Currently, our laboratory is equipped with 1) UV-Vis Spectrophotometer 2) High Performance Liquid Chromatograph (HPLC) with DAD and Florescence detector, 3) Water Quality analyzer, Portable PC testr35 4) Ultra Deep Freezer (-80°C), New Brunswick, 5) Deep freezers (-20°C), Cryo Make, and refrigerators 6) Flame Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer (AAS) with 13 lamps, 7) Mercury Hydride Generator, 8) Gas Chromatograph, with three detectors, (Electron Capture Detector – ECD, Nitrogen Phosphorous Detector – NPD and Flame Photometric Detector – FPD), 9) ANG generator, 10) Microwave Digestion System, 11) Dissolved Oxygen (DO) Analyzer, 12) Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD) Incubator, 13) Flame Photometer, 14) Vertical Laminar Flow Chambers, 15) Respirable Dust Samplers, 16) Ultra Centrifuge, 17) Microprocessor research centrifuge, 18) Walk-in cold room, 19) Rotary Flask Evaporator 20) Micrometer, 21) Digital Camera, 22) Thermo-hygrometer, 23) All Quartz Double Distillation unit, 24) Water purification system, 25) Hot-air Oven, 26) Induction Hot Plate, 27) Digital Caliper, 28) Soxhlet Mantle, (29) Ultrasonic water bath, 30) Desiccators, 31) Blenders, 32) Rotary spinner, and 33) Inverted microscope.
SACON laboratory facilities can be also used by other institutions for the analysis of physio-chemical properties of plants, soil, water and biological samples containing pesticides and heavy metals on payment basis.
Analytical services to Academic institutions & Industries: Division of Ecotoxicology
Laboratory facility at the Ecotoxicology division is being upgraded with state-of-the-art analytical instruments to qualify and quantify many organic and inorganic contaminants in a variety of biological and non-biological matrices. The facility will be fully operational in the next month or two. While the facility is primarily to meet the division’s mandate of understanding the impact of contaminants on ecosystem components, especially birds, we also intend to help the academic community and industries with their analytical requirements at affordable cost. The following are the parameters that we are equipped to handle as on date;
| S. No |
Parameter | Charges (Rs.) per sample | |
| Students | Others | ||
| 1 | pH | 200 | 300 |
| 2 | TDS | 200 | 300 |
| 3 | Conductivity | 200 | 300 |
| 4 | Turbidity | 200 | 300 |
| 5 | Dissolved Oxygen | 1000 | 1500 |
| 6 | BOD | 1200 | 1700 |
| 7 | COD | 800 | 1300 |
| 8 | Total Phosphate | 1500 | 2000 |
| 9 | Total Nitrogen | 1500 | 1500 |
| 10 | Total Hardness | 1000 | 1500 |
| 11 | Total Alkalinity | 1000 | 1500 |
| 12 | Salinity | 200 | 300 |
| 13 | Total Suspended Solids | 1000 | 1500 |
| 14 | Total Organic Carbon | 1000 | 1500 |
| 15 | Fluoride | 1000 | 1500 |
| 16 | Chloride | 1000 | 1500 |
| 17 | Oil & Grease | 1000 | 1500 |
| 18 | Nitrite | 1000 | 1500 |
| 19 | Nitrate | 1000 | 1500 |
| 20 | UV -VIS Spectrophotometer – Analysis | 250 | 420 |
| 21 | HPLC- UV & Fluorescence detector – Analysis | 2500 | 3500 |
Those who intend to avail our services may contact
Dr. P. R. Arun
Senior Principal Scientist
Division of Ecotoxicology
Tel. number: 0422-2203126. Email id: ecotlaboratory@gmail.com
As the protocol for collection, storage and shipment of samples will vary for different parameters, one may contact us before planning to ship samples.
