ISOLATION, SСREENING AND APPLICATION OFHIDROCARBON-OXIDIZING MICROORGANISMS FOR WASTEWATER TREATMENT AND OIL-CONTAMINATED SOILS
20 hydrocarbon-oxidizing microbial cultures were isolated during the monitoring of water samples and bottom sediments from the Caspian sea oil wells, their activity in relation to oil and oil products was assessed, the growth dynamics of pure bacterial cultures and their consortiums with mediums containing oil as the one carbon source were studied. Experiments under laboratory conditions to simulate the biological treatment of waste water and soil from oil were carried out. Shown the water purification rate was 76.68 %, and soil phytotoxicity decreased by 17 %.