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ITI also provides consultancy to industry for Maintance/Calibration of Laboratory equipment, Management and upgrading of laboratories – chemical, microbiological and metrology as per requirements of ISO17025:2005;and many others. Training programmes are also conducted for overseas clients, particularly in laboratory quality management system.

1. Bio Technology
   
2. Calibration and Measurements
3. Chemical & Microbiology
   
4. Electro Technology
   
5. Environmental Technology
6. Food Technology
7. Herbal Technology
8. Materials Technology
9. Pollution Control including Noise and Vibration
10. Quality Management Systems
11. Sound and Vibration (Acoustic Engineering)

1 Bio Technology

• Testing of genertically modified food
• Plant DNA barcoding
• Customised research on food, herbal, materials, environment etc.

2 Calibration and Measurements

• Setting up of calibration laboratory infrastructure for routine calibration
• System calibration of Industrial Equipment - temperature, pressure etc.

3 Chemical & Microbiology

• Microbiological Laboratory design for in-house quality assurance purposes
• Trouble shooting for the following Industries

- Food industries (Detection of bacterial and fungal contaminations in food chains and Root cause analysis)
- Mineral /Bottled water Industry (Suitability of source, water treatment and Regular

- Garment Industries (Fungal contaminations, source of contamination, Anti microbial effects).

4 Electro Technology

• Design and development of early warning systems to address natural disasters such as floods, landslides etc.
• Development of online data acquisition/monitoring systems (eg: Automated rain gauge, Automatic weather station)
• Measurement automation (eg: Remote monitoring of temperature, humidity etc.)
• Microcontroller based control system development
• Customized software development for remote monitoring applications through web interfacing
• Repair and modification of hi - tech analytical test equipment/ micro processes based control systems (eg: Spectro-photometers, Flame photometers, DNA Analysis etc)

5 Environmental Technology

• Control of odorous emissions (VOCs) using bio filter system
• Development/ adaptation of cost effective technologies for treatment of industrial waste water
• Reduction of dissolved solids including heavy metals from water and waste water

6 Food Technology

• Formulation of Nutritional products
• Post-harvest technology for the export of fruits and vegetables
• Process validation for canned foods
• Sensory evaluation of foods
• Shelf-life studies on food products

7 Herbal Technology

• Ayurvedic/Herbal drug quality control and standardization
• Bio-pesticides/Microbial Pesticides
• Economic uses of underutilized crops such as Patchouli (Gan kollan), Gymnema sylvestre (Masbedda)
• Essential oil and spices - distillation, production of oleoresin
• Extraction, isolation and purification of natural products
• Functional food/Nutraceutical/Cosmaceutical
• Functional natural products and its applications
• Improving efficiency of tapping techniques for Kithul Industry
• Medicinal and Aromatic plants - Agronomy propagation techniques including tissue culture product formulation and quality control
• Value added products from essential oil and spices

8 Materials Technology

• Surface coatings for specialized applications such as anti bacterials properties
• Advanced materials for specific users such as high band gap semi conductor materials, graphene (nano material from graphite), super absorbent materials
• Value addition to materials, including minerals, natural fibres and clay and ceramic based products

9 Pollution Control including Noise and Vibration

• Air Dispersion Modelling: Study on atmospheric dispersion of air pollutants using computer simulation models to recomend control measures and/or proper siting of new projects
• Air Pollution control systems: Design & implementation of air pollution control system
• Energy efficiency: Energy audits and recommendations for improvement
• Initial Environmental Examination reports of noise and vibration levels
• Environment impact Assessment: Preperation of EIA reports required for establishment of new industrial projects including noise and vibration levels, noise prediction with noise model
• Hazardous waste management: Characterization of hazardous properties of waste material as per Basel guidelines and recommendation of measures for handling, storage, transport and disposal
• Indoor air quality: Monitoring of indoor air quality and recommendations for improvement
• Troubleshooting/upgrading of industrial pollution control systems
• Wastewater treatment plants: Design & implementation of wastewater treatment plants

10 Quality Management Systems

• Designing of new and up-grading of existing laboratory facilities
• Food Safety Management System ISO 22000:2005
• GAP analysis for existing quality management systems against the above ISO standards
• Implementation of quality management systems in testing and medical laboratories and foodTechnical and Management requirements of ISO 17025:2005

11 Sound and Vibration (Acoustic Engineering)

• Acoustic designs for auditoriums.
• Design of sound-proof enclosures for machines.
• Industrial noise abatements
• Noise barrier designs.
• Reverberation time measurement.
• Sound-proof studio designs.

Service Hours

• 8.30 a.m. to 4.15 p.m. on week days

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