Indian Oil Corporation Limited

Department of Biotechnology

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

Indlin Oil Corporation Limited

Viridis Chemicals Private Limited

Department of Biotechnology Ministry of Science & Technology

Vlaamse Instelling Voor Technologisch Onderzoek

Sankara Sri Venkata Ramakumar

Madhusudan Sau

Gurpreet Singh Kapur

Sanjiv Kumar Mazumdar

Suresh Kumar Puri

Debasis Bhattacharyya

Satyen Kumar Das

Ponoly Ramachandran Pradeep

Ravi Prakash Gupta

Terapalli Hari Venkata Devi Prasad

Sarvesh Kumar

Deepak Saxena

Ramesh Karumanchi

Prakash Chandra Sahoo

Manoj N Kumar

Mainak Sarkar

Ram Mohan Thakur

Ganesh Vitthalrao Butley

Alex Cheru Pulikottil

Anshu Shankar Mathur

Gurmeet Singh

Alok Sharma

Saravanan Subramani

Vineeth Venu Nath

Prantik Mondal

Arjun Kumar Kottakuna

Dheer Singh

Vivekanand Kagdiyal

Ravindra Kumar

Reshmi Manna

Manoj Kumar

Hima Bindu Doosa

Samik Kumar Hait

Shivam Ashok Dixit

Arumugam Velayutham Karthikeyani

Sukhdeep Kaur

Naduhatty Selai Raman

Kumaresan Loganathan

Alok Satlewal

Darshankumar Manubhai Dave

Srikanth Sandipam

Deepak Kumar Tuli

Ajay Kumar Arora

Kamlesh Gupta

Shoeb Hussain Khan

Rashmi Rani

Kochappilly Ouseph Xavier

Anju Chopra

Pravesh Kumar

Amardeep Singh

Pushkar Varshney

Simranjeet Kaur Sandhu

Mukund Adsul

Reeta Rani Singhania

Biswapriya Das

Satheesh Vetterkunnel Kumaran

Jagdev Kumar Dixit

Gautam Thapa

Umish Srivastava

Rajesh

Kamal Kumar

Narayanam Seshubabu

Ruchi Agrawal

Nayan Das

Prosenjit Maji

Shahil Siddiqui

Jyotiranjan Ota

Madhira Indu Sekhara Sastry

Sujit Mondal

Vasamsetty Naga Veera Hima Bindu

Ramasubramanian Kanthasamy

Gurpreet Kapur Singh

Koushik Bhowmik

Mohan Prabhu Kuvettu

Biswanath Sarkar

Gadari Saidulu

Balaiah Swamy

Velusamy Chidambaram

Sadhullah Mukthiyar

Arun Arangarasu

Devotta Irudayaraj

Palvannan Mohanasundaram

Maya Chakradhar

Tanmay Mandal

Rajesh Muralidhar Badhe

Ajay Kumar Sharma

Yamini Gupta

Shashikant

Latoor Lal Saroya

Karolien Vanbroekhoven

Mahesh Kadgaonkar

Mani Karthikeyan

Manoj Kumar Bhuyan

Deepak Pant

Veena Rani Bansal

Murugan Balasundaram

Vishal Goel

Lambertus Bouwman

Eswar Prasad Dalai

Manoj Kumar Yadav

The present disclosure relates to a process for producing levulinic acid from the technical lignin. The technical lignin is rich in lignin and ash and do not have any other use and usually incinerated as a waste management strategy. During the incineration process, the cellulose also gets burnt and wasted. In the present disclosure, there is provided an economical and environmentally friendly process to produce levulinic acid from the technical lignin by using a synergistic combination of catalysts for high yields and high titer with acid recycling in a cost-effective manner.

Method for producing levulinic acid

The present disclosure provides a process for preparing a needle coke or a crystalline coke from aromatic rich hydrocarbon streams. The process includes preparing a needle coke or a crystalline coke from Pyrolytic Fuel Oil (PFO) and Clarified Oil (CLO) stream along with Purified fraction of CLO after solvent separation of refractory asphaltene compounds while the low boiling fractions separated from PFO and light gasoil (LGO) from the thermal cracking section are selectively hydro cracked to produce high value aromatic chemicals.

Process for production of Needle coke and aromatics

The present disclosure provides a ready-to-use bio-electrode stable for long term storage and a process of constructing the same. The process for construction of bio-electrode for electro-biocatalysis comprising of: selection of an electro-active bacteria; enrichment of said electro-active bacteria in a nutrient rich medium; separation of said electro-active bacterial cells from said nutrient rich medium; selection of an electrode material; surface modification of said electrode material; layering the surface modified electrode material with conductive material; layering the surface modified electrode material with an electro-active bacterial cells along with biofilm inducing agents and stabilizing agents; conditioning the electro-active bacterial cells layered electrode; incubating the electrode obtained with an immobilizing agent along with conductive material; and conditioning the electrode with micronutrients to obtain a bio-electrode.

Engineered electrode for electrobiocatalysis and process to construct the same

The present invention is related to the isomerization process in which a light naphtha stream comprising of paraffinic (mono and single branched), naphthenic and aromatic hydrocarbons in the range of C-Cis contacted with the solid catalyst in multiple reaction zones and in presence of hydrogen to produce high octane gasoline predominantly comprising of paraffins (single and di-branched) and naphthenes. The process scheme comprises of more than one isomerization reaction section operating at different temperatures and other operating conditions. The catalyst employed in these reaction sections is a high coordination sulfated mixed metal oxide catalyst which contains at least one noble metal and sulfated zirconia in addition to the other components. The process of the present invention also comprises more than one fractionation section and recycling of a particular stream to the reaction zone for improving the isomerization of light naphtha.

