TY - JOUR JF - Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology VL - 85 Y1 - 2010/// UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-77954620782&doi=10.1007%2fs00128-010-0058-1&partnerID=40&md5=ed6b908a0df3c128596da5a97eb8989a N1 - cited By 19 A1 - Mohajeri, L. A1 - Aziz, H.A. A1 - Isa, M.H. A1 - Zahed, M.A. A1 - Mohajeri, S. SP - 54 AV - none N2 - Weathered crude oil (WCO) removals in shoreline sediment samples were monitored for 60 days in bioremediation experimentation. Experimental modeling was carried out using statistical design of experiments. At optimum conditions maximum of 83.13, 78.06 and 69.92 WCO removals were observed for 2, 16 and 30 g/kg initial oil concentrations, respectively. Significant variations in the crude oil degradation pattern were observed with respect to oil, nutrient and microorganism contents. Crude oil bioremediation were successfully described by a first-order kinetic model. The study indicated that the rate of hydrocarbon biodegradation increased with decrease of crude oil concentrations. © 2010 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC. SN - 00074861 KW - Biodegradation kinetics; Ex situ; Experimental modeling; First-order kinetic models; Hydrocarbon biodegradation; Kinetic analysis; Oil concentration; Optimum conditions; Sediment samples; Statistical design of experiments; Weathered crude oil KW - Bioremediation; Biotechnology; Crude oil; Degradation; Design of experiments; Hydrocarbons; Microbiology; Nutrients; Pollution KW - Biodegradation KW - hydrocarbon; petroleum; petroleum; soil; soil pollutant KW - article; bioremediation; chemistry; comparative study; kinetics; metabolism; microbiology; sea; sediment; soil; soil pollutant; analysis; sediment; soil; soil pollutant KW - Biodegradation KW - Environmental; Geologic Sediments; Hydrocarbons; Kinetics; Oceans and Seas; Petroleum; Soil; Soil Microbiology; Soil Pollutants KW - Biodegradation KW - Environmental; Geologic Sediments; Hydrocarbons; Kinetics; Oceans and Seas; Petroleum; Soil; Soil Microbiology; Soil Pollutants IS - 1 TI - Ex-situ bioremediation of crude oil in soil, a comparative kinetic analysis ID - scholars1219 EP - 58 ER -