Advanced technologies for the remediation of pesticide-contaminated soils

E Morillo, J Villaverde - Science of the total environment, 2017 - Elsevier
The occurrence of pesticides in soil has become a highly significant environmental problem,
which has been increased by the vast use of pesticides worldwide and the absence of …

Use of surfactants for the remediation of contaminated soils: a review

X Mao, R Jiang, W **ao, J Yu - Journal of hazardous materials, 2015 - Elsevier
Due to the great harm caused by soil contamination, there is an increasing interest to apply
surfactants to the remediation of a variety of contaminated soils worldwide. This review …

A review on the application of chemical surfactant and surfactant foam for remediation of petroleum oil contaminated soil

A Karthick, B Roy, P Chattopadhyay - Journal of environmental …, 2019 - Elsevier
Soil, exposed to petroleum oil contaminants (in the form of petrol, diesel, gasoline, crude oil,
used motor oil), may cause potential damage to the environment, animal and human health …

A review on natural surfactants

S De, S Malik, A Ghosh, R Saha, B Saha - RSC advances, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Natural surfactants or biosurfactants are amphiphilic biological compounds, usually
extracellular, produced by a variety of microorganisms from various substances including …

Microbial surfactants: a journey from fundamentals to recent advances

DS Pardhi, RR Panchal, VH Raval, RG Joshi… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Microbial surfactants are amphiphilic surface-active substances aid to reduce surface and
interfacial tensions by accumulating between two fluid phases. They can be generically …

Biosurfactants in agriculture

DP Sachdev, SS Cameotra - Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 2013 - Springer
Agricultural productivity to meet growing demands of human population is a matter of great
concern for all countries. Use of green compounds to achieve the sustainable agriculture is …

Environmental applications for biosurfactants

CN Mulligan - Environmental pollution, 2005 - Elsevier
Biosurfactants are surfactants that are produced extracellularly or as part of the cell
membrane by bacteria, yeasts and fungi. Examples include Pseudomonas aeruginosa …

Micro and nanobubbles in water and wastewater treatment: A state-of-the-art review

I Levitsky, D Tavor, V Gitis - Journal of Water Process Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
Air-water micronanobubbles MNBs can be produced by four different methods and be used
to improve (1) oxygen transfer in microbiological processes with high consumption rate,(2) …

Self-assembly, interfacial properties, interactions with macromolecules and molecular modelling and simulation of microbial bio-based amphiphiles (biosurfactants). A …

N Baccile, C Seyrig, A Poirier, S Alonso-de Castro… - Green …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Chemical surfactants are omnipresent in consumer products, but they are the subject of
environmental concerns. For this reason, the complete replacement of petrochemical …

Surfactants in microbiology and biotechnology: Part 2. Application aspects

A Singh, JD Van Hamme, OP Ward - Biotechnology advances, 2007 - Elsevier
Surfactants are amphiphilic compounds which can reduce surface and interfacial tensions
by accumulating at the interface of immiscible fluids and increase the solubility, mobility …