Dr Debashish Ghosh

Research Interest

• Lignocellulosic biomass deconstruction and C₅ mediated yeast fermentation
• Waste to wealth: Material resource efficiency, process intensification with C₃, C₅, C_6, and C₁₂ feedstock, cradle to gate LCI analysis, biofuels, bioenergy
• Yeast lipid: Production and down streaming at pilot scale (500L batch operation), process development and application as fuels and oleochemicals; elemental footprint mapping
• Yeast omics: metabolomic profiling and carbon fluxomics
• 1G and 2G ethanol; Environmental Biopolymer (PHAs / Bioplastic): Bioprospecting, process optimization, and application

Work Experience

Patents

• Protein-based photovoltaic device; WO 2017109794 A1  
• A catalytic process to convert microbial lipids, bio-crude and lignin directly into aromatics rich feedstock; Indian Patent (3441DEL2012)
• Process for detoxifying lignocellulosic hydrolysate and its use in synthesizing xylitol PCT 202011053110

Selected Publications

• Catalytic cracking of yeast-borne single-cell oil for the production of small-chain olefins over a PtSn/ alumina catalyst
  Green Chemistry (2023) Advance Article
• Water footprint and wastewater quality assessment of yeast single cell oil production: Gate to gate approach for industrial water sustainability
  Science of the Total Environment (2023) 866:161127
• Cassava starch-derived aerogels as biodegradable packaging materials
  Materials Chemistry and Physics (2023) 296:127282
• Efficient valorization of feather waste by Bacillus cereus IIPK35 for concomitant production of antioxidant keratin hydrolysate and milk-clotting metallo-serine keratinase
  Journal of Environmental Management (2022) 324:116380
• Microbiologically influenced corrosion of wastewater pipeline and its mitigation by phytochemicals: Mechanistic evaluation based on spectroscopic, microscopic and theoretical analyses
  Journal of Molecular Liquids (2022) 364:119960