Indian Oil Corporation Limited

Department of Biotechnology

Deepak Saxena

Sankara Sri Venkata Ramakumar

Vivekanand Kagdiyal

Ajay Kumar Arora

Suresh Kumar Puri

Sanjiv Kumar Mazumdar

Ravi Prakash Gupta

Samik Kumar Hait

Maya Chakradhar

Koushik Bhowmik

Mukesh Kumar Vyas

Gurpreet Singh Kapur

Brijesh Kumar

Ravinder Kumar Malhotra

Santanam Rajagopal

Gurmeet Singh

Sukhdeep Kaur

Anurag Ateet Gupta

Naduhatty Selai Raman

Prakash Chandra Sahoo

Ravindra Kumar

Manoj Kumar

Alok Satlewal

Veena Rani Bansal

Palvannan Mohanasundaram

Jyotiranjan Ota

Ruchi Agrawal

Tanmay Mandal

Shanti Prakash

Krishnarao Lopinti

Ruchi Jain

Umish Srivastva

Anil Yadav

Manisha Saraswat

Usharani Sahoo

Arjyabaran Sinha

Krishna Vankudoth

Jyoti Ota

Naresh Pappu

Naveen Kumar Pokhriyal

Vibhav Dikshit

Vinay Tiwari

Mani Gajendiran

Om Parkash

Sudhir Kumar Singh

Rajan Thomas Mookken

Pankaj Bhatnagar

Pattathilchira Varghese Joseph

Jai Narayan Pandey

Shobhashankar Kumhar

Anil Kumar Jaiswal

Kannan Sethuraman

Sumit Bhaskaran

Rameshwar Chaudhary

Rajendra Mahapatra

Ajay Kumar Harinarain

Manohar Vennampalli

Virender Kumar

Kishan Chand Sharma

The present invention relates to a process for microbial synthesis process having less water consumption and yielding desired product profile. More particularly, the present invention relates to an improved process of microbial synthesis using ultra fine nutrient mist in a specially designed biofilm-bioreactor under controlled conditions. The present invention also relates to an apparatus for microbial synthesis and preparation of optimized biofilm for continuous product formation.

Process for microbial synthesis and an apparatus thereof

A modular kitchen-connected indoor stationary solar cooking device () is disclosed. The solar cooking device () includes a housing (), a thermal battery () disposed in the housing () and adapted to store thermal energy, and a first heater () disposed to be in contact with the thermal battery (). The first heater () is coupled to a solar array () and adapted to receive solar energy for charging the thermal battery (). The solar cooking device () includes a second heater () disposed to be in contact with the thermal battery (). The second heater () is coupled to a mains supply and adapted to receive electrical supply for charging the thermal battery (). The solar cooking device () includes a heat control assembly () disposed on a cooktop () and adapted to accommodate a cooking vessel. The heat control assembly () is adapted to rotate for controlling a heat supply for cooking in the cooking vessel.

Kitchen-connected indoor stationary solar cooking device

The present invention discloses additive package comprising a mixture of (a) 6-10% by weight of fatty acid (b) 7-15% by weight of alkoxy ether and (c) 60-85% by weight of linear or branched chain monohydroxylated aliphatic saturated alcohol (C2-C8) for improving stability of mixtures of methanol-gasoline, ethanol-gasoline blends containing at least 5-15% by volume of short chain alkanol (methanol/ethanol). The additive composition is added to the alcohol-gasoline blends to improve low temperature stability, provides corrosion protection and to normalize vapor pressure of methanol/ethanol-gasoline blends.

Additive composition for enhanced stability of oxygenated gasoline

The present invention relates to an anti-viral nanoformulation suitable for diverse surface application in form of hydrogel based nanoemulsion, or an aerosol spray. The present invention discloses incorporation of nanomaterials such as functionalized carbon quantum dots (F-CQDs), copper nanoparticles (CuNPs) or silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) into the hydrogel (HG) scaffold to act as chemical barrier and anti-viral agent against SARS-CoV-2 or: phage MS2. The nanoformulation is coated on personal protective equipment's (PPE) and different surfaces such as glass, steel and plastic to control viral infection including corona virus infection.

Anti-viral formulation of active nano ingredients for coating on personal protective equipment and for aerosol based disinfectant composition

An integrated approach for utilizing waste products of 2G bio-refineries to fractionate the lignin of high purity. The present invention also provides a method of recycling of two waste products (2-G ethanol residue as the substrate (LRBR) and fusel oil/synthetic fusel oil (SFO) as one of the solvent) of the biorefineries in a beneficial manner to fractionate the lignin of high purity. The present method of separating high purity lignin comprises fractioning extractive-free lignin rich residue with a solvent, wherein the solvent is a mixture of SFO/Fusel oil and Formic acid. An optimized ratio of waste fusel oil and formic acid gave more than &#x3e;85% yields of high purity lignin.

