Surfactants: Toxicity, remediation and green surfactants

Environmental Chemistry Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 275-287

  Rebello, Sharrel ^a   Asok, Aju K ^a   Mundayoor, Sathish ^b   Jisha, M S ^a  

^a MAHATMA GANDHI UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b RAJIV GANDHI CENTRE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Anionic; Bioremediation; Biosurfactants; Linear alkyl benzene sulfonate; Methylene blue active agents; Pollution; Sodium dodecyl sulfate

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS; BENZENE; BIODEGRADABILITY; BIODEGRADATION; BIOMOLECULES; OZONE; OZONIZATION; SOAPS (DETERGENTS); SODIUM DODECYL SULFATE; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TOXICITY;

ACTIVE AGENTS; ANIONIC; AQUATIC SYSTEM; BIO-SURFACTANTS; GREEN SURFACTANT; LINEAR ALKYLBENZENE SULPHONATES; METHYLENE BLUE; METHYLENE BLUE ACTIVE AGENT; SODIUM DODECYL SULPHATE; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS;

BIOREMEDIATION;

EID: 84899793575     PISSN: 16103653     EISSN: 16103661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10311-014-0466-2     Document Type: Review

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