For Further Information Please Contact

Head, Environmental Science & Engineering

CSIR-Central Leather Research Institute,
Adyar, Chennai - 600 020
Tel: +91 44 24437240
E-mail: sribalak@clri.res.in

R&D Activities

  • Pollution abatement technologies in leather and allied sectors.
  • Bench and Pilot scale treatability studies using membrane bioreactors for tannery wastewater.
  • Remediation, eco-restoration and clean-up of contaminated site with specific reference to chromium.
  • Applications of Reverse Osmosis and reject management systems to achieve near zero discharge.
  • Up-flow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket (UASB) with energy and sulfur recovery system for leather and pharmaceutical sectors.
  • Biological liquefaction of biodegradable solid wastes
  • Biomethanation of waste from tanneries, slaughter houses, effluent treatment plants and vegetable markets with energy recovery system.
  • Solid waste management (reduce, recycle, reuse)
  • Advanced tertiary treatment technologies
  • Applied R & D or Implementation, development of decentralized secure landfill system
  • Separation of chromium from chrome tanned wastes
  • Recovery and reuse of salt from soak liquor
  • Robust consortia for treatment of tannery effluent
  • Sequential batch reactors for tannery effluent
  • Starved Air Incineration for disposal of solid wastes discharged from tannery
  • Catalytic oxidation of refractory organics in wastewater

For Further Information Please Contact

Head, Environmental Science & Engineering

CSIR-Central Leather Research Institute,
Adyar, Chennai - 600 020
Tel: +91 44 24437240
E-mail: sribalak@clri.res.in