0
Yes it has. today , naturally occurring strains of oil-digesting bacteria are used to clean up oil spills
Wiki User
∙ 14y ago
Wiki User
∙ 14y agoyes
Add your answer:
Earn +20 pts
How did scientists produce oil eating bacteria?
Inducing mutations in bacteria
What type of bacteria can break down oil?
Bacteria that can digest oil clean up environmental pollutants like
What kind of bacteria decaying gasoline oils?
Chinese scientists have found a strain called Bacillus cereus DQ01 that digests petrol:http://io9.com/5287359/chinese-scientists-discover-bacteria-eating-up-their-oil
Do bacteria have good uses?
Some bacteria digest oil spills or plastic. Geobacter bacteria coats uranium and prevents it from contaminating ground water. Some bacteria digests paper and makes a fuel called butanol. Clostridium sporogenes, another bacteria, is being used to kill cancer tumors.
Where does Gulf of Mexico crude oil go?
I believe you are asking, "Where did the Gulf of Mexico crude oil go?" Some of the oil was recovered using skimmers. BP was able to conduct controlled burning of the oil, where it was most concentrated. There was subsea recovery of some of the oil using the devices fabricated by BP (top hat, riser insertion tube, stand-alone riser). Nature helps remove oil or make the oil less of a problem to the environment. Since the gulf water is warm, a large percentage of the oil evaporated away. Waves will break up the oil into smaller droplets and partially dissolve some of the oil. Bacteria in the water digest the oil if it is small bits. BP used dispersants that break up the oil so bacteria can digest the oil. These processes do not eliminate all the oil. Some oil remains but the amount is far from certain. Wikipedia identifies some estimates of the remaining oil. Scientists are concern that some of the remaining oil may be on the sea floor.
What is ochrobactrum anthropi?
Ochrobactrum Anthropi is simply a bacteria that helps clean up many enviromental spills. For example, this bacteria is commonly used by scientists to clean up oil spills. The bacteria helps eat it, and then converts it into harmful substances.
What is oil eating bacteria?
bacteria that eats oil
How did scientists obtain a picture of the inside of the Earth?
Using diamonds and a laser, scientists crushed and heated methane produced ... up the same finished products using a few substitutions. crude oil picture
Should scientists create a new sieces of bacteria for a purpose such as to clean up oil spills?
yeh they already have. they add sulphur to the water and the bacteria go nuts and eat all the oil. this method is inefficient, though, because the bacteria just die because of the waters salinity levels. at the moment we are actually making a bacteria that is salt tolerant, so it survives in the salt water.
Why are oil glands found in your skin?
the oli produced (sebum) is there to protect dirt and bacteria empty entering our pores causing possible infections.
How do scientists produce oil-eating bacteria?
When A. borkumensis bacteria use alkanes as their source of energy, each cell forms a biosurfactant (other sources of energy do not cause the bacteria to produce this biosurfactant). A biosurfactant is an extra layer of material forms along the cell membrane. The substances that make up the biosurfactant of A. borkumensis can reduce the surface tension of water, which helps with the degradation of oil. They are also emulsifiers, which further serve to break up the oil/water emulsion, making oil more soluble. A. borkumensis forms a biofilm (a wall of cells) around an oil droplet in seawater and proceeds to use biosurfactants and metabolism to degrade the oil into a water-soluble substance.[4]
What are fuels created by bacteria?
Bacteria in combination with organic material can produce methane gas. The addition of bacteria to heavy oil deposits to produce methane gas is new research, but it certainly looks promising. Bacteria does not create gasl on its own, but rather transforms the organic material into gas. I've included one link, where scientists claim that bacteria may be used to create oil, but I am not aware of any commercial applications. See links.
