| Title of Process/ Know-how/ Product/Design/Equipment

Preparation of low sodium salt of botanic origin – Saloni – with backward integration of cultivation of Salicornia brachiata

IPR Status & Details:

US 6929809, IN 221049, AU 2002244907, BR PI0205773-5, CA 2429700, CN ZL02802456.7, EP 1487283, IL 154973, JO 2336, JP 4206343, MX 243499, SE 1487283, US 6929809, PCT/IN02/00063, WO 03079817

Application/Uses/Problem being addressed

Low sodium salts, Saloni are preferred by strict vegetarians and useful for those persons who have been advised to eat less common salt because of medical problems like hypertension.

Cultivation technology helps in generating large amount of biomass of Salicornia helps in coastal farmers/fishermen community as livelihood option besides contributing to an extent on GHGs emission.

Salient Technical Features including Competing Features/ Impact

Salient features for preparation of low sodium nutrient rich salts (Saloni), from high salt accumulating and edible oil-bearing salt tolerant plant, Salicornia brachiata (as a source of NaCl) are: Simple, efficient, reproducible and scalable

Sufficient quantities are micronutrients including K in the salt

Fine white crystalline and free flowing refined herbal salt

Offers additional opportunity in making oil

Optimized cultivation protocol that involves both agronomy and treatment for high yield of biomass per unit area scale

TRL Level & Scale of Development:- TRL 9 TRL Reference

TRL-9 (salt) and TRL-6 (cultivation)

Business scope & opportunity (in terms of scale, cost, market etc.)

Health consciousness among the people is on increasing trend, augmented by pandemic, and such healthy salt would be preferred; further, in food processing industry that are branded for use of excess salt in the products like pickles, papads etc. use of healthy salt create a new business market.

Environmental Considerations

Environmentally friendly process

Status of Licensing:

Ready for licensing

Technology is transferred-

  • N M S Pharma, Bhavnagar T
  • echnology ready for licensing

    Status of Commercialization:

    N M S Pharma, Bhavnagar is commercially producing the salt and selling in both domestic/international market for last few years although in very small scale (couple of tons)

    Major Raw Materials Needed

    Dried plant material (dry biomass); Land near to coastal belt is ideal for cultivation

    Major Plant Equipment and Machinery Required

    Reactor, filter, evaporator, dryers etc. General agriculture equipment and machinery are required

    Techno-Economics

    One hectare saline land can produce approximately 41 ton fresh biomass, 11 ton dry biomass, 3.8 ton ash content. From the one ha land, approximately 1.9 ton salt can be prepared.

    Technology Package

    Available on specific request.

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