Textile materials concern themselves with 2 types of microorganisms as per microbiology. One of them deals with microorganisms which are harmful either to the fibers or to the consumers. The other type are microorganisms that are useful just like in retting processes.
As far as petroleum products are concerned, the branch of microbiology deals with microbial contamination of petroleum fuels and oil emulsions, enhanced oil recovery, conversion of petroleum hydrocarbons into microbial products and last but not the least oil pollution control. With the same approach, HiMedia has developed products which cater to both textile industry and petroleum industry. At the same time they cover a wide variety of Culture Media for enumerating, isolating and differentiating various types of microorganisms.
Petroleum Industry
The Petroleum industry involves a vast variety of products whose creation demands understanding of microbiological science and engineering. Understanding the role of microbes in formation and exploration of petroleum, its production process, and later product manufacturing, storage, and synthesis from petroleum is important in delivering a market ready product. A challenge to this comes from Sulphate-reducing bacteria (SRB) which are indigenous to the oil field and cause severe operational problems while increasing the production and handling costs significantly. For the petroleum industry, the determination of SRB population on time and with accuracy is a deciding factor to improve safety and reduce costs all throughout the operations. HiMedia understands this crucial requirement and therefore has developed a diverse range of products for enhancing operational safety and identifying different varieties of microorganisms. Our Culture Media such as Sulphate API Agar w/o Sodium Lactate, Sulphate API Broth w/o Sodium Lactate are popular and very much in use in the petroleum industry specifically for the SRB enumeration in the waters of oil fields.
Textile Industry
Microorganisms originating in air, soil or water can be sometimes harmful to fibers or to consumers. Some of these are found on textiles very often and may decompose cellulose or protein in the fiber or can even harm the consumer’s health. These can be fungi-, actinomycetes- and bacteria—originate. The textile industry requires solutions to differentiate among harmless and harmful microbes. To aid to this, HiMedia offers a Catalog of Media for microbiological analysis of the products in textile industry including culture Media like Bushnell Haas Agar and Bushnell Haas Broth etc. for enumerating, isolating and differentiating various types of microorganisms.
