REGIONAL RESEARCH
LABORATORY, BHUBANESHWAR (RRL
- Bhubaneshwar)
MANDATE
- Characterization
of minerals, benefication of lean and complex ores and agglomeration of
ore fines and concentrates.
- Pyro- and hydro-matallurgical
extraction of metals, preparation of alloys and recovery of metal values
from wastes.
- Development
of special materials and composites.
- Preparation
of synthesis of organic and inorganic chemicals from marine, forest and
mineral resources.
- Design and development
of process equipment of control systems.
- Survey, introduction
and utilization of aromatic, medicinal and other economic plants.
MAIN FACILITIES
- High precision
microscopes for mineral characterization studies.
- Large-scale
flotation columns for benefication of various minerals and coal fines,
gravity seperation units including Bartle's Mozley concentrators and magnetic
seperators.
- Integrated facilities
for communition of ores and concentrates, through sintering, pelletization,
briquetting and evalution of the agglomerates.
- Rotary kilns,
multiple hearth furnace, high temperature Tamman furnace, vacuum induction
furnace, etc. for roasting, smelting and melting studies.
- High pressure
batch and continuous autoclaves for slurry leaching.
- Integrated solvent
extraction and electrowinning facilities for extraction of metals from
dilute and complex solutions.
- Solid-liquid
seperation facilities for generation of engineering data.
- Special high
temperature furnaces, including plasma furnace.
- Test loops for
slurry transportation through pipelines including bench scale facilities
for material characterization, slurry rheology, dewatering, pumping and
mixing studies.
- Combustion test
rig for liquid fuels, acoustic and other type of burner testing.
- Cyclone combustion
test rig.
- Sophisticated
corrosion-erosion testing facilities.
- Facilities for
suface area, porosity and fluroscence measurements and catalyst testing
and evaluation.
- Instruments
for physio-chemical characterizationof ores, minerals and organic chemicals;
XRF, XRD, AAS, IR, UV, NMR, GLC, ion chromatograph, HPLC and densitometer.
- Herbarium for
identification of plants.
- Library and
computerized information system.
SIGNIFICANT
ACHIEVEMENTS
- Development
of sparger system for flotation column using acoustic energy.
- MIneralization
and chemical characterization of lime-stone deposits.
- Petrological
studies on Talcer coal and granite samples of Orissa.
- Production of
cement clinkers and light weight fly ash aggregate using down draft sintering
technique.
- Reduction of
roasting of sodium sulphate using pan roaster facility.
- Reduction roasting
of limenite in oil fired rotary kiln.
- Engineering
consultancy on settling up of 75 tonnes/h iron ore crushing and screening
plant.
- Monitoring of
methane emission from flooded rice fields and wet lands.
- Utilization
of Mahua flowers for the production of oxalic acid, alcohol and lactic
acid.
- Seperation of
eutrained titania (TiO2) from ferrous chloride solutions.
- Leaching of
blue dust and processing of leach liquor to obtain highly pure FeCl3
in solution for ferrite production.
- Recovery of
graphite and tungsten values from Tapeskonda graphite bearing quartz vein
deposits of Andhra Pradesh.
- Cleaning of
zinc rougher concentrate by adoption of flotation column.
- Development
of various of multifuel chulhas/stoves.
- Development
of power paddy thresher.
- Development
of a process for production of a gallic acid and 3,4,5-trimethoxy benzoic
acid from myrobolan fruits.
- Development
of an acoustic burner.
DIRECTOR
Prof H. S. Ray.
M. Tech (Metall. Engg.), Ph.D.
CONTACT ADDRESS
Bhubaneshwar, 751
013.
Telephone: (091)674-481126,
481638, 481639.
Telegram : RESEARCH,
BHUBANESHWAR.
Telex
: 0675-6275 ABC RRL IN.
Fax
: (091)6273-481637.
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Research Laboratory, Bhubaneshwar, 1997.
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