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Bioremediation, Biostimulation and Bioaugmention: a Review International Journal of Environmental Bioremediation & Biodegradation, 2015, Vol. 3, No. 1, 28-39 Available online at http://pubs.sciepub.com/ijebb/3/1/5 © Science and Education Publishing DOI:10.12691/ijebb-3-1-5 Bioremediation, Biostimulation and Bioaugmention: A Review Godleads Omokhagbor Adams1,*, Prekeyi Tawari Fufeyin1, Samson Eruke Okoro2, Igelenyah Ehinomen1 1Department of Animal and Environmental Biology, University of Benin, Edo State Nigeria 2Department of Biochemistry, University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State Nigeria *Corresponding author: [email protected] Received February 21, 2015; Revised February 28, 2015; Accepted March 05, 2015 Abstract Bioremediation uses microbial metabolism in the presence of optimum environmental conditions and sufficient nutrients to breakdown contaminants notably petroleum hydrocarbons. We reviewed technologies for carrying out bioremediation and observed that biotechnological approaches that are designed to carry out remediation have received a great deal of attention in recent years. Biostimulation (meaning the addition of limiting nutrients to support microbial growth) and Bioaugmentation (meaning the addition of living cells capable of degradation) studies have enjoyed a heavy presence in literature and reviews of these technologies focusing on the technical aspects are very few if at all available. At times, nutrient application alone or augmenting with microbes is not sufficient enough for remediation leading to a simultaneous approach. Recent studies show that a combination of both approaches is equally feasible but not explicitly more beneficial. Evidently, selection of a technology hinges on site specific requirements such as availability of microorganisms capable of degradation in sufficient quantities, nutrient availability to support microbial growth and proliferation as well as environmental parameters such as temperature in combination with duration of exposure. This review focuses on these technologies and efforts are directed towards eventual manipulation of the processes of remediation all geared towards making bioremediation technically and economically viable for comprehensive treatment of petroleum hydrocarbon contaminated soils. Keywords: Bioremediation, Biostimulation, Bioaugmentation, combined technologies Cite This Article: Godleads Omokhagbor Adams, Prekeyi Tawari Fufeyin, Samson Eruke Okoro, and Igelenyah Ehinomen, “Bioremediation, Biostimulation and Bioaugmention: A Review.” International Journal of Environmental Bioremediation & Biodegradation, vol. 3, no. 1 (2015): 28-39. doi: 10.12691/ijebb-3-1-5. ecosystems, such as the spills experienced in the Niger Delta region in Nigeria because of the remoteness of the 1. Introduction sites or the bottle necks hindering emergency environmental responses. There is a growing concern about the rate of The effects of oil contamination are enormous. Oil environmental degradation currently experienced throughout penetrates into the structure of the plumage of birds and the world today, much of it arising from growing the fur of mammals, reducing their insulating ability, and production and use of fossil fuels. In all continents, oil making them more vulnerable to temperature fluctuations exploration and use threatens the health of the and much less buoyant in water. Animals that rely on environment and living creatures including humans. An scent to find their babies or mothers fade away due to the oil spill is the release of a petroleum hydrocarbon into the strong scent of the oil. This causes babies to be rejected or environment. Oil spills may be due to releases of crude oil abandoned, leaving the babies to starve and eventually die from tankers, offshore platforms, drilling rigs and wells, (Hogan, 2008). Oil can impair a bird's ability to fly, as well as spills of refined petroleum products (such as preventing it from foraging or escaping from predators. As gasoline, diesel) and their by-products, heavier fuels used they preen, birds may ingest the oil coating their feathers, by large ships such as bunker fuel, or the spill of any oily irritating the digestive tract, altering liver function, and refuse or waste oil. causing kidney damage. Together with their diminished Crude oil and refined fuel spills have damaged natural foraging capacity, this can rapidly result in dehydration ecosystems in Alaska, the Gulf of Mexico, the Galapagos and metabolic imbalance. Some birds exposed to Islands, France, the Niger Delta region in Nigeria and petroleum also experience changes in their hormonal many other places worldwide. The quantity of oil spilled balance, including changes in their luteinizing protein. during accidents has ranged from a few hundred tons to The majority of