Experimenting with microbial degradation of petroleum

Experimenting with microbial degradation
of petroleum

Introduction:

Petroleum based pollutants are widely distributed and have polluted many oceans, soils and underground waters. Because of long term health and environmental hazards that such pollutants can produce, many scientists are studying methods of removing or destroying such pollutants.

Project description:
In this project you study the effect of microbes in degradation and break down of petroleum products. You may also measure the rate of such effects on different petroleum products.

Details of this project
More details or support for this project is available for the members of ScienceProject.com web site. Material needed for experiment or a science kit about this title may be available at MiniScience.com.