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Definitions

• Lichenysin has a similar structure with the amino acid sequence differing from surfactin. Gln-Leu-D-Leu-Val-Asp-D-Leu-lle, linked from the N-terminus to the C-terminus to form a cyclic moiety by a Ci 2 -Cn ⁇ -hydroxy fatty acid.
• Vinasse is a viscous, black -reddish liquid with total solids content of 2-4% when obtained directly from sugar cane juice or 5- 10% solids when obtained from molasses. It has a high biological oxygen demand (BOD) (30 000 - 40 000) and high acidity (pH 4-5).
• BOD biological oxygen demand
• pH 4-5 high acidity
• Vinasse has sometimes been used as a fertilizer. However, its high acidity limits its usefulness to particular types of soils.
• Capillary pressure is a function of interfacial tension between the oil/water and rock surface therefore, a reduction in interfacial tension facilitates the flow of trapped oil in the porous rock by reducing the coherent energy barrier at the elastic interface layer of the two phases.
• the rock becomes water-wet.
• a method of producing biosurfactants comprising culturing at least one biosurfactant-producing microbe in a liquid culture medium comprising vinasse as a carbon source, wherein the culturing occurs at pH 6 to 8 and a temperature of 25°C to 40°C.
• the vinasse is present in the liquid culture medium in an amount of from 3% to 10% w/v.
• the biosurfactant produced is selected from surfactin, lichenysin, fengycin, iturin and mixtures thereof, especially surfactin, lichenysin and mixtures thereof, more especially surfactin.
• biosurfactant produced by the method described above, especially where the biosurfactant is selected from surfactin, lichenysin and mixtures thereof.
• the biosurfactant is retained in the culture broth. In other embodiments, the biosurfactant is isolated from the culture broth. In another aspect of the invention there is provided a composition comprising at least one biosurfactant-producing microbe and vinasse residue, wherein the vinasse residue is formed by decomposition of vinasse by the at least one biosurfactant-producing microbe during a fermentation process.
• the composition further comprises at least one biosurfactant, such as surfactin, lichenysin, iturin, fengycin or mixtures thereof, especially surfactin, lichenysin and mixtures thereof, more especially surfactin.
• biosurfactant such as surfactin, lichenysin, iturin, fengycin or mixtures thereof, especially surfactin, lichenysin and mixtures thereof, more especially surfactin.
• the composition contains trace amounts of biosurfactant, for example, less than 30 ⁇ of biosurfactant. In other embodiments, the composition comprises biosurfactant in the range of about 750 mg/L to 2000 mg/L.
• the composition further comprises an added food source such as molasses, glycerine or the residue of high fructose com syrup.
• an added food source such as molasses, glycerine or the residue of high fructose com syrup.
• composition described above as an antibacterial composition to protect equipment from corrosion during tertiary oil recovery or natural gas high pressure well processing.
• a method of producing a biosurfactant comprising culturing at least one biosurfactant-producing microbe in a liquid culture medium comprising vinasse as a carbon source, wherein the culturing occurs at pH 6to 8 and a temperature of 25°C to 40°C.
• the at least one biosurfactant-producing microbe may be any microbe known to produce biosurfactants
• the at least one biosurfactant-producing microbe is from the genus Bacillus, for example, they may be selected from Bacillus subtilis, Bacillus licheniformis, Bacillus amyloliquefaciens, Bacillus pumilus, Bacillus popilliae and mixtures thereof.
• one biosurfactant-producing microbe is present in the liquid culture medium.
• two biosurfactant- producing microbes are present in the liquid culture medium.
• three biosurfactant-producing microbes are present in the liquid culture medium.
• the at least one biosurfactant-producing microbe is a mixture of five biosurfactant-producing microbes.
• the at least one biosurfactant- producing microbe may be a strain of microbe known to produce biosurfactants in improved yields. For example, many species of Bacillus produce biosurfactants, however. Bacillus sublilis and Bacillus licheniformis are known to produce significant quantities of biosurfactants. Furthermore, specific strains of Bacillus subtilis are known to produce improved yields of biosurfactants such as B. subtilis ATCC 2133 1 , B. subtilis ATCC 21332, B.
• subtilis SD901 (FERM BP.7666), B. Subitilis NRRL B-3383 and B. subtilis RSA-203 or mixtures thereof.
• Many strains of biosurfactant-producing microbes are commercially or publicly available.
• the at least one biosurfactant- producing microbe is B. subtilis strain RSA-203.
