[Digestion] Rép. : Specialty enzymes - Landfarming? or shale vs tar sands

[Terrence Sauvé]

Hi Micheal,
are you refering to "land farming" to decontaminate land, because it is being done at research level for oily heavy petrolium products and works well for diesel, kerosene and gasoline products. A professor at McGill is developping methods and researching bacteria rather than designing enzymes (they would be produced by the organism anyways). Prof. S. Ghoshal from Civil Engineering at McGill University at Montreal, Canada.

As for shale oil, its much better to use it in a pyrolisys system. Anyways, the yeild of oil per tonne of shale is much lower than the tar sands (where the research is right now in petro-industry) and then you still have to refine it.
You would probably have to crush the shale and support a multitude of colony in this medium by fertilizing it, recirculating the sludge and then collect something in the end... Happy Ph.D!

Terrence Sauvé

>>> "Michael Smith" <michael_1234 at msn.com> 19/06/07 16:18 >>>
 Was there any talk of special 'designed enzymes' like those used in municipal waste systems that would work on shale oil ? The current methods of mining are very destructive and wasteful of other energies as well. Designer enzymes that would consume the shale oil and give us methane sure sounds like an answer for the huge amounts of that source and allow the land to be reclaimed. Anyone know of attempts to do such?
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