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Title:

Hand held Electronic Device for Estimating Citral Content In Lemongrass Oil: Empowerment of Farmers

Value Proposition:

Lemongrass oil is widely used in perfumery industry. Perfumery industries procure lemon grass oil directly from farmers.Farn]mers are deprived of good price for lack of knowlelgr about the percentage of citral content based on which the price is fixed. Better then convetinal used like GC-MS and HPLC( costly , time consuming, reqire special operatorand not handy)

Summary Application:

Hand held portable device for quantitative estimation of citral in lemongrass and other essential oils towards empowerment of farmers.

Advantages:

Hand held portable device

Tech. Readiness Level:
CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology
CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology[CSIR-IICB]
:  director[at]iicb[dot]res[dot]in
:91-33-24730492
:https://iicb.res.in/
Industrial Applications: Devices [Electrical]
Other IPR(s): -NA-