The Department has an established Mine-Air Analysis Laboratory. Air samples from underground mines are analyzed. The common constituent of such samples is CO, CO2 N2O2 and CH4. The average receipt from such analysis is to the tune of Rs. 2.5 lack per annum. Apart from this the Department regularly takes up testing jobs such as cement analysis, frother analysis, lime analysis. Various organic and inorganic compounds are also tested.

The state of the Art instrument has wide application potential. Apart from checking the purity of organic and inorganic compounds, characterization of lubricants, oil, paint, drugs. Coal and mineral samples can be precisely carried out with FTIR.

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GC 2011 is a microcontroller based system with the provision to be controlled by a computer. The GC 2001 gas chromatograph represents a combination of analytical instrumentation and microcontroller/ microcomputer technology. It is designed for high temperature analysis and comes fitted with a forced air auto cooling system.

Over the past few years, the laboratory has analyzed a variety of samples such as pharmaceuticals, explosives, lube oil etc. The instrument is widely applied in testing of pharmaceutical samples on request.

Apart from the above-mentioned state of the art equipments, the Department has such facilities as Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer, Potentiostat, and Metallurgical Microscope etc.