CO2 Research and Green Technologies Centre

• Analysis of Solids, liquids, and gasses
• Identification of components of an unknown mixture
• Identification of inorganic and organic compounds

Useful for multiple disciplines of research such as environmental, chemical, petrochemical, food, forensic, pharmaceutical, and material testing.

Room No.: NA
Ground floor
CO2 Research & Green technologies Centre

Dr. J. Ranjitha & Dr. S. Vijayalakshmi
Assistant Professors
CO2 Research & Green Technologies Centre
VIT, Vellore, 632014.
Email:co2.ftir@vit.ac.in

Data available from 2015 to till date

Researchers working in Solar Energy PV forecasting, Building, Cold storage, Agriculture, Wind Energy.

Room No: Open Terrace
Second floor
CO2 Research & Green technologies Centre

Dr. G. Praveenkumar
Assistant Professor (Sr.)
CO2 Research & Green Technologies Centre
VIT, Vellore, TN-632014.
Email: co2.weastat@vit.ac.in
Phone: 0416 2202506

Wavelength

• Range of 200 to 1100 nm
• Accuracy of +/- 1 nm
• Repeatability: +/- 0.5
• Bandwidth of 2.0

Photometric

• Range of -0.3 to 2.5 Abs 0-100% T
• Accuracy of +/- 0.005 Abs at 1 Abs
• Repeatability: +/- 0.002 Abs at 1 Abs
• Stray light less than 0.1% at 220nm & 370nm

Useful for multiple research disciplines such as environmental, chemical, petrochemical, food, forensic, pharmaceutical, and material testing.

Room No.: NA
First floor
CO2 Research & Green technologies Centre

Dr. J. Ranjitha & Dr. S. Vijayalakshmi
Assistant Professors
CO2 Research & Green Technologies Centre
VIT, Vellore, 632014.
Email:co2.pc@vit.ac.in
Phone: 0416 2202505

Range 0 to 1000 NTU

Used to measure the haziness or cloudiness in a liquid medium such as water, solutions, beverages like wine, beer, and soft drinks, and solid medium like window glass or translucent glass

Room No.: NA
First floor
CO2 Research & Green technologies Centre

Dr. G. Velvizhi
Associate Professor
CO2 Research & Green Technologies Centre
VIT, Vellore, TN-632014.
Email: co2.uv@vit.ac.in
Phone: 0416 220 2503

Range: 0 to 1000 mg/l

Used to measure organic pollutant in water and waste water Useful for multiple disciplines of research such as physics, chemistry, material science, metallurgy, biology, nanotechnology and nano-science

Room No: Open Terrace
Second floor
CO2 Research & Green technologies Centre

Dr. G. Velvizhi
Associate Professor
CO2 Research & Green Technologies Centre
VIT, Vellore, TN-632014.
Email: co2.cod@vit.ac.in
Phone: 0416 220 2503

Range 0 to 1000 NTU

Used to measure the haziness or cloudiness in a liquid medium such as water, solutions, beverages like wine, beer, and soft drinks, and solid medium like window glass or translucent glass

Room No.: NA
First floor
CO2 Research & Green technologies Centre

Dr. G. Velvizhi
Associate Professor
CO2 Research & Green Technologies Centre
VIT, Vellore, TN-632014.
Email: co2.cod@vit.ac.in
Phone: 0416 220 2503

Capabilities

• Continuous reactor
• Operating Temperature ambient to 1000 °C
• Holding time from 3 sec to 60 min
• Bio oil, Bio char and Syngas

Sample Requirements

• Fast pyrolysis (bio-oil): < 2 mm (ideally 0.5–2 mm) (Bio Oil, B
• Slow/char/torrefaction style pyrolysis: 1–30 mm
• Large pieces / chunks: up to ~40–50 mm

• Converts agricultural residues (rice husk, bagasse, corn stover, sawdust) into liquid bio-oil.

• Produces stable carbon-rich char for:
• Soil amendment
• Carbon sequestration
• Water/air filtration
• Heavy-metal adsorption

• Produces combustible pyrolysis gas

Room No.: 201
CO2 Research and Green Technologies Centre
Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Vellore.

Dr. S. Murugavelh
Co2 research and green technologies centre (co2 rgtc)
Vellore institute of technology - vellore campus,
Thiruvalam road, vellore – 632 014, tamil nadu, india.
Office Phone: +91 – 416 – 220 22504
Mobile: +91 9445209683
Faculty in charge email id: murugavelh.s@vit.ac.in

* Charges for per sample in INR (+ applicable GST)

• Flow rate range: typically, 0.001 to 10 mL/min (depends on pump configuration)
• Operating pressure: up to 600 bar (≈ 8700 psi)
• High precision quaternary/binary gradient pumping system
• Wide dynamic range UV detector for accurate quantification
• Refractive Index Detector (RID) for compounds lacking UV absorbance
• Excellent baseline stability and noise reduction
• Compatible with aqueous and organic solvent systems
• Fast data acquisition with advanced system control

Detection System

UV Detector

• Variable wavelength UV detection (typically 190–600 nm)
• Suitable for chromophore-containing compounds
• High sensitivity and reproducibility

Refractive Index Detector (RID)

• Universal detector for non-UV active compounds
• Ideal for:
• Sugars
• Alcohols
• Polymers
• Requires isocratic elution (not suitable for gradient)

Software

• Controlled by Agilent OpenLab CDS

Features:

• Automated data acquisition and processing
• Peak integration and quantification
• Method development and validation
• System suitability testing

• Separation and purification of organic compounds
• Pharmaceutical analysis
• Food and sugar analysis (RID-based)
• Environmental sample analysis

Room No.: G03
CO2 Research and Green Technologies Centre (CO2RGTC),
Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Vellore.

DR. G. VELVIZHI
CO2 Research and Green Technologies Centre (CO2RGTC),
G03, CO2RCTC,
VELLORE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY - VELLORE CAMPUS,
THIRUVALAM ROAD, VELLORE – 632 014, TAMIL NADU, INDIA.
Office Phone: +91 – 416 – 220 2503/2504
Faculty in charge email id: velvizhi.g@vit.ac.in

• Measuring Range 4000-400 cm-1
• Max resolution: 0.7cm-1.
• S/N ratio 25,000:1
• Analysis: ATR Method

• Polymer Identification
• Additive Analysis
• Composite Analysis
• Polymorphism
• Pollutant Identification
• Protein Secondary Structure
• Identification of inorganic and organic compounds

* Charges for per sample in INR (+ applicable GST)

• Excitation Wavelength – 532 nm
• Spectral Range 65 cm-1 to 3400 cm-1
• Resolution 3.5 to 7.5 cm-1
• Laser power @ probe 30 to 51mW
• Back thinned charge coupled device array (CCD), Pixel count 2048

• Carbon nanomaterials
• Solar Cells
• Crystallinity
• Polymorphism
• Strain/Stress Analysis
• Identification of oxide formation
• Identification microscopic minerals trapped inside crystal

• It has a broad range temperature control from 30 to 200◦C.
• Temperature Stability <1◦C @ 100◦C by 120 mins.
• Built-in and recalibrated temperature calibration and temperature calibration.
• Two large-size four-digit LED display
• Timer- 0-999 minutes
• Wise range of interchangeable blocks specified for test tubes, micro centrifuge tubes, and PCR tubes

It is ideal for restriction digestion, nucleic acids and proteins denaturation, enzyme kinetics immunoassays, COD reactions.