Dr. Suruchi Rao is the CEO and co-founder of Ossus Biorenewables, a Bangalore based green hydrogen supply company. The start-up has developed an AI-powered, intelligent bioreactor, the OB HydraCel, which accesses organic content in the wastewater from process industries and supplies these industries with on-demand, on-site hydrogen gas.
Ossus is producing and supplying green hydrogen priced between 0.8-1.2 USD per kilogram using wastewater and enroute to exponentially scale up the manufacturing of the HydraCel bioreactors, build enhanced bio-capability with state-of-the-art instrumentation, and most importantly, expand across South Asia, Europe, and the US.
Before starting her own venture, she was working on the conversion of agricultural wastes into ethanol as a transportation fuel as part of her doctoral work at the Institute of Chemical Technology (UDCT) in Mumbai.