Team:Stanford/Notebook/Oil Spills

Discussed the possible strains of bacteria/metabolic pathways that could be made us of in an oil spill

3 Strains of naturally occurring bacteria: psuedomonas putida, alcanevorix, cycloelasticus,

Each can break down certain compoments, e.g. PAHs, Toluene, Xylene, Straight Chain alkanes

Certain problems are detailed below.

Split the problems into 4 solutions:

Distributions/Large Scale Production

Nitrogen Fixation/Phosphorus Supply

Why better than what has naturally evolved

Choke points in the metabolism

Some offshoots of the oil spill idea came into existence:

Using the straight chain splitting bacteria in place of cracking in a refinery (Alcanevorix)