Method to valorize 2G bioethanol waste streams

This invention is related to an additive composition comprising metal-based quantum clusters (QCs) dispersed in a hydrocarbon medium. The additive composition is useful as a fuel additive, as it acts as a combustion improver for liquid and gaseous fuels. The invention describes a process for the synthesis of the additive composition comprising metal-based materials in atomic cluster form in hydrocarbon dispersible medium. The stable liquid dispersion of the QC has been doped into the hydrocarbon fuels at required concentrations. The measurable flame temperature of the fuels, e.g., commercial LPG on burner has been observed to increase by at least 60-80&#xb0; C. The flame with high heat through put can be used for efficient cooking, heating, annealing and other high thermal applications. The additive composition may also be used to improve the fuel economy of the liquid hydrocarbon fuels.

Additive composition as a combustion improver for liquid and gaseous fuels

The present invention provides a one-pot process of synthesis of phenyl naphthalene compounds that are employed as heat transfer agents. More particularly, the present invention provides a process of preparation of 1-phenylnaphthalene and 2-methyl-1-phenylnaphthalene using refinery spent catalyst. These molecules are known for application as synthetic heat transfer fluids that deliver outstanding performance and thermal stability at continuously high operating temperatures. The reaction is carried out in aqueous medium using a spent catalyst which is a palladium based charcoal catalyst as obtained from various refinery processes. Further, the present invention provides a heat resistant formulation using the synthesized polyhydrocarbons, wherein the formulation is optimized with a free radical scavenger.

Process for synthesis of polyhydrocarbons as heat transfer agents

The invention relates to a method of the oligomerization of C6 and above olefin monomer whereby, at a fixed monomer/Al halide mole ratio, polyalphaolefins having desirable kinematic viscosities are prepared by controlling the oligomerization temperature. The oligomerization is carried out in presence of an oligomerizing catalyst comprising of aluminum halide and a promoter, and oligomerizing temperatures of about 10&#xb0; C. to about 120&#xb0; C.

Method of controlling kinematic viscosity of polyalphaolefin

The present invention relates to a Zinc free High Performance bearing oil composition for Lubrication of Bearings, Gears & Allied Equipments in Wire Rod Mill (WRM) for Steel Plants.

Composition of high performance bearing oil for steel plants

Zinc complex greases with different complexing acids having dropping points comparable to lithium greases and tailor-made dropping points can be made by processing at low temperature in open as well as close kettle process. The present invention discloses a process of manufacturing Zinc complex greases&#x2014;through reaction of fatty acid and complexing acid with zinc oxide in mineral oil to obtain zinc complex greases having high dropping points of 180 to 280&#xb0; C.

High temperature zinc complex grease

The present invention discloses a single package additive for improving lubricity and conductivity properties of ultra-low sulfur diesel fuels. The single package additive is a reaction product of a fatty acid composition, a glycerol tricarboxylates, a polysulfone, a polyamine, an alkylated benzene sulfonic acid and a phenol derivative. More specifically, the present invention discloses a reaction product of: a fatty acid composition in the range of 60-95% wt/wt; a glycerol tricarboxylate in the range of 0.1-10.0% wt/wt; a polysulfone in the range of 0.1-5.0% wt/wt; a polyamine in the range of 0.1-5.0% wt/wt; an alkylated benzene sulfonic acid in the range of 0.1-5.0% wt/wt; and a phenol derivative in the range of 0.1-10.0% wt/wt. The present invention also discloses a single-pot process for the preparation of said reaction product.

Lubricity and conductivity improver additive for ultra low sulfur diesel fuels

The invention discloses a rubber process oil and a process for manufacturing rubber process oils which are non-carcinogenic in nature. The process comprises of selectively producing Hildebrand solubility components enriched vacuum residue by selective distillation of reduced crude oil (RCO) to obtain minimum of 10 vol % boiling components in the range 490&#xb0; C. to 50&#xb0; C., which leads to higher solubility of rubber process oil with an aniline point of less than 70&#xb0; C. and with extremely low concentration of selective polycyclic aromatics which makes the 15 product non-carcinogenic. The process comprises of selectively enriching higher Hildebrand solubility components in vacuum residue by vacuum distillation of reduced crude oil (RCO), then subjecting the enriched vacuum residue to solvent deasphalting process and subjecting the deasphalted oil to aromatic extraction process and then blending the enriched aromatic extract with Heavy Alkyl 20 Benzene (HAB) or Solvent processed base oil or hydroprocessed base oil or mixture thereof. The rubber process oils manufactured by the invented process have a polycyclic aromatics (PCA) content of less than 10 ppm, specifically benzo(a)pyrene content of less than 1 ppm. They have aniline point less than 70&#xb0; C. but have high kinematic viscosity of 25 to 75 cSt at 100&#xb0; C., pour point of 27&#xb0; C. or less and a flash point minimum of 250&#xb0; C. or more.

Process for manufacturing of rubber process oils with extremely low carcinogenic polycyclic aromatics compounds

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Deepak Saxena