Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
The activities are centred around the improvement in quality and yield of salt recovered from marine, sub-soil and inland brines and development of processes for the recovery of valuable marine chemicals like potash and magnesium chemicals by the down stream processing of bittern.
Was introduced in 1982 with an endeavor of potentially using coordination metal complexes as homogeneous catalysts for environmentally and industrially important reactions utilizing gaseous molecules such as O2, N2 and CO. During 1982 to 1991, It has contributed significant research output on the synthesis of metal complexes for reactions such as oxidation, epoxidation, hydroformylation at molecular level. These were documented in hundreds of publications in the journals of catalysis and inorganic metal complexes and several patents, which brought recognition on international arena...
Water is one of the most important resources for human existence, whether it be for human consumption, agriculture and industry. Ensuring access to safe drinking water is emerging as one of the important challenges of the present century because of steady decrease in the available water resources, industrialization, urbanization, etc. Water in several pockets of the country contains high salinity, and/or harmful contaminants. Desalination of brackish and sea water and water refinement are the major requirements for solving this challenge.
Membrane separation processes such as reverse osmosis (RO), nanofiltration (NF) and ultrafiltration (UF) have emerged as an effective solution to produce safe drinking water. CSMCRI has pioneered the membrane research and development in the country for desalination of brackish and sea water, and for water refinement i.e., removal of harmful contaminants like pathogens, hardness, arsenic, fluoride, etc., present in water.
Engaged in selection, improvement and agrotechnology development of non traditional oil bearing deserter economic (Jojoba & Jatropha) and halophytic (Salicornia & Salvadora) plant species with a view to develop under utilized non saline and saline wastelands. The work involves improvement of species through forced selection, breeding and also through biotechnological approaches for cost-effective and sustainable production.....