Process for isomerization of C—Chydrocarbons in light naphtha range

An apparatus for purifying impure hydrogen fuel is described that includes a first chamber and a second chamber. The first chamber is configured to receive impure hydrogen fuel in the form of a first mixture of gases with hydrogen gas and carbon monoxide at the first concentration while the second chamber is configured to receive a second mixture of gases with hydrogen gas at the second concentration. The apparatus also includes a solid-state electrolyte that separates the first chamber and the second chamber and includes an adsorbing catalyst. The apparatus also includes a pair of electrodes installed each in the first chamber and the second chamber to create a potential difference is created across the solid-state electrolyte.

Method and a device for operating PEM fuel cell with CO contaminated hydrogen gas

The present invention relates to a novel phase transfer solvent composition for enhanced COand/or HS capture from flue gas and biogas having various gaseous compositions. Further, the present invention provides a process of preparing the phase transfer solvent composition of the present invention.

Enzymatic phase transfer solvent for CO/HS capture

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 disclosure relates to a process for producing linear alpha olefins in high yield carried out by oligomerization of ethylene in the presence of a novel catalyst composition. The catalyst composition includes Zirconium compound, an organoaluminum compound, and at least one Lewis base selected from cyclic and acyclic ethers (i.e., di-n-butyl ether and diethyl ether). The process for oligomerization of ethylene is carried out in an inert organic solvent in the presence of said catalyst composition. The process as disclosed herein provides significantly high activity of the said catalyst composition resulting in high yield of the alpha olefins (>95 wt. %) as the product and significantly minimum polymer as by-product. The process provides higher yield of C6-C10 fraction with >60 wt. %.

Process and catalyst composition for producing linear alpha olefins in high yield by ethylene oligomerization

The present invention relates to a process for simultaneous production of citric acid and cellulolytic enzymes. The batch process comprising (i) adding slurry of a pre-treated lignocellulosic biomass or cellulose in a fermentation media; (ii) inoculating 10% (v/v) active liquid seed culture ofMRJ-16 in the fermentation media of step (i); (iii) subjecting the culture of step (ii) to fermentation in an aerated fermenter at a temperature of 28-33° C. for a duration of 96 hours; and (iv) collecting enzyme broth after fermentation of step (iii) to obtain citric acid and cellulolytic enzymes. The batch and fed-batch process of the present invention results in high titer production of citric acid and cellulolytic enzymes in a single step and using single microbial strain.

Process for simultaneous production of citric acid and cellulolytic enzymes

The present invention relates to an additized blended fuel composition comprising of 97 to 50 weight % of liquified petroleum gas (LPG); 3 to 50 weight % of dimethyl ether (DME); and a nanocatalyst. More particularly, the present invention relates to an improvement in the combustion efficiency of the DME blended LPG fuel by using catalytic amount of the nano-catalyst, when introduced in ppm level enhances the combustion properties, thereby increasing the flame temperature and reducing the consumption of fuel gas mixture.

Additized DME/LPG fuel for improving combustion efficiency

The present invention relates to a process for producing enriched algal biomass having high lipid productivity. More particularly, the present invention provides a process for obtaining an enriched biomass with omega-3 fatty acids by using a microalgal strainMTCC 5890 in a unique media composition and substrate residual band in a steady state continuous fermentation. The process of the present invention results in high biomass and lipid productivity.

Process for production of enriched algal biomass

The present invention provides an improved process for high titer lactic acid production using simultaneous saccharification and co-fermentation process using acid treated lignocellulosic biomass. The process comprises of pretreating lignocellulosic biomass comprising C5 and C6 sugars with dilute acid and superheated steam at a temperature ranging from 150-210° C.; neutralizing the pretreated lignocellulosic biomass of step (i) with NaOH pellets; and adding cellulase enzyme in the range of 1.5 to 10 FPU/g, bacteria, nutrients and buffering agent to the neutralized slurry obtained in step (ii) for hydrolysis and co-fermentation of C5 and C6 sugars at a temperature ranging from 40-45° C. for a period of 120-144 hours to obtain lactic acid. The process of the present invention requires simple nutrients and results in high titer lactic acid production within shortest duration of time.

Process for second generation lactic acid production

The invention relates to a device and process for converting organic waste to biogas with high methane content and improved organic conversion efficiency. Disclosed process consists of two stages and in the first stage, shredded organic waste is digested in primary digester in which biodegradable organic fractions present in waste gets converted to volatile fatty acids and alcohols dissolved in aqueous solution by hydrolytic and acidogenic microorganisms. Primary digester effluent pH, is adjusted to about 6.8-7.5 by addition of controlled alkali solution. Neutralized waste slurry is separated into liquid solution called as leachate and digested solid sludge. In the second stage, liquid leachate comprising volatile fatty acids are converted to biogas with methane content in the range 80-86% by methanogenic microbial culture in main digester under anaerobic conditions. This invention further describes optimized primary and main digester configurations with operating conditions to improve organic conversion efficiency in both the digesters.

Device and process for converting organic waste to biogas

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Faridabad, India

Sankara Sri Venkata Ramakumar