Advanced bioremediation by an amalgamation of nanotechnology and modern artificial intelligence for efficient restoration of crude petroleum oil-contaminated sites: a prospective study

Abstract

Crude petroleum oil spillage is becoming a global concern for environmental pollution and poses a severe threat to flora and fauna. Bioremediation is considered a clean, eco-friendly, and cost-effective process to achieve success among the several technologies adopted to mitigate fossil fuel pollution. However, due to the hydrophobic and recalcitrant nature of the oily components, they are not readily bioavailable to the biological components for the remediation process. In the last decade, nanoparticle-based restoration of oil-contaminated, owing to several attractive properties, has gained significant momentum. Thus, intertwining nano- and bioremediation can lead to a suitable technology termed ‘nanobioremediation’ expected to nullify bioremediation’s drawbacks. Furthermore, artificial intelligence (AI), an advanced and sophisticated technique that utilizes digital brains or software to perform different tasks, may radically transfer the bioremediation process to develop an efficient, faster, robust, and more accurate method for rehabilitating oil-contaminated systems. The present review outlines the critical issues associated with the conventional bioremediation process. It analyses the significance of the nanobioremediation process in combination with AI to overcome such drawbacks of a traditional approach for efficiently remedying crude petroleum oil-contaminated sites.

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“…Nevertheless, even after a considerable duration since the occurrence of the oil spi there is no conclusive evidence of community recovery. This could possibly be attribute to the extremely high levels of oil products in the soil at the beginning of the experimen Several investigations [39][40][41] highlight that the restoration of oil-contaminated soil usin biopreparations depends on the initial concentration of hydrocarbons. The efficacy of th biopreparation is most pronounced in cases of low initial pollution levels, owing to t inherent toxicity of oil products, especially PAH, as well as the chemically hydrophob nature of crude oil [38,39].…”

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“…The design of SynComs also consider functional traits and potential niche occupancy (Jing et al., 2024 ), ecological coexistence (Chen et al., 2023 ), as well as microbial species interactions within the microbiome and outside the microbiome with organisms in its environment (Leggieri et al., 2021 ), that will benefit hydrocarbon bioremediation treatments. In order to direct the construction of microbial consortia, guide their transfer into the environment and anticipate their effects once released, SynComs draws largely on the recent developments of powerful computational genomic analyses (Jing et al., 2024 ), mathematical models (Tsoi et al., 2018 ), machine learning (Ghannam & Techtmann, 2021 ), and artificial intelligence (Patowary et al., 2023 ). The engineered microbial consortia have not only promising potential for developing technologies to reclaim hydrocarbon‐contaminated ecosystems (Yang et al., 2021 ), but they have also been proposed as tool for microbiome rescue to restore ecological stability in damaged ecosystems (de Lorenzo, 2018 ; Shade, 2023 ).…”

“…Several stratagems and formulations have been proposed to deliver microorganisms and microbial consortia into contaminated sites to ensure their colonization and maintenance overcoming colonization resistance (Das & Chandran, 2011 ), which have been conceptualized as ‘Environmental Galenics’ (de Lorenzo, 2022 ). Most of them involve (bio)surfactants, foams, encapsulation, and immobilization of cells using supports such as biochar or nanoparticles (Mrozik & Piotrowska‐Seget, 2010 ; Patowary et al., 2023 ). Even, engineered horizontal gene transfer has been proposed especially for the treatment of large contaminated areas (de Lorenzo, 2022 ).…”