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Details of Laboratories:

Lab 1-
Unit Operations lab/Bioprocess control & automation lab Equipments available:

  • Gyratory sieve shaker
  • Batch sedimentation apparatus
  • Diffusivity measurement apparatus
  • Batch distillation setup
  • Tray drier
  • Vaccum filter or leaf filter setup
  • Apparatus for pressure drop through packed bed
  • Equipment for studying pressure drop in two phase flow in horizontal pipe
  • Heat transfer in packed bed
  • Pressure Measurement Trainer Module (ITB – 016 – CE)
  • Pressure Process Controller CE (VPPA–40 CE)
  • Air compressor with storage tank – ELGI Flow process Controller –ce (VFPA–201– CE)
  • Single Tank system
  • Two tank non – Interacting system
  • Thermocouple Module (ITB – 05 –CE) with thermometer
  • Two tank – Interacting system
  • Flow Measurement trainer (VFMT – 01)
  • Equipment for unsteady state flow studies

Lab 2 – Heat & Mass Transfer Lab
Equipments available:

  • Pipe friction apparatus
  • Centrifugal pump test rig / AC motor
  • Orifice meter, Venturimeter & Rota meter calibration set up
  • Bernoulli’s theorem apparatus
  • Settling apparatus
  • Reynolds flow apparatus
  • Gas liquid mass transfer
  • Wetted wall column apparatus
  • York Sceheibel
  • Reciprocating pump test rig /ac motor

Lab 3: Microbiology lab/ Genetic Engg & Immunotechnology lab
Equipments available:

  • Autoclave – 40 lit
  • Binocular Microscopes – Lobomed   
  • Clinical Centrifuge (8 tubes capacity)
  • Colony Counter
  • Hot air oven
  • Bacteriological incubator
  • BOD incubator
  • Laminar Air Flow – 4x2x2feet
  • Refrigerated high speed centrifuge Remi
  • Refrigerated high speed micro centrifuge Remi
  • Refrigerated orbiter shaker 250ml x 25nos
  • Microscope dissecting
  • Trinocular microscope
  • Vertical gel electrophoresis – mini model
  • Immunoelectrophoresis unit (minimodel)
  • Immuno electrophoresis
  • Western blotting unit
  • Tissue homogenizer
  • Transilluminator  (UV-VIS)
  • Thermal cycler – Corbett, Australia

Lab 4: Bioinformatics lab
Facility available:

  • Computers with high-speed internet - 20
  • PHYLIP software
  • AUTODOCK software
  • PYMOL software

Lab 5: Upstream Processing lab /Downstream Processing lab/ Cell & Molecular Biology lab
Equipments available:

  • Fermentor (Autoclavable)  - 3 lit capacity
  • Plant Tissue Culture Racks
  • Labline make Autoclave
  • Orbital Shaker Incubator
  • Cyclomixer
  • Clinical Centrifuge (8 tubes capacity)
  • Magnetic stirrer with hot plate
  • Packed bed distillation setup
  • Electronic balance ELB 300
  • Agitation apparatus
  • Rocker- Double platform
  • Horizontal submarine gel electrophoresis unit

Biochemistry lab/ Biokinetics & Enzyme Technology lab
Equipments available:

  • Colorimeter
  • Double Distillation Unit
  • UV Spectrophotometer
  • Heating mantle -2 nos
  • Haemocytometers
  • Heating mantle-3 lit capacity
  • Water bath
  • Vaccum Pump
  • Batch Reactor
  • Mixed Flow Reactor
  • RTD in Mixed Flow
  • Reactor Plug Flow Reactor
  • Temperature effect on denaturation of enzymes

R & D labs:

Sl.  No Facility name Details
1 R & D Lab Research Centre recognized by VTU. Has facilities for animal cell culture studies viz., autoclave, inverted microscope, CO2 incubator, Biosafety cabinet
2 Plant Tissue Culture lab Tissue culture facilities with sterile conditions for growing algal cultures and ex-plants in controlled environment
3 CCMC Lab under
VGST -KFIST
6 systems with Core i5 processor, 4th  gen, Mother board Intel 85FL,Ram transcend 4gb ddr3, Hdd  Seagate 1TB,Cabinet I ball Mercury, Logitech keyboard & Mouse, Monitor, Dell18.5” Software - Inventus Drug discovery software, Novo informatics. Pvt. Ltd
4 Centre for Bioremediation & Studies on Microbial Diversity Fermenter, autoclave, orbital shaker, biosafety cabinet, UV spectrophotometer, incubator
5 Centre for Natural product  research Soxhlet extraction, Water bath, Flash evaporator, Magnetic stirrer

 




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