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EVALUATION OF HYDROCARBON DEGRADATION BY INDIGINOUS BACTERIA DEGRADE RESIDUAL HYDROCARBONS OF MATURE FINE TAILINGS UNDER ANAEROBIC CONDITIONS

Maryam Rezaeitamijani, Catherine N. Mulligan

In the proceedings of: GeoCalgary 2022: 75th Canadian Geotechnical Conference

Session: T14

ABSTRACT: Tailing ponds are facilities to store tailings which are byproducts of bitumen extraction from the oil sands industry. Tailings consists of residual hydrocarbons, water, sand, clay and metals, which take many years to settle. Deeper layers of tailings, called Mature Fine Tailings (MFT), naturally take almost 10 years to settle. Therefore, the separation and treatment of residual hydrocarbons in MFT layers is one of the challenging problems. In this study, bacteria have been isolated from MFT layers under anaerobic conditions and then cultured on agar plates that contain crude oil as the source of carbon. The bacteria which showed oil degradation were added to the anaerobic bioreactor. The tailing ponds environment was simulated in the bioreactor, and the hydrocarbon degradation was monitored by gas chromatography. The results indicated that even in an anaerobic environment, the isolated bacteria from the polluted soil could degrade residual hydrocarbons within the first week of addition to the bioreactor.


RÉSUMÉ: Les bassins de residus sont des installations pour stocker les residus qui sont des sous-produits de l'extraction du bitume de l'industrie des sables bitumineux. Les residus sont constitues d'hydrocarbures residuels, d'eau, de sable, d'argile et de metaux, qui mettent de nombreuses annees a se deposer. Les couches plus profondes de residus, appelees residus fins matures (MFT), mettent naturellement pres de 10 ans a se deposer. Par consequent, la separation et le traitement des hydrocarbures residuels dans les couches MFT est l'un des problemes difficiles. Dans cette etude, des bacteries ont ete isolees a partir de couches MFT dans des conditions anaerobies, puis cultivees sur des plaques de gelose contenant du petrole brut comme source de carbone. Les bacteries qui ont montre une degradation de l'huile ont ete ajoutees au bioreacteur anaerobie. L'environnement des bassins de decantation a ete simule dans le bioreacteur et la degradation des hydrocarbures a ete suivie par chromatographie en phase gazeuse. Les resultats ont indique que meme dans un environnement anaerobie, les bacteries isolees du sol pollue pouvaient degrader les hydrocarbures residuels au cours de la premiere semaine d'ajout au bioreacteur.


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Rezaeitamijani, Maryam, Mulligan, Catherine N. (2022) EVALUATION OF HYDROCARBON DEGRADATION BY INDIGINOUS BACTERIA DEGRADE RESIDUAL HYDROCARBONS OF MATURE FINE TAILINGS UNDER ANAEROBIC CONDITIONS in GEO2022. Ottawa, Ontario: Canadian Geotechnical Society.

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title = EVALUATION OF HYDROCARBON DEGRADATION BY INDIGINOUS BACTERIA DEGRADE RESIDUAL HYDROCARBONS OF MATURE FINE TAILINGS UNDER ANAEROBIC CONDITIONS ,
year = 2022
}