FIELD: oil pollution elimination. SUBSTANCE: bacterial preparation with commercial name "Ekoil" contains aerobic oil-oxidizing bacteria Mycobacterium, Rhodococcus, and Acinetobacter, sucrose, polyethylene glycol, petroleum, and water. Preparation exhibits high assimilation capacity with regard to crude oil, black oil, kerosene, diesel fuel, naphthalene, pentadecane, tetradecane, hexadecene, phenyldecane, pyrene, pristane, phenanthrene, and acenaphthene within a wide temperature range and can be used to clean grounds and water reservoirs polluted by petroleum products and heavy metal salts, since cultures of preparation are resistant against ions of following heavy metals: Cu, Ag, Mn, Ni, Zn, Mo, Pb, Fe, Cr as well as to phenol and formaldehyde. Preparation is nontoxic and can be stored under refrigeration conditions over up to 1 month period. EFFECT: expanded cleaning possibilities of preparation. 5 cl, 6 ex
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2002-10-27—Published
1999-09-27—Filed