• RSA-203 is a microorganism that is a strain of Bacillus subtilis. It is a rod-shaped, aerobic, Gram-positive, ⁇ -hemo!ytic microbe capable of forming endospores. Nucleic acid sequence analysis confirms it is a strain of B. suhtilis. A sample of this microorganism was deposited at ATCC depository, 10801 University Boulevard, Manassas, Virginia 201 10- 2209, United States of America on 9 January 201 3, and has been allocated Accession No.
• RSA-203 produces significant amounts of the biosurfactant surfactin. If culture conditions include foamate removal during culture, surfactin may be produced in amounts of 250 mg/L to 1000 mg/L in the culture medium and 850 mg/L to 2 g/L in the foamate.
• the at least one biosurfactant-producing microbe is B. suhtilis NRRL B-3383 which is publicly available.
• the at least one biosurfactant-producing microbe is B. suhtilis strain RSA-203.
• the at least one biosurfactant-producing microbe is a mixture of B. suhtilis and B. lichen if or mis. In other embodiments, the at least one biosurfactant- producing microbe is a mixture of B. suhtilis. B. licheniformis, B. amyloliquefaciens, B. pumilus and Bacillus popilliae. In these embodiments, the ratio of each microbe may be adjusted to determine the amount of different biosurfactants produced. In some embodiments, the B. suhtilis is present in a mixture of biosurfactant-producing microbes in about 50-98% of the mixture, especially 60-95%, 70-95%, 80-95%, more especially about 90%.
• the carbon source used in the liquid culture medium is vinasse.
• Vinasse is a by-product of the sugar industry obtained from the processing of sugar cane or sugar beet.
• the molasses produced during sugar processing is fermented to produce ethanol' and ascorbic acid.
• the residue left after this fermentation is referred to as vinasse.
• Vinasse is a viscous liquid with a total solids content of 2-10%, high acidity pH 4-5 and high BOD (30 000 - 40 000).
• the amount of vinasse in the liquid culture medium is from 3 to 20% w/v, especially 3 to 15% w/v, more especially 3 to 12% w/v or 3 to 10% w/v, most especially about 10% w/v. In some embodiments, the amount of vinasse is varied to obtain a desired concentration of biosurfactant in the culture broth.
• a further carbon source is added in addition to the vinasse.
• Suitable carbon sources include carbohydrate sources such as molasses, dextrose, glucose, glycerine and the like.
• the further carbon source may be present in the liquid culture medium in an amount of 0 to 15% w/v especially 0 to 10% w/v.
• the culturing method takes place at a sugar processing plant, for example, a sugar cane processing plant.
• a sugar processing plant for example, a sugar cane processing plant.
• the biosurfactant produced is preferably a cyclic lipopeptide biosurfactant such as surfactin, lichenysin, iturin, fengycin and mixtures thereof.
• Each of these biosurfactants may contain mixtures of compounds varying in the chain length of the fatty acid moiety of the lipopeptide. Addition of specific amino acids and/or hydrocarbon fatty acids to the culture broth may enable the production of biosurfactants with varying ratios of lipid fatty acid chain lengths.
• the biosurfactant produced is selected from surfactin and lichenysin and mixtures thereof. In other embodiments, the biosurfactant produced is surfactin.
• the temperature of the culturing process is 25°C to 40°C, especially 30°C to 40°C, more especially about 30°C to 35°C. The temperature used may depend on the identity of the biosurfactant-producing microbe. For example, the temperature is one that produces growth of the microbes to a stress point which limits motility because of the production of chemically produced microbial markers within the broth. This allows for the maximum biosurfactant production for a given microbial population. A person skilled in the art could determine appropriate temperature for a given bacterial population by routine trial methods.
• the pH of the culture medium is maintained between 6 and 8, especially 6 and 7.5, more especially 6.5 to 7.2.
• the culture medium is buffered at about pH 7 by monobasic and dibasic phosphate buffer adjusted to pH 7 with hydroxide such as sodium or potassium hydroxide.
• the liquid culture medium further comprises a catabolizable nitrogen source.
• the catabolizable nitrogen source is selected from a nitrogen containing inorganic salt or nitrogen-containing organic compound for example, ammonium salts, nitrate salts, urea, peptone, meat extract, yeast extract, soybean cake, corn steep liquor, peptone, or flour derived from legumes such as soybean, adzuki bean, pea, broad bean, chick pea, lentil and string bean or extracts of such a flour.
