STUDIES ON ALGINATE-BASED MACRO-ENCAPSULATION (IMMOBILIZATION) CAPSULES FOR CRUDE OIL DEGRADATION UNDER MICROBIAL CONSORTIUM CONDITIONS

Oil hydrocarbons are the most well-known natural poisons on the planet and oil slicks represent an incredible danger to earthly and marine environments. Oil contamination may emerge either coincidentally or operationally at whatever point oil is created, shipped, put away, and handled or utilized adrift or ashore. Oil slicks are a significant danger to nature as they seriously harm the encompassing biological systems. In this investigation, to improve the endurance and maintenance of the bioremediation specialists in the polluted locales, bacterial cells were immobilized. Immobilized cells are generally tried for oil debasement and degradative protein creation. There are numerous kinds of help and immobilization strategies that can be chosen dependent on such an application. We have contemplated the capability of immobilized microbial cells to corrupt oil hydrocarbons in oil. It also enhanced degradation with immobilized cells compared to a mixture of encapsulated bacteria for the treatment of oil and enzyme production. Encapsulated microbial consortium showed maximum (98%) followed by and ES10, HDUL4 (95%) of oil degradation. It was demonstrated that immobilized cell to be effective and is better, faster, and can be occurred for a longer period.