NRDC commercialised green tech developed by NIOT

Visakhapatnam: National Research Development Corporation (NRDC) has transferred and commercialised innovative and indigenous green technology 'Maresol-bioremediation' of hydrocarbon by marine hydrocarbonoclastic bacteria (marine oil spill bioremediation) developed by National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT) to Oil Spill Combat Team LLP (OSCT), Mumbai under Make in India Mission.

Maresol technology is a process of using specific microorganisms isolated to play a key role in the removal of toxic and harmful petroleum hydrocarbons. Biodegradation of crude oil by this technology is proven to remove 95 per cent of the total hydrocarbon which gets degraded into non-toxic end products within a period of 21-28 days.

This has been confirmed by gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GC-MS). The bioremediation package has been demonstrated showing effective mitigating of engine oils, spent engine oil, crude oil, diesel, petrol, toluene, xylene, kerosene, naphthalene and phenanthrene.