Mr Shrikumar Suryanarayan1, Ms Sri Sailaja Nori1, Dr. Sawan Kumar1, Mr. Nithin Sanghe1
1Sea6 Energy Private Limited, Bangalore, India
Precision products are products of consistent quality & consistent performance across various applications.
The manufacturing of any product from biological raw materials, like seaweed, involves several steps and the variable nature of such natural starting materials can cause variations in quality and performance of the end products. Control over the raw material properties and quality would help immensely in making consistent products. Precision phyconomy cultivation techniques, outlined elsewhere, are a key to the production of sustainable, consistent starting raw materials.
In addition to consistency, it is important to be able to identify and quantify the functional active ingredients in the products and their relative importance in the final product performance.
It is extremely important to develop a manufacturing process that enables these active ingredients to be extracted from the raw material with robustness at large scale within the constraints of a production unit. This involves identifying and setting the ranges of the process parameters that have an effect on the extraction or production of the active ingredient from the starting raw material.
Finally, analytical methods and bio-assays have to be developed that can be used to control the process and formulate the finished product from every batch to a standard specification so that a precise, controlled and consistent final products can be reliably and repeatably produced .
This presentation will outline how Sea6 implemented the above techniques to produce a range of precise, biostimulant and immunostimulant products for use in agriculture where all the above criteria have been met.