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Microbial desulfurization of organic sulfur compounds in petroleum 总被引:26,自引:0,他引:26
Sulfur removal from petroleum is important from the standpoint of the global environment because the combustion of sulfur compounds leads to the production of sulfur oxides, which are the source of acid rain. As the regulations for sulfur in fuels become more stringent, the existing chemical desulfurizations are coming inadequate for the "deeper desulfurization" to produce lower-sulfur fuels without new and innovative processes. Biodesulfurization is rising as one of the candidates. Several microorganisms were found to desulfurize dibenzothiophene (DBT), a representative of the organic sulfur compounds in petroleum, forming a sulfur-free compound, 2-hydroxybiphenyl. They are promising as biocatalysts in the microbial desulfurization of petroleum because without assimilation of the carbon content, they remove only sulfur from the heterocyclic compounds which is refractory to conventional chemical desulfurization. Both enzymological and molecular genetic studies are now in progress for the purpose of obtaining improved desulfurization activity of organisms. The genes involved in the sulfur-specific DBT desulfurization were identified and the corresponding enzymes have been investigated. From the practical point of view, it has been proved that the microbial desulfurization proceeds in the presence of high concentrations of hydrocarbons, and more complicated DBT analogs are also desulfurized by the microorganisms. This review outlines the progress in the studies of the microbial desulfurization from the basic and practical point of view. 相似文献
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When Comparing Alternative Fuel‐Vehicle Systems,Life Cycle Assessment Studies Should Consider Trends in Oil Production
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Timothy J. Wallington James E. Anderson Robert D. De Kleine Hyung Chul Kim Heiko Maas Adam R. Brandt Gregory A. Keoleian 《Journal of Industrial Ecology》2017,21(2):244-248
Petroleum from unconventional reserves is making an increasingly important contribution to the transportation fuel supply, but is generally more expensive and has greater environmental burdens than petroleum from conventional sources. Life cycle assessments (LCAs) of alternative fuel‐vehicle technologies typically consider conventional internal combustion engine vehicles fueled by gasoline produced from the average petroleum slate used in refineries as a baseline. Large‐scale deployment of alternative fuel‐vehicle technologies will decrease petroleum demand and lead to decreased production at the economic margin (unconventional oil), but this is not considered in most current LCAs. If marginal petroleum resources have larger impacts than average petroleum resources, the environmental benefits of petroleum demand reduction are underestimated by the current modeling approaches. Often, models include some consequential‐based impacts (such as indirect land‐use change for biofuels), but exclude others (such as avoided unconventional oil production). This approach is inconsistent and does not provide a robust basis for public policy and private investment strategy decisions. We provide an example to illustrate the potential scale of these impacts, but further research is needed to establish and quantify these marginal effects and incorporate them into LCAs of both conventional and alternative fuel‐vehicle technologies. 相似文献
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For a long time now, the combustion of fossil fuels to give usable energy has led to the release of many types of pollutants into the atmosphere. Of particular interest is sulfur dioxide derived from combustion of diesel and related organic-sulfur containing media. Its presence in the air has resulted in the deterioration of health and depletion in aesthetic quality of materials. As a result, environmental regulations are now put in place to regulate the level of sulfur in different fuel types. To achieve this goal, many techniques have been tested, and bio-catalytic desulfurization is now being considered due to some limitations with conventional hydrodesulfurization approach. This essay discusses various kinds of microbial isolates that are harnessed for this purpose, and the influence of genetic engineering techniques and various factors on the activities of these biocatalysts. With increasing knowledge of microbial ecology, better understanding of biochemical systems, exploration of new conversion pathways and optimization of bioreactor design, enhancement in this approach is expected to bring an increase in its acceptability and improve the prospects of its full commercialization as viable alternative to the conventional hydrodesulfurization of fossil fuels. 相似文献
