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Biodesulfurization of organic sulfur compounds in fossil fuels

Raheb J.1*, Kefayati M.E.2 and Bardania H.1
1

National Institute of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Tehran, Iran

2

Engineering Department, Tehran university, Tehran, Iran

Abstract
Combustion of sulfur components of fossil fuels such as oil causes the emission of SO2
in the atmosphere. Sulfur components are one of the important factors in pollution of
the atmosphere due due to the formation of acidic rain in the environment. Conventional
approach for desulfurization of oil is chemical procedure of hydro desulfurization
(HDS). However, this procedure has low efficiency for desulfurization of ring
components of sulfur such as dibenzothiophene (DBT). Thus the new methods such as
biodesulfurization were proposed for desulfurization of ring components of sulfur.
Biodesulfurization is a non-destructive method that it can remove sulfur from of
hydrocarbons of petroleum in the mild conditions and it can be potentially used as
complementary method with HDS. For industrial application of biodesulfurization, this
approach need to isolation of new desulfurization bacteria and increasing
desulfurization activity of them by genetic engineering methods. In this review, we are
evaluated biodesulfurization method and advances of it in the two last decades.
Keywords: Biodesulfurization, fossil fuels

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