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Microbial desulfurization of solubilized coal

  • Kitae Baek
  • , Chung Sik Kim
  • , Hyun Ho Lee
  • , Hyun Jae Shin
  • , Ji Won Yang*
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
  • LG Corporation
  • Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology

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Abstract

Microbial desulfurization of low rank coal by Rhodococcus rhodochrous IGTS8 was investigated using three different pretreated coal samples. Solubilized coal was desulfurized more efficiently than hard coal and more sulfur was extracted from biologically solubilized coal than from chemically solubilized coal. Microbial desulfurization combined with biological solubilization removed 75% of the total sufur while the microbial desulfurization combined with chemical solubilization removed 63%.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)401-405
Number of pages5
JournalBiotechnology Letters
Volume24
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - 2002

Keywords

  • Biodesulfurization
  • Rhodochrous IGTS8
  • Rhodococcus
  • Solubilization
  • Solubilized coal

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