“…This ability to reside at the petroleum hydrocarbon-water interface and stabilize O/W emulsions was also later reported (Dorobantu, Yeung, Foght, & Gray, 2004;Rosenberg & Rosenberg, 1985). More recently, microbial cells have been shown to stabilize O/W emulsions and produce biosurfactants during microbial production of fuels (Balat & Balat, 2010;Heeres, Picone, van der Wielen, Cunha, & Cuellar, 2014;Lim & Teong, 2010;Lin, Cunshan, Vittayapadung, Xiangqian, & Mingdong, 2011;Yusuf, Kamarudin, & Yaakub, 2011), resulting in emulsions resistant to heat treatments and extensive centrifugation (Furtado, Picone, Cuellar, & Cunha, A C C E P T E D M A N U S C R I P T…”