R&D Facilities:

• Rotary evaporator and basic synthesis facility

• Membrane casting machine (divisional facility - large scale on roll-to-roll)

• Membrane casting machine (bench-scale)

• Membrane coating machine (divisional facility - large scale on roll-to-roll)

• Membrane testing rig for desalination (semi-automated 4 x 12 cross-flow cells up to 70 bar)

• Membrane testing rig for solvent nanofiltration (semi-automated 12 cross-flow cells up to 70 bar)

• Forward osmosis setup

• Dead-end filtration assembly

• Vacuum filtration assembly

• Type II water plant (~1000 L/day)

• Quartz crystal microbalance (QCM)

• Wrinkling tool for modulus measurement of ultrathin polymer nanofilm

• Digital microscope for in-situ detection of polymer nanofilm at the interface

• Central facility at CSIR-CSMCRI: UV-vis, SEM, TEM, AFM, XPS, IC, ICP, etc.