Department Of
CIVIL ENGINEERING (CE)
Environmental Laboratory
Overview
This laboratory with a floor area of 2,800 sqft is on the 3rd floor of the Civil Engineering Building. The well-equipped laboratory is the most advanced of its kind in the country and have equipment, facilities and highly experienced laboratory technicians for detailed analysis of water, wastewater, industrial effluent, oil-drilling mud and cutting, air and noise quality etc. The laboratory also facilitates the model testing of water and wastewater treatment systems.
Two UV spectrophotometers, double distillation machine, deionizing water machine, automatic dehumidifier machine, COD reactor, sonicator, IC machine, titrator, electrical water bath, flocculator, TCFC and BOD incubators, fine particle sampler, two atomic absorption spectrophotometers and many other testing machines and equipment are available for conducting academic and research activities. Routine drinking water parameters are tested here regularly, as well as, environmental quality of soil, sludge and solids etc. Other water quality parameters like TN, TKN, TS, TSS, TDS, TOC, DOC, SDI with plugging etc. are few of the many other tests performed regularly in this laboratory.