Bunker oil biocracking for heavy fuel upgrading using microbial seed from soil

• Main Author: See, Huiyu.
• Other Authors: Yan Rong
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Environmental engineering::Environmental pollution; DRNTU::Engineering::Materials::Ecomaterials
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/35519
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This study is to explore a potentially more economical and environment-friendly method of biorefinery to achieve desulfurization, denitrogenation, demetallization and cracking of heavy fuel oil altogether. With their versatility, microorganisms which grow at ambient conditions are believed to have t...