CSIR – National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (NIIST) Environmental Technology

Environmental Technology

500 kg/day capacity NIIST compact food waste biogas plant installed at Trivandrum International Airport
A pilot plant for treating 2000 litres of greywater from NIIST canteen was set up.
Pilot plant unit (670 kg/batch) for demonstrating perchlorate contaminated soil remediation was set up.
Biodrying process for treatment of mixed unsorted Municipal Solid Waste was optimized.
Design of odour control system for shrimp feed factory in Gujarat.
NABL accredited laboratory has been set up for the analysis of Water, Waste water, Dioxins, Furans and Poly Chlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs).
Determination of emission factors of dioxins from open burning of municipal solid wastes in Kerala was carried out.
Ambient air sampling and residual ash sampling were carried out during the fire broke out at solid waste dump yard of Waste Treatment Plant, Brahmapuram, Kochi during 22nd – 25th February 2019.
A comprehensive three day workshop “DIOXIN India 2019” on “Advanced training in sampling, sample preparation and quantification of dioxins and PCBs” was conducted.
Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) studies carried out for mining beach sand minerals in blocks II and IIEE by Indian Rare Earths, Kollam, Kerala.
EIA studies for mining beach sand minerals in blocks IV and IVEE by Kerala Minerals and Metals Ltd.(KMML), Chavara, Kerala.

Research Highlights

A computational model was developed to predict the flow characteristics of the gas–liquid flows generated by multiple ...more..

A purple-blue bioactive ‘pigment producing bacteria’ was isolated from the sediments of clay mine pit lake in ...more..

Dioxin Research Unit has undertaken the UNIDO sponsored programme through Ministry of Environment and Forests for ...more..

Niche succession is a phenomenon by which a single stem cell lineage comes to dominate the stem ...more..

White pepper is decorticated pepper (Piper nigrum L.). It is produced by removing the outer skin of ...more..