Microbially mediated metal corrosion

D Xu, T Gu, DR Lovley - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2023 - nature.com
A wide diversity of microorganisms, typically growing as biofilms, has been implicated in
corrosion, a multi-trillion dollar a year problem. Aerobic microorganisms establish conditions …

Marine biofilms: a successful microbial strategy with economic implications

CCCR De Carvalho - Frontiers in marine science, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Bacteria and other microorganisms have evolved an ingenious form of life, where they
cooperate and improve their chances of survival when subjected to environmental stress …

Microbial corrosion of metals: The corrosion microbiome

Y Lekbach, T Liu, Y Li, M Moradi, W Dou, D Xu… - Advances in microbial …, 2021 - Elsevier
Microbially catalyzed corrosion of metals is a substantial economic concern. Aerobic
microbes primarily enhance Fe 0 oxidation through indirect mechanisms and their impact …

Internal microbiologically influenced corrosion of natural gas pipelines: A critical review

B Wei, J Xu, C Sun, YF Cheng - Journal of Natural Gas Science and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Internal microbiologically influenced corrosion (IMIC) is recognized as one of the primary
reasons causing failures of natural gas pipelines. In this work, a critical review was …

Elucidating microbial iron corrosion mechanisms with a hydrogenase‐deficient strain of Desulfovibrio vulgaris

D Wang, T Ueki, P Ma, D Xu, DR Lovley - Mlife, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Sulfate‐reducing microorganisms extensively contribute to the corrosion of ferrous metal
infrastructure. There is substantial debate over their corrosion mechanisms. We investigated …

Distinct temporal succession of bacterial communities in early marine biofilms in a Portuguese Atlantic Port

JT Antunes, AGG Sousa, J Azevedo, A Rego… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Marine biofilms are known to influence the corrosion of metal surfaces in the marine
environment. Despite some recent research, the succession of bacterial communities …

Synergistic corrosion effects of magnetite and microorganisms: microbial community dependency

MA Diaz-Mateus, LL Machuca, H Farhat… - Applied Microbiology …, 2024 - Springer
The synergistic corrosion effect of acid-producing bacteria (APB) and magnetite on carbon
steel corrosion was assessed using two different microbial consortia. A synergistic corrosion …

Shifts of the indigenous microbial communities from reservoir production water in crude oil-and asphaltene-degrading microcosms

WF Song, JW Wang, YC Yan, LY An, F Zhang… - International …, 2018 - Elsevier
Microbial metabolism of crude oil is an important process in both microbial enhanced oil
recovery and bioremediation. Recently, diverse microorganisms have been detected and …

Microbiologically influenced corrosion as a function of environmental conditions: a laboratory study using oilfield multispecies biofilms

SJ Salgar-Chaparro, K Lepkova, T Pojtanabuntoeng… - Corrosion …, 2020 - Elsevier
The effect of sulphur compounds and temperature on the microbiologically influenced
corrosion of carbon steel has been assessed using multispecies biofilms. Biofilm …

Complementary DNA/RNA-based profiling: characterization of corrosive microbial communities and their functional profiles in an oil production facility

SJ Salgar-Chaparro, LL Machuca - Frontiers in microbiology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
DNA and RNA-based sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene and transcripts were used to
assess the phylogenetic diversity of microbial communities at assets experiencing corrosion …