Mathematical Correlation between Microbial Biomass and Total Viable Count for Different Bacterial Strains used in Biotreatment of Oil Pollution

Samiha F. Deriase and Nour Sh. El-Gendy*

Egyptian Petroleum Research Institute, Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt

ABSTRACT:

This study illustrates mathematical correlations between viable cell count and biomass dry weight of four different bacterial strains, since microbial parameter often needed to be defined as mass (mg/ml) rather than colony forming unit CFU (cells/ml) or optical density OD in modeling of biotreatment batch process.

KEYWORDS:

Mathematical correlation; total viable count; biomass; oil pollution

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