• the catabolizable nitrogen source is an inorganic salt such as an ammonium salt or nitrate salt, especially ammonium nitrate, ammonium chloride, ammonium acetate, ammonium carbonate, ammonium bicarbonate, potassium nitrate, sodium nitrate, magnesium nitrate, and calcium nitrate.
• the catabolizable nitrogen source is ammonium nitrate.
• the amount of catabolizable nitrogen source present in the liquid culture medium will depend on the nature of the source and the availability of the nitrogen within the source. For example, the nitrogen source may be present in an amount of 1 to 20 g/L.
• the nitrogen source is an inorganic nitrogen source
• it may be present in an amount of 1 to l Og/L, especially 2 to 7 g/L, more especially 3.5 to 4.5 g/L.
• the liquid culture medium further comprises at least one inorganic salt, such as sulfates, phosphates, chlorides, especially of metals such as manganese, iron, sodium, potassium, magnesium and calcium.
• the inorganic salts are selected from sulfates, chlorides , and phosphates of ions such as manganese, sodium, potassium and iron or mixtures of such salts.
• the at least one inorganic salt is selected from manganese sulfate, sodium phosphate, calcium chloride, magnesium sulfate, ferrous sulfate and mixtures thereof, especially sodium phosphate, manganese sulfate and ferrous sulfate or mixtures thereof.
• the inorganic salts present are not sulfates.
• the inorganic salts present are phosphates or chlorides. This embodiment reduces the amount of sulfate present in compositions that may be used in tertiary oil recovery where the presence of sulfates may result in production of hydrogen sulfide.
• the inorganic salts vary in amount depending on the salts used. If a source of phosphate is present, it may be present in an amount of about 1 to 10 g/L. especially 2 to 7 g/L, more especially 4 to 7 g/L, most especially 5 to 6 g/L.
• inorganic salts are added to provide trace elements such as iron, manganese, and calcium
• the amounts will vary between 1 mg/L and 5 g/L
• calcium salts may be added in an amount of 0.5 g/L to 1 g/L
• iron and manganese salts may be added in an amount of 1 to 10 mg/L
• manganese salts may be added in an amount: of 0.5 to 1 g/L
• magnesium salts may be added in an amount of 0.5 g/L to 5 g L.
• the culture medium further comprises a chelating agent.
• chelating agents include amino carboxylic acids and salts thereof, such as ethylene diamine tetraacetic acid (EDTA), hydroxyethylethylenediamine triacetic acid, 1 ,2-diamino- cyclohexane tetraacetic acid, ethylene glycol-bis([beta]-aminoethyl ⁇ - ⁇ , ⁇ , ⁇ ', ⁇ '- tetraacetic acid (EGTA), diethylenetriamine-pentaacetic acid (DPTA), triethylenetelraamine hexaacetic acid (TTG), aminodiacetic acid and hydroxyethyl aminodiacetic acid.
• EDTA ethylene diamine tetraacetic acid
• EGTA ethylene glycol-bis([beta]-aminoethyl ⁇ - ⁇ , ⁇ , ⁇ ', ⁇ '- tetraacetic acid
• DPTA diethylenetriamine-p
• Particular chelating agents are salts and mixed salts of EDTA such as dipotassium, ammonium, calcium, disodium, trisodium and tetrasodium salts, most preferably disodium or tetrasodium salts of EDTA, especially disodium EDTA.
• the chelating agent is present in amount of between 0.1 and 5 mg/L, especially 0.5 to 3 mg/L, more especially 1 to 2.5 mg/L of culture medium.
• the culturing method may occur on a small scale in laboratory flasks in an incubator or may occur on larger scale, such as industrial scale in a bioreactor.
• the method is conducted under aerobic conditions.
• the process further comprises aeration of the culture medium to provide dissolved oxygen.
• this involves bubbling air through the culture medium at a rate of between 1 L/minute to 3 L/minute, especially about 1.5 L/minute.
• the rate of aeration may be readily determined by a person skilled in the art.
• Aeration may occur from the beginning of the culturing process or may begin after the culturing process has begun or may begin prior to inoculation at the beginning of the culturing process, especially from the beginning of the culturing process or before inoculation.
• aeration maintains a dissolved oxygen concentration of about 20 to 40%, especially 25 to 35%. In some embodiments, the dissolved oxygen concentration is maintained at about 30% during the culturing process.
• the culture medium may foam because of the presence of biosurfactant.
