Bioassisted Process For Selective Conversion Of Alkane Rich Refinery Stream

A bio-assisted process for selective conversion of alkane rich refinery stream, the process comprising:

• (i) growing a mutant yeast strain in 2% malt media at a temperature of 37° C. with rotation at 200 rpm till OD of the media reaches 2-4;
• (ii) centrifuging the media of step (i) to obtain wet microbial cells;
• (iii)adding the centrifuged wet microbial cells of step (ii) to a heterogenous nanocatalyst in a culture media, followed by intermittent feeding of a stabilizer in concentration ranging from 50-100 ppm;
• (iv)incubating the media of step (iii) with 1-25% stream in a reactor at a temperature ranging from 35-37° C. for a duration of 1-2 hours;
• (v) sparging oxygen gas to the reactor to obtain a product, wherein the product is selected from mono and dicarboxylic acid, fatty acids and biosurfactants.