In addition to being environmentally benign, enhanced properties of CLECs include superior catalytic performance, operating stability, storage stability, compactness, superior uniformity, and operational convenience. Return to Top of Page . Return to Past Awards page. Biocatalysis is widely regarded as a promising new approach to source reduction of pollution associated with chemical manufacturing. It has not been widely adopted to date, however, due to the limited availability of process-compatible biological catalysis.
Catalysts are central to modern chemical manufacturing as well as to life.
A good catalyst accelerates the rate of a desired reaction compared to unwanted, waste generating, side reactions. Enzymes are wonderfully selective and specific catalysts. Enzymes, however, evolved to work in living systems, and enzymes that work well in a chemical process plant have not been broadly available to chemists and chemical engineers. RBI has developed a new technology specifically to meet that unmet need. RBI has developed and applied a powerful, new biodiversity search technology to scan natural sources for new enzymes.