• the foam production may be controlled by spraying the foamate with a mixture of alcohol such as ethanol, and solvent such as dichloromethane or acetone.
• the bioreactor in which the fermentation is done is explosion proof.
• the foam collecting equipment is explosion proof. The extent of pressure for which equipment must withstand is determined by the pump pressure and flow rate into the foam column.
• the production of foamate is encouraged and the foamate is collected from the culturing vessel.
• the foamate comprises the biosurfactant produced together with small amounts of culture medium.
• the foam may be collected via a rotary valve into a tank with a slight vacuum or a tank with a spray column to break the foam.
• the biosurfactant may be isolated from the foamate collected.
• the biosurfactant is isolated by acidification followed by liquid/liquid extraction and then evaporation of the liquids.
• the biosurfactant is isolated by centrifugation followed by liquid/liquid extraction and evaporation or distillation of the liquids.
• the biosurfactant is isolated from the culture broth after the culturing process is complete.
• the crude culture broth may be centrifuged to remove biomass.
• the supernatant is then acidified to acidic pH, for example, pH 2 with acid, such as HC1.
• acidic pH results in the precipitation of the biosurfactant, the acidified supernatant may be stood at 4°C for a period of time to ensure precipitation is complete.
• the precipitate is then collected, for example, by centrifugation or filtration and resuspended in water.
• the pH of the suspension is adjusted to alkaline pH such as pH 8 to solubilize the precipitate.
• the resulting aqueous solution may be extracted with an organic solvent such as dichloromethane, ethyl acetate, chloroform, especially dichloromethane, and the organic phase evaporated to give the biosurfactant in high purity crystalline form.
• an organic solvent such as dichloromethane, ethyl acetate, chloroform, especially dichloromethane
• the organic phase evaporated to give the biosurfactant in high purity crystalline form.
• the biosurfactant may be collected by foam distillation after culturing is complete.
• the purified biosurfactant is suitable for many known uses such as detergents, emulsifiers, wetting agents, dispersants, solubilizing agents, antistatic agents, anti-clouding agents, lubricants, pipe resistance lowering agents, or may be used in cosmetics, foods, medical preparations, agricultural preparations, inks and the like as known in the art.
• a composition comprising at least one biosurfactant-producing microbe and vinasse residue, wherein the vinasse residue is formed by decomposition of vinasse by the at least one biosurfactant-producing microbe during a culturing process.
• the composition is the crude culture broth obtained from the method described above.
• the composition is depleted in biosurfactant as the biosurfactant produced by the at least one biosurfactant-producing microbe is removed during the culturing process by removal of foamate comprising the biosurfactant.
• the composition may contain trace amounts of biosurfactant not removed during the culturing process or produced by the at least one biosurfactant-producing microbe after the culturing process has been terminated. For example, in some embodiments, the amount is less than 30 ⁇ of biosurfactant.
• This composition is useful as a fertilizer composition to stimulate plant growth.
• the fertilizer may have a bacterial population either from within the broth or added to the broth as a symbiotic organism for plant root adhesion.
• the composition further comprises biosurfactant, especially surfactin, lichenysin, iturin, fengycin or mixtures thereof.
• biosurfactant especially surfactin, lichenysin, iturin, fengycin or mixtures thereof.
• This composition may be obtained by adding a biosurfactant or mixture of biosurfactants to the composition or may be obtained as the crude culture broth from the method above from which no biosurfactant was isolated or only a portion of the biosurfactant was extracted.
• the amount of biosurfactant present in the composition is between 2 mg/L and 7000 mg/L, for example 50 mg/L and 7000 mg/L or 500 mg/L and 7000 mg/L, such as 500 mg/L and 3 g/L, especially 750 mg/L and 2 g/L.
• composition comprising biosurfactant and optionally a bacterial food source is useful in tertiary oil recovery, for example, in microbial enhanced oil recovery ( EOR) processes and is particularly useful in recovering oil from depleted calcium carbonate rock reservoirs.
• EOR microbial enhanced oil recovery
• an oil well is treated with a biosurfactant composition containing a biosurfactant such as surfactin in order to lower the surface tension of the oil and to provide rock that is water-wet.
• a biosurfactant such as surfactin
• the oil well may then subsequently be treated with a composition of the invention.
• the biosurfactant is in a composition at a concentration of 2 mg/L to 4 g/L.
• the composition is a concentrate having about 1 g/L to 4 g/L biosurfactant, especially about 1.5 g/L to 3 g/L, for example about 2 g/L.
