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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 29, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 30, 2019
Applicant:
Government of the United States As Represented BY the Secretary of the Air Force, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH (US);
Inventor:
Oscar N. Ruiz, Bellbrook, OH (US);
Assignee:
United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C10L 1/14 (2006.01); C10L 1/238 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C10L 1/14 (2013.01); C10L 1/238 (2013.01); C10L 2230/083 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for preventing biodeterioration of fuel. The method reduces the microbial growth in fuel by administering an antimicrobial peptide (or efflux pump inhibitor) to a fuel phase of the fuel, an aqueous phase of the fuel, or both, which disrupts the cellular membrane (or the efflux pumps thereof) of microbes comprising the growth.