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Olga Martzoukou Diomi Mamma Dimitris G. Hatzinikolaou 《Biotechnology and bioengineering》2023,120(10):3092-3098
Microbial desulfurization has been extensively studied as a promising alternative to the widely applied chemical desulfurization process. Sulfur removal from petroleum and its products becomes essential, as the environmental regulations become increasingly stringent. Rhodococcus qingshengii IGTS8 has gained ground as a naturally occurring model biocatalyst, due to its superior specific activity for desulfurization of dibenzothiophene (DBT). Recalcitrant organic sulfur compounds—DBT included—are preferentially removed by selective carbon-sulfur bond cleavage to avoid a reduction in the calorific value of the fuel. The process, however, still has not reached economically sustainable levels, as certain limitations have been identified. One of those bottlenecks is the repression of catalytic activity caused by ubiquitous sulfur sources such as inorganic sulfate, methionine, or cysteine. Herein, we report an optimized culture medium for wild-type stain IGTS8 that completely alleviates the sulfate-mediated repression of biodesulfurization activity without modification of the natural biocatalyst. Medium C not only promotes growth in the presence of several sulfur sources, including DBT, but also enhances biodesulfurization of resting cells grown in the presence of up to 5 mM sulfate. Based on the above, the present work can be considered as a step towards the development of a more viable commercial biodesulfurization process. 相似文献
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生物催化是指将酶或生物有机体用于有用的化学转化的过程,在人们对传统化学催化的环境影响抱有忧虑的情况下,生物催化提供了一种有吸引力的选择。在过去的几十年里,对生物催化剂的研究每出现一次大的进步,生物催化的发展就会出现一次高潮。因此,生物催化剂的发现与改造已成为当今研究的热点。宏基因组文库技术的出现克服了许多微生物不可培养的障碍,人们能够从自然资源中获得丰富的潜在的生物催化剂。而基于理性设计的分子改造技术的发展,可以使得人们对潜在的生物催化剂进行快速而有效的改造以满足工业化生产的需求。随着生物催化剂发现与改造的手段不断进步,更多的优良生物催化剂得到了广泛的应用,生物催化在工业生产中也得到了更深入的应用。结合作者的研究工作,总结了生物催化剂发现与改良的一些研究进展,以为获得更多优良的、能够实现工业应用的生物催化剂奠定理论基础。 相似文献
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Technologies for upgrading fast pyrolysis bio‐oil to drop‐in fuels and coproducts are under development and show promise for decarbonizing energy supply for transportation and chemicals markets. The successful commercialization of these fuels and the technologies deployed to produce them depend on production costs, scalability, and yield. To meet environmental regulations, pyrolysis‐based biofuels need to adhere to life cycle greenhouse gas intensity standards relative to their petroleum‐based counterparts. We review literature on fast pyrolysis bio‐oil upgrading and explore key metrics that influence their commercial viability through life cycle assessment (LCA) and techno‐economic analysis (TEA) methods together with technology readiness level (TRL) evaluation. We investigate the trade‐offs among economic, environmental, and technological metrics derived from these methods for individual technologies as a means of understanding their nearness to commercialization. Although the technologies reviewed have not attained commercial investment, some have been pilot tested. Predicting the projected performance at scale‐up through models can, with industrial experience, guide decision‐making to competitively meet energy policy goals. LCA and TEA methods that ensure consistent and reproducible models at a given TRL are needed to compare alternative technologies. This study highlights the importance of integrated analysis of multiple economic, environmental, and technological metrics for understanding performance prospects and barriers among early stage technologies. 相似文献