• the concentrate is diluted, for example, with hydro fracking base water.
• the concentrate is mixed with hydrofracking base water as it is pumped into the well.
• the concentrate may be diluted by an amount that maintains at least 2 mg/L biosurfactant.
• dilution of the biosurfactant composition may occur in the range of 1 : 100 to 1 :2000, especially 1 : 1000 biosurfactant to diluent.
• a typical concentrate comprises 10-40% w/v culture broth comprising microbes, vinasse residue and crude biosurfactant, water and minerals, 10 to 20% w/v aqueous biosurfactant composition comprising 0.01 to 1 % w/v biosurfactant, 10 to 30% surfactant composition comprising 10 to 25% w/v surfactant and water, and the balance of the concentrate being water.
• the composition may contain 94.9 to 98.98% w/v water, 1 -5% vv/v surfactant, 0.01 to 1% w/v biosurfactant and 0.01 to 0.1 % w/v microorganisms.
• the composition further comprises a microbial food source, for example, a carbohydrate, such as molasses, glucose, dextrose, vinasse and the like. The food source may replace water in the concentrate up to about 30% w/v.
• a concentrate comprising a food source may comprise 10-40%) w/v culture broth comprising microbes, vinasse residue and crude biosurfactant, water and minerals, 10 to 20% w/v aqueous biosurfactant composition comprising 0.01 to 1 % w/v biosurfactant, 10 to 30% surfactant composition comprising 10 to 25% w/v surfactant and water, 10 % to 25% molasses optionally containing up to 1 % vinasse, and the balance of the concentrate being water.
• steps 1 and 2 are performed separately, in other embodiments, steps 1 and 2 are performed simultaneously with a composition comprising at least one biosurfactant-producing microbe and vinasse residue and at least one biosurfactant.
• compositions comprising biosurfactant-producing bacteria, vinasse residue and biosurfactant, is also useful as a biocide in high salt content compositions, for example, 7% salt solution.
• high salt content compositions for example, 7% salt solution.
• Such compositions are used as hydraulic fracturing (hydro fracking) compositions in natural gas high pressure well processing.
• the initial hydrofracking composition may not include high salt but during use may solubilize salts from the rocks it contacts increasing its salt concentration from between 0 and 12%.
• the composition may be added to hydrofracking compositions to prevent the formation of biofilms of unwanted bacteria such as sulfate and iron reducing bacteria, on the inner surfaces of pipes used in the natural gas processing.
• Steel pipes used in such processing often suffer from corrosion by hydrogen sulfide producing bacteria, or blockage or resistance on the inside of piping by biofilms of other types of bacteria such as salt tolerant bacteria.
• Problem bacteria include Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans and Desulfotomacul m halophilum.
• the composition of the invention contains and produces biosurfactant and disrupts biofilm formation by bacteria or disperses biofilms that have already formed thereby reducing or preventing hydrogen sulphide production and blockage or sludge forming on pipes.
• the biosurfactant may also disrupt the cell walls of the unwanted bacteria forming micelles and disrupting cell cytoplasm, resulting in biocidal activity.
• the biosurfactant- producing bacteria present are a combination of B suhlilis and B.
• Ucheniformis and the biosurfactants present are surfactin and lichenysin.
• Figure 1 is a graphical representation showing the growth of biosurfactant-producing microorganisms over time with no sulfate ions or varying amounts of sulfate ions.
• Example 1 Production of Surfactin
• Bacillus siibtilis NRRL B-3383 strain (originally obtained from the United States Department of Agriculture) from bacterial culture on nutrient agar plates was transferred at a 2% volume by volume inoculum into 4 L shake flasks containing 2.5 L of 10% vinasse based MMS broth.
• the vinasse based MMS broth containing: component quantity
• the flasks were placed on orbital shakers (SKC 6100, Jeio Tech) at 1 50 rpm while incubating at 30°C (MCO-801C Incubator, Sanyo). After 72 hours, flasks were removed from the incubator and the biomass removed from the crude culture broth by centrifugation at 8,500 rpm for 20 min at 4°C (Sorvall Evolution RC).
• Bacillus siibtilis and Bacillus licheniformis were used to inoculate 4 L shake flasks containing 10% molasses based MMS broth.
• the molasses based MMS broth containing: component quantity
• the interfacial tension of the bearing grease had reduced to 630 dynes/cm and at 696 hours, the interfacial tension had reduced further to 420 dynes/cm.

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