"When all think alike, then no one is thinking." — Walter Lippman
This will be my last post for a few days … I will be on travel. Here is today’s offering.
I ran across a blog by Dr. Theresa Phillips. One of her posts succinctly describes the obstacles to commercialization of biodesulfurization. To quote from her post …
"Biodesulfurization was viewed as a way to reduce costs and the environmental impacts associated with the chemical processes. However, few microorganisms could remove sulfur species from oil, and those that did (Rhodococcus sp. of bacteria, for example) did not survive well in the toxic crude oil, with minimal available water ... A review by Soleimani et al. 2007 indicates that nothing much changed in this area of research at least in the first year after I left, and that more research is needed in nearly all the areas I had been investigating"
Source: http://biotech.about.com/b/2009/02/09/will-biodesulfurization-ever-work.htm
The cite for the Soleimani article she mentions is …
Soleimani, M., Bassi, A., and Margaritis, A. 2007. Biodesulfurization of refractory organic sulfur compounds in fossil fuels. Biotechnol. Adv. 25(6):570-96.
Source, with free view of entire article: http://www.scribd.com/doc/26432297/Biodesulfurization-of-Refractory-Organic-Sulfur-Compounds-in-Fossil-Fuels
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