birds affected by oil spills die without several hundred thousand tons (e.g., Deepwater Horizon human intervention. Some studies have suggested that less Oil Spill, Atlantic Empress, Amoco Cadiz) but it is a than one percent of oil-soaked birds survive, even after limited barometer of damage or impact. Smaller spills cleaning (Dunnet, et al., 1982) have also ready proven to have a great impact on International Journal of Environmental Bioremediation & Biodegradation 29 For humans an oil spill can represent an immediate fire Unterman, 1993).Bioremediation is a process which uses hazard. The Kuwaiti oil fires produced air pollution that microorganisms and their products to remove caused respiratory distress. The Deepwater Horizon contaminants from the soil (USEPA 2000, 2012; Leung explosion killed eleven oil rig workers. The fire resulting 2004). In particular, native soil rnicroorganisms play a key from the Lac-Mégantic derailment killed forty seven and role in soil bioremediationas biogeochemical agents to destroyed half of the town's centre, In Ikarama, Bayelsa transform complex organic compounds into simple inorganic State, Nigeria, a spill resulted in fire and subsequent compounds or into their constituent elements. This burning of at least fifty personnel on the work platform process is termed mineralization. The microorganisms are (SPDC, 2011). adsorbed to soil particles by the mechanism of ionic Spilled oil can also contaminate drinking water supplies. exchange. In general soil particles have a negative charge, For example, in 2013 two different oil spills contaminated and soil and bacteria can hold together by an ionic bond water supplies for three hundred thousand people in Miri, involving polyvalent cations (Killham, 1994). Malaysia; Eighty thousand people in Coca, Ecuador. In Bioremediation technology uses microorganisms to 2000, springs were contaminated by an oil spill in Clark reduce, eliminate, contain, or transform to benign contaminants County, Kentucky (Campbell Robertson /Clifford Krauss, present in soils, sediments, water, and air. 2010). Bioremediation is described as the use of microorganisms Contamination can have an economic impact on to destroy or immobilize waste materials (Shanahan, tourism and marine resource extraction industries. For 2004). This process of detoxification targets the harmful example, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill impacted beach chemicals by mineralization, transformation, or alteration tourism and fishing along the Gulf Coast, and the (Shannon and Unterman, 1993). For centuries, civilizations responsible parties were required to compensate economic have used natural bioremediation in wastewater treatment, victims (Yang 2009). but intentional use for the reduction of hazardous wastes is Based on available literature (Adams et al, 2014), oil a more recent development. contamination reduces the ability of soil to support the Bioremediation involves the production of energy in a growth of plants, seeps into ground to contaminate ground redox reaction within microbial cells. These reactions water, and increases the presence of heavy metals which include respiration and other biological functions needed can bioaccumulate and biomagnify causing adverse health for cell maintenance and reproduction. A delivery system effects. It is well known that heavy metals can be that provides one or more of the following is generally extremely toxic as they damage nerves, liver and bones, required: an energy source (electron donor), an electron and also block functional groups of vital enzymes (Moore, acceptor, and nutrients. Different types of microbial 1990; Ewan and Pamphlett, 1996). Some of the metals electron acceptor classes can be involved in like Nickel are also listed as possible human carcinogens bioremediation, such as oxygen-, nitrate-, manganese-, (group 2B) and associated with reproductive problems and iron (III)-, sulfate-, or carbon dioxide-reducing, and their birth defects. Besides, a range of detrimental effects on corresponding redox potentials. Redox potentials provide fauna and flora are also well documented. Often, these an indication of the relative dominance of the electron contaminants also inhibit biological remediation processes acceptor classes. due to metal sensitivity of the strain and necessitate The presence of microorganisms with the appropriate additional combat strategies for efficient operation (Malik, metabolic capabilities is the most important requirement 2000; Malik et al., 2001). for oil spill bioremediation according to Venosa et al, The challenge facing scientists and industrialists alike (2001). The communities which are exposed to today is tackling this problem of environmental degradation in hydrocarbons become adapted, exhibiting selective a safe, environmentally sound
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