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Influence of fatty acid methyl esters from hydroxylated vegetable oils on diesel fuel lubricity 总被引:10,自引:0,他引:10
Current and future regulations on the sulfur content of diesel fuel have led to a decrease in lubricity of these fuels. This decreased lubricity poses a significant problem as it may lead to wear and damage of diesel engines, primarily fuel injection systems. Vegetable oil based diesel fuel substitutes (biodiesel) have been shown to be clean and effective and may increase overall lubricity when added to diesel fuel at nominally low levels. Previous studies on castor oil suggest that its uniquely high level of the hydroxy fatty acid ricinoleic acid may impart increased lubricity to the oil and its derivatives as compared to other vegetable oils. Likewise, the developing oilseed Lesquerella may also increase diesel lubricity through its unique hydroxy fatty acid composition. This study examines the effect of castor and Lesquerella oil esters on the lubricity of diesel fuel using the High-Frequency Reciprocating Rig (HFRR) test and compares these results to those for the commercial vegetable oil derivatives soybean and rapeseed methyl esters. 相似文献
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Biological desulfurization (biodesulfurization) of dibenzothiophene (DBT) by the 4S pathway is a model system for an enviromentally benign way to lower the sulfur content of petroleum. Despite a large amount of effort the efficiency of the 4S pathway is still too low for a commercial oil biodesulfurization process, but the 4S pathway could potentially be used now for commercial processes to produce surfactants, antibiotics, polythioesters and other chemicals and for the detoxification of some chemical warfare agents. Proteins containing disulfide bonds are resistant to temperature, pH, and solvents, but the production of disulfide-rich proteins in microbial hosts is challenging. The study of the 4S pathway can provide insights as to how to maximize the production of disulfide-rich proteins. Engineering of the operon encoding the 4S pathway to contain a greater content of methionine and cysteine may be able to link use of DBT as a sole sulfur source to increasing 4S pathway activity by increasing the nutritional demand for sulfur. This strategy could result in the development of biocatalysts suitable for use in an oil biodesulfurization process, but the study of the 4S pathway can also lead to a better understanding of microbial physiology to optimize activity of a mult-step co-factor-requiring pathway, as well as the production of highly stable industrially relevant enzymes for numerous applications. 相似文献
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Riddle RR Gibbs PR Willson RC Benedik MJ 《Journal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology》2003,30(1):6-12
Biotechnological upgrading of fossil fuels is of increasing interest as remaining stocks of petroleum show increasing levels
of contaminants such as heavy metals, sulfur and nitrogen-containing heteroaromatic compounds. Carbazole is of particular
interest as a major petroleum component known to reduce refining yields through catalyst poisoning. In this study, the biotransformation
of carbazole was successfully demonstrated in a liquid two-phase system, when solubilized in either 1-methylnaphthalene or
in diesel fuel. The effects of solvent toxicity were investigated by expressing the carbazole-transformation genes from MB1332,
a rifampicin-resistant derivative of Pseudomonas sp. LD2, in a solvent-resistant heterologous host, P. putida Idaho [1]. This solvent-resistant strain successfully degraded carbazole solubilized in 1-methylnaphthalene and in the presence
of 10 vol% xylenes similar to the non-recombinant strain Pseudomonas sp. LD2. Identification of a suitable recombinant host, however, was essential for further investigations of partial pathway
transformations. Recombinant P. putida Idaho expressing only the initial dioxygenase enzymes transformed carbazole to an intermediate well retained in the oil phase.
Partial carbazole transformation converts carbazole to non-aromatic species; their effect is unknown on refinery catalyst
poisoning, but would allow almost complete retention of carbon content and fuel value.
