The main thrust areas are :
- Production,
- Process optimization,
- Scale up,
- Downstream processing,
- Purification
- Characterization
- Possible industrial applications &
- Exploitation of various bioactive molecules produced by microorganisms using fermentation as an approach.
TBI provide incubation support in industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology to Entrepreneurs, Scientists and Research Institutions/Universities who plan to incubate their innovative IDEAS, PROCESSES or TECHNOLOGIES. TBI also provide Manpower training programme to the Graduate/Post graduate Students and Entrepreneurs in the area of industrial microbiology and fermentation technology.
The following State-of-the-art Lab facilities have been set up and are functional at this TBI:
State of art facility for fermentation with different vessel size fermenter (5, 10, 30, 50, 500, & 5000 L)
- Centrifugation : Lab scale and Industrial Centrifuge (2)
- Concentration : (a) Microfiltration (0.22)
(b) Ultra filtration system
(Molecular cutoff memb.1, 3, 5, 10, 30, 50, 1000 kDa) - Drying : Industrial Freeze Drier
- Vacuum Evaporation : Rotavapour
- Spray Drier
- Spectrophotometer
- High Performance Liquid Chromatography
a) Analytical b) Semi preparatory - Gas Chromatograph (GC)
- Spectrofluorometer
- Microscope