Acetate production from oil under sulfate-reducing conditions in bioreactors injected with sulfate and nitrate

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 79, Issue 16, 2013, Pages 5059-5068

  Callbeck, Cameron ^a,b   Agrawal, Akhil ^b   Voordouw, Gerrit ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIOLOGICAL WATER TREATMENT; BIOREACTORS; CRUDE OIL; HEAVY OIL PRODUCTION; NITRATES; OIL WELL FLOODING; REDUCTION; WATER INJECTION; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; OIL FIELDS; PETROLEUM INDUSTRY; VOLATILE FATTY ACIDS;

ELECTRON DONORS; INJECTION WATER; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY ANALYSIS; NITRATE INJECTION; PULSED INJECTION; SULFATE REDUCING BACTERIA; SULFATE REDUCTION; SULFATE-REDUCING CONDITIONS; PYROSEQUENCING;

SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

ACETATE; ALKANE; BIOREACTOR; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); HEAVY OIL; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NITRATE; OIL PRODUCTION; REACTION KINETICS; SULFATE;

EID: 84880983603     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01251-13     Document Type: Article

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