Electronic Publication 相似文献
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Qiang Fei Michael T. GuarnieriLing Tao Lieve M.L. LaurensNancy Dowe Philip T. Pienkos 《Biotechnology advances》2014
Natural gas is a mixture of low molecular weight hydrocarbon gases that can be generated from either fossil or anthropogenic resources. Although natural gas is used as a transportation fuel, constraints in storage, relatively low energy content (MJ/L), and delivery have limited widespread adoption. Advanced utilization of natural gas has been explored for biofuel production by microorganisms. In recent years, the aerobic bioconversion of natural gas (or primarily the methane content of natural gas) into liquid fuels (Bio-GTL) by biocatalysts (methanotrophs) has gained increasing attention as a promising alternative for drop-in biofuel production. Methanotrophic bacteria are capable of converting methane into microbial lipids, which can in turn be converted into renewable diesel via a hydrotreating process. In this paper, biodiversity, catalytic properties and key enzymes and pathways of these microbes are summarized. Bioprocess technologies are discussed based upon existing literature, including cultivation conditions, fermentation modes, bioreactor design, and lipid extraction and upgrading. This review also outlines the potential of Bio-GTL using methane as an alternative carbon source as well as the major challenges and future research needs of microbial lipid accumulation derived from methane, key performance index, and techno-economic analysis. An analysis of raw material costs suggests that methane-derived diesel fuel has the potential to be competitive with petroleum-derived diesel. 相似文献
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Plant genetic engineering for biofuel production: towards affordable cellulosic ethanol 总被引:5,自引:0,他引:5
Sticklen MB 《Nature reviews. Genetics》2008,9(6):433-443
Biofuels provide a potential route to avoiding the global political instability and environmental issues that arise from reliance on petroleum. Currently, most biofuel is in the form of ethanol generated from starch or sugar, but this can meet only a limited fraction of global fuel requirements. Conversion of cellulosic biomass, which is both abundant and renewable, is a promising alternative. However, the cellulases and pretreatment processes involved are very expensive. Genetically engineering plants to produce cellulases and hemicellulases, and to reduce the need for pretreatment processes through lignin modification, are promising paths to solving this problem, together with other strategies, such as increasing plant polysaccharide content and overall biomass. 相似文献
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ZOU KEYUAN 《Ocean Development & International Law》2013,44(4):339-364
With its rapid economic growth, China is eager to get sufficient energy (including oil and gas) to support its dynamic national development. Economic reform in the late 1970s triggered China's offshore oil and gas exploration and exploitation. Relevant laws and regulations have been enacted and implemented, including regulations on exploiting offshore petroleum resources in cooperation with foreigners and regulations on marine environmental protection against pollution from offshore petroleum activities. This article attempts to assess and analyze China's national policy and relevant laws and regulations governing offshore oil and gas development and their effectiveness. In addition, the prospect for joint development in disputed sea areas adjacent to China is discussed. 相似文献
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Milan Polakovič Juraj Švitel Marek Bučko Jaroslav Filip Vilém Neděla Marion B. Ansorge-Schumacher Peter Gemeiner 《Biotechnology letters》2017,39(5):667-683
Viable microbial cells are important biocatalysts in the production of fine chemicals and biofuels, in environmental applications and also in emerging applications such as biosensors or medicine. Their increasing significance is driven mainly by the intensive development of high performance recombinant strains supplying multienzyme cascade reaction pathways, and by advances in preservation of the native state and stability of whole-cell biocatalysts throughout their application. In many cases, the stability and performance of whole-cell biocatalysts can be highly improved by controlled immobilization techniques. This review summarizes the current progress in the development of immobilized whole-cell biocatalysts, the immobilization methods as well as in the bioreaction engineering aspects and economical aspects of their biocatalytic applications. 相似文献
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Biodiesel production—current state of the art and challenges 总被引:3,自引:0,他引:3
Biodiesel is a clean-burning fuel produced from grease, vegetable oils, or animal fats. Biodiesel is produced by transesterification
of oils with short-chain alcohols or by the esterification of fatty acids. The transesterification reaction consists of transforming
triglycerides into fatty acid alkyl esters, in the presence of an alcohol, such as methanol or ethanol, and a catalyst, such
as an alkali or acid, with glycerol as a byproduct. Because of diminishing petroleum reserves and the deleterious environmental
consequences of exhaust gases from petroleum diesel, biodiesel has attracted attention during the past few years as a renewable
and environmentally friendly fuel. Since biodiesel is made entirely from vegetable oil or animal fats, it is renewable and
biodegradable. The majority of biodiesel today is produced by alkali-catalyzed transesterification with methanol, which results
in a relatively short reaction time. However, the vegetable oil and alcohol must be substantially anhydrous and have a low
free fatty acid content, because the presence of water or free fatty acid or both promotes soap formation. In this article,
we examine different biodiesel sources (edible and nonedible), virgin oil versus waste oil, algae-based biodiesel that is
gaining increasing importance, role of different catalysts including enzyme catalysts, and the current state-of-the-art in
biodiesel production.
