Indian Oil Corporation Limited

Department of Biotechnology

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

India Oil Corporation Limited

Department of Biotechnology Ministry of Science & Technology

Vlaamse Instelling Voor Technologisch Onderzoek

Suresh Kumar Puri

Sankara Sri Venkata Ramakumar

Ravi Prakash Gupta

Prakash Chandra Sahoo

Manoj N Kumar

Anshu Shankar Mathur

Anurag Ateet Gupta

Deepak Kumar Tuli

Ajay Kumar Arora

Ravindra Kumar

Manoj Kumar

Mukund Adsul

Simranjeet Kaur Sandhu

Srikanth Sandipam

Reeta Rani Singhania

Ravinder Kumar Malhotra

Akhilesh Kumar Bhatnagar

Alok Satlewal

Brijesh Kumar

Sanjiv Kumar Mazumdar

Debasis Bhattacharyya

Santanam Rajagopal

Ram Mohan Thakur

Terapalli Hari Venkata Devi Prasad

Deepak Saxena

Jagdev Kumar Dixit

Vivekanand Kagdiyal

Dheer Singh

Niranjan Raghunath Raje

Amardeep Singh

Ruchi Agrawal

Tanmay Mandal

Preeti Mehta

Meeta Sharma

Ajay Kumar Sharma

Rekha Rani

Som Prakash Srivastava

Vinod Kumar Sharma

Ajit Singh

Manas Ranjan Swain

Surbhi Semwal

Prakash Shanti

Sandipam Srikanth

Satyen Kumar Das

Ponoly Ramachandran Pradeep

Biswapriya Das

Satish Makhija

Rakesh Sarin

Sarvesh Kumar

Alok Sharma

Biswajit Basu

Karolien Vanbroekhoven

Gautam Thapa

Rajesh

Umish Srivastava

Deepak Pant

Arvind Pratap Singh

Anand Kumar

Ashok Kumar Tiwari

Lambertus Bouwman

Bijendra Singh Rawat

Pradeep Ponoly Ramachandran

Qazi Mohammad Amir

Krishnarao Lopinti

Anil Yadav

Tirath Raj

Saeed Ahmed

Jitendra Kumar Saini

Ankita Kandpal

Periyasamy Sivagurunathan

Arunagiri Samy

A K Misra

Muniaswamy Rajesh

Ved Singh

M Rajesh

Rameshwar Prasad

V K Sharma

M Vanamamalai

Ambrish Kumar Misra

Ludovicus Diels

Rameshwar Prashad

Rajagopal Manoharan

Subhash Chand

Mahendara Pratap Singh

Ravi B Kumar

Saket Ranjan

Ramadoss Suresh

Tammy Mandal

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 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

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 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 present invention provides a method for the simultaneous enhancement in biomass and lipids containing omega-3-fatty acids ofmicroalgae in a single step using synergistic effect of chemical mixture in appropriate proportion in production medium. The process discloses enriching the biomass of microalgae with high value lipids by subjecting the microalgal cells in growth medium supplemented with unique combination of chemical modulators and carbon substrates in the presence of nitrogen. The present invention also provides a novel strainsp. (MTCC 5980) for use in continuous aerobic fermentative lipid production process for enhancing high value lipids like Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), Docasapentaenoic acid (DPA), Eicosapentaenic acid (EPA) and lipids for biodiesel.

Methods and formulations for enhancing high value lipids

The present specification provides a semi-conducting biogenic hybrid catalyst capable of reducing COinto fuel precursors. Specifically, the present application involves a method for bio-assisted conversion of COto fuel precursors using the semiconducting biogenic hybrid catalyst in a batch and a continuous mode.

Bio-assisted process for conversion of carbon dioxide to fuel precursors

The present invention relates to a biocompatible task specific hybrid solvent (TSHS) composition that synergistically increases the carbon capture efficiency and utilizes less energy for COdesorption over the existing solutions. Further, the process of synthesizing such composition is discussed in this disclosure. Also, the present disclosure provides a process that involves a task specific hybrid solvent (TSHS) composition for selective capturing COfrom any gaseous stream.

Solvent composition for COcapture and a process mediated thereof

The present invention relates to a booster composition for enhancing the biogas yield and stabilizing the operation of a biomethanation plant, a method for the preparation of said booster composition and a method for enhancing the biogas yield and stabilizing the operation of a biomethanation plant using said composition by ameliorating the effect of shock conditions like pH and temperature. The booster composition comprises of specifically defined constituents selected from controlled release agents, redox potential balancers, direct interspecies electron transfer (DIET) improvers, micronutrient balancers, and Co-factors.

Booster composition to improve biogas yield and to stabilize the digester performance

The present invention provides a composition and a method for mitigating formation or activity of a corrosion-associated biofilm on metal surfaces of pipelines. The pipelines are first treated with pigs i.e. bi-di pigs for removing/disturbing biofilm, followed by microbial treatment i.e. application of microbecidal composition. The microbecidal composition comprising at least one alcohol, one corrosion inhibitor, one surfactant, one biocide and a lignin-based nanoparticle. The lignin-based nano particle is functionalized with amine functionalizing agent. The present composition and method is eco-friendly, as low concentration is sufficient and further, regular dosing is not required for MIC control.

Microbecidal composition and a method for mitigating internal microbiological influenced corrosion in petroleum transporting pipelines

The present invention relates to a method for reducing or preventing the formation or activity of a corrosion-associated biofilm on a metal surface, wherein the method comprises contacting the metal surface with a liquid composition comprising biocidal preparation. The present invention also relates to a microbicidal composition comprising at least one alcohol, one liquid hydrocarbon, a bacteriophage immobilized on a magnetic nanocomposite, at least one phage releasing reagent and one stabilizer. The microbicide composition and method of the present invention reduces biofilms on surfaces, and consequently, reduces, mitigates, or eliminates MIC in internal surface of the oil transporting pipelines.

Bioassisted treatment of microbiologically influenced corrosion in petroleum transporting pipelines

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

The present invention discloses a process of xylitol production from pure xylose, xylose containing liquid extract from the acid pretreated biomass (LEPB) and co-production of ethanol and xylitol from dilute acid pretreated lignocellulosic biomass by naturalDBT-IOC S24 (MTCC25086). The present invention also discloses a process of xylitol production wherein a thermo and inhibitor tolerantDBT-IOC S24 (MTCC25086) natural strain has been induced to produce xylitol from xylose at defined process parameters using xylose containing diluted acid pretreated biomass as well as from xylose containing synthetic media in presence of glucose, lignocelluloses biomass derived xylitol inducer maintaining aeration at 1VVM and pH at 5.0 in the medium.

Process for xylitol production from xylose

A process for selective capture of COfrom gaseous mixture comprising of: (a) spraying a bio-amine cluster; (b) capturing COthrough bio-amine cluster; and (c) desorption of COthrough solar assisted electro de-amination, wherein the bio-amine cluster is comprises of: an amine cluster comprising of a quaternary Isobutylamine (IB) with amine terminated Poly(L-lactide) as the chelating agent; a cluster stabilizing agent; a cluster micelle stabilizing agent; and a carbonic anhydrase (CA) functionalized matrix in 0.05-0.2 wt % of total wt % of bio-amine cluster and wherein the CA is obtained from a source selected from the group consisting ofandsp. and a process for production of bio-amine cluster.

Process for COcapture from gaseous streams

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Suresh Kumar Puri