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Division of Texaco. These efforts were discontinued in 2000, however, when Enchira
discontinued development of the BDS technology [20, 21].
International government regulations are currently providing immense, annually-
increasing pressure on oil refiners to diminish the sulfur content of fossil fuels below the
levels attainable by current technologies. These incentives, combined with the many attractive
features of biodesulfurization, are creating a highly favorable environment in which further
development of biodesulfurization can occur. Nevertheless, BDS is not yet fully optimized for
pilot-scale work, and basic research to optimize the rate and extent to which the Dsz pathway
can remove sulfur may still require governmental support.
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