JIMB 2008: BioEnergy—special issue. 相似文献
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Kirkwood KM Ebert S Foght JM Fedorak PM Gray MR 《Journal of applied microbiology》2005,99(6):1444-1454
AIMS: To isolate bacteria capable of cleaving aliphatic carbon-sulfur bonds as potential biological upgrading catalysts for the reduction of molecular weight and viscosity in heavy crude oil. METHODS AND RESULTS: Thirty-one bacterial strains isolated from enrichment cultures were able to biotransform model compounds representing the aliphatic sulfide bridges found in asphaltenes. Using gas chromatography and mass spectrometry, three types of attack were identified: alkyl chain degradation, allowing use as a carbon source; nonspecific sulfur oxidation; and sulfur-specific oxidation and carbon-sulfur bond cleavage, allowing use as a sulfur source. Di-n-octyl sulfide degradation produced octylthio- and octylsulfonyl-alkanoic acids, consistent with terminal oxidation followed by beta-oxidation reactions. Utilization of dibenzyl sulfide or 1,4-dithiane as a sulfur source was regulated by sulfate, indicating a sulfur-specific activity rather than nonspecific oxidation. Finally, several isolates were also able to use dibenzothiophene as a sulfur source, and this was the preferred organic sulfur substrate for one isolate. CONCLUSIONS: The use of commercially available alkyl sulfides in enrichment cultures gave isolates that followed a range of metabolic pathways, not just sulfur-specific attack. SIGNIFICANCE AND IMPACT OF THE STUDY: These results give new insight into biodegradation of organosulfur compounds from petroleum and for biotreatment of such compounds in chemical munitions. 相似文献
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Fernández-Arrojo L Guazzaroni ME López-Cortés N Beloqui A Ferrer M 《Current opinion in biotechnology》2010,21(6):725-733
Microbial enzymes have many known applications as biocatalysts. However, only a few of them are currently employed for biocatalysis even though an annotated collection of more than 190 billion bases is available in metagenome sequence databases from uncultured and highly diverse microbial populations. This review aims at providing conceptual and technical bases for the translation of metagenome data into both experimental and computational frameworks that facilitates a comprehensive analysis of the biocatalysts diversity space. We will also briefly present the status of the current capabilities that assess and predict catalytic potential of environmental sites and track its diversity and evolution in large-scale biocatalysis process resulting from studies applying metagenomics in association with gene fingerprinting, catabolic arrays and complementary '-omics'. 相似文献
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More than 99% of identified prokaryotes, including many from the marine environment,cannot be cultured in the laboratory. This lack of capability restricts our knowledge of microbial genetics and community ecology. Metagenomics, the culture-independent cloning of environmental DNAs that are isolated directly from an environmental sample, has already provided a wealth of information about the uncultured microbial world. It has also facilitated the discovery of novel biocatalysts by allowing researchers to probe directly into a huge diversity of enzymes within natural microbial communities. Recent advances in these studies have led to a great interest in recruiting microbial enzymes for the development of environmentally-friendly industry. Although the metagenomics approach has many limitations, it is expected to provide not only scientific insights but also economic benefits, especially in industry. This review highlights the importance of metagenomics in mining microbial lipases, as an example, by using high-throughput techniques. In addition, we discuss challenges in the metagenomics as an important part of bioinformatics analysis in big data. 相似文献