Lourdes, Rachel Sonia and Cheng, Sze Yin and Chew, Kit Wayne and Ma, Zengling and Show, Pau Loke (2022) Prospects of microbial enhanced oil recovery: Mechanisms and environmental sustainability. Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments, 53 (B). ISSN 2213-1388, DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seta.2022.102527.
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The rise in petroleum demand may have aggravated recently as every industry heavily depends on petroleum as the primary energy source. Traditional oil recovery methods leave a large fraction of oil unrecovered in the inaccessible parts of reservoir. Hence, recovering the trapped oil using enhanced oil recovery (EOR) methods could be a solution to the rise in energy demand as well to maximize usage of an oil reservoir. EOR strategies include chemical, thermal, microbial, and miscible/solvent methods. Among these strategies, microbial enhanced oil recovery (MEOR) is a promising technique that is not widely discussed. This review paper presents overview of MEOR technology, types of microbial products (biosurfactants, biopolymers, biogases, bioacids, and solvents.) as well the mechanism involved in oil recovery. The focus of this paper is to analyze the different functions of the MEOR product, strategies, and their contribution to the recovery of residual oils. Other aspects such as developments on the applications, field operation parameters, reservoir screening criteria and high-yield recovery of oil from microbial are also studied. Lastly, challenges and future perspective of MEOR field are reviewed.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Funders: | Fundamental Research Grant Scheme, Malaysia [FRGS/1/2019/STG05/UNIM/02/2], Xiamen University Malaysia Research Fund [XMUMRF/2021-C7/IENG/0033], National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [41876124], MyPAIR-PHC-Hibiscus Grant [MyPAIR/1/2020/STG05/UNIM/1] |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery (MEOR); Biosurfactant; Metabolites; Residual Crude Oil; Oil Mobilization |
| Subjects: | T Technology > TP Chemical technology |
| Depositing User: | Ms. Juhaida Abd Rahim |
| Date Deposited: | 28 Aug 2023 01:54 |
| Last Modified: | 28 Aug 2023 01:54 |
| URI: | http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/40941 |
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