Burkholderia cepacia (ES1)	Mohanty and Mukherji [8]
Igepal CO-630	Nonionic	Crude oil	Mixed culture	Van Hamme and Ward [52]
Span 80,; Corexit 9527	Nonionic	Crude oil	Acinetobacter calcoaceticus ATCC 31012	Bruheim et al. [53]
Triton X-100	Nonionic	Naphthalene	Pseudomonas sp.	Mulder et al. [54]
Triton X-100,Biosurfactants	Nonionic	Crude oil	Bacillus sp. B-UM	Wong et al. [55]
Biosoft EN 600, Igepal CO-630	Nonionic	Crude oil	Mixed culture	Ward et al. [18]
Biosurfactants, SDS	Anionic	Crude oil	Mixed culture	Urum and Pekdemir [56]
Crude Biosurfactant, SDS, Tween 80	Anionic, Nonionic	Aromatic and paraffinic hydrocarbons	Pseudomonas sp.	Anna et al. [57]
SDS	Anionic	Petroleum hydrocarbons	—	Khalladi et al. [58]
Tween 80; Triton X-100; Tergitol NP-10	Nonionic	PAHs (Naphthalene, Phenanthrene, Anthracene)	Enterobacter, Pseudomonas, Stenotrophomonas	Bautista et al. [48]
AT-7, Tween 80, L-10, Lutensol GD 70	Nonionic	Dodecane : Hexadecane (1 : 1)	Various strains of Bacillaceae and Pseudomonadaceae	Cybulski et al. [59]
Triton X-100	Nonionic	Phenanthrene		Jin et al. [60]
Saponin,; Rhamnolipid,; Triton X-100	Nonionic natural surfactant,; Anionic glycolipid,; Nonionic synthetic	Diesel oil	Pseudomonas alcaligenes	Kaczorek and Olszanowski [10], Kaczorek et al. [61]
Tween 80,; Triton X-100; Surfactin, Rhamnolipids	Nonionic,; Anionic biosurfactant	Total petroleum Hydrocarbons (TPH)		Lai et al. [37]
Tween 20; SDS; CTAB	Nonionic; Anionic; Cationic	Fluoranthene; Anthracene	Pseudomonas  putida; ATCC 17514	Rodrigues et al. [62]
Tween 20, 80; Triton X-100; SDS	Nonionic; Nonionic; Anionic	Phenanthrene; Pyrene	Arthrobacter strain  Sphe  3	Aryal and Liakopoulou-Kyriakides [46]
Brij 30, 35; Tween 80; Triton X-100	Nonionic	Pyrene, Phenanthrene,; Naphthalene	Pseudomonas putida	Doong and Lei [63]
Tween 20, 40, 80; Triton X-100,; Rhamnolipid	Nonionic; biosurfactant	Pyrene	Klebsiella oxoytca	Zhang et al. [64]
Tergitol 15-S-X	Nonionic	Phenanthrene	Neptunomonas napthovorans	Li and Chen [45]
Brij 30	Nonionic	Naphthalene; Phenanthrene	Microbial consortia	Kim et al. [65]
Tween 80	Nonionic	Pyrene	Mycobacterium frederiksbergense	Sarma and Pakshirajan [66]
Tergitol NP-10; Tween 80	Nonionic	Naphthalene; Phenanthrene; Anthracene	Consortia C2PLO5	González et al. [67]
BS-UC,; Mannosylerythritol lipids	Biosurfactants	n-Alkanes C8–C16; C11 : C14 : C16; (1 : 1 : 1)	Candida antarctica	Hua et al. [68]
Rhamnolipids	Biosurfactant	n-Alkanes in petroleum	Bacterial consortia	Rahman et al. [69]
Crude biosurfactant	Biosurfactant	TPH	Soil microcosms	Benincasa [70]
Rhamnolipids	Crude Biosurfactant	Oily sludge	Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Rhodococcus sp.	Singh and Cameotra [71]
Rhamnolipids	Crude biosurfactants	Crude oil	Soil microorganisms	Nikolopoulou and Kalogerakis [72]