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ArticleMolecules (Basel, Switzerland)2019

Production of Biosurfactant Produced from Used Cooking Oil by

Nurul Hanisah Md Badrul Hisham, Mohamad Faizal Ibrahim, Norhayati Ramli, Suraini Abd-Aziz

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Article in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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19citing papers in PubMed
3.7field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

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19 citing papers in PubMed, 123 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Nurul Hanisah Md Badrul HishamDepartment of Bioprocess Technology, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Malaysia.
Mohamad Faizal IbrahimDepartment of Bioprocess Technology, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Malaysia.ORCID 0000-0002-4611-1684
Norhayati RamliDepartment of Bioprocess Technology, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Malaysia.ORCID 0000-0002-8015-8654
Suraini Abd-AzizDepartment of Bioprocess Technology, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Malaysia. suraini@upm.edu.my.ORCID 0000-0002-4202-9069
Universiti Putra Malaysia · MY

Funding

Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia FRGS 2014-2
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Heavy metals from industrial effluents and sewage contribute to serious water pollution in most developing countries. The constant penetration and contamination of heavy metals into natural water sources may substantially raise the chances of human exposure to these metals through ingestion, inhalation, or skin contact, which could lead to liver damage, cancer, and other severe conditions in the long term. Biosurfactant as an efficient biological surface-active agent may provide an alternative solution for the removal of heavy metals from industrial wastes. Biosurfactants exhibit the properties of reducing surface and interfacial tension, stabilizing emulsions, promoting foaming, high selectivity, and specific activity at extreme temperatures, pH, and salinity, and the ability to be synthesized from renewable resources. This study aimed to produce biosurfactant from renewable feedstock, which is used cooking oil (UCO), by a local isolate, namely

Indexed as

Biodegradation, EnvironmentalAdsorptionBacillusBacterial ProteinsDietary Fats, UnsaturatedMetals, HeavyPhylogenySurface-Active AgentsBacterial ProteinsDietary Fats, UnsaturatedMetals, HeavySurface-Active AgentsBacillus sp. HIP3biosurfactantsoil-degrading bacteriasurfactantsused cooking oil

Identifiers

PMID31323813
PMCPMC6681096
OpenAlexW2958061494

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