Biosurfactant produced by
L. delbrueckii
using peanut oil cake in
this study showed its potential to be used in bioremediation pro-
cess. Unlike medicinal applications, environmental application of
biosurfactants needs comparatively less purity and high activity.
In this study peanut oil cake was used as the carbon source for bio-
surfactant production. Even though the biosurfactant was not puri-
fied to its purest form and structurally not well characterized but
the results on emulsification and biodegradation experiments re-
vealed the potential use of this biosurfactant in bioremediation
of hydrocarbon pollution. Which emphasize that for environmen-
tal applications the biosurfactants need not be pure and could be
synthesized from a mixed cheaper carbon source like peanut oil
cake used in this study. All these approaches will make the biore-
mediation process an economically and environmentally viable
mitigation technology.