OBJECTIVES:¤
Undertake R&D work in the area of chemical recovery, desilication, thermal treatment
of black liquor for viscosity reduction, black liquor characterization.
.
¤ Development of alternate technologies in the area of chemical recovery
for cost-effective production, viable in Indian context
¤ Co-operate with the mills in process development and extend the testing
facilities in India and abroad.
¤
Capacity assessment and pre feasibility studies on chemical recovery system.
¤
Act as a nodal agency between various R&D Institutes, enzyme manufacturers and
Pulp & Paper Industry for biotechnological application in Pulp & Paper.
¤
Undertake R&D work in the area of bioleaching, biodeinking, biorefining, bioethanol
production, biological effluent treatment and slime control.
¤ Cooperate
with the mills in process development and extend the testing facilities in
India and abroad.
¤ Provide training to mill personal at all levels,
demonstration of technology, organizing workshops, seminars & interaction meets
to disseminate information.
¤ Provide technical services to Pulp & Paper
and allied industries for chemical characterization of organic and inorganic samples
by employing instrumental methods of analysis.
¤ Recovery of lignin and
carbohydrates from spent pulping liquor and their utilization as a source of clean energy.
SERVICES OFFERED:
» Chemical Recovery
¤ Studies for thermal analysis and combustion behaviour of black liquor
and fuel samples.
¤ Estimation of non-process elements in pulp & paper mill samples, black liquor, process water.
¤ Macro molecular characterization of black liquor constituents.
» Biotechnology
¤ Isolation of microorganisms with desired enzyme production
characteristics from various sources like soil, effluent, wood and sludge etc.
¤ Production of various enzymes xylanases, cellulases
and laccases from microorganisms.
¤
Evaluation of commercial enzymes for their enzyme activities and their
response as biobleaching ,biodeinking ,biorefining agents on various
paper making raw materials.
¤
Bioremediation of effluents emanated from Pulp & Paper mills.
¤
Bioethanol production from various lignocellulosic raw materials.
¤
Analysis of microbial quality of water and effluents.
¤ Conductance
of training & Project programmes for academic and industry personnels.
Fermenter Biostat
Biolog Microstation |
» Lignin By-products
¤ Modification and utilization of separated lignin as industrial
useful products like lignisulphonate as additive in concrete admixture
& phenol lignin formaldehyde resin as binder in ply Industry.
» Central Instrumentation
¤ Determination of process and non-process elements in Pulp &
Paper, Black liquor, Process water etc.
¤ Determination
of heavy metal ion concentration in Food grade papers, potable water,
Pulp & Paper mill effluent, E.T.P. Sludge and Deinking Sludge etc.
¤ Functional group analysis in Lignin and Carbohydrates.
¤ Determination of anions like chlorides, sulphates, sulphite
, oxalates in process water and black liquors , Pulp & Paper Effluent.
¤
Characterization of black liquor, Coal, Biological sludge for Carbon, Hydrogen,
Nitrogen, Sulphur and Oxygen
FACILITIES AVAILABLE :
» Chemical Recovery
¤
Automatic Bomb Calorimeter
.
¤ Simultaneous Thermal Analyser.
¤ Advanced Rheometer.
¤ UV-Visible spectrophotometer.
¤
Automatic titration system.
¤ Pilot plant for desilication of black liquor.
¤ Pilot plant for thermal treatment of black liquor.
» Biotechnology
¤ Laboratory Fermenter.
¤ Research Microscope
¤
BIOLOG Microstation.
¤ Cooling Centrifuges
¤ Infra
- Red Moisture Analyser.
¤ FLaminar Air Flow.
¤
Colony Counter.
Absorption Spectrophotometer
CHNS Analyser |
» Central Instrument
¤ Atomic Absorption Spectrometer.
¤ CHNS Analyser.
¤ U.V. Spectrometer
¤ I.R. Spectrometer.
¤ Elemendorf tear tester
¤ Karl-Fischer coulometer
¤
High Performance Ion Chromatograph.
ACHIEVEMENTS:¤ Successfully developed Technology for removal of silica from the black liquor. A full mill scale plant is running in one of the Rice Straw based mill since 2006. The technology is being marketed by an engineering company
¤ Developed Direct Alkali Recovery System (DARS), a process for recovery of chemical suitable for small pulp & paper mills.
¤ Developed Thermal treatment technology for black liquor to reduce viscosity of Baggase Black Liquor and achieve high dry solids content of firing Black Liquor thereby increasing Thermal Energy Recovery Efficiency.
¤ Successfully developed a technology for reduction of Chlorides & Potassium in Chemical Recovery System. The technology is being upscaled for demonstration on Pilot scale.
¤ Developed research expertise in biopulping, biobleaching, biodeinking,
biological treatment of effluents and biological slime control
¤ Successfully
demonstrated mill scale xylanase pre bleaching trials at Seshasayee Paper & Boards
Ltd. Erode. and achieved 15% of chlorine reduction as gas & hypo and 20-25% AOX
reduction in bleach effluents.
¤ Provide training & project programmes to
60-70 graduate and postgraduate students in the area of Microbiology & Biotechnology.
¤ Expertise developed for instrumental analysis for rapid determination
of inorganics anions using HPLC techniques
¤ Established test procedure for
determination of lignosulphonate purity.
¤ Identified and developed lignin
purification technique to improve its performance as feedstock for clean energy and
other industrial applications.
¤ Two patents- separation of lignin from agro
residue black liquor and utilization lignin for industrial useful products
Research
& Development
