Technology Details

Area of Technology:Chemical and Allied

Title of the Innovation: High value Bacterial Nano Cellulose (BNC) films from low cost crude glycerol feed

Brief About Innovation

Nanocellulose (NC) is a version of cellulose available in the nanostructured form. Apart from biodegradable NC offers better transparency, mechanical properties & permeability. NC is made from plant sources or through the bacterial fermentative process.BNC is usually produced in a film form, used in biomedical, food & cosmetics applications due to its higher purity, suitable biodegradation & water absorption behavior. BNC is usually made using relatively costly sugar-rich carbon sources . There is a need for BNC film production process with higher yield & lower raw material cost.

TECHNOLOGY DESCRIPTION :

  Key outputs Process

• Higher Yield: 8.7 g/L
• Raw material: Crude glycerol
• Process: Static fermentation
• Proprietary bacterial strain: Komagataeibacter rhaeticus MCC 0157

  APPLICATIONS:

• Medical: Bone & tissue scaffold material, dental application, wound dressing material 
• Cosmetics: As an additive in cosmetics, antiaging masks
• Food: Stabilizer, emulsifiers, texture enhancers & rheology modifier
• BNC powder is Generally Recognized As Safe (GRAS) in food industry.

TECHNOLOGY STATUS:

• Demonstrated & validated at 50L scale
• Technology & patents are available for licensing/co-development.

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