Energy Efficient Enzymes

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Implementing Organization

Cellzyme Biotech, Coimbatore

Innovator Details

Name of Innovator

Dr. Rajkumar Rajagopal, Managing
Director; GCIP National Runner-Up, rajkumar77@gmail.com

About

Cellzyme Biotech has developed an engineered enzyme that can be used as a green biocatalyst for commercial manufacturing of antibiotics. It’s an immobilized enzyme. Idea of business project stems on reducing energy consumption and toxic effluent discharge to produce antibiotics. The product (enzyme) and the process can be used for the large-scale commercial manufacturing of cephalosporin antibiotics.

Benefits

The innovation converts existing chemical process into an enzymatic process which is cost-effective, greener and safer. The process is energy efficient as it is carried out at room temperature rather than at -60°C. The process has lower environmental footprint and 10% increased yield.

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Funding Organization

Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME), New Delhi

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Area of Research

Energy Sciences

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Industrial Innovations