Central Instrumentation Facility
The central Instrumentation Facility (CIF) of OUAT is a central facility of latest and advanced analytical Instruments for research in the application areas of agriculture and allied interdisciplinary sciences. The different equipment includes those for Imaging and effective documentation, complete chemical analysis of the compound with its detail characterization and laboratory services in the field of molecular biology. This facility is open for use by students, research scholars, faculty members of OUAT and is also to external organizations mainly academic institutions on chargeable basis. The CIF also takes up activities like capacity building and human resources development for the operation and applications of different instruments. This facility also encourages collaborative research with institutes of repute. With a tagline of Techno Touch for Agro Search, the CIF is actively facilitating the researchers of OUAT to advanced instrumentation facilities for quality research output.
Objectives
- To act as a central facility of modern analytical instruments for supporting research and analysis work in agriculture & allied sciences.
- To maintain a state- of- art research facility with high quality service, innovative solutions and cutting-edge technologies for excellence in research.
- To organize short term courses/workshops on the use and applications of various advanced instruments, analytical techniques and to generate trained technical manpower in the field of instrumentation.
Salient Features
- TWell planned CIF building (Approx. 10,000 sq ft) with faculty chamber, office room, training hall, store, toilets etc.
- Well-furnished laboratories with 24 X 7 power supply and back up facility, humidity and temperature controlled system, insulated floors, round the clock water supply and dust free environment.
- Well protected with CCTV surveillance and monitoring system.
- Adequate fire safety mechanisms with smoke detectors, fire alarms and fire extinguishers.
- Well defined protocol for sample collection, labeling, storage and processing
- Routine inspection, cleaning, maintenance, testing and calibration of the instruments by authorized service engineers
- Maintains proper storage conditions for consumables.
- Proper record maintenance, result analysis, reporting and retrieval of data
- Proper display of Do’s & Don’ts inside the laboratory.
- First aid kit on each floor.
- Proper waste disposal mechanisms.
- Well laid out action plans to be taken in response to equipment failure.
| Sl.No | List of the Equipment | Sl.No | List of the Equipment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scanning Electron Microscope with EDS | 2 | CHNS,O Analyzer |
| 3 | HPTLC (High Performance Thin Layer Chromatography) | 4 | FTIR* WITH ATR |
| 5 | ICP-OES | 6 | GC MS |
| 7 | Particle size and Zeta potential Analyser | 8 | Automatic Microbial Identification system |
| 9 | Micro plate Washer with Reader | 10 | UV-VIS Spectrophotometer |
| 11 | Microwave Digestion System | 12 | Kel Plus Nitrogen Analyzer |
| 13 | Cryostat | 14 | Ice flaking machine |
| 15 | Ball Mill for Nano particle synthesis | 16 | High Speed Cooling Centrifuge (Floor Model) |
| 17 | High Speed cooling Centrifuge (Bench top) | 18 | Microcentrifuge |
| 19 | Cooling Centrifuge (Bench Top) | 20 | Minispin Plus |
| 21 | Research Microscope with photographic attachments | 22 | Multi parameter Bench top meter |
| 23 | Hydrolic pellette Press | 24 | Rotary Vacuum Evaporator |
| 25 | Ultra Pure Water System | 26 | Ultra Pure Water System |
| 27 | Deep Freezer(-200C) | 28 | Deep Freezer(-200C) |
| 29 | Deep Freezer(-800C) | 30 | CO2 Incubator |
| 31 | Bacteriological Incubator | 32 | Hot air Oven |
| 33 | Homogeniser (handheld) | 34 | Rotospin |
| 35 | Vortex shaker | 36 | Laminar Air Flow |
| 37 | Auto pipette Set (1µ to 5ml.) | 38 | Muffle Furnace |
| 39 | Probe Sonicator | 40 | Bath Sonicator |
| 41 | Low Volume Concentrator | 42 | Bench Top Autoclave |