Vito Nv

Indian Oil Corporation Limited

Vlaamse Instelling Voor Technologisch Onderzoek N.v. (vito)

Vlaamse Instelling Voor Technologisch Onderzoek

Karolien Vanbroekhoven

Dominic Ormerod

Helene De Wever

Deepak Pant

Wouter Van Hecke

Lambertus Bouwman

Yamini Satyawali

Helmut Elslander

Herman Beckers

Sankara Sri Venkata Ramakumar

Suresh Kumar Puri

Manoj Kumar

Anita Buekenhoudt

Srikanth Sandipam

Yolanda Alvarez Gallego

Claudia Matassa

Xochitl Dominguez Benetton

Ludovicus Diels

Diana Van Houtven

Guillermo Pozo Zamora

A method of obtaining a compound may include adding a substrate to a medium in a reactor, and reacting the substrate in the reactor to form the compound. A first stream is separated from the reaction liquid through a first membrane. A second stream is separated from the reaction liquid through a second membrane. The first membrane is a filtration membrane and the second membrane is configured for liquid-gas or liquid-liquid extraction The first membrane and the second membrane are at least partially immersed in the medium and are moved relative to the reactor during the separation steps.

Method and apparatus for in situ product recovery

The present invention relates to a carbon based electrode with a large geometrical surface area comprising a frame of an electrically conductive material with several cut-outs with a surface area, which cut-outs are separated from each other by portions of the conductive material, wherein carbon based sub-electrodes dimensioned so as to a least cover the surface area of the cut-outs are positioned in the cut-outs and conductively connected to at least part of each of the portions of the conductive material adjacent to the carbon based sub-electrodes.

Carbon based electrode with large geometric dimensions

The present invention discloses a membrane-less reactor design for microbial electrosynthesis of alcohols from carbon dioxide (CO). The membrane-less reactor design thus facilitates higher and efficient COtransformation to alcohols via single pot microbial electrosynthesis. The reactor design operates efficiently avoiding oxygen contact at working electrode without using membrane, in turn there is an increase in COsolubility and its bioavailability for subsequent COconversion to alcohols at faster rate. The present invention further provides a process of operation of the reactor for biotransformation of the carbon dioxide.

Membrane-less reactor design and process for biotransformation of carbon dioxide

A method for producing a chiral amine may include performing a transamination reaction of a prochiral amino acceptor and an amino donor in a first solution in the presence of a transaminase, thereby forming a chiral amine and a co-product in the first solution. The amino donor is a high molecular weight (HMW) amino donor. In some examples, the molecular weight of the HMW amino donor is at least 150 g/mol. In some examples, the amino donor is affixed on a support, the total molecular weight of the amino donor and the support being at least 150 g/mol.

Method for producing chiral amines

A membrane based process separates amines or organic acids from a solution containing at least one amine or at least one organic acid according to their hydrophobic properties. The more hydrophobic amine or organic acid passes the hydrophobic membrane into an acidic aqueous solution, thus selectively removing the amine or organic acid from the first solution. The process is particularly suitable to obtain chiral amines in high yield. A transaminase-catalyzed transamination of an amino donor and amino acceptor is combined with a hydrophobic membrane separation of the produced chiral amine. The selective removal of the chiral amine from the reaction mixture promotes the further transformation of the amino acceptor into the product chiral amine.

Process for the separation of organic compounds

Growing community of inventors

Mol, Belgium

Karolien Vanbroekhoven