Petroleum Hydrocarbon Bioremediation Using Native Fungal Isolates and Consortia

Table 1

Quantitative degradation analysis, estimated by GC, of saturated hydrocarbons using six fungal species corresponding to untreated control.

Carbon Number	Control	C. brachyspora	P. chrysogenum	S. brevicaulis	C. sphaerospermum	A. alternata	S. botryosum
C14	1396.35	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.000
C15	5506.49	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.000
C16	9741.55	0.00	0.00	354.91	0.00	0.00	420.80
C17	1.77/10000	2052.19	130.72	5088.91	52.35	320.23	2769.74
C18	1.80/10000	4332.79	628.76	4396.94	428.01	2104.39	5292.99
C19	1.13/10000	2918.78	680.54	3180.60	337.42	1621.83	5170.32
C20	1.10/10000	3375.22	1212.27	3501.80	380.96	1822.72	4202.27
C21	9653.44	3787.89	1474.04	4310.44	381.22	1828.92	2780.02
C22	8929.10	2780.84	1772.12	4865.36	311.14	2086.02	2972.01
C23	7804.85	2064.85	1460.82	3002.51	142.30	2071.79	3089.31
C24	7228.75	1674.47	1678.62	3133.56	97.53	2302.22	2077.54
C25	5704.98	69.11	1426.26	3108.41	55.98	1824.42	1937.97
C26	4752.65	758.97	1261.27	2370.72	34.45	1736.39	1302.14
C27	3005.48	0.000	1055.78	2050.27	21.02	1738.55	856.60
C28	3301.36	1856.57	1197.27	2267.14	13.79	1965.49	1678.97
C29	3688.51	1997.92	1194.33	2833.07	8.84	1868.91	1363.89
C30	1777.19	1324.52	1211.70	2128.80	10.88	1488.06	767.17
C31	2424.01	1701.75	895.48	1606.24	9.36	768.38	361.18
C32	815.56	873.42	850.12	1110.72	3.93	692.67	294.89
C33	2007.55	1062.6	769.47	1067.63	3.45	901.76	915.34
C34	1670.29	164.94	276.43	1187.96	2.8	1135.26	534.65
C35	1226.69	0.00	611.64	1324.32	0.00	1166.39	585.71
C36	337.78	0.00	208.18	359.38	0.00	814.50	0.00
C37	222.98	0.00	188.43	0.00	0.00	270.54	0.00
C38	416.02	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	263.20	0.00
Total n-parafin	81611.66	33150.53	20184.19	53249.70	2295.42	30792.61	39979.52
% degradation of n-parafin		59.38	75.27	34.75	97.19	62.26	51.01
Total isoparafin	26009.72	1384.3	8255.48	25055.53	290.82	8168.402	6337.16
%degradation of isoparafin		94.67	68.26	3.67	98.88	68.59	75.64
Total saturated hydrocarbon	107621.38	34534.83	28439.67	78305.23	2586.24	38961.01	45710.68
%degradation of saturated hydrocarbon		67.91	73.57	27.24	97.60	63.80	52.53