Industrial Innovations

Energy Efficient Enzymes

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.

Area: Energy Sciences

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

Funding agency: Ministry of Micro, Small Medium Enterprises (MSME), Govt of India

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.

Implementing institute: Cellzyme Biotech, Coimbatore

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